Fifty Cents for Being Good for Three Days
A Boston Post Elephant Fund item from Oliver Mason and sister Christine contribute fifty cents each for a fundraising drive. Martin Mason of Everett sends one and a half dollars with hopes of seeing elephants in Franklin Park next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elephant Fund
Boston Post
Boston
Mass
Oliver
Christine
Mamma
Franklin Park
Martin Mason
Liberty Street
Everett
Hilda O. Wettergreen
Bryant Street
Lawrence Talcott
Boston Avenue
West Medford
Student raises funds by standing on head for elephant fund
A Bradford New Hampshire boy Tennant C Willey writes to the editor about his urgent effort to grow the elephant fund. He recalls earning 25 cents from his uncle after balancing on his head to amuse him and promises three cheers for Mollie Waddie and Toney once the 6000 goal is reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elephant Fund
Mollie
Waddie
Toney
Tennant C
Willey
Bradford
N. H
Subscriber offers 25 cents to Tony for a ride at the park
A young reader, 4 year old George Harding Fores of 22 Warren Ave West Newton MA, sends 25 cents to the Post Elephant Editor expressing a wish to buy Tony the elephant's nose to feed with peanuts and hoping for a ride on his back at the park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony
George Harding Fores
Warren Ave
West Newton
Mass
Elephant Fund
Spencer
W. Va
Iowa
Til
Ind
Ohio
Conti
Bass
Ft Ni
Del
Molly
Waddy
Vernon B. Simons
Shawmut Ave
Boston
Mrs. Larson
Edward Williams
Wesley Williams
Lizzie Houston
Sadie Houston
Alexander Houston
Joseph Cataldo
Seymour Feeley
John Feeley
Helen FitzGerald
Helen Murphy
Winifred Hogan
Josephine Hogan
John Hogan
Elmira Hogan
Frankie Hogan
A Friend
Helen EB
Libby
Edith J. Tame
Mary L. Lawless
Earl Maze
Quinn
Muriel Newcomb
Helen Jackman
Isabell Turnbull
Helen Lang
Bobby Lang Ie
Walter Lang
Louise Duffy
Mary Duffy
Loys Barrie
Ellen Barrie
D. Fitzgerald
Ella M. Robinson
Kingsdale ‘St
Colple Pedicse
Evelyn Saunders
South “Main St
David E. Sprague
Edison Blee
Earle Richardson
Marsden Richeelts
Priscilla ‘Thomas
Melrose Highlands
Dyson
Dyson le
Lillian Anderson
James Thompden
A. Hyden
Mr. Hyden
Sidney Hyden
Dorothy L. Baker
Arthur H. Dayne
Nick
Woodman
Pausey
Kimball
Fluff’ Kimball
Peter’ Kimball
Dixie” Belyea
Pete
Clapp
Ruth MacEachern
Helen Lantz
Joseph Delaney
Ansley
Mildred Ansley
Mrs. Luce
Joseph Durrant
Pauline E. Goodwin
Haghester
Eas Watertown
Elizabeth H. Gay
Norwood
Frank Darling
Alliston St
Sam- Hilda J. Ludwig
