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A Novelty in Co-operative Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Extract

Many and varied are the evidences of co-operative anterprise in the early history of our country ranging from husking “bees” to sheriffs' posses; but none is more unique than the community purchase of a hearse by the community of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1812, as recounted in an account book owned by the Business Historical Society.

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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1933

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