Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returns. In Kansas City, a tornado blew a $270 check from the desk of J. E. Wyatt. It was returned to him from Mendota, Mo., 150 miles away. In Charlestown, N.H., a mail clerk who lost a jackknife figured he might possibly have dropped it into one of 14 outgoing mail sacks. He wrote to 14 out-of-town postmasters, got back 16 knives...
Henry Shreve's keelboat floated past "bleak and dingy" Pittsburgh; past Charlestown with its two-story pillory and stocks ("there were not many towns that could punish two culprits at once"); past Wheeling, "a notoriously gay port"; past Marietta, where everybody asked...
Possible air raid shelters have been located and each city block has been mapped out. Volunteer fire fighters are on call at all times and the efficiency of the organization was shown two weeks ago when 500 men turned up within 20 minutes at the large fire in Charlestown. Plans for mass evacuations from cities, one of the toughest problems in the defense pattern, and blackouts of large areas present a gigantic task for Dean Landis and his associates...
...will have its headquarters in Brooks House, where it will receive all requests. It will then shuffle these to the appropriate organization. P.B.H. itself will provide entertainers and lecturers for Army and Navy groups, and will send social service volunteers to the areas near the Charlestown Navy Yard and the Water town Arsenal which are now overcrowded with defense workers...
Electrocution. One recent midnight, Dr. Brickley carted away the still warm body of an electrocuted convict from Boston's sooty Charlestown Prison. In Massachusetts General Hospital, half an hour after death was pronounced, the doctor tried to find some vestiges of life...