Post Santa Appeals for Car Donations and Help
The Post Santa needs automobiles to deliver Christmas bundles. Five days remain to assemble the gifts for destitute children. Donations are coordinated at 265 Washington Street with cars already donated by Vinal Motor Renting and Velie Motor Vehicle Company along with private donors.
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Post
Santa Claus
Washington Street
Vinal Motor Renting Company
Worcester Street
Velie Motor Vehicle Company
Massachusetts Avenue
Post readers to supply gifts for 8000 children this week
The Post offers bundles and asks readers to read letters from about 8000 children requesting presents for themselves and others. The response to yesterday's department deal is described as gratifying and may bring happiness to nearly 20 000 poor kids if the spirit continues throughout the week.
Boston Christmas Ballyhoo Opens With Grand Rush on Tremont Street
Boston hosts a Christmas ballyhoo on Tremont Street, known as Fakirs row, with 125 toy pedlars selling mechanical toys. Barkers pitch wares as crowds jam the street, paying in coins while salesmen boast guarantees and lessons on science.
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Boston
Grand Rush
Tremont Street
Ballyhoo
Park and Bromfield
Post Santa lists gifts for poor children in Christmas drive
The Boston Post Santa letters show children and families seeking toys, winter clothing, and basic aid. Donors gave to a large Christmas fund totaling 418.20 with many contributions from Massachusetts towns and individuals, including young readers.
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Post
Mrs Louisa E Zittel of Dorchester Dead
Mrs Louisa E Zittel wife of Charles J Zittel died Sunday evening at 145 Bowdoin Street Meeting House Hill Dorchester after a short illness aged 44 She was born in Cambridge Sept 27 1867 and survived by her husband four daughters four brothers and three sisters She belonged to the Woman s Relief Corps Cambridge and Cambridge connections marked by her longtime residence there
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Louisa E. Zittel
Charles J. Zittel
Bowdoin Street
Meeting House Hill
Dorchester
Greater
Boston
Cambridge
Zittel
Woman's Relief Corps
Post 30
M. Louise
John W. Butters
Art Department of the Globe
George C
Edwin F. Butters
Arlington
Mary Mullen
Frances Croy
Somerville
Loretta Butters
Clergy Urge Gas Workers to Postpone Christmas Strike
A committee of clergymen from the Interdenominational Committee for the Promotion of Industrial Arbitration asked gas employees to delay any Christmas strike. They met labor leaders and Consolidated Gas Co officials who refused to talk, aiming to arbitrate disputes over technical working conditions.
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New York
Interdenominational Committee For
Consolidated Gas Company
Freeman Sentenced to Five Years for Bond Theft
Richard N. Freeman, a bond broker who fled from Boston to Toronto before indictment for stealing bonds valued at $5000 from Mrs. Susan M. Donnell of Amesbury, received the minimum five year term at Charlestown State Prison. He left a wife and two children, and was joined in court by his mother from the Cape as they said goodbye.
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Richard N. Freeman
Toronto
Boston
Susan M. Donnell
Amesbury
Charlestown
Freeman
Cape
Adamson's Balsam Advertised as Cold Cure
An old advertisement promotes Adamson's Balsam as a remedy for colds and similar ailments, implying it can cure the sickness.
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Adamson
Reward Offered For Arrest In Detreetsville Family Murder Case
Governor Dix issues a 2000 dollar reward for the arrest and conviction of suspects in the murder of Mrs. Mary A. Morner and her three children Edith Blanche and Arthur in Detreetsville New York. Rensselaer County adds 1000 dollars for the killer. Authorities pursue an Italian suspect linked to the case and question a man calling himself Charles Alli as a possible alias.
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Albany
Dix
Mary A. Morner
Edith
Blanche
Arthur
Detreetsville
Rensselaer County
Capitol
Rensselaer County hunts for Donato clues at Morner farm
Authorities search the Morner farm for Edward Donato the missing Italian farmhand linked to a murder. Fingerprint expert William Powers examines prints found on a barn post while deputies probe the Morner barn and nearby sheds for the missing man and possible clues.
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Carmody
Rensselaer County
Morner
Edward Donato
William T. Powers
State Prison Department
Troy
North Adams
Mass
Williamstown
Donato
Italian suspect held for inquiry in Morner family case
An Italian man in North Adams faced a continued hearing on a vagrancy charge after being taken into custody on suspicion of murdering the Morner family in De Freestville, N Y. He gave three names, matches the Donato description, and admits recent work near Troy, with local officers unsure of his identity.
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North Adams
Morner
Defreestville
N. Y
Charlés Alli
Antonio Cerato
Pasquale Aureli
Edward Donato
Troy
Suspect Found in Pittsfield Depot
Police arrest an Italian man at the Pittsfield railroad station as a suspect in the DeFreestville murders. He identifies as Beniamino di Donato and faces a charge of vagrancy amid conflicting statements. Edward Donato is a farm hand linked to the case in DeFreestville.
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Pittsfield
Beniamino di Donato
Woman Alone Locks Up Thief in Portsmouth Home
At 3 o'clock this morning Mrs. Myer Siegal on Lincoln avenue awoke to a burglar at the parlor window. She faced him alone, was threatened with death if she cried out, then cornered and locked him in a room before alerting police. The intruder escaped before officers arrived.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Myer Siegal
Lincoln Avenue
Wreck of the Maine should be saved as relic
A letter to the editor argues against selling Maine wreck fragments. The writer, Henry P. D. Atwood of Taunton, urges preserving the battleship wreck as a sacred relic and displaying it in Washington for future visitors.
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Maine
Washington
Henry PD
Atwood Taunton
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