Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Farmers Feed Boston's Poor. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Feed Boston's Poor.

The benevolent generosity of the farmers enables the kind people of Boston to make a free distribution of fruit among that portion of the city population who would otherwise be denied even a taste of it during the season of ripening. The farmers as a class are not privileged to bestow their gifts in money, but when they bring forward their offerings it is done in good measure and with a contagious heartiness. The poor people of the North and South Ends nnd in the city outskirts have reason to return their gladdest thanks both to the farmers and those who interested themselves in their substantial pleasure. Acts of this character perform a truer service in bringing about the conditions of social fraternity than the repetition of any number of precepts, without the support of practical illustrations.—Boston Courier.