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COST.
The net cost as per accountant's report, was $5,291.36, being $3.36 per week for each inmate.
DEATHS.
Four deaths have occurred, as follows :
Mary A. Hope, age 54, died March 11; Mary Allenwood, a boarder, age 29, died May 1; Henry Anderson, age 50, died June 28; Francis Sullivan, a state case, age 70, died Dec. 4. All of these were temporary inmates and beyond expectation of recovery when admitted.
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POOR OUT OF THE HOUSE.
In aid to the poor out of the house, assistance has been given to 286 individuals in 124 families of one or more. The year closes with aid being given to 226 individuals in 90 families. Of the above number, 87 individuals had no settlement in this town and the expense of their aid is recoverable from the state or from towns and cities ; of which number 79 are being aided at the close of the year.
TOWN PHYSICIANS.
The following physicians were appointed to care for the poor for the year ending June 1, 1910 :
Ward One and the Town Home, William A. Drake; Ward Two, John C. Fraser; Ward three, George D. Bullock ; Ward Four, Karl H. Granger; Ward Five, Edwin N. Maybury.
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INMATES OF THE TOWN HOME DURING THE YEAR 1909.
Date Ad- mitted.
NAME.
Age.
REMARKS.
Weeks.
Days
Jan. 1
Leavitt B. Torrey.
55
Continues.
State case
52
1
66
1
Elizabeth C. Tirrell
57
Continues
52
1
66
1
Ida A. Davis.
47
Continues
52
1
66
1
Warren A. Salisbury
67
Continues
52
1
66
1
George A. Nash
49
Continues
52
1
66
1
Erastus Loud
76
Continues
52
1
66
1
Thomas J. Moran.
21
Continues
52
1
66
1
John Leonard
82
Continues
52
1
1
James C. Lovell
74
Continues
52
1
66
1
Catherine Connor.
71
Continues
52
1
66
1
Martin Flynn
68
Continues
52
1
1
Patrick Yourell
168
Continues
52
1
66
1
George H. Evans
62
Continues
52
1
66
1
Martha J. White
63
Continues
52
1
66
1
Mary Carey .
41
Continues
52
1
66
1
Dianthe Turner
73
Continues
52
1
66
1
John Meara .
75
Continues
52
1
66
1
Lydia Bowker
87
Continues
52
1
66
1
Michael J. Moran .
54
Continues
52
1
66
1
Lenuel W. French
79
Continues
52
1
66
1
John F. Gray
61
Continues
52
1
66
1
George N. Briggs.
63
Continues
52
1
66
1
Webster Coolidge.
.
57
Discharged March 21 Continues
29
Jan.
1
Daniel W. Crowley
56
Discharged March 12
10
1
1
James Callahan .
60
Discharged May 11.
18
5
1
Richard N. Cushing
84
Continues. Boarder
52
1
66
1
Michael Scanlan
55
Continues
·
52
1
1
Byron W. Loud
64
Discharged June 27
25
3
Jan 1
Mary Allen wood
29
Died May 1. Boarder
17
66
1
.
Discharged Dec. 8 .
3
1
Jan
1
Charles Smith .
77
Continues
52
1
66
1
Henry A. Holbrook
55 Discharged March 3
9
June 27
Discharged Sept. 18 Continues
10
3
Feb. 7
Mary A. Hope
54
Died March 11
4
5 3
Mar. 15
Peter Langford
42
Discharged March 17 Discharged June 16 Continues
14
6
Mar. 29
Gregory Cronin
33
Discharged April 2.
3
2
Mar. 30
Michael T. Daly
49
Discharged June 7. Continues
12
3
May
22
Patrick Welch
38
Discharged June 11.
3
3
66
19
James Bresnahan . .
71
Discharged June 8. Sett. Worcester .
3
3
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1
James Gumb.
53 Continues
52
1
1
John Hanley .
.
57 Discharged March 4
9
11
3
June 12
July 10
Discharged Sept. 18
10
1 2
Thomas Curran
36
Discharged March 3
9
Nov. 17
Apr.
22
8
Sept. 19
5
Nov. 16
Discharged Dec. 8.
10
Oct. 6
State case
12
Oct. 20
.
.
.
