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...Tompkins (Miss Irwin) has a decidedly funny quarrel with her husband and leaves for Europe. The second act brings her back literally loaded with smuggled goods, and shows her struggle to deceive the customs officials. In the third act, the officials finally trap her, but she is saved from jail by her husband who forgives her as the curtain falls...

Author: By J. G. G., | Title: New Plays in Boston | 1/9/1912 | See Source »

...little known to us today. In the gentle-voiced, frail, friendly Cantabrigian who so recently died, few could have recognized the ardent lover of all that was adventurous and free; the knight-errant champion of Abolition; a man who could lead a mob and who could plot gloriously for jail-deliveries as well as for deliveries from prisons of the mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual slaves enlisted as Union soldiers; as reformer, and as author--essayist, romancer, and poet--Colonel Higginson...

Author: By Edward EYRE Hunt ., | Title: Mr. Hunt on Graduates' Magazine | 10/3/1911 | See Source »

...case of shoes to the North Bennett Street Industrial School; derby hats to the Salvation Army. A quantity of the best clothing was held for students in need. Of the magazines one box was sent to the Cambridge Hospital, one to the Holy Ghost Hospital, one to the Cambridge jail, and a quantity to the Cambridge City Missionary. The text-books were placed on the shelves of the text-book loan library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Results of Clothing Collection | 6/19/1909 | See Source »

...Horse Thieves," by H. Hagedorn '07, is a tale of the western prairies. Two horse thieves are caught by the sheriff and thrown into jail. The sheriff's daughter falls in love with the younger and threatens if he is killed, to marry an effeminate minister whom her father hates. The sheriff in order to save his daughter from such a marriage allows the two to leave the sate and his daughter to marry the one she loves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PLAYS AT 8 | 5/18/1909 | See Source »

...case of books, magazines and papers has been sent to each of the following: Cambridge Hospital; Holy Ghost Hospital, Cambridge; East Cambridge Jail; Dr. J. Dixwell '70, Boston; Morgan Memorial, Boston; T Wharf Seaman's Reading Room, Boston; St. Mary's Home, East Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Results of Clothing Collection | 12/18/1907 | See Source »

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