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Identifier: littlebookforimm00bost (find matches)
Title: A little book for immigrants in Boston
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Boston (Mass.). Committee on Americanism
Subjects: Americanization
Publisher: City of Boston : Printing department
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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i)lace your money in the United States Postal Savings Bank.There are also the national bank and trust com-pany sa\ings l)anks and the co-operative banks.A list of each will be found in the city directory. To send money to a foreign country. Go to any post office and ask for the money order window.Go to a national bank.Go to the American Express Company, 43 Franklin street. To protest against an increase of rent. Go to the Committee on Rent and Housing appointed by the Mayor of Boston. Its office is at 1 Beacon street.The Boston Legal Aid Society, 39 Court street, gives advice to poor tenants who are treated unjustly. 7. Charitable Relief. Every immigrant wants to get work and supporthimself and his familv, if he has a familv. But if theimmigrant gets old or sick, perhaps he cannot work.If the father of a family dies, the mother must takecare of her children. Then, if she has no money anddoes not know what to do, she may lose heart andworrv about h(>r children. She does not need to
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A FESTIVAL IN FRANKLIN PARK. KUR IMMKJRANTS. 37 worry. The city jiiid the state will help her, if sheis really sulTerin^. Nobody in Boston needs to bewithout food or ek)thing or a ))lace to sleep. Tliereare public places to go for all these things, and thereare many private societies. We shall try to tell theimniigant soniethini; about them. Where to Go. When people need food.Go to one of these places: The Overseers of the Poor, 43 Hawkins street. The St. Vincent de Paul Society, 43 Hawkins street. The Boston Provident Association, 43 Hawkinsstreet. The Family Welfare Society, 43 Hawkins street. The Catholic Charitable Bureau, 43 Tremont street. The Federated Jewish Charities, 25 Tremont street.Most of these have branches or connections in many parts of the city. The St. Vincent de Paul Society has a branch in nearly every Catholic parish. When people need a place to sleep. Men should go to the Wayfarers Lodge, 30 Hawkins street. Here they will be given a place to sleep. Meals will al

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