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Healing healer Hickson draws crowds at Boston cathedral
Fifty nine year old John E. Peak, an undertaker of South Boston, reports improved vision after Hickson’s blessing and declares he can now see moving objects. The mission drew hundreds, with police needed to manage crowds as women and curious shoppers pressed into Tremont Street church doors.
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John E. Peak
Dorchester Street
South
Boston
Post
Mr. Hickson
Mr. Peak
Hickson
St. John the Evangelist
Bowdoin Street
West End
Tremont Street
Christ
God
St. Paul's
Goa
Greater
U. S. Ss
Nebraska
California
James McShane
John Do. McDonald
Lagrange Street
St. John’s
Salem
North End