. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. ?If M^ I •^^m-,^^ II !?? ITT ^^^^^jjBtSS agWIBBgSi^Wi ?of manner which won him friends everywhere, a distinguishedfuture was certainly before him. A prominent factor for many years in the industrial life ofthe town was the Thayer family, Major and Davis Thayer, Jr.,and Emery Thayer, all of whom left their impress upon this• - town in a marked and help- ful degree, being pioneers inthe straw business, and mak-ing Franklin among the firstfew towns in this country toembark in an enterprise ofthis nature. Amon

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. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. ?If M^ I •^^m-,^^ II !?? ITT ^^^^^jjBtSS agWIBBgSi^Wi ?of manner which won him friends everywhere, a distinguishedfuture was certainly before him. A prominent factor for many years in the industrial life ofthe town was the Thayer family, Major and Davis Thayer, Jr.,and Emery Thayer, all of whom left their impress upon this• - town in a marked and help- ful degree, being pioneers inthe straw business, and mak-ing Franklin among the firstfew towns in this country toembark in an enterprise ofthis nature. Among other men nowpassed and gone whose. i8 The Ilcnjunui) h^rniiklin V ^i ? /v n AV rrs If i= r Uv wp-^p ^

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