Excerpt from Clark's Boston Blue-Book, 1891: The Elite Private Address, Carriage, and Club Directory, Ladies' Visiting List and Shopping Guide, for West End, South End, Highlands, South Boston, Charlestown, Jamaica Plain, Dorchester, Brookline, and Cambridge
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