That girl you saw in the dormitory,” a matron of the Magdalen Benevolent Society explained to the reporter. “She is really the worst girl in the place. I wouldn’t trust her out of my sight.
Her parents haven’t much for her, “ she continued. “Their only worldly possessions are seven small children and a pushcart. Her sisters told me a woeful story of poverty.”
In September of 1903 a seemingly routine real estate transaction transpired on the northern tip of Manhattan. Inwood resident Francis A. Thayer sold, to the New York Magdalen Benevolent Society, a large tract of land on the northwestern end of Dyckman Street overlooking the Hudson River.
In September of 1903 a seemingly routine real estate transaction transpired on the northern tip of Manhattan.
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In September of 1903 a seemingly routine real estate transaction transpired on the northern tip of Manhattan. Inwood resident Francis A. Thayer sold, to the New York Magdalen Benevolent Society, a large tract of land on the northwestern end of Dyckman Street overlooking the Hudson River.
In September of 1903 a seemingly routine real estate transaction transpired on the northern tip of Manhattan.
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