Word: allston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belated wayfarers along North Harvard Street have become timid these cold nights. They report that as they pass the Soldiers Field fence opposite the new Business School the have heard ghostly voices in the darkness, and the occasional ring of a bell. Investigation in the archives of Allston has found no record of a bell-ringing spectre that haunts the southern edge of the Lars Anderson Bridge...
...pole intrigues the passers-by on North Harvard Street, who stop to gaze at the sight of a man asking for a telephone number, getting it, and talking with it, all in the open air, unobscured by the protecting walls of a booth. But one must telephone, even in Allston...
...Western Avenue, will be closed to automobile traffic. The only automobile gates admitting to Soldiers Field will be Gates 12 and 13 on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field. These may be reached from Boston by Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton Avenue to Union Square, Allston, to North Beacon Street and down Market Street to the Speedway...
Well, dear readers, this looks like a very large day. For before the last rays of the setting sun cease to cast a Crimson glow over the Green turf of the Great Allston Horseshoe (not bad, that, for an unliterary person), football fandom will be surprised, yea, shocked, for--but I'm not supposed to tell how Harvard games are to come out. That is part of the scouting agreement that Bill Roper, Tad Jones, and I made; and all good scouts keep their agreements just as regularly as they do their daily good turns. So I won't tell...
...Western Avenue, will be closed to automobile traffic. The only automobile gales admitting to Soldiers. Field will be Gates 12 and 13 on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field. These may be reached from Boston by Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton Avenue to Union Square, Allston, to North Beacon Street and down Market Street to the Speedway...