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Excerpt from The Cambridge of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Six: A Picture of the City and Its Industries Fifty Years After Its Incorporation; Done by Divers Hands At a meeting: of the Citizens' Trade Association, held December JO, the President. II. O. Houghton, in the chair. on motion of George Howland Cox, it was Voted: That a committee, consisting of the president of this Association and four of its members (to be appointed by the chair), be requested to confer with the citizens' committee upon the expediency of collecting statistics in relation to the City of Cambridge, showing its advantages as a place of residence and for the establishment of business, and any and all knowledge, the promulgation of which would prove beneficial to the growth and general welfare of the city; the same to be published in an illustrated form and distributed throughout the country as the wisdom of the committee may determine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.