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Boston, MA: Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1927. 14 x 23 cm. Metropolitan Boston is a city of 1,808, 845. Between 1915 and 1925 city has witnessed practically uninterrupted growth. Total value of manufactured goods produced in 1925 was $1,256,000,000. Shoe and Leather center of the world. Headquarters of cotton manufacturing. Greatest wool market of the United States. New England fisheries are first in the western hemisphere. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: History/Boston.

Boston, MA: John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1835. 13 x 21 cm. Report by Mayor on the state of the city of Boston; debt, new construction, Deaths 1554, many deaths by consumption, but health of population better than 10 years before; only 4 deaths from smallpox; 249 persons committed in 1834 to House of Correction, of these 165 were common drunkards, 97 were men. Great Britain ships their paupers to us. Alludes to action taken to counter the attack on the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown. Paper booklet, staples added to spine, fair. . Catalogs: History/Boston.

Boston, MA: Boston Transcript Company, 1881. 46 x 60 cm. Secret conclave of Irishmen meeting at Palmer House in Chicago, includes John Warren of Lowell, Mass., a strong friend of Ben Butler. These men are the ""Dynamite Crowd."" Bulletin: The President (Garfield) passes the day comfortably� discharge of pus is satisfactory. Talk of heat wave in Boston. Fifth Regimental Band will perform in concert on the Common Sunday at five. Newspaper, pages unopened, browned, good. . Catalogs: History/Boston.