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INMATES OF THE TOWN HOME DURING THE YEAR 1909 .- Cont.
Date Ad- mitted.
NAME.
Age.
REMARKS.
Weeks.
Days.
June 20
Roger Conley
·
44
Discharged June 28. Sett. Boston .
2
66
27
Henry Anderson
50
Died June 28 . .
2
July
7
Edwin Rogers
61
Discharged July 19. State case .
1
6
Aug.
11
George Manuel
85
Discharged Oct. 15
9
3
66
24
Thomas Ford
70
Continues
18
4
Sept. 11
18
Charles F. Wade
.
50
Discharged Oct. 3 .
2
2
Nov.
30
James Cavary
62
Discharged Oct. 6 .
6
2
Dec.
3
Francis Sullivan
70
Died Dec. 4. State case
2
66
30
James A. Hawes
60
Continues
Jan.
1
Mary F. Rosey
73
Continues.
Soldier's
52
1
66
1
Angelo F. Johnson
65
Discharged April 12.
14
4
Feb.
6.
Putnam I. Sweeting
75
Discharged Feb. 18.
1
6
Total weeks
1720
4
Less boarders and those having no settlement here.
145
4
Town's poor .
1575 1 0
GORDON WILLIS,
BRADFORD HAWES,
GEORGE L. NEWTON,
EDWARD W. HUNT, WILLARD J. DUNBAR,
Overseers of the Poor.
4
Oct.
4
3
Nov. 18
Albert Coolidge
59
Continues
Theron Hawes
74
Continues
16
Continues
4
2
widow. Boarder
Soldier. Boarder
Soldier. Boarder
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. To the Constables of the Town of Weymouth in said County. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Weymouth aforesaid qualified to vote in election therein, to meet at the polling places in their respective voting precincts, to wit : In precincts numbered One, Three, Five and Six, in the Halls of the Fire Engine Houses located in those precincts respec- tively ; in precinct numbered Two, at the Odd Fellows' Opera House, and in precinct numbered Four, at the Hose House at Nash's Corner, on Monday, the First day of March next, at five o'clock and forty-five minutes in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the wardens of their several precincts their vote on one ballot for the following named town officers, to wit: Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, five selectmen, five Overseers of the Poor, one Assessor for three years, Collector of Taxes, three Auditors, two School Committee for three years, one Park Commissioner for three years, three trustees of Tufts Library for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years, one Commissioner for the Sinking Fund of the new Ward Two School House for three years, one Tree Warden and ten Constables ; and to vote on the same ballot " Yes," or "No," upon the following questions :
1. "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
2. " Shall chapter five hundred and thirteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, requiring certain cities and towns to provide public playgrounds, be accepted by this town ?"
The polls will be opened at a quarter before six o'clock in the forenoon, and may be closed at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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You are further required to notify and warn said inhabitants, qualified to vote as aforesaid, to meet at the Town Hall on Mon- day, the Eighth day of March next, at nine o'clock and fifteen minutes in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator for said meeting.
Art. 2. To choose all necessary town officers other than those elected by ballot, viz. : Public Weighers ; Surveyors of Wood, Lumber and Bark; two or more Fence Viewers; two or more Field Drivers and one Pound Keeper.
Art. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of the several boards of town officers and of any committees appointed at any former meeting, and to choose any committees the town may think proper.
Art. 4. To see if the town will authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of a majority of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow during the municipal year beginning January 1, 1909, in anticipation of the collection of taxes of said year such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for said year, giving the notes of the town therfor, payable within one year from the dates thereof. All debts incurred under authority of this vote shall be paid from the taxes of the present municipal year.
Art. 5. To see if the town will designate the First National Bank of South Weymouth, the First National Bank of Boston, and the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, Mass., as legal de- positories for the funds of the town, and the First National Safe Deposit Company of Boston, Mass., as a legal depository for the securities of the town.
Art. 6. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of public schools.
Art. 7. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the transportation of pupils to and from school.
Art. 8. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repair of highways, townways and bridges, and for the removal of snow.
Art. 9. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief and support of the poor.
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Art. 10. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief of disabled soldiers and sea- men and for the families of disabled soldiers and seamen, under Chapter 79 of the Revised Laws.
