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Social Settlements: United States. District of Columbia. Washington. "Social Settlement": The Social Settlement, Washington, D.C.: Here lessons in housework are given. Partly furnished with articles made from boxes.
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Title: Social Settlements: United States. District of Columbia. Washington. "Social Settlement": The Social Settlement, Washington, D.C.: Here lessons in housework are given. Partly furnished with articles made from boxes.
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