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From Haymarket Square you can go on down Hanover Street through little Italy, by the Union Oyster House to the docks in one direction, and the coal yards by North Station in the other. After that you cross the river, pass the navy yard and Bunker Hill, and aren't in Boston anymore.Manye of ye finest citizens are buryed in Boston's downtowne burial ground, the Old Granary Occasionally Paul Revere and all are visited by pedestrians when the shortest line between two points is the diagonal across the graveyard...
...bunch of the boys from Judd & Detweiler, a Washington printing firm, decided to get together one weekend last fall for an oyster roast. They scarcely had their schooners of beer operating before, one after another, they broke out in splotches and began to feel palpitation and extreme drowsiness. Comparing notes, they discovered that they had all experienced the symptoms before when drinking. Word got around the plant, and 58 other sufferers stepped forward. Together they petitioned management to explain why they were unable to take alcohol...
...County, Long Island, a baronial strip of land that was sacred to Republicans. ("In the Hoover campaign," Hall recalls, "the finance people set quotas for the 48 states and Nassau County.") But the Halls were no landed GOPatricians; Father Franklyn Hall was the coachman at Theodore Roosevelt's Oyster Bay estate, Sagamore Hill. Leonard, the youngest of eight Hall children, was born on Oct. 2, 1900. When Len was an infant, his father's employer was elected Vice President of the U.S., and a month after the election Teddy Roosevelt noted the new baby's arrival...
...Hall was a year old, President McKinley was assassinated, and President Theodore Roosevelt brought his coachman to Washington to be chief messenger at the White House. Franklyn Hall kept his job until his death in 1915, but left his family behind in the roomy house he had built in Oyster Bay, returning home for vacations and occasional holidays. From childhood Len was immersed in politics, and Teddy Roosevelt became and remained his political ideal...
...aged her, and she was in a state of near-collapse. Her first stop after leaving the hospital was police headquarters at Mineola, N.Y. There Ann Woodward repeated her story that she had killed her husband in the dark under the impression that he was an intruder in their Oyster Bay home. Four days later, she told her story once more, to a grand jury. After listening to her testimony and the evidence of 30 others for 9½ hours, the grand jury ended its investigation. "We found," said Foreman Louis R. Blaich, "that no crime had been committed...