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Thanksgiving Parades of the Small Boys in New York
A New York Bee correspondent recalls Thanksgiving day parades of street urchins and tenement boys with tin horns, clowns, Indians, and girls, noting clashes on West Fifty fourth Street, festive mood, and the end of the holiday as Christmas bustle begins. It details Christmas shopping, crowded Broadway walks, and crowded elevated trains through midtown to Harlem, then describes Christmas Day small boy processions, social bands, and light-hearted revelry.
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Specis
New York
Bee
Beyeal
Wilke
West Pifty-fourth Street
Fiftyninth Street
Broadway
Fourteenth UN
Evi
Thirtythird Street
Harlem
Doy