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Observant Citizen Highlights Daily Boston Life Streetcar Crash and Civic Notes
A Streetcar bound for Roxbury Crossing collides near Newspaper Row. A young Italian boy’s soap box is wrecked as traffic pauses while the conductor records the boy’s details. Police and civic notes cover speeding, a drum major, a girl in the rain, and a mixed city scene with an old style phone and a poignant flag salute debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roxbury Crossing
Washington Street
Newspaper Row
John Lans
Highland Cadet Band
Roxbury
Lans
Manchester
Boston & Maine
Post
Beacon Street
State House
Boston
Stars and Stripes