Norwood Historical Society: This Day In Norwood History-December 17

Press release from the Norwood Historical Society:

2021-12-17

Survey Gives Statistics For Norwood

What the Norwood resident should that usually doesn’t know about his community—such as the number of homes, the number of houses being built, the number of radios and refrigerators In town, the number of homes having running water, the type of work the neighbors are engaged in, the receipt and expenditure of municipal finances, and the numbers of such business establishments as beauty shops, retail stores, laundries, and automobile repair shops—all are revealed on data sheets on Norwood, included among the 175 New England communities surveyed by Ralph G. Wells and John S. Perkins of the Boston University Bureau of Business Research for the Industrial Committee of the New England Council.

This press release was produced by the Norwood Historical Society. The views expressed here are the author’s own.