Post Santa Claus Invites Callers From East Boston to Roxbury
A collection of childhood letters to Santa from Boston area youths asks for mittens, skates, dolls, and toys. Kids from Roxbury Chelsea Jamaica Plain South Boston request support for a hard Christmas, noting absent fathers, working mothers, and crowded families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Mary
Catherine
Elizabeth
Daniel
Emmet
Jamaica Plain
Xmas
Chelsea
Madeline
Annie
Lawrence Grammar School
Phillip
South Boston
Santa Letter Drive Aims To Brighten Poor Children's Year
Paragraphs describe ongoing efforts to assemble bundles that week to bring sunshine and hope to many poor youngsters who question why Santa Claus does not visit them each year.
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Santa Claus
Post Santa Claus appeals for toys and donations
The Post Santa Claus asks readers to donate toys mittens and stockings to brighten thousands of children on Christmas Day. Stores like Houghton & Dutton and Henry Siegel contribute half price goods and goods for the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Post
Toyland
Houghton & Dutton Company
Henry Siegel Company
Post Santa Claus
Santa Claus Department
The
H. N. Lamb
Chicago
H. A. Wippich
Provincetown
Kennebunkport
St. T
Contoeciok
N. H
Lorraine Straus
Thomas Sheering
Portland
Wellesley Hills
Logging train twice ditched near Portland headline
A Maine Central railroad logging train from Rangeley to Conway was derailed twice causing hours of delay. In Cumberland a derailment piled 80 cars in a heap. After long delays the locomotive moved the remaining 20 cars, then one more ditch near Union Station blocked inbound track for three hours. Seventeen cars continued toward New Hampshire camps.
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Portland
Rangeley
Conway
N. H
Maine Central Railroad
Cumberland
Union Station
New Hampshire
Two Widows Die In Gas Incident In East Orange
Four wide open gas jets in three rooms killed Mrs. Josephine Harriman and her daughter Mrs. Bella Zeliff in East Orange. Deputy county physician labels it death by own action and homicide but cannot determine which woman turned on the gas. Harriman was 70, Zeliff about 40 and ran a dressmaking business.
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Orange
N. J
Josephine Harriman
Bella Zeliff
East Orange
Teddy and Gaynor Banquet Guests at Jewish Conference
Theodore Roosevelt Mayor Gaynor Oscar S. Straus Judge Josiah Cohen of Pittsburg and Dr. David Phillipson of Cincinnati will address the 22d conference of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in New York. The banquet at the Hotel Astor on January 18 marks a key conference event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Mayor Gaynor
Oscar S. Straus
Josiah Cohen
Pittsburg
David Phillipson
Cincinnati
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Hotel Astor
Van Dyke Resigns as Brick Church Pastor
In New York on December 18 the Rev Dr Henry Van Dyke unexpectedly resigns as temporary pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church after previously leaving his chair of English literature at Princeton University.
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van Dyke
Brick Church
New York
Henry van Dyke
Princeton University
Brick Presbyterian Church
Wreck of Swedish Steamer Cedric Claims Twelve Drowned
The Swedish steamship Cedric wrecked near Gefle Sweden. Twelve people died including all officers except the captain. Cedric about 1100 tons carried coal and foundered in the Baltic during bad weather.
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London
Cedric
Gefle
Sweden
Zueblin to Lecture at Camden Street Meeting
Professor Charles Zueblin of Chicago University lectures tonight at the Boston Literary Association in St. Pauls Baptist Church Camden Street. Baritone William H Richardson organist Ida Goins Wilson and reader Alice Porter Turner participate. Topic The Fellowship of the Common Life. Admission free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Zueblin
Chicago University
Boston Literary Association
St. Paul's Baptist Church
Camden Street
William H. Richardson
Ida Goins Wilson
Alice Porter Turner
Zueblin
Fellowship of the Common Life
Rescues Tell of Fierce Storm at Sea
Gresham crew recounts saving captains L. S. Whittemore and DeMille Buck from the Abbie G. Cole and S. A. Fownes off Monomoy Point and Chatham. The Fownes and Cole sank. the Stephen G. Loud reached Boston after a brutal night at sea. crews endured freezing conditions, pumps ran for hours, and a pig mascot drowned in the wreckage.
