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tme wide round eartn. Auburn was Goldsmith’s loveliest vililage of the plain.” But we can readily forgive Mr. Goldsmith, for he lived before Massillon had a local habitation. Mark Twain never was in Massillon, or else he would not grow so ecstatic over the island, of Mauritius, which issomewhere outside os the Universe off the barbarous coast of Africa. Mark says that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven, and that heaven was patterned after Mauritius.We appreciate the fact that a new class of readers is constantly coming forward, and they cry out for the recital of the truths of local history, for a knowledge of the remarkable men and the events that contributed to the marvelous development of our city and the region roundabout. THE ITEM has not been here a very long time,Duncan’s Mill.After the declaration of war between England and America in 1812, all classes of business were greatly paralyzed, and this continued for a number of yeara. When the reaction came, wheat sold for 25 cents a bushel, potatoes, 12i cents, and salt went up in price to 83 a bushel.The first religious society was the “Kendal Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends,” organized in 1813-The first brickyard was opened inKendal in 1-813, by Bradford Kellogg and his two sons, and the first brick house in the village (still standing) was built by Alexander Skinner, of bricks from this yard.The first store in Kendal was opened about this time, 1813, by Thomas Rotch.Judge William Henry and Hon. Gil-berthorp Earle, among the most pro-
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Massillon Item
Massillon, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 18, 1897
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