Word: towns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...School has just been given a valuable collection of Cypriote pottery by Prof. Allan Marquand. The collection, which is divided into wheel-made and hand-made specimens, includes a number of vases, amphorae, and lamps from Alambra, a village near the ancient town of Idalium. In addition to these, there are a number of terra cotta heads and masks, some of Greek and others of Pheanician origin. The decorations on all these potteries are incised and not painted on the surface, thus showing that they belong to some pre-historic...
THERE will be a Coffee Party in the Upper Town Hall, at Brookline, tonight, under the same management as the last successful...
...been abandoned by the drivers. These were used as resting places by weary and snowbound pedestrians. Several cars were snowed up in the tunnel of the Fourth Avenue Surface Railroad. The passengers got out, but provender had to be lowered for the horses. In some of the down-town stores, it was thought best to have the employees sleep on the premises, as no means of conveyance could be gotten for them...
...come up, everybody would go to the polls knowing that the approval of parochial schools would come before the committee then elected, and hence the religious question would always be a dominant element in the election. A less desirable issue could hardly be brought up in a city or town election when there is a division of the population between Catholics and Protestants. President Eliot said he believed it to be possible to reconcile the Roman Catholics to the American public school; but the proposed legislation would have the effect of enlisting the conscientious Catholics, now considerably divided, solidly...
...Banjo Club plays in Brookline Lower Town Hall on March 8th and in a young ladies' school in Boston on March...