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John Schmitt 1G was robbed of $7 early yesterday morning as he walked along Concord Avenue in Cambridge. Three men leaped from a black Buick and held Schmitt at knife point while he handed over his money. The bandits left him unharmed...
...River Glen is buried with 16 to 30 inches of snow. Skiing good. The present weather forecast is for snow flurries throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont with continued cold. By the weekend, our airfield prognosticator reveals, there should be more snow, but didn't say how much. Concord recorded a low of 12 degrees yesterday, and the rest of the state was almost that cold. General forecast for the rest of December: continued cold and more snow...
...important factor in the club's success, which Bill did not mention, is the generally high level of inmates assigned to Norfolk. No man is ever committed to Norfolk directly from the courts. He is first assigned to either State Prison at Charlestown, Concord Reformatory or the State Frm. Norfolk receives all its inmates by transfer from these other institutions...
Frederick R. Driscoll, Chairman of the State Transfer Board, explained that every man at State Prison and Concord is screened at one time or another by his board for transfer to Norfolk. Originally, he said, it was hoped that all transfers would be excellent rehabilitation prospects. However because of overcrowding at the other institutions, especially Charlestown, the colony has had to receive well-behaved inmates who may have serious prior records and are frequently not the best prospects for satisfactory rehabilitation...
...Eliot lost this battle and Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the "Minute Man" at Concord and "Lincoln" at Washington's Lincoln Memorial, took the commission. When, on the afternoon of the dedication, October 15, 1884, a Boston physician complained, "Mr. French, you've given John Harvard the legs of a consumptive," French was convinced he had done well. "Glad you noticed that," he replied. "He died of consumption when...