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A month at a rented apartment in San Francisco Swamiji did not seem to be very comfortable and free at the ‘Home of Truth’ at the Pine Street because of its high occupancy that was not exactly …

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Swami Vivekananda set foot for the first time in the Bay Area of Northern California on 22nd February 1900, alighting from a Southern Pacific train at Oakland mole. Alice, who had come a week …

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While he was still at Mrs. Blodgett's home, Alice Hansborough had once suggested that he come and stay with them. The Meads were a family of modest means and lived in a rented house in the Lincoln …

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As the Los Angeles work came to a halt, it was suggested to Swamiji that he should move his work to Pasadena. There he had been in contact with one Mrs. Emeline Bowler, a very wealthy woman, who was …

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On the evening of Saturday, December 23rd, Swamiji along with Professor Baumgardt, Miss Macleod, and Alice, went to watch a play at the Los Angeles Theatre on the city’s Broadway. This was no ordinary …

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