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...class of 1914, chairmanned the evening and spent considerable time by dumping carloads of superlatives over the heads of Senator Saltonstall, of the class of 1914, of Senator Lodge, of the class of 1924, and of Governor Bradford, of the class of 1923. Weeks also mentioned Joe Martin, North Attleboro High School, class...
...played second base and shortstop on the high-school team and was offered a scholarship to Dartmouth College. He turned it down, worked as a $10-a-week reporter on the Attleboro Sun, played semi-pro baseball on the side. By the time he was 24, he had saved...
Vital Statistics. Age: 63 (born Nov. 3, 1884 in North Attleboro, Mass., in a two-family frame house across the street from John Stanley's blacksmith shop). Ancestry: eldest son of eight children of Joseph William Martin Sr., a Presbyterian Scotsman who worked in the blacksmith shop, and Catherine Katon, an Irish Catholic; both his parents were born in New Jersey. Educated: North Attleboro public schools through high school. Not Married. Church: none...
...Moose. In North Attleboro, he lives in a frame house on Grove Street with his invalid mother, a widowed sister and his brother Charles. His favorite recreation: walking. His only hobby: collecting miniature elephants...
With his savings and $9,000 borrowed from local businessmen, he bought the North Attleboro Evening Chronicle in 1908. One of his backers was G. K. Webster, president of a silverware plant and a power in Massachusetts' 14th District...