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...June 2, 1976, 35-year-old John Howe lowered the yearly assessment on a piece of property on Charnwood Road in Somerville, a block from his home, by nearly 25 per cent--from $8400 to $6400. This was one of the largest proportionate reductions in residential property taxes awarded that year in Somerville...
Nearly a year later, Somerville Alderman Andrew Puglia discovered that the property on Charnwood Road was owned by John's older sister Marie, and that the property's beneficiaries were listed on the property deed as "John J. Howe and Kristen Howe." Thus assessor Howe lowered the taxes on a piece of property owned by his own family...
...Bowdoin Prize for Undergraduates in the Classics was presented to Francis J. Di Mento '48 of Brighton for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Lard Charnwood's "Abraham Lincoln...
Carl Sandburg's Prairie Years and War Years are drawn upon, as are the biographies by Lord Charnwood, Beveridge, Tarbell, etc. But some of the most vivid passages are from rarely read 19th Century sources, among them Donn Piatt's Memories (1887), Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes (1868). Sample glimpses...
Died. Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Lord Charnwood, 80, English biographer of Americans (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt), one-shot detective story writer (Tracks in the Snow), five-term Liberal Member of Parliament; in England...