Roxbury
Edwin &. H. Ryder
Bainbridge St
Walter B. Fletcher
Avis Beard
Walton Park
Melrose Reigns
Helen
Grace
James, Jr
Ruth
Fred O'Donnell
Parsons Bory
Eselceuote
Rae Dopacat
Alvin Paul Olzendam
Putnam
Ousighabiess
Bessie Strong
Hallock Gry Doe
Weymouth
Sylvia Bartlett Kenfield
Pembroke Beir
Barbara King
Prince St
West Elon
Marjorie Jollimore
Centre
Dor
Wplcott
Betty Leary
Russell St
Wormooloe
Terbert, Jr
Warren
Gwendolyn
Wits
Wabi
Bertha C
Hutchings
Fairland St
Elizabeth Gilchrest
Thomaston
Winifred Lawless
Mather St
Rhoda KE. Young
Manning St
Mposgne
Ruby A. Margeson
Main St
North Pugh
North Pugh Ging Seg Ds Sis 5 Is Dua His Oa's-So He Eee , Joseph Naughton
Dick Hill
Mart Bucklow
Dorothy Hanna
Arthur Svendsen
Capen St
Dor Marion Purcell
Bine Hill Ave
Walter Cavagnaro
Calder St
Sai
Parker Ainsworth
High St
Arzelia Voorneveld
Meredith
N. H
Edith Irene Hoih
Westfield
N. J
Agnes Spiegelhalter
Ordury
Dorothy
Walter Higgins
Rosa Busy
Bawkiy Sacha
Uno
Greenfield
Norman Driver
Pearl St
Somer- M
Louisa Schworm
Newport St
Elwyn Gay
Marble St
Stoneham
Charlotte
Gid
Thompson
Man- Chaslop
Deine John di Pietro
Bow St
Everett
Tony Lyons
North
Ardson
Norwell St
Cor
B. K. Otis
Grace Marshall Otis
Corey
Wverett
Albert Dyson
Belmont Place
Somerville
Kon Dyson
Frank Dyson
Margaret Ellis
William ‘Ellis
May Galvin
Louis Arata
Son
Joseph Keefe
Frank Keefe
Mr. Cole
Victor Hy
Tohn Macdomand
Leslie Emerson
Eva J. Carlton Baker Jr
Jean
Baker
Elizabeth W. Baker
Dorothy of
Braintree
Boots
Boardman
Snowball
Whiting
Tripp
Murphy? Thompson
Omar
Barbara Sinclair
Salem
Florence K. Ferguson
Norfolk St. Rordurg
Lorna A. Fletcher
Arborway
Jamaica Plain
SRDS
Saeed Het Freda Day
Everett Ae
Cecil Day
John Carroll
Hazel Carroll
Medford St
Malden
Harlow
Salem St
Woburn
Sks
Natalie
Billie Connell
Elia
Girle Y Tullivan
Elephant
Mattapan
Helen Shead
Solam, Shead
Holmfield Avenue
Mollie
Franklin Park Zoo
Vera MacKenzie
Ash Street
Cliftondale
Fragmentary numeric OCR reads
The readable digits include multiple 5.0L entries and a sequence 05 123 -30 15 likely from a vehicle or specification table. The garbled text lacks identifiable names places dates or events to form a full news item.
Perplexing Local Penny Collection Listing
A long OCR fragment lists names and addresses across Boston area towns including Dorchester Jamaica Plain Reading Wakefield and Somerville. It details donations from residents such as Ruth Wight Edith Frazier and Helen Flynn among many others with scattered street addresses and collect ion notes.
