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Record indicates item no longer in the museum.Note Type
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Notes on inventory card:
This cane is to be available to the oldest citizen if he or she desires it.
May 22, 1969: Cane taken to Solomons in Boston for repairs at J. Field’s request.
June 23, 1969: Cane presented to Emily Sylvia.
March 1974: Mrs. Sylvia died. Cane returned to Selectmen. Letter from Selectmen in secretary’s files.
May 1974: To Mr. [Ira D.] Cook.”Note Type
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Tag filed with inventory card:
Boston Post Cane. Distributed by the Boston Post in 1909.
To localities & towns in [New England].
To be owned & carried by the oldest citizen of the town. Upon his or her decease to be then presented to the next.
Names of owners are engraved on head of cane:
Seth Hiller, 1815-1912
Bruce Shaw, 1824-1914
Henry J. Purrington, 1825-1921
John A. Shaw, 1826-1925
George H. Doscher, 1835-1925
[Nathaniel Briggs] Denham, 1856-1945 [1856-1946]
