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Show BOSTON COUNCILMEN WANT BOOK BARRED HUSTON", Sept. 26. On motion of i Councilman Jerry Watson, who some-j tlmo. nro launched an attack on Webster's Web-ster's dictionary on the ground that It: was pro-British, the city council unanimously un-animously passed an order requesting the trustees of the Boston public 11-! 11-! brary to bar from their shelves Helen; Nlcclay'fl "Book of American Wars "j j W atson's order aiming at the eliml-l I nation ot the dictionary was also pr- sented, but the council voted to lay It on the table pending acceptance by the library trustees of an Invitation, to attend the next meeting and show cause, If any. for the retention of the' Webster classic The objection to Helen Nlrolay's vol-' ume as expressed by Watson, was that the author, "falsified history and held the early patriots up to ridicule ", to prove his case the councilman read passages referring to Samuel Adams James Otis and Joseph Warren. |