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mhs-2019.274.pdf
An account of a fundraising event that turned out to be, perhaps, the largest single event ever held in Maynard: "Barbecue Day".

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The "Don't You Wish You Knew?" club was a social group started in 1899 by local businessmen with membership limited to 20 with the apparent goal of sponsoring elaborate masquerade balls.

mhs-2019.272.pdf
The International Order of Good Templars, who promoted total abstinence from alcoholic beverages, had a lodge in Assabet Village, prior to Maynard's incorporation.

mhs-2019.271.pdf
Before entertainment was available at the push of a button, the arrival of a carnival or circus in town would bring a little bit of excitement to quiet town life.

mhs-2019.270.pdf
Chautauqua was a traveling adult education and social movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It came to Maynard starting in 1917 and continued through 1929.

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A small Finnish cooperative that was born out of a political differences with the United Coop. It operated for about 2 decades.

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A metal windproof cigarette lighter.

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Twelve safety pins per package. Boye was a well known sewing machine needle manufacturer.

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Plastic snap on cover used by Johnson's before selling store in the 1960's.

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A souvenir box with a painting of the Assabet Mills and Mill Pond on the cover.

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While showing a VCR tape of a slide show presented at the Maynard Historical Society in April of 1989 one of the participants was reminded of a train accident from a picture of a train approaching the Summer St. crossing. In the 1920's a man…

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Used to carry bundles before the plastic era.

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