Word: beacons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Democratic bosses point to the Beacon Street homes of the reformers and ask their followers whether they want any help from the "silk stockings" in running their lives. The League points out of its Beacon Street windows across the Common to some of the worst slums in New England and asks what they are doing there. In 1940, the Housing Authority found that one third of Boston's dwellings had no heat but stoves. The survey classed one fifth of the homes substandard and reported that half of these had no running water, private baths, or toilets. "And this condition...
Previous testimony by the victim's family recounted that he had departed from the Gardiner Boston home at 184 Beacon Street at 10 o'clock on the evening of January 23. Since that time while Maine and New Hampshire State Police and detectives from the New York City missing persons bureau carried on the search, the family's greatest fear was that he had attempted to return to his Eliot House room...
Quite effusive in telling the father of Sylvester Gardiner '46 last Saturday afternoon that be had seen his son, now missing for almost a month, attending an athletic event in the St. Nicholas Arena in New York City, a mysterious informant fled from the family's Beacon Street home upon the suggestion that he repeat his story to the Cambridge police...
Gardiner was last seen positively at 10 o'clock the same evening by his family at his 184 Beacon Street home. They are still uncertain whether the missing crew star actually took his ice skates with him and attempted to use them at that time...
Last to talk to the 22 year-old College junior were his mother and younger brother, Thomas, on the night of January 23 at 10 o'clock in the family's Boston residence at 184 Beacon Street. The family's greatest fear is that Sylvester Gardiner may have gone through treacherous ice after he left them, possibly to indulge in moonlight skating on the Charles River...