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Aberroth
Gresham
Abbie G. Cole
Stone Horse Shoal
Monomoy Point
L. S. Whittemore
Cole
S. A. Fownes
DeMille Buck
Fownes
Chatham
N. E. Ayer
Provincetown
Stephen G. Loud
Boston
Rosstow
Leighton
Cape Cod
Thomas F. Hart
Hart
Ilness
Eugene Leighton
Mate Leighton
Perry
Plant Line
Loud
Belfast
Georgia
Curtis & Pope Lumber Company
Hampton
N. B
Captain Buck
Buck
Percy D. Anderson
George Phillis
Peter Wilson
Clark G. Anderson
Dorchester
Nova Scotia
Charles H. Whittemore
Nat Latham
D. McKinley
J. B. Blake
Michael Cooney
Captain Whittemore
Stone Horse
Jess
Revenue Cutter
Machias
Anderson
Johannsen
Weather forecast for Washington and regions
The barometric pressure suggests a week of moderate temperatures nationwide. A Great Lakes disturbance will move east bringing snow in the region and snow or rain in the middle Atlantic and New England states Monday.
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Washington
Government Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Atlantis
New England
Hebrews Organize in East Boston
East Boston Hebrew voters formed the Independent Hebrew Citizens' Club to enroll as citizens and engage in political matters. Samuel Abrahams was elected chairman with Jacob Rosen as vice chairman Lesser Leventhal as secretary and Harris Tekulsky as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebrew Voters of
East Boston
Citizens East Boston Hebrews
Independent
Hebrew Citizens’ Club
Samuel Abrahams
Jacob Rosen
Lesser Leventhal
Harris Tekulsky
Body of Balloon Saar Pilot Recovered in North Sea
Bremen reports a fishing cutter found the body of Lieutenant Lange, pilot of the balloon Saar, in the North Sea. The Saar and eight other balloons left Essen on November 18 for a race. seven landed safely, the Hessen later descended in North Germany. Lange Rommeler and civilian Zimmerman were aboard.
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Bremen
North Sea
Lange
Essen-on-the- Ruhr
Rhenish
Prussia
Hessen
Germany
Saar
Rommeler
Herr Zimmerman
Loss of two masted schooner Laura C. Hall near Nantucket Sound
Captain Carter of the Jesse Hart Jr. reports probable loss of the British schooner Laura C. Hall with all hands during Friday's blizzard. The Hall bound from Port Reading to Sackville N B may have wrecked near Great Round Shoal. The Jesse Hart Jr. arrived damaged, while another schooner J Manchester Haynes showed storm damage in Boston bound service.
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Vineyard Haven
Laura C. Hall
Carter
Jesse Hart Jr
Acushnet
Hall
Port Reading
Sackville
N. B
Great Round Shoal
Nantucket Sound
Jesse Hart
Great Point
Nantucket
Laura Hall
Nantucket Island
Nantucket South
J. Manchester Haynes
Tampa
Fla
Boston
Barge Binghamton Found After Blizzard Off Cape Cod
A salvage crew located the barge Binghamton of the freigth railroad near the lower Cape after it was lost with two other tows during Thursday night blizzard conditions off Nauset.
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Boston
Highland Light
Binghamton
J. B. Nickerson
Dennisport
Scranton
Margaret
New York
Consolidation Coal Company
Baltimore
Cape
fBrie Railroad
Nausett
Duchess of Orleans Undergoes Appending Illness Operation
Duchess of Orleans underwent an appendicitis operation at Wood Norton Eversham Saturday. She passed a comfortable night but today her condition was listed as critical. Manuel II exiled King of Portugal and Queen Dowager Amelie are guests of the Duke of Orleans at Wood Norton.
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London
Duchess of Orleans
Wood Norton
Eversham
Manuel Ir
Portugal
Amelie
Duke of Orleans
England
Mission for Colored Catholics Opens at St Patrick’s Church
The Rev. J. J. Plantevigne of the Josephites led the first service of a week long mission for colored Catholics at old St Patrick’s Church Northampton Street. The mission runs nightly through the week and ends with all adherents receiving holy communion and the papal blessing after meeting the requirements.
