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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1911
Page
6
New England and eastern Canada closed the hunting season at midnight with 34 human deaths from the lure of the chase. Dozens more were seriously injured including loss of limbs and lasting scars, marking a higher fatality count than last year and near the two prior seasons.
A Maine hunting season tally shows 14 men and boys and one girl killed, with New Brunswick reporting four deaths. The list names victims by town and date, noting accidental discharges, drownings, exposures, and mistaken identity as deer.
The report cites multiple accidental gun discharges in New Brunswick and Maine, with names and ages such as Henry Allen 44 and Margaret Wood 18. It notes a Bangor area game kill of 3000 deer 100 moose 25 bear, a Vermont deer count up 528, and Maine revenues from licenses nearing half a million dollars amid mild weather reducing hunting success.
Louis K. Rourke, commissioner of public works, will speak to St. Ann's Holy Name Society in the Neponset parish. The talk at the new school hall opens a series of men’s talks guided by Rev. James A. Bradley and parish.
The Post Santa Claus department opens at 265 Washington Street to collect letters from children and accept new toys or money for mittens stockings and dolls for poor children. Volunteers help readers respond and many appeals arrive seeking to play Santa this year.
Investigators describe extreme poverty in Cambridge and Boston families, detailing a sick father and starving children while the Post Santa appeal asks for help. Donations totaling 85.25 are reported as letters from hopeful youngsters describe requests for shoes, coats, dolls, and toys for a Christmas relief effort.
Deputy Superintendent Law rence Cain was honored by four veteran officers from Lagrange Street station who delivered a silk Chinese toga valued over 1000 dollars. The article notes the gown descended from a Chinese prince’s palace during the Boxer rebellion and was sent by a U S infantry soldier from Tientsin.
President Taft and his cabinet viewed a detailed model of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor. Rear Admiral Vreeland and Chief Constructor Watt explained the explosion, with the model placed on the White House cabinet room table.
Norfolk reporter notes Virginian fish commission annual report shows Virginia earning seven and a half million dollars from fish and oyster trades for the year ending September first, 1911, leading all states and suggesting additional deep sea catches would push totals higher by about a million dollars.
London December 15 The British government will exclude all American meat packers facing U S prosecutions from tendering for contracts to supply meat to the British army and navy until the suits are settled.
War Office notification to British Isles agents of American meat packers states none involved will be invited to tender while US legal actions continue. Contracts hitherto held by American firms may shift to Argentina packers. policy mirrors treatment of British firms amid litigation. Admiralty likely to follow.
The funeral of Francis Hathaway Burrage son of Mr and Mrs Albert Burrage was held yesterday at the family home 314 Commonwealth Avenue Reverend Charles Edward Park of the First Church officiated Pallbearers were fellow members of Troop B First Squadron Cavalry and the body was taken to the family lot in Forest Hills cemetery.
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