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A Look Back, Feb. 21

200 Years Ago

  • R. A. Coffin proposes to open a school in the room over Mr. Loveland’s cabinet warehouse in Northampton on the second Wednesday of April next. He will instruct in the various branches of education usually taught in academies. Terms, $4.50 per quarter.
  • Runaway from the subscriber on the 10th inst. Benjamin P. Allen, a boy about seventeen years of age. All persons are hereby forbid trusting or harboring him on my account. — Oliver Dickinson, Guardian, Amherst.

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  • The constitution and bylaws for the business and professional woman’s club of Hampshire County were adopted last evening at a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Ruth Thompson of this city presented the document.
  • E. Alberts, Main Street shoe dealer, who had a fire in his store yesterday afternoon, was so impressed with the speed and skill with which the firemen extinguished the flames that he has presented them with a box of cigars, so that they may further develop their smoke-eating abilities at the station.

50 Years Ago

  • Seven buildings acquired two years ago on Pomeroy Terrace by the state Department of Mental Health may be renovated and repaired now that the state Department of Administration and Finance has released $500,000 for the purpose. It is not clear when the work will begin.
  • Easthampton homeowners who live near the proposed site of a new shopping center are rallying to oppose the planned development announced last week by Big Y Foods, Inc. They claim that the location of the shopping center near their street, Truehart Drive, would destroy the country atmosphere of the area, cause traffic congestion and lower property values.

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