. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. i6 The liciijiuiun l^nmkliu CclchniLioii a fiiR- > of ;iini)k- ijrojxirtion-. Iraiiklin is justlyl)r(iutl l Dt-aii Acaileniy, and the ni(--ni(iry of Dr. Dean is cIrt-. witli rcvc-R-nce and lovr. Dr. Dean gave to the schoolby gift and hy his will (Mer a quarter of a million dollars. Franklin is especially proud of its record of famous sons,enjoving as it does the enviable dis-tinction of being the birth])lace of oneof the worlils most famous Mann, in \vlu)^e honor o

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. Bicentenary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, January seventeen, nineteen hundred and six. i6 The liciijiuiun l^nmkliu CclchniLioii a fiiR- > of ;iini)k- ijrojxirtion-. Iraiiklin is justlyl)r(iutl l Dt-aii Acaileniy, and the ni(--ni(iry of Dr. Dean is cIrt-. witli rcvc-R-nce and lovr. Dr. Dean gave to the schoolby gift and hy his will (Mer a quarter of a million dollars. Franklin is especially proud of its record of famous sons,enjoving as it does the enviable dis-tinction of being the birth])lace of oneof the worlils most famous Mann, in \vlu)^e honor ourHigh school was named. He waselected to Congress to till the jdacemade vacant by the death of JohnOuincy Adams, being in the House atthe period of the hottest slavery agi-tation. He declined the nominationfor the governorship of Massachusettsto become the president of an obscurewestern college, obedient to an ideal. Ever closely linked with the material prosperity ot this town will bethe names ofthe Rays ofFranklin,svnonymo u swith en t e r -prise, busi-ness daring,won il e r f u 1fi n a n c i a 1

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