Post Santa Now Faces a Face to Face Reckoning
The article recalls almost 5000 New England children whose appeals have been set aside due to a depleted fund. It warns that up to five thousand may be forgotten, leaving crippled, blind, ill, and orphaned children without gifts on Christmas morning. Six days remain to break records and fund the cause.
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Post
New England
Santa Claus
Santa
Boston
Pee
Post Publishing Co
Beacon Street Flood Deluges Stall Trains Amid Wide Flood
A gigantic torrent of water sweeps over Beacon Street flooding rail lines and inundating streets. Railroad tracks are flooded blocking train and streetcar service while many buildings lose power and water supply is severely curtailed across districts.
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Beacon Street
Railroad Tracks Soon Cleared After Bridge Collapse
Beacon Street traffic disrupted for days as a 42 inch water main burst caused a large bridge over the Boston & Albany lines to collapse. The torrent damaged the structure and tracks, with an engine derailed at Hyde Park and a woman likely fatally injured among several injured passengers.
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Beacon Street
Boston & Albany
Kenmore Station
Chestnut Hill
Hyde Park
Siuking
Forecast News Hints Arctic Air Across New England
Fair in northern New England on Tuesday with unsettled conditions in the area. Temperatures steady with fresh winds from the orth and north east. Washington reports vary by region with snow or rain on the southern coast and unsettled weather by Wednesday.
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Washington
New England
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Wally Wallace Reid Wins Battle With Drug Habit
Los Angeles report states actor Wallace Reid has overcome the first battle of his war against drug habit. His wife Mrs. Dorothy Davenport Reid says doctors informed at a private sanitarium that he has passed the crisis in his illness.
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Los Angeles
Wallace Reid
Dorothy Davenport Reid
Fib . Avenue
aRtide
Reid
Less Hard Coal for Canada Says Spens
C A Spens, federal fuel distributor, said to C A Morgrath in Ottawa that due to a severe anthracite shortage in the United States there is no prospect to equalize Canada’s deficit on December first, which stands at 50 percent of last season’s imports.
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Washington
Mec
C. A. Magrath
Federal Advisory
Ottawa
Canada
C. A. Spens
University of Pennsylvania Accepts Wood's Resignation
Philadelphia December 18 The board of trustees accepted the resignation of Major General Leonard Wood as head of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Leonard Wood
Bursting of Main Hits City Water Supply
The city suffered a water outage for at least 20 minutes last night when a 42 inch main burst. Officials activated a duplicate emergency main to restore service.
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City Water Service
Brookline Selectmen Remove Sled Ban From Ordinance
Brookline officials voted to strike the word sled from the town ordinance on sidewalk use and to replace the 20 minute auto standing limit with a police determined duration. The change is to be recommended to the town meeting at Brookline Town Hall tonight.
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Brookline
Boxing Results and Football Shock at Penn
In Newark Mickey Walker outpointed Phil Krug over 12 rounds. Al Brockton edged Willie Harmon in 10. At Lynn Al Sears beat Dusty umont in 10. New Bedford saw Al Shubert defeat Frankie Britt in 10. In college football Heisman resigns as head coach at Pennsylvania.
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Mickey Walker
Phil Krug
al Brockton
Willie Harmon
Wild Man Gould
Lynn
al Sears
Dusty Umont
New Bedford
al Shubert
Frankie Britt
Heisman
Pennsylvania
Divine Sarah Stricken In Paris Syncope
Paris reports that Sarah Bernhardt suffered a sudden syncope before a dress rehearsal. By 10 p.m. she rallied and asked to prepare for the stage tomorrow, with two specialists at her bedside and a reported second fainting spell from exertion.
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Paris
Sarah Bernhardt
Mme. Bernhardt
Maurice
Train wreck near Hyde Park injures many
Josephine Habiveh of 1326 Newkirk street North Hin New Jersey was probably fatally injured and about twenty people mostly women were injured when the 4 28 New Haven express to Providence from Boston wrecked last night just outside Hyde Park station after breaking at speed near 40 miles an hour.
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Hyde Park
New Haven
Josephine” ‘Habiveh
Newkirk Street
Northin
N. J
Providence
Boston
Hyde~Park Station
Divorce Granted to Swampscott Man in Statutory Grounds Case
Judge Henry Lummus ruled today for Edwin M. Gerould of Swampscott in a divorce from Marjorie Gerould of New York on statutory grounds. Gerould runs the A beam Tea Room in Swampscott and the case drew wide attention during last week’s trial.
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Salem
Henry Lummus
Edwin M. Gerould
Swampscott
Marjorie Gerould
New York
Gerould
Abeam
Bank sets sought investment for Boston building project
George E. Brock president of the Home Savings Bank of Boston filed with the clerk of the House seeking authority to invest two million dollars in purchasing a site and erecting a building for the bank to conduct its business.
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George E. Brock
Home Savings Bank of Boston
Weather Look for Fair Skies With a Cool Night
Forecast calls for fair weather today with a sharp cooldown tonight. Light winds remain from the northwest as temperatures dip into the lower teens.
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