The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-30
BOSTON STRIKE RECALLS EARLY
 CITY HISTORY
Hub of The Universe
 Founded in 1880.


 yer Wendell Holmes called his be- loved Boston, has recently been the centre of pretty lively wheelings emitting sparks. When policemen go on strike Mayors and governors take 10 language emitting early letters of the alphabet Dear early Boston, up and at it in the history of the American Revolution! - we'll never go back on you whatever you do. Today, Sept 30. commentaries the death of Isaac Johnson, one of the principal founders of Boston in 1880. He was the first magistrate who died in the Colony, and was buried in his own lot The first bUrying place in Boston was laid out around Isaac Johnson's grave. The spot is now built upon by Fremont, Cornhill, Court and School streets.
 BOSTON, The Cradle of Liberty. But she was settled 140 years before "the old Continentals of the ragged regimentals" stood up on Boston soil TITO, and blazed into the British commissioners of customs, and drove them to their warship, the ROmney, Boston was founded in 1880, ten years after the Pilgrim Fathers land- ed at Plymouth Rock. She was a Co., loniaI lady for 135 years, and the capital of the Massachusetts colony. Her Common-Stiu venerable park in the heart of BOston-was set apart for public use in 1884. The first printing of the Colonies was done in thee, thou who ever heldest thee Gray Matter higher than the Golden Calf The ''pine-treo shilling" coin ed in 1851, in the Boston mint, the first mint in the country, bore the in- signia of the Flag that was to be fh- nous on Bunker Hill -- Putnam's s Fag, the Pine-Tree Flag - whose motto around the Pine Tree on white field was, appeal to Heaven," and on the reverse side, Qui transJu- lit sustinet Gle who carried us through so many dangers will sustain us now) That fag-Pine-Tree Flag waved over the head of General Pershing only the other day at the banquet of colors and clamor in New York city It was in Boston that the sturdy opposition to the stamp Act'' broke out, the revolt against unjust taxation. It was in Boston that Bohea was chucked overheard, car goes of tea, precious Bohea. More precious the spirit within man that arose against taxation without repre- sentation, and patriots. disguised as Indians. slipped away from the Lib erty Tree, the old elm near the Com mon, where John Hancock had pre- sided amidst acclaiming roars, gain ed Grif1n's Wharf, boarded two doughty British vessels, tore open the hatches-and overheard you went, Bohea! The Boston Tea Party en- tered into the history of the Righteous Revolutions. ''If the British Parlia- meme can tax America, 1t can tax Ireland and India. and hold the wealth of the East and of the West at the service of its own oligarchy," said Oxenbridge Thacher of Boston. 'If this system is suffered to pre- vail, 1t will extinguish liberty throughout the world"
 It is in Boston that Faneuu Hall stands, that Cradle of Liberty ,' erected by Peter Faneuil in 1742 meeting place of the people during the storm which led to the Revolu- tionary War. It was from Boston that the breath went forth that blew up into a tornado and tore asunder at last, the shackles of the slave. For it was in Boston that William Lloy6 Garrison began the publication of hiy famous Liberator a weekly news paper and uncompromising opponen of slavery; and 1t was discontinued when in 1865 Lincoln signed th' Emancipation Proclamation. Up in dusty attic of Boston, Garrison SC up his small printing press. woefull! poor in funds. He was author, com positor, printer, publisher in one. H went on in the face of rotten egg and jeers from the Pro-Slavery part and woni
 Bunker Hill overlooks Boston. Jun 18th, TITS, tested the mettle of lem battled farmers" fianked only wit resistless forces of the spirit to mee and eventually, to master the traine science of great England.
 The seal of Boston, shows the "cit set upon a hill that cannot be hid, overlooking the bay. Boston con ditaed 163O" says the Great Seal Tn motto of Boston, on the Great Seal, "Sicut patribus, sit Deus nobis" Tn inscription shows the date of tn adoption of the Seal: "Civitatis rt quimine donata A. D. 1922"
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 Let us bow our heads and than God for Boston. We will stand b her through thick and thin, the Hu of our hearts insistent circlin around that which IS loyal, lovely, an of good report--and Is American!