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J. J. Plantevigne
United State
Old St. Patrick's Church
Northampton Street
Major Bancroft Dead at Age 86 in New London Conn
Major Eugene Bancroft US Army retired died at his home in New London Conn at 86 after infirmities of old age. A Boston native, he joined as second lieutenant of the Fourth U S Artillery in 1861, served through the Civil War and retired in 1889 while commanding Fort Trumbull. He leaves nine children.
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New London
Conn
Eugene Bancroft
Boston
Fourth U. S. Artillery
Fort Trumbull
Obituary notices from Boston area, Dec 18 1910s
Death notices from Roxbury Charlestown Dorchester South Boston Jamaica Plain and other neighborhoods list widows widowers and relatives. Names include Catherine Brawley Jennie Chapman Timothy Collins John W Corbett Sarah Ann Dann James Dunphy Albert Firnacher Mary Flannery Mary Frye Thomas Gee George Hoffmann Louis Kelterborn George Low Ann Malley Hugh Markey Margaret McElwin Catherine Slattery Leis Sweetland and Eira Young among others. Funeral details specify residences church Mass times and burial places with dates Dec 18 to Dec 21 and addresses in Roxbury Dorchester Charlestown Jamaica Plain Somerville and Natick.
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Brawley
Collins
Dorchester
Timothy Collis
West Erd
Patrick Collins
Quincy Street
St. Peter's Church
Meetin House Hill
Buffalo, N. Y
Dann
South Boston
East Sixth Street
Sarah Ann
James W. Dann
South Baptist Church
Fourth Streets
Dumphy
James Dunphy
Catherine Dumphy
Birmingham
Ninth Street
Gate of Heaven Church
Firnachr
Albert C. Firnrehr
Boylston Street
Jamaica Plain
Iplannery
Moxbury
Mary A. Flannery
Michael J. Flannery
Shine
Lambert Avenue
St. Joseph's Church
Circuit Street
Krye
Dudley Street
Roxbury
Mary L
William
Ann J. Frye
Waterman Chapel
Washington Street
Gee
Charlestown
Thomas F
Catherine Gee
High Street
St. Mary's Church
Wearren Street
Gofi
Indianapolis
Ind
George Bet
Mary A
James
Connelley
Woodward Avenue
St. Patrick's Church
Aoiey Street
Louisa Hill
Ebenezer Baptist Church
West Springfield Street
Hurley
Bee
John D
Margaret Hurley
McLaughliin
Bainbridge Street
St. Catherine's Church
Jones
Somerville
George Jones
Houghton Street
Fredericton
N. B
Kelterborn
Louis W. Kelterborn
Basel
Switzerland
Mt. Auburn
Low
George Doane Low
Arlington Street
Malley
Ann
James Maley
Huckins Street
Markeyx
Hugh V
Markey
West End
Monny-Dament Avenue
St. Mary's
Church
Warren Street
Margaret Ac” McElwin
Sullivan
Daniel W. McElwin
Delf
Union Square
St. Paul’s
Arlington
McPhail
Catherine A
Florence Mei’ball
Westminster Street
Slattery
Catherines Slattery
James T. Landrigan
South Lawrence
William Landrigan
Worcester Street
Sweetland
Natick
Leis A. Sweetland
Wet Central Street
James Owler
Mary Mernin
St. Mary’s Church
Arrep Street
van Delinder
Boston
Amelia van Delinder
Saratoga Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Paterson
N. J
Young
Revere
Egra F. Young
Ec Estes
Generel
Sven
Haale
Conten Rene
Aleves
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School Street
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Teddy and Gaynor
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Perth Amboy
St. John
Highlands
East
Cod Coast
Hnife
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J. Flynn & CO
Essex St
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Send For
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Manacea Water Co
Stone St
Stone
Stone & C
Franklin Street
Beston
SENS
Bass & Co
Sears
Holly
Franklin St
Cassie
Wilson Bros
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Rogers
Wilson Brothers
Waterman & Sons Incorporated Undertakers
Dudley Street Terminal
Frank
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Marconi
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