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INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS
PAGE
McCarthy Caterers 152 MacColl, Fraser & Wheeler ... . 118
McCormick Joseph, E Prov .. . 107 McCusker John F, Phenix. .. 176
McDuff Coal and Lumber Co, Pawtucket. 243
McGowan Andrew E.
307
Machine Parts Corp. 251
McKendall F D Lumber Co .. .
243
Mckinnon Construction
Co
Inc, East Providence.
172
Maclary D B & Son Co, Bos- ton, Mass. . 193
McNutt Robert R
180
McPherson John G & Son ..
173
McWilliams Mfg Co Inc The ..
250
Magnatta Brothers. .
182B
Maguire Frank P.
192
Maguire Roofing
Company,
Pawtucket.
312
Malmstead Joseph F.
301
Malsch Bros, Auburn. . 282
Manchester & Hudson Co. 253
Mann George & Co Inc.
157
Manney Thomas E Co The.
287
Mansolillo Bros ..
172
Manville Jenckes Co, Pawt.
326
Marcus Joseph & Co.
209
Mariani A A & Son ..
206
Martin Marshall B
back cover and 104
Martin Marshall B Inc.
back cover and 104
Martin Oil Service
271
Mason Box Co The.
148
Mauro-Argentieri Inc. 180
Mawby H Company Inc.
189
Mechanical Fabric Co ..
312
Mechanics National Bank of
Providence The.
129
Meiklejohn Company The.
266
Menoche Joseph jr. 273
Merchant A W Inc. 166
Merchants Cold
Storage
&
Warehouse Co.
322
Merriam Co The. 225
Messinger Motor Co, E Prov. 106
Miller Charles & Co. 182
Miller Joseph A & Co. 279
Miller & George.
115
Miller & Warburton.
333
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regu- lator Co. 290
Misch Caesar Inc. 161
Monahan Thomas F & Son. .
205
Monroe Calculating Machine Co Inc .. 103
Montgomery Funeral Home .. . 207 Montle George M 290 Morris E L & Co. 268
Morris Plan Co of R I The ..
127
Mortgage Guarantee & Title Co. 304
Mulholland George F.
255
Munroe Calculating Machine Co Inc. .. 103
Narragansett Belting Co. 260
Narragansett Electric Co The. 189 Narragansett Machine Co,
Pawtucket.
319
National Bank of Commerce. . 128
National Better Health Bureau The. 214
National Can Company, Bos- ton Mass. 152
164
National Decorating Co .. 114
National Machinery Co 250
National Paper Co.
279
National Ring Traveler Co .. . . 257 National Surety Co. .... back col Y Nevin J Benjamin .. . back cover and 303
New England Butt Co .. 248 New England Granite Works
Inc, Westerly ..... front colored 8 New England Ice Co Inc .... .. 215 New England Tree Expert Co Prairie Window Ventilator Inc, Pawtucket. 328 Corp. . .insert opp 1524 Presbrey A A & Son Co. 146
New England Water, Light &
Power Associates. 189
New Haven Trap Rock Co The
320
New Way Service Corp ..
236
Newcomb Chester F
217
PAGE
Newell Coal & Lumber Co, Pawtucket. 245
Niemi Emil & Son.
109
Nightingale, Baker & Salisbury 228 Nokol Automatic Oil Burners. 270 North End Construction Corp 175 Northeastern University. . front colored 4
Nye Guilford G.
200
Oakes C S Co Inc.
275
Oakland Cemetery
153
O'Brien Robert P Brass Foun-
dry & Pattern Works ..
282
O'Connor T.
202
O'Donnell & Co Inc.
front cover and 217
Office Employment Bureau .. . . 194
Olney Joseph & Son Inc.
163
Olneyville Branch, Providence
Institute for Savings ..
131
Olneyville Furniture Co .. .
209
Olneyville Plumbing & Heat- ing Co .. 288
Orr John J & Son.
171
O'Shaunessy & Cannon. 238
Otis Bros Co. . 310
Otis Elevator Co.
193
Outlet Co The.
185
Over, Bradley & Ormiston. 102
Owens Henry & Co Inc. 328
Oxford Press.
293
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
Co of California The. . 223
Packard J S Dredging Co
172
Paige C D & Co.
back of book and 216
Paine, Webber & Company
121
Palmer Spring Co .. 109
Parker George L Co. 312
Parker's Garage.
