Home work on tags. Home of Martin Gibbons, 268 ? Centre Street, Roxbury Mass. James 11, years old; Helen 9 years and Mary 6, work on tags. Helen said she could tie the most (5,000 a day at 30 cents). Mary does some but can do only 1000 a day. They work nights a good deal. The night before Helen and James worked until 11:00 P.M. See also Home Work report. Location: Roxbury, Massachusetts.
29 Apr 1618: John Winthrop, future governor of #Massachusetts Bay Colony m (3) Margaret Tyndal. he considered emigrating to #Ireland in the early 1620s but finally left for New England in April 1630: 'wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill' #otd (AAS)
Family of Mrs. Donovan, 293 1/2 Highland Street, Roxbury, Mass., tying tags for Dennison Co. This is the family that has worked on tags for 7 years and makes an average from that work $30 a month. One month they made $42. Mrs. D. said: "Will we ever be able to do it again?" All the children aged 13, 9, 11, 7 and the twins 4 1/2 years, help the mother. They often have to work late at night to get done. See Home Work report. Location: Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Heh looking up "Common surnames in Massachusetts" because I lack imagination and found the Forebears site... which is obviously a British site or British-centric site since it INSISTS that people named "Anderson" in Massachusetts obviously got their name from "The Son of Andrew sometimes called Anders" and not, you know, that they were Swedish Immigrants...
Tuesday evening was a beautiful evening to get out and see the rise of the Full Pink Moon. I chose to go to Boston to photograph it rising next to the Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences. It was stunning!
NEW: More than two dozen #dogs are now resting and recuperating at all four of our shelters following their emergency flight from Texas to #Massachusetts yesterday afternoon. The pups had been living at a small rescue organization whose owner no longer was able to care for them 1/ #dogsofmastodon#rescuedogs
#Students have launched #protests and #encampments at more than a dozen schools across the country, from #Massachusetts to #Michigan to #California. They are calling for an end both to the #Israel-#Hamas war and their universities' investment in companies that profit from it or, more broadly, do business with Israel. #US
#Massachusetts, I’m irritated by the new e-bike rebate thing, because it has goofy income ceilings. 400% of federal poverty level (~$60k for single) is not actually that fucking much money in much of this expensive ass state, especially the parts in which cycle transport makes the most sense — Boston area, CT River valley, P-town, etc. $60k doesn’t let you rent a 1br apartment in some of those places. #BikeTooter
Yes, it’s a crummy picture. Blame the photographer (me) and the weather, but this is Emily Dickinson’s house in #Amherst#Massachusetts and Dickinson wrote her #poems behind that window at the upper left.
Massachusetts laws of the same year include "An act to incorporate the Father Matthew Benevolent Catholic Total Abstinence Society", "An act to authorize the election of vice-presidents of insurance companies", and "An act in relation to the election of fence viewers"