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Local Notes Highlight Boston Notables and Autumn Signals
The Observant Citizen reports on diverse items from Boston society and nearby towns. It notes postal clerks’ schedules, a Russian sightseeing trip with the Cutlers, Mrs. Murray’s Europe trip and upcoming honeymoon, strawberry experiments by C H Andrews, Storrow and Draper at the White Mountains, Spalding’s Maine vacation, museum silverware at Brattle Street Church, Dick Taylor on his father Hannis Taylor, Mrs. E. B. Stone’s jail study, cemetery enclosure work in Upham's Corner, and Labor Day crowds enjoying smelt and oyster bars as autumn foliage and Cape travel views increase.