112
Patton-MacGuyer Co ..
256
Pawtucket Dyeing & Bleach-
ing Co, Pawtucket.
325
Pawtucket Mut Fire Ins Co,
Pawtucket.
219
Pawtucket Sash & Blind Co,
Pawtucket.
151
Pawtuxet Valley Daily Times,
Arctic.
267
Payne F S Co ..
.front colored 6
Pease L F Co Inc.
113
Peckham John H Inc 308
Peerless Box Co Inc.
147
Peerless Motor Cars, E Prov. . 107
Peirce Thomas F & Son. 317
Pellett William P & Son Inc, Norwood. 263
Penta George A.
174
Peoples Loan Co. 240
Peoples Savings Bank in Prov-
idence ..
135
Peoples Storage
Warehouse
Co. 321
Pequot Cleansers & Dyers Inc. 160 Perry, Buxton, Doane Co The 256
Perry Frank B. 197
Perry Frank B Inc. 197
Perry & Whipple.
197
Perry's Express Co Inc, Pawt. 330 Petroleum Heat & Power Co. . 270
Pettee Charles S.
153
Phenix National Bank. 139
Phenix Trust Company, Phe- nix 141
Philbrick Chas H Inc.
220
Pierce Arrow Trucking Co of Rhode Island 171
Pierce & Gaetz Inc .. 176
Plumb C C Contracting Co ... 178
Pocasset Cemetery, Cranston. 153 Polleys William V Co, E Prov. 182 Port Arthur Restaurant. 311
Powers Robert W Co.
105
Robinson & Robinson.
103
Providence Box & Lumber Co, Arlington. 146
PAGE Providence Buick Company .. . 107 Providence Chamber of Com- merce The. . 155
Providence Cleaners & Dyers .. 160
Providence Copeland Co .....
311
Providence Cornice Co.
315
Providence Dairy Co.
184
Providence Electric Blue Print- ing Co. 183
Providence Electrotyping &
Plating Works 283
Providence Gas Co. 210
Providence Granite Co. 173 Providence Ice Cream Co. 215
Providence Institution for
Savings.
131
Providence Journal Co .. 267
Providence Lithograph Co. 294 Providence Mill Supply Co .. . 260 Providence Monumental Works 262 Providence Mortgage Corpora-
Providence Public Market Co. insert opp 404
Providence Real Estate Ex- change .296 and 297
Providence Roofing Co ..
316
Providence Sand & Gravel Co Inc. 179
Providence Steel & Iron Co ... 227 Providence Tire & Rubber Co. 112 Providence Transit Concrete Corp. 174
Providence Visitor.
291
Providence Wall Paper House Inc .. 225
Providence Washington In-
surance Co .. . .
. back colored Y
Prudential Ins Co of America .. 302 Pruefer Piano Co. . 264
Purington O D & Co.
173
Puritan Life Ins Co.
220
Putnam Company The. . 287
Quaker City Felt & Supply Co 200
Rathbun Thomas R & Son.
223
Rau Fastener Co.
256
Read Byron Co, Anthony.
206
Read & White ..
187
Reed Ernest C.
289
Remington Horace & Son Co .. 310
Remington Printing Co.
291
Respro Inc, Auburn 238
Reynolds James P.
285
Reynolds Prescott D.
224
Rhode Island Auto Body Co. . 112
R I Boiler Works. . 144
R I Builders Supply Co, Crans- ton. back of book and 254
R I Hospital Trust Co ... . . 133 Rhode Island Ice Company .. . 215 R I Improved Cement Works Co. . 171, 179 and 235
Rhode Island Label Works Inc 292 Rhode Island Laundry Co .... . 235
R I Nail-Brick Co Inc, Crans- ton. 165
R I News Company The.
269
Rhode Island Oil Co ...
241
Rhode Island Sand & Gravel Inc, Hillsgrove. . 320
R I Supply & Sprinkler Co. 289
R I Tool Co.
145
Rhode Island Welding Co
335
R I Wire Works Inc .. 335
Music Inc ...
266
Richards John R Estate of.
263
Richardson Richard F 303 Richardson & Clark 115 Robert Realty Co Inc. 309
Roberts Alanson S
328
Robinson Walter H.