Art. 11. To see what sum of money the town will vote to appropriate for the payment of State and Military Aid and for burials, under the provisions of Chapter 381, acts of 1904, and to determine how much of the same shall be raised by taxation.
Art. 12. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Fire Department.
Art. 13. To see what sum of muney the town will vote to raise and appropriate for police service.
Art. 14. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Tufts Library.
Art. 15. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of a public reading room at the Fogg Library.
Art. 16. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the abatement and remittance of taxes.
Art. 17. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $5,000 for the payment of a note of that amount, becoming due May 8, 1909.
Art. 18. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of interest which may be- come due the eusuing year.
Art. 19. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for printing and advertising.
Art. 20. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses.
Art. 21. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of town officers
Art. 22. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for election.expenses.
Art. 23. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day.
Art. 24. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the rent and care of town offices.
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Art. 25. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for care and repair of Town House.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to appropriate from the revenue of the water works for the coming year the sum of $28,540 to be expended for the following purposes, viz : $19,340 for interest on the Weymouth water loan bonds becoming due the ensuing year ; $7,500 for Superintendent's salary, maintenance of works and pumping station ; and $1,700 for current expenses, Commissioners' and office expenses.
Art. 27. To see if the town will appropriate and direct to be paid to the Trustees of the Sinking Fund out of the income of the water rents for the coming year the sum of $9,000 to be set apart and invested as a sinking fund for the payment at maturity of the Weymouth water loan bonds.
Art. 28. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $5,000 for the purpose of making further construction of the water works.
Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $5,000 for the purpose of installing water meters.
Art. 30. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 for hydrants and for the water rents and care of drinking fountains.
Art. 31. On petition of Frank D. Daffin and twenty-two others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate any sum of money to extend the water main on Columbian Street and Forest Street, or act in some manner in relation to the same.
Art. 32. By request of the School Committe : To see if the town will vote to sell the Bicknell school house and lot and appropriate the proceeds realized from sale of the same toward the grading and improvement of the High School grounds.
Art. 33. By request of the School Committee : To see if the town will vote to name the new eight-room school building, off Lake Street, the Garfield School, in honor of James A. Garfield.
Art. 34. On petition of Thomas F. Brady : To see if the town will vote to pay him for labor at the pumping station, Sun- day work from and including Nov. 15, 1902, to Jan 1, 1905, for which suit was entered last December.
Art. 35. To see if the town will vote to turn into the Treasury the unexpended balances on any appropriations which they may consider closed.
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Art. 36. On petition of Arthur H. Pratt and others : To see if the town will accept the provisions of Section 37, of Chapter 19, of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts in its application to the police force, thereby placing said force under the rules and regu- lations of the Civil Service.
Art. 37. To see if the town will vote to build a Lockup in Ward One, and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,200 for that purpose.
Art. 38. To see if the town will raise and appropriate or appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the purpose of street watering.
Art. 39. By request of the Park Commissioners : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50 for the care and maintenance of the town parks.
Art. 40. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars for the purpose of finish- ing the stairway and laying a floor in the hall of the Tufts Library Building.
Art 41. On Petition of Oliver Burrell and sixteen others : To see if the town will vote to lease the Franklin School property to Reynolds Post 58, Dept. of Mass., G. A. R. for a term of five years in accordance with the provisions of Section 13, Chapter 25, Revised Laws.
Art. 42. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of the gypsy and brown tail moths.
Art. 43. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropraite to be expended in the interests of the public health.
Art. 44. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for electric lighting of the streets.
Art. 45. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate toward the Sinking Fund for the payment at maturity of the new Ward Two School House bonds.
Art 46. To determine in what manner taxes shall be collected the ensuing year and to fix the rate of interest on all taxes remain- ing unpaid after the time fixed for payment.
Art. 47. To take by separate ballot, a " Yes " or " No" vote in answer to the following question : "Shall an act passed by
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the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and eight, en- titled ' An act to provide for the protection of forest or sprout lands from fire' be accepted by this town ?"
Art. 48. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the preservation of shade trees, the same to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden.
Art. 49. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of continuing the survey and plotting of the town.
Art. 50. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to commence suit for the recovery of any money or property due it.
Art. 51. To see what provision the town will make for any deficiencies in the appropriations of the current financial year or for any overdrafts already made.
