Big Day Ready as Funds Arrive for Elephant Tricks
The article notes funds sufficient to buy Mollie Waddy Tony and their equipment for tricks and nearly enough for the howdahs. It anticipates a late May visit to Franklin Park by three favorites and says the Post will publish the exact date soon. The Elephant Editor explains space limits limited photo identifications and a flood of letters from boys and girls.
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Mollie
Waddy
Tony
Franklin Park
Alaska
Greenland
Iceland
Siberia
Japan
China
Australia
Argentine
Chile
Egypt
Arabia
India
Siam
Corea
Venezuela
Mexico
South Africa
Howdahs Fund Show Delights Cambridge Audience
Big and small girls and boys packed Board of Trade Hall Cambridge to raise funds for howdahs for Mollie Waddy and Tony the Post elephants. Jennie May Trainor led 25 performers in readings and dances in a two to five afternoon program that pleased all spectators and players.
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Board of Trade Hall
Cambridge
Brookline
Mollie
Waddy
Tony
Jennie May Trainor
Elephants to join Franklin Park Zoo crowd
The Dedham Transcript notes Tony Molly and Waddy will join the Franklin Park Zoological Gardens. The German Town Citizens Association started the zoo effort and the Boston Post funded the elephant purchase. Over 75,000 visited the zoo on Sunday April 12, and attendance is expected to rise when the elephants arrive by late May.
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Tony
Molly
Waddy
Franklin Park Zoological Gardens
Germantown Citizens’ Association
Boston Post
Subscription List Total Contributions From Cambridge Church Group
A subscription list records contributions from the First Universalist Church kindergarten in Cambridge. Names include Ruth L. Pike and Orra A. Fowler with addresses, plus Karl Schell and Henri B. Turner. The total shown is 1.90 in the day’s grand total.
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Karl Schell
Congress St
City
First Universalist Church of
Cambridge
Ruth L. Pike
Fayette St
Orra A. Fowler
Hamilton St
Pocongutad
Odo Sipiaik
Henri B. Turner
Forest Ave
Ey- Crete
Saccos
Howdah Fund Receipt Totals and Contributors Listed
Summary of donations previously acknowledged including 180.65 from Leo Carroll of Somerville and 1.02 from an anonymous donor. Collected by Edith Markham of Roxbury and signed by Harold L. Knight of Somerville. Grand total recorded as 181.67.
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Leo Carroll
Lincoln St
Somerville
Edith Markham
Roxbury St
Roxbury
Harold L. Knight
Vopad
Sean Dee
Ohms Ds
Wedding Preparations For Miss Mary Frances O Connell
Preparations were completed yesterday for the wedding next Wednesday of Miss Mary Frances O Connell of Dorchester to George F Edwards of Dorchester. The ceremony is at St Mark's Church at 9 o'clock with Miss Bessie G O Connell as maid of honor and William J O Connell as best man.
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Mary Frances O'Connell
King Street
Dorchester
John F. O'Connell
Boston
Brookline
Frank A. O'Brien
Mrs. Edwards
Georgia F. Clark
Powelton Road
Saugus Ex-Head Plans Probe Into High School Dispute
James F. Butterworth, principal of Saugus High until his resignation amid school board opposition, announced plans to investigate the affair. He cited weeks of rumors and secret deliberations without any definite charges or actions against him.
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Saugus
James F. Butterworth
Butterworth
Bubonic Plague Case Reported in Santiago Chile
Washington April 20 A fatal bubonic plague case was reported in Santiago de Chile. Health authorities are taking active measures to prevent spread of the disease.
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Washington
Santiago de Chile
State Department
Dynamite by the Million Tons at Panama Canal
President Wilson marked the end of an era as Americans used about 60 million pounds of dynamite on the Isthmus of Panama under Gambon Dike. A single blast equaled 16.9 million horsepower, with efficiency gains reducing dynamite needs. The Panama Canal by Frederic J. Haskin, advertised at 50 cents by Riker Jaynes Drug Stores.
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Wilson
White House
Gambon
Panama
Isthmus
United States
Panama Canal
Frederic J. Haskin
Riker-Jaynes
Woman Slashes in Cambridge Tragedy Ends in Hospital
Agnes Russell, 50, fought to prevent suicide and slashed her husband Arthur J. Russell and sister Sarah Fallon during a struggle for a razor at 1427 Cambridge Street Cambridge. Agnes lies dying at Cambridge Relief Hospital. Arthur is on the dangerous list beside her. Fallon survives with severe finger injuries.
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Agnes Russell
Cambridge Street
Cambridge
Arthur J. Russell
Sarah Fallon
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Miss Fallon
Woman attacks husband in bathroom suicide bid
Mrs Russell suffering three years of nervous prostration attempted suicide with a razor in the bathroom. She slashed her throat as her husband blocked the blow, then collapsed unconscious. Miss Sarah Fallon and neighbors helped. both husband and wife were taken to the hospital. Mrs Russell died that night. the husband survived his wound and is expected to recover.
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Miss Fallon
Station 2
Sanatogen
Churchmen as Pipe Layers in Plymouth Cemetery Work
More than two hundred St. Peter's parish volunteers at St. Joseph cemetery completed one mile of water pipe installation linking the graveyard to the Summer street main. The plan, devised weeks earlier, saw nearly all parish men pledge a day's labor to the project.
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Plymouth
St. Peter’s Parish
St. Joseph Cemetery
Parish project marks crowning feature of Buckley era
The article notes a systematic work party at St. Peter's parish led by Rev. John J. Buckley as he nears retirement. Volunteers included pipe-fitters behind shovel teams and enjoyed the process as ground is prepared for a large memorial gate. Plans also include future walks and shade trees.
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St. Peter’s Parish
John J. Buckley
Falling Iron Kills South Boston Man
Patrick J. O Malley 45 of 128 West Fifth Street South Boston died yesterday when an angle iron fell from a fifth floor staging at the Athenaeum building 1012 Beacon Street. He fell 35 feet to the third floor and died at Relief Hospital. The body was taken to North Grove Street morgue.
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Patrick J. O'Malley
West Fifth Street
Boston
Atheneum
Beacon Street
O'Malley
Relief Hospital
North Grove Street
Brom o Quinine Ad
Advertisement promotes a remedy titled LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE claiming a cold cure in one day and notes a signature by E. W. Grove. The call reference urges obtaining the full name and uses the phrase BROMO QUININE.
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E. W. Grove
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Ter
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Warren St
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Carver
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