220
Rome Century Concrete Co
179
Root Hiram G.
271
Rotondi Michael
322
Preston & Rounds Co. 319 Roxy Cab Inc. top edge of leaves and 323 Providence Bag Wood Co. 164
Rumford
Cliemical
Works,
Rumford
211
Olneyville Ice Company .
215
tion.
308
Providence National Bank. . 132
Providence Ornamental Iron Works. 228
Ortoleva Robert S.
305
Providence Paper Co.
278
Phillips Lead & Supply Co. 286 Rhodes Pauline School of
National Coal Co.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS
PAGE
Russell, Berg & Cummings .... 122
Direct Mail Division, Bos- ton Mass .. 404
Sanborn's A J Sons Inc. 239
Sanderson Brothers 223
Sanford Earl D. . 303
Sanquist Arthur F, Greenwood 191 Sanquist Evald, Greenwood ... 182A
SanSouci J O Co Inc. 185
Scannevin & Potter. 191
Scudder, Stevens & Clark 122
Seaconnet Coal Co. 164
Seawright Mineral Spring
Water The.
214
Select Safety Film Service. 328
Sessions-Gifford Co Inc. 157
Shambow Shuttle Co, Woon- socket. 258
Shaw Paper Box Co, Pawt ... 148
Shaw-Walker Co. 267
Shippee E W & Sons. back cover and 222
Simplex Time Recorder Co .. 267
Sinclair John M. 175
Siravo & Lombardi Co Inc. 179
Skinner Edwin A, Bristol. 337
Slocomb J T Co ..
250
Smith E E Co Inc .. 242
Smith-Gibbs Co The. 287 The .. . 226
Smith, Graham & Rockwell.
. .
120
Smith Granite Co The, West-
erly. front colored 8
Smith-Holden Co. . 273
Snow & Farnham Co. 293
Soley & Blair Inc, Boston Mass. . 177
Spalt George & Sons Inc. 322
Spencer, Trask & Co. 122
Spencer & Preston. 219
Stammerers' Institute. 313
Standard Enameling Co. 196
Star Press.
294
Starkweather J U Co. 158
Starkweather & Shepley Inc ..
back colored Y
State Auto Sales.
337
State Lumber Company Inc .. . 244
State Mutual Life Assurance Co .. . 221
Steinert M & Sons Co. 264 Stewart Range & Furnace Co .. 286 Stites H Y & Co .. 120
Stone C Moulton Co. 239
Stone & Webster and Blodget Inc ... 122
Stranahan & Company Inc .. . 118
Strickland Franklin N Labo-
ratory.
159
PAGE
Suffolk Engraving & Electro- typing Co. 198
StAndrew's Stained Glass Stu- dio. 210 Sugarman Max. 205, 262
Salvation Army The.
337
Sullivan Company 317
Swan Point Cemetery. 153
Sweeney School of Shorthand and Typewriting. 313
Sweet L & Co. 242
Sweet William S & Son Inc .. 211
Swift-McNutt Co of R I. 180
Swiss Cleansing Company 160
Talcott W O & M W Inc. 258
Tally Joseph M. 159
Tasca Jewelry Co. . 232
Taylor Card & Box Co 147
Taylor George H & Co. 232 Taylor Olin P. . front cover and 307
Taylor, Symonds Co. 188
Textile-Finishing Machinery
Co The.
247
Thomson C J .. 111
Thurston Mfg Co.
328
Tierney P & J Company The.
285
Tilden-Thurber. .
233
Tillinghast L H Supply Co The 286
Tingley James W & Co .. 125
Tirocchi Bros Cement Block & Trucking Co .. 179
Title Guarantee Co of R I.
front cover and front col 3
Todd James H. 330
Todd-Mellor Co .. 300
Tower James H Iron Works
Town Criers of Rhode Island Inc. . 336
Traficante M A & Sons.
180
Trask Spencer & Co. 122
Travelers Indemnity Co.
back colored Y
Travelers Insurance Company. 221
Travelers Insurance Company
The, Hartford Conn.
back colored Y
Tripp & Olsen.
322
Trop Jewelry Co 231
Trottier Oscar Inc .. 173
Tucker Construction Co Inc. . 182A
Turgeon Evangeliste.