Art. 52. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to contract with the Massachusetts Highway Commission for the construction of a section of State highway.
Art. 53. On petition of Reynolds Post 58, Department of Massachusetts, G. A. R .: To see if the town will assume the custody of the books of record, documents and papers of the said G. A. R. Post.
Art. 54. To see, if the town will accept the provisions of Sec. 22, Chap. 25 of the Revised Laws, in relation to watering puplic streets.
Art. 55. To see if the town will vote to elect a board of health, and that such election shall be provided for on the warrant and official ballot for the year 1910.
Art. 56. On petition of W. H. Robinson and thirteen others : To see if the town will vote that the gravelimg and grading of Pond . Street be continued and that a sufficient sum of money be raised and appropriated for the same.
Art. 57. On petition of Lewis R. Blanchard and others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate $250 to finish building sidewalk on Main Street, beginning at the railroad crossing on said street or act in any manner in relalion to the same.
Art 58. On petition of A. S. Frothingham and eighteen oth- ers : To see if the town will place a fire hydrant at the junction of Wessagusset Road and Hobomack Road for protection of cot- tages in that vicinity.
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Art. 59. On petition of George W. Young and others : To see if the town will vote to place a fire alarm box ou Commercial Street, between Madison Street and Cottage Street.
Art. 60. On petition of Fred W. Belcher and fourteen others : To see if the town will place a fire alarm box on Pond Street, midway between the depot and Thicket Street, and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the same.
Art. 61. On petition of the Village Improvement Society of Weymouth Heights : To see if the town will name the square at the junction of Church Street and Commercial Street, Humphrey Sqnare.
Art. 62. On petition of A. S. Frothingham and nineteen others : To see if the town will place an electric arc light on Wessagusset Road and Hobomack Road or at the turn of Wessa- gusset Road north from Sea Street.
Art. 63. On petition of Michael Sullivan and fourteen others : To see if the town will place an incandescent light in the vicinity of 86 Prospect Street.
Art. 64. On petition of Michael Leary and ten others : To see if ihe town will vote to instruct the electric light committee to in- stall electric lights ou Randolph Street.
Art. 65. On petition of Alexander Beaudry : To see if the town will place an electric light on Commercial Street near his house.
Art. 66. On petition of W. H. Rockwood and twenty-five others : To see if the town will vote to place an electric light on Hawthorne Street, midway between Myrtle Street and Cedar Street, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Art. 67. On petition of E. R. Taylor and another : To see if the town will vote to instruct the electric light committee to place four or more electric lights on Hobomack Road, Wessagusset Road and Pecksuot Road ; and on the elevation near Mr. Henry Johnson's barn.
Art. 68. On petition of William L. Swan and fourteen others : To see if the town will place an electric light on Pond Street, at the entrance of the Boston Ice Company's roadway, and that a sufficient sum of money be raised and appropriated for the same ..
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Art. 69. On petition of John F. Enwright and fifteen others : To see if the town will place an electric light on Webb Street, midway between Broad Street and Richmond Street.
Art. 70. On petition of Hiram E. Raymond and twenty-four others : To see what sum of money the town will raise and appro- priate to repair Myrtle and School Streets.
Art. 71. On petition of Charles R. Greeley and ten others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate $500 for macadamiz- ing Pleasant Street and Pond Street from Joseph Dyer's store to the South Weymouth Railroad Station, or act in any manner in relation to the same.
Art. 72. On petition of J. H. Butterfield and twenty-three others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate money to install and maintain electric lights at or near the junction of Elni and Pine Streets; at or near the junction of Pine and Oak Streets ; and at or near the crossing of Park and Pine Streets.
Art. 73. On petition of George G. Scrivener and ten others : To see if the town will vote to install an incandescent light on Shawmut Street between the first and second houses on the left- hand side
Art. 74. On petition of Frederick T. Hunt and eleven others : To see if the town will vote that an electric light be installed on Commercial Street, half way between the Hingham line and the light in Front of Mr. F. T. Hunt's house.
Art. 75. On petition of Howard V. Pratt and thirteen others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the purpose of graveling the part of Park Street, begin- ning at the residence of R. J. Talbot and running to the Ward Five line, or act in any manner in relation to the same.
