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 (1908) At one time people would send abandoned children from back east and in the south by train to the Boise (Idaho) Children's Home. One heartbreak part of the story is that some of these children were sent to a children's jail at St. Anthony if they got into trouble - unfortunately there was no one to help them at this time period.    Hard to imagine...


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