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This Camp offers to boys, 12-17, a 250 mile canoe trip under ideal conditions. Fishing, hiking, exploring. For new booklet with map, write H. J. STORER, Sec'y, 74 Fayette St., Cambridge, (39) Mass. CAMP OXFORD OXFORD OXFORD, MAINE A Summer Camp for Boys. Twentieth Season. Two months of pleasure and profit. Booklet. A. F. Caldwell, A.M. |