Word: freeport
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Secretary--Roy Smith Wallace, Freeport...
...Freeport...
...Republic, situated in Freeport, New York, is a settlement of boys and girls from the tenement districts of the great cities--a settlement conducted as a miniature republic, with a congress, courts of justice, and law officers by which the citizens govern themselves. Farming and the keeping of stores and hotels are carried on by the citizens on the basis of a currency of the Republic which when the citizens leave is exchanged for usable articles of one kind or another. As an experiment in training the boys and girls of the poorer classes in practical citizenship, and in developing...
...meeting of the Sophomore Class held last evening. Roy S. Wallace of Freeport, N. Y., was elected class secretary, in place of N. A. Higgins, resigned...