Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...that the new horse-railroad will cut through Jarvis Field, and otherwise injure real estate. This is not true; on the contrary, the new road will furnish a direct line to Boston, and when extended, as it is proposed eventually to do, will include Brookline, Somerville, Charlestown, and other suburban towns. It is said that there is not travel enough to sustain two roads. There certainly ought to be in a city of fifty thousand inhabitants; and if there is not, then let the one survive which gives the most to its patrons for their money. Nowhere was competition...