Observant Citizen Highlights Boston and New England Notes
A Boston Observant Citizen column surveys local recollections and notable figures. It mentions Dr. Pickering of Portsmouth tracing Lincoln era routes, Capt Harry Lay at Charlestown Navy Yard, Countess Goetzen connections, and reminiscences of old Boston venues plus recent travels of local officials and businessmen.
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Harry Lay
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Countess Goetzen
Prussia
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Miss May Lowney
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Good-by to the World A Poem by Emerson
Poem in which Emerson bids farewell to flattery wealth and society. The speaker longs for a private home among green hills and nature, finding true worship in solitude away from crowded life and human pride. He envisions lakes and pines and silent communion with God.
So you don’t believe it Aunt Hitty asks and warns
A reader recalls a vacation ramble in a pine woods where a sudden encounter with a man driving a go cart pulled by a dog leads to a tale of mistaken judgments. The dog trainer explains his quiet work dressing a dog as a baby for a disabled girl, underscoring how easily people misread others.
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Aunt Hitty
Taft to Attend World Chambers of Commerce Banquet
The fifth international congress of Chambers of Commerce will host a formal banquet at the Copley Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening Sept. 26. President Taft Governor Foss Mayor Fitzgerald and Louis Canon Legrand head the speaker lineup with two delegates chosen to represent foreign guests. President Joseph B. Russell will preside at the event and a reception runs 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
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Fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce
Congress
Copley Plaza Hotel
Taft
Foss
Fitzgerald
Louis Canon-Legrand
International Congress
Joseph B. Russell
Chamber
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