All posts tagged "Somerville"
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4.9KCrime and ScandalThe Boston Irish Gang Wars Terrify a City
When a group of hoodlums decided to rent a cottage on Salisbury Beach for a Labor Day party in 1961, they set...
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4.9KMassachusettsStephen Moylan, the Irishman Who Coined “United States of America”
Stephen Moylan had a mostly distinguished career in the American Revolution. But it wasn’t his sword that kept him in the history...
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22.1KArts and LeisureThe Outrageous Comical Brown Comes to Town
If you live in a New England town with town hall, a school, a church or an opera house, chances are good...
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6.5K1Arts and LeisureHow the Mark Twain Library Started With Books He Defaced
The Mark Twain Library in Redding, Conn., started with 200 books donated by local resident Mark Twain – books he’d scribbled over...
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14.6K4MassachusettsWhen the Pickwick Club Collapse Killed 44 in Boston, the Charleston Took the Blame
At 3 a.m. on July 4, 1925, 50 couples crowded onto the dance floor of the Pickwick Club in Boston’s Chinatown, kicking...
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21.0KCrime and ScandalFrederick Small Commits the Imperfect Murder of 1916
Frederick Small, an awful little man, thought of himself as an astute businessman. He wasn’t. An abusive husband, he thought he committed...
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