Post Santa appeals for funds to brighten Christmas
Readable excerpts show the Post Santa campaign urging readers to donate for needy children amid rising toy and supply costs. Letters from families with ill or absent parents illustrate the hardship and the effort to provide bundles of gifts, clothing, and comfort through contributed funds and items.
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Post Santa
Post
Santa
Santa Claus
Paul
Boston
Washington Street
Adams Square
Car Hits Auto Injuring Two Men in Belmont
Corsel L Staples of Allston and Stewart of St Johnsbury Vermont both instructors at Tufts College were seriously hurt when their touring car was struck by an outbound elevated car at Trapelo road Belmont. They are in Cambridge Hospital with multiple fractures and possible internal injuries. the crash threw them several feet from the tracks. Motorman Michael Galvin and Conductor Job Savory administered first aid and called for an ambulance.
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Corsel L
Staples
Burndale Street
Allston
Stewart
St. Johnsbury
Tufts College
Trapelo Road
Belmont
Cambridge Hospital
Willow Street
Michael Galvin
Job Savory
Gallivan to Probe War Spending in New Congress
Congressman James A. Gallivan returns to Washington as the 65th Congress opens. He says the House Appropriations Committee will hear war department heads on spending and demand precise returns of unneeded wartime funds and supplies. He urges stopping waste as war production ends.
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Washington
Sherley
House Appropriations Committee
James A. Gallivan
65Th Congress
Federal Express
South Station
Department of War
Uncle Sam
Campaign of Prayer Opens in Eastern Massachusetts
A 20 weeks spiritual campaign opened in Episcopal churches of eastern Massachusetts under Bishop Lawrence. All diocese members received pamphlets urging daily Bible readings, prayers, Sunday church attendance, Holy Communion fidelity, and personal virtue. Children were asked to recite text and prayer daily and perform kind acts. The campaign ends January 5 with an eight week second period.
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Lawrence
Massachusetts
Eivery
Trinity Church
Dean Rousmaniere
America
France
St. Paul
Church of the Advent
William Marman van Allen
5000 Urge Wilson to Aid Ireland
A mass meeting on the Common drew more than 5000 Irish men and women from Greater Boston urging President Wilson and American delegates at the coming peace conference to apply liberty and self determination to Ireland. Speakers called for independence and denounced continued British rule.
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Wilson
Ireland
Boston
Irish freedom rally on Boston Common backs self determination
A large gathering of over 40 organizations urged Irish independence during a meeting on Boston Common. Speakers cited World War deeds and U S participation in global upheavals to press for Ireland’s rights and nationhood. The event featured prominent figures and letters from Cardinal O Connell and Mayor Peters supporting the cause.
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United States
Ireland
Mary I. J. Curley
New York
House of Hohenzollern
Boston Common
St. Patrick
Hiery
Gompers Warns Of Danger At Peace Talks
Samuel Gompers, AFL president, told a New York audience that peace conferences may threaten democratic gains. He urged labor to guard rights won during the war, asserting treaties become supreme law and that industrialists could try to roll back workers gains. He backed Wilson but cautioned delegates may not share ideals of freedom and justice.
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New York
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
American Alliance For Labor and Democracy
Senate
America
Mr. Gympers
United States
Gompers
Labor
Wilson
Germany
Mr. Gompers
Labor visions from Gompers at Laredo conference
Samuel Gompers urged inclusion of labor in postwar peace, denouncing wage cuts and longer hours. He criticized employers and urged ending eight hour days in name of workers rights. He praised labor's wartime record and called for wages, living costs, and full labor representation on government boards.
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Laredo
Tex
America
Military Funeral Set for Chief Petty Officer Giplin
The body of Thomas J Giplin, chief petty officer U S Navy, died of pneumonia in England, arrives in Boston. A military funeral with solemn high mass will be held Wednesday at 9 30 AM at St Joseph's Church Orient Heights East Boston. Giplin, recently aboard the U S S Daraga between Ireland and France, was an athlete and quarterback on the Commonwealth Eleven last year.
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Thomas Jefferson Giplin
United States Navy
England
Boston
St. Joseph's Church
Orient Heights
East Boston
Thomas J. Giblin
Thurston Street
Baptists Honor Gen. Benjamin Butler on Birth Anniversary
Twelfth Baptist Church marks the 100th anniversary of General Benjamin F. Butler with a double program. Speakers include Colonel A. Drinkwater, Dr. Alice W. Melhone, and John W. Schenck discussing Butler as a friend of the Negro race. Relatives of Butler and Judge George Ruffin attend as public invitation is extended.
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Benjamin F. Butler
Twelfth Baptist Church
General Butler
A. (. Drinkwater
Braintree
Alice W. Melhane
Ladies’ Auxiliary
L Company
John W. Schenck
Washington
M. A. M. Shaw
George l. Ruffin
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