Mysterious Stranger Gardiner in Boston Colony Plot Unmasked
In 1631 Sir Christopher Gardiner, linked to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, arrived with servants and a companion described as his cousin. England sent orders to arrest him, but he fled into forests and was captured by Indians. Bradford and Winthrop later learned letters revealing Gardiner as Gorges’ agent. He left peacefully. the cousin wife stayed, possibly with descendants in Maine.
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Boston
Dudley Bays
Charles Francis Adams
Neponset
Motley
Sir Christopher Gardiner
Bradford
England
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Christopher Gardiner
Sir Ferdinando Gorges
Gorges
New England
Massachusetts Historical Society
Maine
Child Falls Four Stories and Dies in Boston Home
A three year old girl, Bessie Scalafano of 41 Lewis Street North End, leaned backward from a broken window and fell about 50 feet to an ice covered courtyard. She was taken to Relief Hospital Haymarket square by police ambulance but died late that evening from a fractured skull and internal injuries.
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Michael
Mary Scalafano
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Relief Hospital
Haymarket Square
Joel Strikes a Blow in All the Brothers Were Valiant
Joel, longtime paragon of patience, delivers a decisive blow in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine installment of Ben Ames Williams sea saga All the Brothers Were Valiant. The action heightens the novelistic suspense as the crew reacts to the turn at sea.
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Ben Ames Williams
Boston Sunday Post
War novels and modern life in the literary market
A survey of recent war and nonwar fiction, praising The Secret Battle by A. P. Herbert as a stark antiwar indictment with simple, gripping storytelling. It contrasts The Judgment of Peace with Men in War, and recommends Luca Sarto, The Happy Woman, The Swing of the Pendulum, The Matrix, The Golden Poppy, and Bird in Town and Village among other titles and authors, noting strong character portrayals and historical settings.
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England
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Gadsky
Luca Sarto
Charles S. Brooks
Louis XI
Scott
Sarto
Mr. Brooks
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Jean
Franklin Herrick
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Maine authorizes bonds for roads bridges and memorial bridge
Augusta Maine March 6 The Governor and council approved issuing bonds totaling 2 500 000 for highway and bridge construction and 500 000 toward the cost of a memorial bridge linking Maine and New Hampshire at Portsmouth.
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Augusta
Maine
New Hampshire
Portsmouth
Harvard Students Demand Their Own Theatre House
Harvard students in Cambridge press for a dedicated theatre venue to stage collegian dramas. The Crimson argues for a private playhouse as Massachussets Hall and the cramped Radcliffe space limit senior productions. They praise Professor George Pierce Baker and the 47 Workshop for shaping young dramatists.
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the Crimson
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Cambridge
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Rhode Island Reds Good Winter Laying Record
To the Editor of the Post a Rhode Island Reds flock owner from North Rochester New Hampshire reports seven hens laying steadily since Thanksgiving with 134 eggs in January and 148 in February an average above five per day all May pullets except one hatched in June and asks if anyone can beat the record.
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Rhode Island
Ralph
North Rochester
N. H
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