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Scope and ContentArticle: "Hoboken: The City on the 'Other' Side of the River" by Don Singleton, pages 22-25 in Suburban New Jersey Life, Vol. 44, No. 2, March 1974. Resident and home owner in Hoboken who describes features and amenities of city, shopping, running for Board of Education seat, ethnic culture and heritage ("until 1911...minutes of the Hoboken Board of Education were kept in the German language") and home renovation. Nine photos of exteriors. Mentions two "matching mansions on Hudson Street, we later discovered, were built for two partners named Hammacher and Schlemmer."