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New York Christmas hunger tale of John Sullivan family
A World reporter chronicled John Sullivan a unemployed New York engine fireman and his large family living in a 17 by 17 foot Cherry Street flat with half a loaf of bread and no funds. The piece highlights suffering on Christmas Day 1895 the six children Mamie Lizzie Johnnie Tommy Joey and Willie plus a crippled wife.
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New York
East Side
John Sullivan
World
Mamie
Willie
Sullivans
Sullivan
Cherry Hill
Lizzie
Johnnie
Tommy
Joey
Great East Side
Bergen Point
Cherry Street
Pby's Alley
Bess
State Teachers’ Association
Denver
Fort Lupton
C. I. Colwell
Morgan County
Dave Kelker
Rio Grande
Pueblo
Lamar
Barney McGivin
Cripple Creek
Thomas Uzzell
Blanche Cox
Salvation Army
Baltimore
Colorado
Charles H. Holt
Buena Vista
Fred W. Brush
Salida
H.S. McDowell
Highlands
Charles A. Crane
Colorado City
James H. Ecob
Albany
First Congregational Church
David F. Cresswell