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Lost Grandmother on a Azores Island Tale of Slums and Reform
A narrator recalls an Azorean voyage with the Landscams, meeting Manuel a humane dockworker and Maria Souza the missing grandmother. Upon discovering a Boston slum’s brutal tenements driven by landlord greed, the narrator urges reform and sails to reunite Maria with her kin, aided by a compassionate Portuguese priest and physician. The tale contrasts island thrift with urban squalor and ends with a cable to locate Manuel’s grandmother.
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Jonah
Boston
Agai
Azure Islands
Mim
Saint
Ponta Poppenss
Delgada
Portugal
Idscams
Customs House
Church of Saint Sebastian
Mar
Landscams
United States
Manuel
Beatae
DE Fruit Ceaire
Pico
Furnas
Landscam
Das Karanjeiras
Syria
Azores
Mr. Landscam
Maria Souza
Anael
Gibraltar
Naples
José
San Miguel
Horta
Jose
Newford
Maria
Ponta Delgada
Massachusetts
Eckoe
Otgeesiedes
Reli
Ician
Saint Michael
Marchelis
Marshall
Ponta di
J. B. Landscam
Ayer
Mr. Panteeees J
Jamaica
Eens Souza
Lena
Sen
Maria Ben
Earfaee
Maris. Souza
Josmh B. Landscam
Josmh B. Landscam, Bis Sang-Froid
Silva
Azore Island
J. B. Lammscas