Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Medical School authorities were offered yesterday the body of Henry C. Bull, recently executed in the Charlestown state prison. This came because of a last minute request by Bull that his corpse be given to "some scientific institution...
John Harvard was born in London in 1607 and was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he received his M.A. degree and was ordained a clergyman. He sailed for America with his young wife, Anne Sadler, in 1637, and on their arrival they settled in Charlestown...
...steward's books further reveal that Bridgen had charges against him for: "commones and sizinges," which was board together with food and drink ordered from the buttery: "tuition"; 'study-rente and beed," or room and bed "for and candell"; wood; and for bringing corn from Charlestown." On he other side of the ledgers, Bridgen vas credited with such things as "sillier," "wheatt," "malte," "Indian" or born and "a bush of parsnips...
...every Tuesday and Friday morning from the first of June through September, when the launch of the Seaman's Friend Society makes the rounds of the harbor ships and heaves packages of magazines and books aboard each. The launch leaves from a float under the Chariestown end of the Charlestown bridge--the big one that the elevated goes over--and two large signs identify it. There is room for twenty visitors. There is no charge, you simply go down to the float at ten o'clock and get taken aboard...
...private cruises there is a "water taxi" stand in back of the South Station and another at Charlestown, under the old Warren Bridge, which is north of the one the Seaman's Friend launch sails from. The Charlestown taxis are extremely inexpensive, in fact fifteen cents takes you a long way. You can just cruise, going way out to Brewster if the weather is good, or you can take along a lunch and be left to spend the day on Governor's Island or Peddockls, Governor's Island has the ruins of old Fort Winthrop, and is large and explorable...