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Title: The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: New Hampshire -- History Periodicals
Publisher: Dover, N.H. : H.H. Metcalf, Publisher
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library

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tion of delegates to the Con-stitutional Convention does not occur tillnext month, the nominations have alreadybeen made by the respective parties, sepa-rately or in conference, and the compositionof that body may be pretty accurately deter-mined. It is safe to say that so far as amajority of the prominent men selected isconcerned the ascendency is likely to bewith what is known as the conservativeelement. It often happens, however, inconventions as well as legislatures, that newmen come to the front, command recognitionand assume leadership, so that it is entirelyunsafe to predict what the action of the Con-vention will be upon any of the various ques-tions likelv to come before it. Wanted, at this office, a copy of the Gran-ite Monthly for September, 1S94—Vol. 17,No. 3—also copies of Nos. 1 and 2—Januaryand February—and Nos. 9 and 10—Septem-ber and October—Vol. 13, 1890. Any onewho can forward either or all of the desirednumbers will be liberally compensated for sodoing.
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HON. HENRY M. BAKER The Granite Monthly Vol. XLIV, No. MARCH, 191:! New Series, Vol. 7, No. 3 LEADERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE IX Hon. Henrv M. BakerBy H. C. Pearson The records of few of the leadersof New Hampshire, past or present,can equal in amount and variety ofuseful and distinguished accomplish-ment that of Henry Moore Baker,almost a half century out of collegeand yet today at the very meridianof his career in the point of publicprominence and appreciation. He was born January 11, 1841,not many miles from the New Hamp-shire state capitol, in the little townof Bow, which he always has regardedas his home and for which he hascherished an affection that has mani-fested itself in many ways. He hasbeen the president of the local OldHome Week association since theinstitution of the festival and has donemuch to make the towns observancesamong the most interesting andtypical in the state. Familiar from boyhood with all farmwork his membership in Bow Grange,Patrons of Husbandry, is to him muchm

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