Word: towns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...history informs us that Cambridge is distant "three miles, one quarter, and sixty rods from the Old State House, by the way of West Boston bridge." We also learn that "from the hilly surface of several parts, and the passage of Charles River through the middle of the town, the air is very pure. Many of the inhabitants have attained great longevity; and invalids from other towns have realized the beneficial effects of a salubrious air from a temporary residence in the town." This was evidently written before the discovery of Miller's River. The alewive fishery in these waters...
...barbarous inhabitants of Thimble Rig, a neighboring town, in order to cast a slur on the founder of this new regime, maliciously published in the Weekly Eavesdropper, the scurrilous organ of that benighted town, the paragraph which heads my letter...
...Student are such as to make us tremble for the future of our own Alma Mater. The new College Church, "just finished at a cost of $70,000," is a "beautiful building with a chime of bells in the tower," and is "designed exclusively for Sabbath worship." The town, though small, possesses some of the finest religious edifices in the State, and the Mt. Holyoke Ladies' Seminary, as well as another "College for Ladies, is near at hand. "Board can be obtained for $3.50 a week, or a little more"; and that the luxuries of life are not unknown...
...shadow-haunted town...
...also decided that the single-scull race should be in all respects subject to the Constitution and rules of the Association. A motion was then made and carried that any cups offered as prizes by the citizens of the town in which the regatta is held would be accepted by the Association. The Convention then adjourned to the Massasoit House, Springfield, at ten o'clock on the first Monday in April...