169
Turner Centre System
184
Tyrrell J J Co Inc The ..
271
Union Electric Supply Co.
191
Union Mutual Fire Ins Co. back colored Y
Union Screen Co.
313
Union Trust Co.
134
United Coal Co. 163
United Realty Co. 30S
U S Bobbin & Shuttle Co.
260
United States Building Wreck-
ing Co.
181
United States Fire Protection
U S Gutta Percha Paint Co ... 275
U S Oil Company, E Prov. . . . 269
124 U S Ring Traveler Co. 259 Universal Winding Co, Auburn 249 Vaughan C L & Co. Vaughn L Co. 150
Victor Cleansing Co.
Visitor Printing Co.
291
Voelker Philip L. .
149
W & W Wall Paper Co Inc The 225
Wachusett Creamery 184
Walker Electric Co. 190
Walker Robert L Co. 300
Wall and Company. 102
Warren Landscape Engineer- ing Co. 234
Warwick Club Ginger Ale Co Inc, W Warwick. 260
Washburn
Wire
Company,
Phillipsdale.
335
Waterman Engineering Co. 197 Watmough Jaines. 333
Watson E L Co Inc. front cover and 216
Watson Francis H.
301
Watson Stephen D. Co.
306
Watts & Hutton Inc. 224
Weaver & Co Inc. 276
Wells Everett C Inc. 299
Wells Land Co Inc. 299
Westcott, Slade & Balcom Co. 274
Westerly Lumber Co, Westerly 245
Westminster Lumber Co Inc. . 241 316
Wexler Max & Son.
Wexler Samuel. 110
233
Weybosset Pure Food Market. 212
What Cheer Laundry
236
What Cheer Printing Co 291
197
White A A Co Inc.
318
White J S Co, Pawtucket. 203
White John R & Son Inc. 162
White W W & Co. 116
White Willis H & Sons Co 307
Whiting Milk Companies. 184
Whitman Bros Inc. 107
Whitney H H Company 124
Whole Grain Wheat Agency .. 214
Wholey Boiler Works. 144
Wilcox William A, Westerly. 305 Wilkinson Company. 152
Wilkinson E DeF Co. 325
Williams & Anderson Co Inc The 231
Winfield Fuller Co Inc. back cover and 218 Worcester J R & Co, Boston Mass. 148
Workingmen's Loan Assn. 240
Young Bros Inc. .
147
Zanfagna Michael.
233
Co The.
201
Zelano Joseph.
307
160
Sampson & Murdock Co.
PAGE
Weybosset Jewelry Co.
Whipple Eugene B.
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City Directory Statistical Review
Suggested and Planned by American Community Advertising Association Adopted by Association of North American Directory Publishers
Name of City: Providence, R. I.
Slogan or Sub-Phrase: Southern Gateway of New England.
Form of Government: Mayor; Board of Aldermen, ten members, one from each ward; Common Council, forty members, four from each ward.
Population: 267,918 government; 286,300 estimated.
Area: 18.34-100 square miles.
Altitude: Maximum 210 feet; minimum 4 feet.
Assessed valuation: $684,575,806.
Predominating nationalities in city: Native Americans, Italians, Irish, English and Swedish.
Parks and Playgrounds: Fifty-six covering a total of 835 acres.
City's Bonded Debt: $44,552,000
Financial: Seventeen banks, four trust companies with total deposits of $372,958,013; resources $462,962,713 and three savings banks with $113,528,288.36 total deposits.
Post Office Stamp Sales Receipts: $2,259,462.48.
Telephones in Service: 69,920.
Church Buildings: 125.
Building and Construction: Value of building permits $23,127,869 with 705 new dwell- ing units constructed this year.
Real Estate: Value $404,203,477.
Trade: Territory (Retail) serves 500,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of thirty miles.
Hotels: There are twenty hotels. Newest hotel was built in 1923 (Providence Bilt- more).
Railroads: N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., Providence & Worcester R. R., Southern New England R. R.
Steamship Lines: Bay State Line, Block Island Newport & Providence Transporta- tion Co., Colonial Navigation Co., Dyer Transportation Line, Hartford & New York Transportation Co., Merchants & Miners Transportation Co., New England Steamship Co., Providence, Fall River & Newport Steamboat Co., Providence Tow & Steamboat Co., Providence & New Shoreham Steamboat Co .; also the Fabre Line to Europe.