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Fenno Bi
Horus
Delcan
Prince St
Jamaica Plain
Reading Street
Richard J. Bowman
Rebeec
Wakefield
Penny Collection
Lloyd Perkins
Centre Harbor
Helen Flynn
Charlotte Flynn
Marguerite Flynn
Grace Flynn
Mill- Nist
Gagle
Gertrude McGlacey
Charlie E. Vendy
Nellie M. Vor
Feeemas
Batchelder Poore
Edward Waldo Poore
Reading
Mass
Grace McKeon
Mary McKeon
Ballardvale
A Wilder
Cross St
Somer- Els
Robert W. Maier
Ceara
Kenneth Whitney Masterman
Bradford St
Pvogcowr
Robert Donovan
Doris Donovey
Erie St
Dorchester
Benjamin Barron
Williams ‘Ste
Sidney E. Tinsdale
East Middle- Wury
Vitenk
Satis Peis
Hssks
Rhodes “Bros
Massachusetts Ave
M. EF. Evans
Leonard Sullivan
Calvin St
Ella M. Deering
Errol
N. U
William Wilson
Rhodes Ave
Lynn Theodore Edney
Withdale
Templeton Dix
South
Burton Derby
Ruth Jones
Soxey
Genie Bent
Mar- Miss Hobbs
Leveren
Chickering
Rogers
Powers
Templeton
Templeton Dix 00 Ruth Wight, 78 Bowdoin St
Dor
Eleanor Wight
Bowdoin St
Somerville
Helen G. Souden
Quincy Ave
Nelson
Eugene Willoughby He
BE. W
X. Smith
Woodstock
Dorothy Hanna
G. Norman Monkhouse
Tremont Bidg
Wilow
Gordon Elbrook
J. W. Dows
Springfield
Clifford Vaughn Eaton
Sunset
Benjamin and
Richard Johnson
Emily Dow Watts
South Thomaston
Blaise
Willie Askins
Whitmore St
Mattapan
Henry Charles Cummings
Doris Arlene Cummings
Lincoln
W. Everett Chute, Jr
Linco
Bobby Harvey
Warren St
Rox
Isadore la Fidus
Main St
Vernice FE
Coughlin
Millinocket
Earl Adams
Ellsworth Ave
Waltham
A. A. Gilman
Dexter
Harry Willard Savage
Luther Frank Rollins
Townsend
Herbert C. Whiting
Baby Williams
Newbern
Barclay
Bishop
Prospect Pl
Quincy
Eeseeee
Peter Topic
J. E. Hanson
Hart
Dorothy “Tanna
Te Groveland
Cambridge
John T. Cartwright
Randolph
Bias
Gaus
Eka Coe
Beatrice Geyer
Deerfield
Ste Eyr
Cis de Donald
David Buck
Robert Elain
Tremont St
City
Jacek Herbert Wilder
Edmunds
Ghapigstown
Earl Whittemore
Crockett Hall
Vinalhaven
Ruth M. Freeman
Washington
Rey Newell
Franklin
Barber Ellis
Sturtevant St
Minna
Dorothea Ebnes
Rosebank
Ralph D. McLeary
Robert H. McWarren Dalton, Jr
Ware St
Somgeveuc
Neds
Merritt LaCount Jones
Mt. Pleasant St
DAF Cnal Va
Fragmentary OCR Data Card
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Little North Cambridge girl aids elephant fund recovery
Dorothy Hanna reports two donors replenish her elephant fund after a theft at the Spa. G Norman Monk provides 1.26 and Mrs Winslow adds 1 to aid Gordon Estabrook of Dorchester and infant John Cartwright of Randolph, totaling 2.50 to be added promptly.
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Spa
G. Norman Monkhouse
Tremont Building
Roxbury
Mrs. Winslow
Gordon Estabrook
Dorchester
Mass
John
Fifth Week Opens With Great Rush
The article celebrates the fifth week of a local campaign to bring Mollie Waddy and Tony to the Franklin Park Zoo. It urges boys and girls to unite, push harder, and make this week the biggest yet as part of the fundraising effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rascal
Tony
Franklin Park
Mollie
Waddy
Franklin Park Zoo
Elephant fund drive pleads for more pennies and plans
The Elephant editor urges continued student and adult support with letters and fund contributions. Readers from Boston area schools and local groups donate cents and dollars for the elephants, led by Mrs Hodgdon and many children sharing their efforts and plans.
