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MEET BOSTON
in
What's New In Town
Jan., 1941 -
Sept., 1942
89
weekly columns presenting very interesting and little known facts about Boston and American history
written by
"Jacob Marmor" (pseudonym) |
"It is not pure history, nor
memory, nor pure fiction, but rather a mixture of all three;
not dry research, but affection that puts life-blood into the material."—W.
J. Sidis |
"BORIS SIDIS was born at Kieff,
Russia, May 6, 1868, the son of Moses and Mary (Marmor) Sidis."
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Jan.
3, 1941 |
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Jan.
10, 1941 |
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Jan. 17, 1941
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Jan. 24, 1941
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31, 1941 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb021441_small.jpg) Feb. 14,
1941 |
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21, 1941 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb022841_small.jpg) Feb. 28,
1941 |
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March 7, 1941 |
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March 14, 1941
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March
21, 1941 |
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![](./mbmenu_files/mb040441_small.jpg) April 4, 1941 |
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11, 1941 |
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April
18, 1941 |
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April
25, 1941 |
May
2, 1941 |
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May 9, 1941 |
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May
16, 1941 |
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23, 1941 |
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30, 1941 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb060641_small.jpg) June 6,
1941 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb061341_small.jpg) June 13, 1941 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb062041_small.jpg) June 20, 1941 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb062741_small.jpg) June 27, 1941 |
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July 11,
1941 |
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18,
1941 |
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25,
1941 |
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1941 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb080141b_small.jpg) Aug. 1, 1941
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August 8,
1941 |
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15, 1941 |
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22, 1941 |
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Sept.19,1941 |
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Oct. 3, 1941 |
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Oct.
10, 1941 |
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Oct.
17, 1941 |
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24, 1941 |
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Oct.
31, 1941 |
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Nov.
14, 1941 |
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21, 1941 |
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28, 1941 |
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12, 1941 |
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Dec. 19, 1941 |
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26, 1941 |
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Feb.,
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Feb., 13, 1942 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb022042_small.jpg) Feb., 20, 1942 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb022742_small.jpg) Feb., 27, 1942 |
![](./mbmenu_files/mb070342_small.jpg) July
3, 1942 |
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10, 1942
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24, 1942 |
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July
31, 1942 |
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August
7, 1942
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August
14, 1942 |
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21, 1942 |
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28, 1942 |
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It's also a way to read "Meet Boston."
Special thanks to the volunteer
typists, especially Mike Round and family, and to Dylan Knight Rogers.
Sidis wrote this
introduction to the first week's column:
This is introducing a new
kind of column, by Jacob Marmor, to Boston. It is a very impersonal one.
As far as possible, the author is an impersonal character, injecting
into it none of his personal ideas or habits: and personalities do not
enter. To get the right spirit, the reader should regard the author as
just an old-time lover of Boston, who, in the course of wandering
around, has picked up scraps of information and stories. Not a native,
but one who can see the city with the eyes of a lover rather than a
relative. It is not pure history, nor memory, nor pure fiction, but
rather a mixture of all three: not dry research, but affection that puts
life-blood into the material. It is merely hoped that this column will
give the reader an idea of what a great and wonderful place our
metropolis of Boston really is. |
"I found this collection of 89 Meet
Boston articles,
along with the manuscript of The Tribes and the States,
in a suitcase belonging to Sidis's sister Helena. She had directed me to
its location."―Dan
Mahony
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