Amusements: Largest auditorium seats 2,325 people. There are nineteen theatres, with a total seating capacity of 26,020 people.
Hospitals: Seventeen.
Education: Number of schools 200, including four high schools, twenty parochial and diocesan schools. Number of pupils in public schools 45,167, in private schools 12,118. Total of all teachers in public schools is 1,440. Value of all school prop- erty, private and public, approximately $10,235,020.
Libraries: There are 1,250,000 volumes in the libraries of the city.
City Statistics: Total street mileage 295.13, with 98.28 miles paved. Miles of gas mains laid 353, of sewers 343.48, electric street railway 98.84. Capacity of water works (state, municipal or private) 37,000,000,000 gallons, daily average pump of 24,481,679 gallons, with value of plant estimated at $475,269. Fire department employs eighty-nine officers, 369 men with following equipment: sixty-eight pieces in twenty-nine station houses. Police department has seventy-one officers, 443 patrolmen with eight stations and thirty-one pieces of motor equipment including twelve motorcycles.
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Providence was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams. Incorporated in 1832. The oldest bank in America and the first Baptist meeting house in the country are located in the city. Brown University, founded in 1764, and many institutions of the early eighteen hundreds are within the city limits. The first directory of names and addresses of persons located in the city was published in 1824.
Providence is the second city of New England in point of population, a fact of special significance, inasmuch as the figures of the United States Census Bureau credit the city with 286,300 inhabitants, yet its area is only nineteen square miles. This City is the trading centre for an imme- diately adjoining population of fully five hundred thousand people; further- more, if we include an extended area, the population of which turns to Providence more than to any other city, that trading population is in- creased to seven hundred and fifty thousand. Recent statistical estimates prepared for the Census Bureau with a view to establishing boundaries for Metropolitan Providence place it seventh in area among cities of the United States.
Many factors contribute in making Providence a great city in respect, not only to population, but to industrial activity. Situated as it is on Narragansett Bay with its deep channel and other superior water facilities, the city is in a position to call to its service transportation by water as well as by rail. The activities of the Port of Providence increase year by year and they will expand at a tremendous rate when there shall be estab- lished in the city elevators which can supply grain cargo to fill the bottoms of ocean steamers.
Providence is more than usually well provided with excellent public utility facilities. Its Gas Company is known as the most efficient in the industry in New England. Its highly efficient electric service has grown to very large proportions. The street railway system, now embodied in the Narragansett Electric Company, furnishes service not only within the city, but to many outlying points. Its telephone service is the equal of the best in the New England Telephone and Telegraph system, of which it is a part.
The densely populated industrial district of Providence, with its large population to be fed and clothed, is known in all parts of the United States as a distributing point of great importance. Because of the excel- lent educational opportunities offered, there is a large student population attending Brown University, The Women's College in Brown University, Providence College and various smaller private schools.
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Providence is particularly fortunate in having a diversity of manufac- tures. It is not dependent on any one industry. The great industries which have distinguished the city for many years include textiles, jewelry, silverware, iron and steel. It has, for instance: the largest ma- chine shop in the world; the largest finger ring manufacturer in the coun- try; the largest file manufacturers in the world; the largest silverware manufacturers in the United States; the largest screw manufacturer in the world; one of the leading newspapers of the country, the Providence Journal. Back of these industries and supporting them is a great variety of products, large and small, that have a national reputation. Few cities in the United States send out daily so many small packages of so great a variety of manufactured articles as does Providence.
The city government has been carefully administered, hence Providence has one of the lowest municipal tax rates in the country, a low bonded indebtedness and numerous other advantages. Among the most impor- tant of these is the wonderful water supply, now impounded in an area some seven miles from the city, and as large as the city itself, which en- sures pure water for human consumption and a plentiful supply for fire emergencies.
Providence retail trade is prosperous, as it should be, in the centre of so great a population. Likewise the wholesale trade, which reaches out over an area extending into Connecticut, Massachusetts and other New Eng- land states.
Few cities have been more active in providing adequate facilities for the care of the sick and needy; its hospitals are equal to all demands. The municipality has been active in providing for its citizens those agencies, such as parks and playgrounds, that contribute to the promotion of life and health. The parks form the centre for annual events which attract hundreds of thousands of people for enjoyment and cultural development. Best known among these events is the Annual Festival of the Providence Festival Chorus in Roger Williams Park.
