Post Santa Claus appeals flood Boston Post readers
Readers send five dollar checks and gifts as the Post Santa Claus program receives many letters from children and families in need. Investigators identify dire cases and plan distributions of food and essentials while volunteers collect toys, mittens, candy, and store books for Christmas.
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Boston Post
Santa Claus
Boston
E. W. Doyle
The
Post
Santa
Assist
Ant
St. Nicholas
Beverly
Frances
Northeast storm batters coast from South Carolina to Maine
A northeast storm prompted warnings along the coast from Charleston to Eastport as Boston and New York received heavy rain. Nearly two inches fell in New York by 8 pm with washouts around Pittsburgh and telegraph cuts reported. Forecaster Smith predicts ongoing rain with clearing by noon, while Washington street flooded and a cab horse slipped on slick pavement.
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Coast Line
Charleston
S. C
Eastport
Boston
New York
Pittsburg
Smith
Washington Street
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Claim
A Boston Daily Post ad promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. It warns of kidney disease risks and lumbago headaches and urges readers to request a free sample bottle and book by mail from Kilmer and Co. in Binghamton New York.
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Dr. Kilmer
Binghamton, N. Y
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Boston Daily Post
Greene
Temple Fps
Boston
Mass
Burglar Fires at Woman in Roxbury Home
A burgl ar broke into Miss Elizabeth Lufkin's Roxbury bedroom at 59 Bainbridge Street yesterday afternoon and fired two shots that narrowly missed her head. He fled through a window, fired at about a hundred neighbors, and escaped across the section amid a hail of shots.
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Elizabeth Lufkin
Bainbridge Street
Roxbury
Mayfair Street
Elmore Street
Washington Street
Valentine Street
Thornton Street
Valentine and
Thornton Streets
Station 9
Wescott
Firemen Win Right to 15 Minute Meal Breaks
The Board of Aldermen approved with one dissenting vote the override of Mayor Hibbard's veto on a proposed amendment granting fire department members 15 extra minutes for each meal hour. The move, backed by firemen for years, would become law if Common Council concurs.
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Board of Aldermen
Hibbard
Common Council
Cotton
City Council Committee On Public Lands
Penal
Children’s Institution
Wilmington
Woburn
John Howard Sullivan
Boston
Alderman Brand
Alderman Curley
Statistics Department
Nathan Matthews
Two Die of Starvation in Cambridge Home
Christmas wreaths adorn Green Street homes as a man and his wife, Thomas Flynn and Mary Flynn, perish from starvation inside their Cambridge residence during the week. Medical examiner attributes death to starvation.
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Green Street
Cambridge
Thomas Flynn
Flynn
F. J. Burgess
Thomas Gethin
Margaret Steele
Third Street
Boston
Swan
Mary
HEEP WEDDING SECRET A MONTH
News of the marriage of Isador Moss and Miss Rose Krokyn, both prominent figures, surfaced after a month on a wedding trip. The Boston businessman and social settlement worker wed quietly and traveled together.
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Isador Moss
Boston
Rose Krokyn
Lakme Repeats at Boston Opera House Lively Cast Impresses
Delibes Lakme returned at the Boston Opera House with Miss Lipkowska, Mr. Bourrillon, Miss Freeman, Mr. Fornari, Mr. Nivette, and Miss Pierce among the principal performers. Critics praise the work’s art, the cast’s vocal feats, the exotic staging, and the adapted orchestration for the venue.
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Lakme
Delibes
Miss Lipkowska
Delibe
Mr. Fornari
Miss Innocence
Mr. Nivette
Nikalantha
Clerk Mason on leave after embezzlement indictment
Frank H. Mason clerk of the United States District Court is on leave and confined to his Brookline home after indictment on embezzlement and perjury charges. Friends say he disputes the case, believes civil action should have been used, and cites long held practices in handling court accounts.
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Frank H. Mason
United States District Court
Fuller Street
Brookline
Mason
Patent Medicine Claim for Quick Cold Cure
An advertisement for a laxative Bromo Quinine tablet claiming to cure a cold in one day. Druggists refund money if the cure fails. E. W. Grove’s signature appears on each box. Price 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Leopold II Faces Fatal Surgery in Final Battle With Death
In Brussels on December 13 King Leopold II, aged and frail, fights a desperate battle with illness. Doctors plan a decisive operation for tomorrow as rheumatism dropsy and intestinal blockage weigh on him. The king remains lucid and expresses grim calm, while his family gathers at Laeken Castle.
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Brussels
Leopold II
Leopold
Senior votes set record at Harvard class of 1910 election
Harvard seniors elected 469 voters from 555 eligible as officers for the class of 1910. Robert C. Brown of Medford won first marshal, rival Captain Hamilton Fish Jr. of the football team finished as the main opposition. Charles L. Lanigan of Lawrence took second marshal with Jesse E. Ward of Denver third. Other officers include treasurer P. Wyman and permanent secretary to be named, with poet Edward Eyre Hunt, chorister Twining Lynes, orator William R. Ohler, and editor Thomas Stearns Eliot. Hunt presides over the Monthly.
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Harvard
Robert C. Brown
Medford
Hamilton Fish, Jr
Brown
Charles L. Lanigan
Lawrence
Jesse E. Ward
Denver
Col
Ivy
Frank W. Sullivan
Lowell
R. C
Bob’’) Brown
Lanigan
Waid
P. Wyman
Lampoon
Edward Eyre Hunt
Mechanicsburg
Twining Lynes
Cambridge
William R. Ohler
Bethel
Conn
Thomas Stearns Eliots
St. Louis
Hunt
Fire damages Watertown home. neighbors alert family
A blaze likely started at the chimney near the roof damaged Timothy Coffin's residence in East Watertown. Neighbors spotted the fire from outside and warned the Coffin family who were inside unaware of the danger, with damages estimated at 1500 dollars.
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Watertown
Timothy Coffin
East Watertown
Believe Steamer Has Gone Down
Mute evidences of a wrecked wooden steamer about 2000 tons gross have been found at Bonavista Bay, 190 miles north, suggesting an unknown foreign-going steamer bound to or from America met its doom.
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ST. John's
N. F
Bonavista Bay
Marine and Fisheries Department
America
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