g been the home of Convers Francis, the originator of the Medford cracker, and also the birthplace of his talented daughter and authoress, Lydia Maria Child.
It also made some repair and refitted it for Society use, and furnished the same.
In 1902 the property was placed in the market for sale and was then purchased by the Society for $4,000.00. Of this amount $1,000 was paid in cash, and the remainder provided for by a mortgage and the favorable interest rate of four per cent.
But priorked, How is the Society's work appreciated by the community it serves, and how is it sustained, either financially or otherwise?
We reply, its only revenue is its annual dues of $1.00 from each member.
It reached its high-tide of membership in 1902, about two hundred and fifty, and now numbers one hundred and fifty-one.
It has no endowment whatever, and in all its twenty-five years has never had any bequest of funds, and contrary to a prevailing notion, has never had a penny of municipal as
n and presented with an elaborate Catalogue of the Exhibition, Horticultural Hall, January 11-26, 1902.
This exhibition was under the auspices of Chickering & Sons, and totalled 1,346 distinct enumerressed his surprise thus, Why, this isn't a piano at all, it's an organ!
But the exhibit card of 1902 still lies inside the old case, Princess Amelia piano.
Here the query arises,—when did it cease t.
No other writer mentions the organizing save the brief mention in the Chickering catalogue of 1902, which assigns a later date than 1817.
Neither Dr. Hale nor Louis Elson, who were speakers at rgan by itself as recommended we cannot say, nor yet whether it was thus usable when exhibited in 1902.
It certainly is not at this present writing, as the keys are almost immovable.
Regarding theote to the man who had charge of the Historical Musical Exhibition, held in Horticultural Hall in 1902, under the auspices of Chickering & Sons, and all that he could tell me of the previous history o
awrence, who began the publication of the Medford Mercury, with William E. Smythe as local editor, who was succeeded by George W. Stetson, who thus continued until 1902.
The Mercury's first issue was of December 18, 1880.
Somewhat over a year later, Mr. Lawrence purchased the Chronicle's interests and merged it with the Mercury.
A partial file of this is also at the Society's rooms.
Another effort was the Mystic Muse, but the Muses smiled not on it, and it is now long forgotten.
In 1902 came another aspirant for popular favor.
A publishing company being formed by several well known citizens and associated with experienced newspaper men and with Cs quarters on Riverside avenue, near the post-office.
Under the new management it was established on Main street, just south of the Medford Inn.
In October of 1902, the publishers of the two papers found it to advantage to unite effort and the result was, for a year or more, the hyphenated Mercury—Citizen, and for a brief per
lationship with his pupils.
Into the training of his teachers, however, went much of that force which had moulded his pupils, and I can recollect, myself, his favorite methods, adopted or adapted by the young teachers who now took our classes.
By the year 1891, we find the entrance class in one year had jumped from fifty-five to one hundred and ten.
The Ling system of gymnastics had been adopted for the girls, though the girls were obliged to beg or raise money for their gymnastics until 1902, when the committee finally appropriated one hundred and fifty dollars for the payment of a teacher for them.
In regard to the boys, my father reports Military drill must be considered from the standpoint of utility.
Unless it contributes to the general efficiency of school work by promoting health, courtesy, manliness and respect for law, it has no place in the public school.
While the results have not been so marked as was anticipated, the experiment has enough of promise to warrant its
ripped off without fracture or injury and borne by the gale into a garden a half-mile away.
Its finder restored it to the owner who replaced it. Of it, Rev. Mr. Brooks remarked, Political prophets may tell us what this foreshadows.
But President Fillmore did not succeed himself in the White House.
Mrs. Caldwell (of Irving street) took a journey on the wings of the wind and was safely set down one hundred and fifty feet away.
Less fortunate was one of the workmen at Mystic street (who in 1902 visited the writer and told of his experience) on the fateful day. Living at Cambridge, he was on his way home, when he was taken up and hurled into a pile of debris from which on recovering consciousness he crawled, bruised and bleeding.
A brakeman helped him into the baggage car, and procuring cotton waste from the engine stuffed it into his clothing and partially stopped his bleeding.
Arriving at East Cambridge, he was taken home, where the surgeon removed a splinter five inches long, w
