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100 Years Ago: Lincoln and Elm Undergo Costly Repairs

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Aug. 30, 1911: $8,000 Repair Job on Streets: Looks as if Work on Lincoln and Elm Streets Would Soon be Started

It looks as if Lincoln Street between Concord and Pleasant streets, will soon be repaired. At a meeting of the highway committee Tuesday evening, the matter was talked over and this conclusion was arrived at.

The opinion of the committee was that it would require about $8,000 to do the two jobs. The general traveling public have been complaining for some time regarding the conditions of both Lincoln and Elm streets, and it looks now as if their complaints were about to be heard.

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