Art. 76. By request of the executors under the will of the late Marshall C. Dizer: To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $62.25 to reimburse the estate of said Marshall C. Dizer for the same amount, paid for relaying sewer pipe on account of the establishment of a lower grade on Wharf Street.
Art. 77. On petition of Charles H. Lovell : To see if the town will assume the payment of judgment of the court against the
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petitioner in the case of S. J. Cass, Marjie J. Mace and C. H. Mace on a writ of replevin against the said Charles H. Lovell when serving as field driver in the year 1902, for restraining the horses of said plaintiffs upon defendant's premises.
Art. 78. On petition of William H. Pratt and eleven others : To see if the town will vote to place an electric light at or near the junction of Broad Street and an avenue near the house of Dr. Chase, on the east, as public safety requires it.
Art. 79. On petition of Augustus T. Cushing and others : To see if the town will instruct the electric light committee to place an electric light on Front Street near the Episcopal Church.
Art. 80. On petition of Fred W. Richards and others : To see if the town will vote that an electric light be placed on Walnut Avenue, between the residence of George W. Hayden and that of Frank W. Richards.
Art. 81. On petition of Richard Horace and twenty others : To see if the town will vote to place an electric light on Derby Street near the residence of Richard Horace.
Art. 82. On petition of F. D. Sherman and twelve others : To see if the town will vote to place an electric light on Prospect Street between Washington and Tremont Streets.
Art. 83. On petition of Elbert Ford and fifteen others : To see if the town will vote to extend the sidewalk on the east side of Main Street from the residence of Charles Vinson to that of Frank Daley and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 84. On petition of Thomas H. Melville and nineteen others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $250 to be expended in working Loud Avenue or act in any manner in relation to the same.
Art. 85. On petition of George S. Farrar and nine others : To see if the town will vote to raise an appropriation of $200 for the purpose of graveling Laurel Street, or take some action pertain- ing to the same.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting a copy thereof, attested by you in writing, in each of two public places in each voting precinct in said town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
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Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, on or before the twenty-fifth day of February, instant.
Given under our hands at Weymouth, this thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and nine.
GORDON WILLIS, BRADFORD HAWES, GEORGE L. NEWTON, EDWARD W. HUNT, WILLARD J. DUNBAR, Selectmen of Weymouth.
WEYMOUTH, Feb. 19, 1909.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid to meet at the respective places and time, and for the purpose set forth in said warrant, by posting true and attested copies in two and more public places in each precinct in said town seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting, as within directed.
NATHANIEL B. PEARE, Constable of Weymouth.
A true copy. Attest :
JOHN A. RAYMOND, Town Clerk. OFFICE OF SELECTMEN, WEYMOUTH, March 1, 1909.
A meeting of the Board of Registrars of Voters was held at the Selectmen's Office this evening for the purpose of canvassing the returns of votes cast in the several Precincts for Town Officers and found that the following persons having received the largest number of votes cast, were declared elected to their respective offices, viz. :
TOWN CLERK. John A. Raymond. TOWN TREASURER. John H. Stetson. SELECTMEN.
Willard J. Dunbar, Edward W. Hunt,
Bradford Hawes, George L. Newton,
Gordon Willis.
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OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Willard J. Dunbar, Edward W. Hunt,
Bradford Hawes, George L. Newton,
Gordon Willis.
PARK COMMISSIONER. For Three Years.
William H. Clapp.
COLLECTOR OF TAXES. Winslow M. Tirrell.
ASSESSOR. For Three Years. Waldo Turner.
WATER COMMISSIONER. For Three Years.
Frank H. Torrey
SCHOOL COMMITTEE. For Three Years.
Thomas V. Nash,
John F. Reardon.
AUDITORS.
Frank N. Blanchard, John P. Hunt, William H. Pratt.
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS LIBRARY, Three Years.
Louis A. Cook, William F. Hathaway, John B. Holland.
TREE WARDEN. Gordon Willis.
COMMISSIONER OF WARD TWO SCHOOL HOUSE SINKING FUND BONDS. For Three Years. Frank H Torrey.
CONSTABLES.
Michael Allen, George W. Conant, John L. Maynard, Arthur H. Pratt, Isaac H. Walker,
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