...ction by the town as its almshouse. Old pictures, even if crude, are worth saving. by Rev. Anson Titus. [Read at a meeting of the Medford Historical Society, May 21, 1923.] In 1718 James Franklin sailed for London and secured type and printing press and immediately began the printing of pamphlets and books; and soon became the printer of the Boston Gazette, the official paper of the province....