Providence is an attractive city in which to do business and to live in comfort and security. This is evidenced by its continued increase of pop- ulation over that which follows a steady birth-rate, due to the coming from all parts of the country of investors of both capital and labor. Newcomers are accommodated in Providence as in few other cities with publicly con- ducted enterprises which ensure good health, excellent educational oppor- tunities, good living conditions and satisfactory returns.
For those who are interested in obtaining general information or de- tailed particulars regarding the municipality and business opportunities it is recommended they write to The Providence Chamber of Commerce.
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POPULATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
UNITED STATES CENSUS OF 1920; STATE CENSUS OF 1925.
Total, in 1920, 3,852,356. Total, in 1925, 4,144,205.
* Cities designated by an asterisk.
Shire towns in SMALL CAPITALS.
TOWNS.
1920
1925
TOWNS.
1920
1925
TOWNS,
1920
1925
Barnstable.
Bristol.
Acushnet
3,075
4,135
Bourne.
2,530
3,015
*Attleboro.
19,731
20,623
Brewster.
688
774
Berkley
935
1,118
Chathamn.
1,737
1,741
Dartmouth.
6,493
9,026
Dennis
1,536
1,749
Dighton.
2,574
3,208
Eastham.
430
494
Easton
5,041
5,333
Newbury
1,303
1.432
Falmouth.
3,500
4,694
Harwich
1,846
2,077
Mashpee
242
298
Freetown
1,532
1,663
*Peabody Rockport.
3,878
3,949
Mansfield.
6,255
6,590
Rowley.
1,249
1,403
North Attleboro ..
9,238
9,790
Salisbury
1,701
1,820
Norton.
2,374
2,769
Saugus.
10,874
12,743
Raynham ..
1,695
2,128
Swampscott.
8,101
8,953
Seekonk
2,898
4,191
Topsfield.
900
915
Somerset.
3,520
4,818
Wenham.
1,090
1,145
Swansea
2,334
3,250
West Newbury.
1,492
1,337
*TAUNTON
37,137
39,255
Westport.
3,115
4,207
482,156
496,832
Adams.
12,967
13,525
Alford.
248
221
Becket.
674
778
Cheshire
1,476
1,842
Clarksburg
1,136
1,222
Dalton.
3,752
4,092
Egremont.
441
Florida
298
362
Great Barrington.
6,315
6,405
Hancock
464
510
Hinsdale.
1,065
1,044
Lanesboro
1,054
1,181
Tisbury ..
1,275
1,431
Deerfield.
2,803
2,968
West Tisbury
345
332
Erving
1,295
1,344
4,372
4,862
Gill
879
918
MtWashington.
73
58
New Ashford ..
116
New Marlboro.
1,010
991
*North Adams
22,282
22,717
Otis.
361
395
Peru ..
149
113
Andover.
8,268
10,291
Monroe
173
143
*Beverly
22,561
22,685
Montague
7,675
7,973
Richmond
561
619
Boxford.
588
581
New Salem.
512
519
Sandisfield.
460
480
Danvers.
11,10S
11,798
Northfield.
1,775
1,821
Savoy
436
399
Essex
1,478
1,403
Orange.
5,343
5,141
Georgetown
2,004
1,888
Rowe
333
292
*Gloucester
22,947
23,375
Shelburne.
1,436
1,538
Tyringham.
267
280
Groveland.
2,650
2,485
Shutesbury
2.12
205
Washington
240
231
Hamilton
1,631
2,018
Sunderland
1,259
1,290
W. Stockbridge .. .
1,058
1,212
*Haverhill.
53,584
49,232
Warwick
327
364
Williamstown.
3,707
4,006
Ipswich
6,201
6,055
Wendell
346
397
Windsor.
403
388
*LAWRENCE.
94,270
93,527
Whately.
1,234
1,229
*Lynn.
99,148
103,081
49,361
49,598
113,033
121,255
Lynnfield
1,165
1,333
Franklin.
Dukes.
240
240
Ashfield.
869
919
Bernardston.
769
844
EDGARTOWN
1,190
1,235
Buckland
1,433
1,555
Gay Head
144
168
Charlemont.
