`Banned in Boston'; When moral vigilantes battled social evils.

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`Banned in Boston'; When moral vigilantes battled social evils.

Byline: Richard Duckett

"We are especially antagonizing organized evil," the Rev. Frederick B Allen, president of the Watch and Ward Society, thundered at a public meeting of the society in Boston in 1903.

"It is when sin endeavors to extend its sway and is aggressive, when money has been invested in special forms of temptation, especially against the young, that our Society, supported by the better sense of earnestness of ...

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