. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. PLEASANT STREET PLANT 29 > r < ft bc. FALL RIVER, MASS. A CITY OF OPPORTUNITY (i Nobody in this wide, wide world, in writing a letrer to some-body in our city, would think of using the usual, long descriptionof location generally requisite to insure proper delivery. A letterfrom the uttermost parts of the earth, meagrely addressed toAbe Smith, Fall River, for instance, is likely to reach its desti-nation if Abe be living anywhere in or near Fall River. Why?Because Fall River, as a manufactu


. Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity. PLEASANT STREET PLANT 29 > r < ft bc. FALL RIVER, MASS. A CITY OF OPPORTUNITY (i Nobody in this wide, wide world, in writing a letrer to some-body in our city, would think of using the usual, long descriptionof location generally requisite to insure proper delivery. A letterfrom the uttermost parts of the earth, meagrely addressed toAbe Smith, Fall River, for instance, is likely to reach its desti-nation if Abe be living anywhere in or near Fall River. Why?Because Fall River, as a manufacturing city and one of success-ful, progressive, business men, has a reputation as long and asbroad as the wide, wide world, and evety thing co7iies right^ be-cause of that reputation for manufactures and success. A few decades ago one of Americas noted editors advisedyoung men to go west. Accordingly, thousands of persons impa-tient, and panting for success, followed this advice, migrated tovarious locations in the wild and woolly west, there to delve andstrain, plant and pant, for the object of their aspirations, withvaried degrees of s


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