Enthusiastic Letters From Busy Children About Elephants
Children write to the Elephant editor praising Tony Waddy and Mollie elephants. They send 10 cent donations to the Elephant Fund and request their letters be published, noting affection for animals and a wish to own Tony’s toenail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony
Waddy
Mollie
Elephant Fund Benefits Announced For April Events
Elephant Fund lists multiple upcoming shows across Massachusetts venues. April 7 afternoon events at Princess Theatre Wakefield and Empire Theatre Winthrop with Penny admission. April 7 after school Shawmut Theatre Roxbury. April 14 evening Elephant party at Samson Hall hosted by Misses Forbes and Ritchie under W. C. U. banner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Theatre
Wakefield
C. W. Hodgen
Empire Theatre
Winthrop
H. A. Appleton
Penny
Shawmut Theatre
Blue Hill Avenue
Roxbury
Edith Forbes
Alice Ritchie
Samson Hall
Post Elephant Soda Day Aids Fund Drive
Roxbury youths join Post Elephant Fund at Dudley Drug Company 706 Dudley Street for a soda day. Owner’s daughter Mabel Boughner will collect receipts from the fountain all day to donate to the elephant fund, offering a drink and a good cause in one event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roxbury
Elephant Fund
Dudley Drug Company
Dudley Street
Mabel Boughner
Post Elephant Fund
Elephant Tea Party Delights Paris Children
Mollie Waddy and Tony entertain the children of Paris with a grand elephant tea party in an open air park. The three elephants arrive to a cheering crowd, join a feast of pastries and ice cream, and share a playful, memorable afternoon.
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Mrs. Orford
Mollie
Waddy
Tony
Mr. Orford
Catmne
Paris
Sells Papers Dear Mr Elephant Man
A 12 year old writes from Nottingham Centre New Hampshire sending thirty cents to buy Sunday papers and asks to meet the elephants someday. He signs Harold E E Crouse with siblings Leona and Leander Crouse listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elephant Man
Tony
Segorge Donahue
Dwight Street
Boston
Harold EE. Crouse
Leona
Crouse
Leander M. Crouse
Nottingham Centre
N. H
Father Makes Peanuts
Two girls Lillian and Ruth de Vett from 01 Tremont Street write that their father makes peanuts and they saved 10 cents each to buy peanuts for Tony at the Park this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elephant Mander Sur
Lillian
Ruth de Vett
Tremont Stret
Tony
Ruth
Dartmouth vetoes junior prom budget to $2000 limit
Dartmouth College students face a trimmed four day prom as the Council on Student Organizations blocks a $2400 budget. Faculty cite tradition and democracy urging restraint while noting the event has grown from a simple 1899 gymnasium dance to a lavish spectacle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dartmouth
Council On Student Organizations
Alumni Gymnasium
Wellesley College to reopen after devastating fire
Wellesley College resumes classes after the Col lege Hall fire. Students from across the country return to campus with dormitory space arranged by doubling up. Temporary quarters will house damaged laboratories in Stone Hall and other facilities. Trustees seek about 1.8 million dollars for rebuilding or an administration building if funds fall short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellesley College
College Hall
Old Wellesley
Stone Hall
Hemenway Gymnasium
New Dangers of Constipation Warned in 19th Century Ad
A Times inspired notice cites New York Times excerpts on colonic poisoning from chronic constipation and a dramatic recovery after removing the lower intestine. It promotes the J B L Cascade enema device sold by Riker Jaynes Drug Stores in New England with a free booklet on efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Metchnikoff
Guy’s Hospital
William Arbuthnot Lane
J. B. L. Cascade
Nature
Riker- Jaynes Drug
New Eland
Advt
Elephant Benefit At Roslindale Theatre Event
The new Roslindale moving picture theatre will run another benefit for the Elephant Fund this afternoon. A large audience will be on hand, and quite an addition to the fund is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roslindale
Leper in Secret Quarantine Revealed in Muskogee
In Muskogee Oklahoma doctors disclosed that for nearly three years a 40 year old Black man named J Harris has been kept in strict quarantine as a leper. He has repeatedly tried to break quarantine claiming his condition arose from a horn toad dust incident by a Black doctor years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogeer
Okla
Muskogee
J. Harris
Harris
Snowstorm Shuts In on New York State April Storm
A blinding snowstorm swept across the New York region with heavy falls in the morning. In lowlands the snow melted rapidly as it fell though mountains remained coated.
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New York
Middletown
N. Y
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Coolidge Road
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