Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — The Richest Town. [ARTICLE]

The Richest Town.

The rickest town in the United States Is Brookline, near Boston. Its population is 17,000, and valuation $G0,000,000, yet it is governed through the typical New England town meeting. It has a public library containing 45,000 volumes, a $300,000 high school, a $40,000 free bathing establishment, and spends SIOO,OOO a year on its parks and wellshaded streets. Boston would gladly annex It, but Brookline prefers to go on as it is.