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FALL RIVER — History has left the city with landmarks, with mills, with streets and stories. Still, more than anything else, time has left us with the tenement house. Thousands of them. The ...
Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.
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