. Book of the Royal blue . Sacred Cod, the city of crooked streetsand the upright New England conscience—Boston, the Modern Athens, theHub of the Solar System, the Mecca ofmusicians, educators and theologians andof summer tourists, is to have an Old-Home Week. all the world, and no city that can do somuch to entertain and delight its date of the big celebration is theweek of July 28 to August ,! next, and aprogram of such dimensions is being ar-ranged that there will be no single eventgoing on in the United States this summer BOSTON AND OLD-HOME OLD SOOTH CHURCH at all compar
. Book of the Royal blue . Sacred Cod, the city of crooked streetsand the upright New England conscience—Boston, the Modern Athens, theHub of the Solar System, the Mecca ofmusicians, educators and theologians andof summer tourists, is to have an Old-Home Week. all the world, and no city that can do somuch to entertain and delight its date of the big celebration is theweek of July 28 to August ,! next, and aprogram of such dimensions is being ar-ranged that there will be no single eventgoing on in the United States this summer BOSTON AND OLD-HOME OLD SOOTH CHURCH at all comparable to it, except the James-town Exposition. The motto of the Boston Old-HomeWeek boomers is, Something Minute for Seven Days, and thereis little doubt that this promise will heliterally carried out. It will be the firsttime that Boston has ever had an Old-Home Week, and the first time since 18K0that it has had a distinctively local cele-bration of any kind on a large scale. It will be a sort of home-coming jubileeand midsummer carnival combined, and ofthe throngs that are expected to enjoy it,many will be vacation seekers |)ure andsimple, with no special ties or interests inthe city of beans. It will be one of the finest opportunitiesever offered of seeing Boston at its best—and it is always at its best in .luly andAugust. The fact that the railroads of thecountry have granted one of the lowestexcursion rates for the occasion ever givena celebrating community, will of itselfinsure a large attendance. It will be asummer vacation opportunity
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