The man who brought a little cheer, and lots of hot dogs, to poor
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The man who brought a little cheer, and lots of hot dogs, to poor
Fishwrap recounts the story of Axel Andre Bjorklund, a Swedish immigrant who wanted to do something for poor kids at Christmas time and so set up a free hot-dog stand at Blackstone and Hanover streets in the North End in 1921. Desperately poor himself, Bjorklund managed to do this every December until 1929. He died penniless, and was buried in a potter's field in 1930, but after newspapers found out, the Swedish Charitable Society collected dona…
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