Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1911 — Guard Shakespeare's House. [ARTICLE]

Guard Shakespeare's House.

The trustees of Shakespeare’s birthplace have held a special meeting at Stratford-on-Avon, at which it waa unanimously decided to purchase for 24,500 the house occupied by the secretary to the trust, since Its proximity to Shakespeare’s house would enable their chief effioer to exercise full and constant control over the most important property belonging to the trustees, and Its acquisition would permanently secure the birthplace against, any defacement by unsuitable buildings in its Immediate neighborhood. It was reported that the secretary's dwelling house had been placed in direct communication by telephone with the police and fire stations and with the burglar alarm at the birth plane.