Bloom Street Tragedy and a Looming Legacy
On Bloom Street a pollution of industry and rail traffic shadows a once-happy past centered on Michael Haggerty a disabled signalman who struggles to raise his son Jimmy amid a vagrant wife and hard life. A fatal crossing accident leaves Haggerty maimed and dead, while his boy faces a future shaped by hardship and hope.
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Bloom Street
Sam Joons
Jones’ Falls
Michael Haggerty
Jimmy
ABC
Michael Hasgerty
Ind
Tim
Michael
Mic Finney
Timmy
Haggerty
Mra. Mulligan
Womart
Jones’ Falla
Mike
No. 10
Bloom Street Crossing
Kaiser and sweetheart meet in street joke
The Neveste Nachrichten reports a light anecdote from a Berlin walk. The German emperor and empress encounter a soldier and his sweetheart who fail to notice them. The girl yells Kaiser and the soldier springs to attention. the emperor calms her with a joke and resumes his stroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neveste Nachrichten
Berin
Thierearten
Willy
Kaiser
Coney and Browné in Townesville Impression Talk
An excerpt notes Coney’s decent view and Browné’s cautious remark about Jones’s happiness while denying he was drunk, illustrating a town gossip impression without naming incidents or dates.
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Coaid Coney
Browné
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Medicine Praised by Brooklyn Woman
Mrs. Pauline Judson of 47 Hoyt Street Brooklyn testifies that Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured her debilitating womb pain after a doctor failed to help. She credits the remedy with restoring health and urges others to try it, promising a $5000 forfeit if the testimonial is not genuine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mes
Pauline Judson
Mary
Echerinertior
New Ya
Drugat
Lydia
Inkham
Mrs. Paving Jupson
Hoyt Street
Brooklyn
N. C
Lydia x
California Fig Syrup Co
Co—California Vig Syrep Co
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F. Peyton
Daily Story Pub
Maggie
Vanderbilt
Philadelphia Times
Commodore
Allen
Erica
Buniogs
Leitoy
N. Ys
Dieth
Tairdase
Aira
Maple Street
Norwian
Price
Rig
Mie Poulter
Stp
Jayelle
Brawiasion
Joax
Central College of Business
Iiinsae City
Semelany
S. Webster Co
Horton Bide
Kannan
Lydia E. Pinkham
Fauline Udson
Louisville, Ky
San Francisco
Cal
New York, N.1
Magnetic Starch Mfg. CO
Omaha
Nee
Agricultural College of
Kankis
Armour Packing CO
Kansas City, MO
U. S.A
Aunt Lumber Walnut and LoGos C.0
Mengel, OR
BRO, Co., Inc
Louisville, K
Thompson's
Uticura Y Soap
Remon
Clinton
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