808
820
Gosnold.
131
142
Colerain.
1,607
1.562
Oak Bluffs
1,047
1,314
Conway.
961
931
Lee.
4,085
4,058
Lenox
2,691
2,895
Monterey
282
348
GREENFIELD
15,462
15,246
Hawley
390
354
Heath
325
298
Leverett.
695
664
Amesbury.
10,036
11,229
Leyden.
330
270
Truro.
554
504
Wellfleet.
826
786
Yarmouth
1,229
1,532
26,670
29,782
Manchester
2,466
2,499
Marblehead.
7,324
8,214
Merrimac.
2,173
2,349
Methuen.
15,189
20,606
Middleton
1,195
1,667
Nahant.
1,318
1,630
Fairhaven.
7,291
10,827
*NEWBURYPORT.
15,618
15,656
*FALL RIVER.
120,485
128,993
North Andover
6,265
6,839
Orleans
1,012
1,078
Provincetown
4,246
3,787
*NEW BEDFORD .... 121,217
119,539
*SALEM.
42,529
42,821
Rehoboth.
2,065
2,332
19,552
19,870
Sandwich
1,458
1,479
Berkshire.
359,005
383,795
Essex.
*PITTSFIELD.
41,763
46,877
Sheffield
1,435
1,614
Stockbridge.
1,764
1,830
85
477 Chilmark
5,774
BARNSTABLE.
4,836
21
POPULATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
TOWNS.
1920
1925
TOWNS.
1920
1925
TOWNS.
1920
1925
*Marlboro
15,028
16,236
Mattapoisett.
1,277
1,556
Maynard.
7,086
7,857
8,453
9,136
Blandford.
479
437
*Melrose.
18,204
20,165
Pembroke.
1,358
1,480
Chester
1,302
1,514
*Newton
46,054
53,003
Plympton.
469
511
*Chicopee.
36,214
41,882
North Reading
1,286
1,689
Rochester.
1,047
1,100
E. Longmeadow. .
2,352
3,134
Pepperell.
2,468
2,779
7,544
7,966
Granville.
655
609
Reading
7,439
8,693
2,534
2,713
Hampden
624
632
Sherborn.
1,558
929
Wareham.
4,415
5,594
Holland
153
141
Shirley
2,260
2,394
W. Bridgewater.
2,908
3.121
Whitman.
7,147
7,857
Longmeadow
2,618
3,333
Stoneham ..
7,873
9,084
Ludlow.
7,470
8,802
Stow
Sudbury
1,121
1,394
Montgomery.
229
191
Tewksbury.
4,450
4,985
Palmer.
9,896
11,044
Townsend ..
1,575
1,895
Southwick
1,194
1,267
142,065
*Waltham.
30,915
34,746
Tolland
192
150
Watertown.
21,457
25,480
Wales.
419
434
Wayland.
1,935
2,255
835,522
876,286
Worcester.
Ashburnham.
2,012
2,159
Athol.
9,792
9,602
Auburn.
3,891
4,927
Barre.
3,357
3,329
Berlin.
868
1,071
Blackstone.
4,299
4,802
Bolton.
708
801
Boylston
794
970
Chesterfield.
441
445
NANTUCKET.
2,797
3,152
2,216
1,401
Cummington.
489
508
Easthampton
11,261
11,587
Enfield.
790
749
Goshen.
224
251
Norfolk.
Douglas
2,181
2,363
Granby.
779
810
Avon
2,176
2,360
3,701
4,594
Greenwich.
399
450
Bellingham.
2,102
2,877
Hadley.
2,784
2,888
Braintree.
10,580
13,193
16,971
18,730
Hatfield
2,651
2,702
Brookline.
37,748
42,681
6,887
6,973
Huntington.
1,425
1,543
Canton.
5,945
5,896
3,085
3,046
Middlefield
280
223
Cohasset.
2,639
2,913
2,546
996
*NORTHAMPTON ..
21,951
24,145
DEDHAM
10,792
13,918
2,970
3,436
Pelham
503
519
Dover.
867
1,044
2,777
3,165
Plainfield.
332
282
Foxboro.
4,136
4,934
1,045
1,067
Prescott.
236
230
Franklin.
6,497
7,055
2,461
2,678
Southampton.
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