All about the state of Massachusetts. Lots of history and industrial info. Most photos deal with the textile industry.
Everybody knows that the Bay State is one of the smallest of the Commonwealths that compose the United States of America, but who realizes that it takes as many Massachusetts to make a United States as it takes days to make a leap year? Or who appreciates the fact that in area there are as many Bay States in California as there are holes in a full golf course.
The crow needs to fly only 135 miles in going from Sheffield to Salisbury, or only 150 miles in winging its way from Greylock's summit to Chatham's sands, while the distance between Lake Monomonac, which spans the New Hampshire boundary, and Lake Chaugogagogmanchaugagogchaubunagungamaug, which touches Connecticut, is only a little longer than the name of the latter.
But this midget in domain is a giant in power. Measured by the products of its factories, by its financial contributions to the Federal Government, it occupies fifth place in the sisterhood; measured by the money it annually appropriates for its own betterment, it attains fourth place from the top, and is a lively disputant with Illinois for third; measured by the debt it has dared to incur in order to promote the welfare of its people, it takes second place, despite the fact that there are seven States that surpass it in wealth.
This year Plymouth, Massachusetts, plans to entertain the country in honor of the 300 years that will have passed since New England was born. There are citizens in the Bay State who have ten generations or more of American blood in their veins. Yet two-thirds of the people of the Commonwealth have sprung from parents one or both of whom were born under alien flags.
Where Paul Revere lived in Revolutionary times is now Little Italy, almost as foreign in the tongue spoken as Naples or Genoa. With only a third of the State's population born of parents who first saw the light in America, how small must be the percentage born of full colonial lineage!
But is Massachusetts less American for its tremendous foreign stock? Look at the recruiting records - holding sixth place in population, but fifth in voluntary enlistments for the World War. Look at the Liberty Loan records-third place in the first and second loans and fourth place in the other three…"
7” x 10”, 42 pages, 41 B&W photos
These are pages from an actual 1920 magazine.
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