. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. Benjamin FranKlin I-roiii Ihe painting by Joseph Sifrcde Duplessis in the Hoston Public Library By the Town of Franklin, Mass. 25 THE BOOK AND ITS PURPOSE. The Celebration by the Town of Franklin of the200th anniversary of the birth of its namesake, BenjaminFranklin, of which this little book is a permanent recordand the preceeding pages a reproduction of the artisticsouvenir program, was a result of the wise provision andefficient administration of the Franklin Business Associ-ation. It has seemed wise an
. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. Benjamin FranKlin I-roiii Ihe painting by Joseph Sifrcde Duplessis in the Hoston Public Library By the Town of Franklin, Mass. 25 THE BOOK AND ITS PURPOSE. The Celebration by the Town of Franklin of the200th anniversary of the birth of its namesake, BenjaminFranklin, of which this little book is a permanent recordand the preceeding pages a reproduction of the artisticsouvenir program, was a result of the wise provision andefficient administration of the Franklin Business Associ-ation. It has seemed wise and fitting that the story ofso interesting an occasion, and especially the able ad-dresses given, should be preserved in some permanentform, and this book is printed not only as a memorial ofthe day for those who participated in the occasion, butthat succeeding generations may by reading of this cele-bration themselves honor the man whose name the townbears and whose character and whose generosity in thefounding of our Library merit the abiding esteem of ourcitizens. The story of the
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