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Philadelphia
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Six years after the first savings bank was established in 1810 in England by Henry Duncan, the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society became the first savings bank formed in the United States.
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Rough going had been encountered by the Masses in its efforts to remain a medium for free interpretation in a time of hysteria. Because of its pitiless reporting in trying to reveal true causes, its lack of respect for commercialized religion, and its attacks on sex taboos in art and literature, the magazine had earlier been barred from the reading rooms of many libraries, ousted from the subway and elevated news stands in New York, and refused by distributing companies of Boston and Philadelphi
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― Art Young: His Life and Times
― Art Young: His Life and Times
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