Word: queensborough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welfare Island is a bleak platform rising out of a river on the east side of Manhattan and supporting on its scanty ledge a workhouse, two hospitals and a prison. Straight over the island sweeps the grey arch of Queensborough Bridge and across the bridge all day pass elevated trains, funeral carriages and people on foot. It is easy, standing on the bridge, to drop something down onto the island. Last week a man on the bridge threw away a tin tobacco...