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...employed. For example, the system of out-door relief, which we have here in Massachusetts, has been abolished in New York and other cities. At the same time in England there are advocates for a plan by which the government shall pension all poor persons over 65 years of age. It is hard to say whether such a plan is wise, but it is certain that if it were adopted, it would have to be administered with great care...
...Samuel D. Hosmer of the class of 1850, one of the oldest Congregational ministers in Worcester County, died at his home in Worcester, Tuesday evening at the advanced age of 65 years. He had held several pastorates in Eastport, Me., Nantucket, Hyde Park, South Natick and Auburn, and up to the time of his death supplied the pulpit of the Baptist Church in Grafton. He was deeply interested in antiquarian subjects and contributed papers on different topics...
...work this year than ever before. The two boys clubs which were started last year, in the North End of Boston, have been kept up, and their influence has been extended. One, under the name of the Lincoln Boys' Brigade, is a drill corps of colored boys ranging in age from 11 to 17 years. Meetings are held every Thursday evening in the Sunday School room of St. Augustine's Church. The other, composed mainly of white boys, from 12 to 18 years of age, meets three times a week and has a membership of from thirty to forty boys...
...called upon to decide whether the child was to live or be exposed. If the child was found to be sufficiently perfect to live he was allowed but a few years under the influence of his mother, being early taught the use of arms; and on becoming of age at fifteen years he was expected to distinguish himself by some gallant deed at the head of his twelve Busuks. When a boy and girl were engaged each had to give a dowry and if the engagement should be broken inside of three years the one breaking the engagement lost...
...Jonathan W. Bemis, one of the oldest physicians of Cambridge, died of pneumonia at his home, on Sunday morning, after an illness of only three days. For some time he had not been in active practice. Dr. Bemis was eighty-three years of age. He had graduated from Harvard in the class of 1830, and from the Harvard Medical School, of which he was one of the oldest living graduates...