Chapman Sermon Draws Large Crowd at Blue Hill Chapel
Readville reports Dr. J Wilbur Chapman, famed evangelist, added to the list of celebrated preachers at Blue Hill Chapel. An overflowing audience from Boston and area towns filled the non sectarian church, listening as Chapman spoke on I will not forget thy word from Psalm 119 and urged reverence for the Bible.
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Readville
J. Wilbur Chapman
Little Blue Hill
Chapman
Blue Hill Chapel
Boston
Alexander
Maine
Australia
China
Dr. Chapman
Dr. Alexander
Princeton University
Star of the Bible Guides a Faithful Life
A preacher urges reliance on scripture as a guiding star for life. He recalls a captain’s navigation by the polar star and declares the Bible’s promises tested through sorrow. He praises intercessory prayer, calls men to Christ, and invites all to seek prayer as the crowd rises hands in response.
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God
Boston
Cook’s Polar Records Questioned in Copenhagen
The Copenhagen investigation panel is expected to report that Dr. Frederick A. Cook’s polar records do not provide a basis for a well founded scientific judgment, casting doubt on his claimed arctic achievement.
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Copenhagen
Frederick A. Cook
Public hearing on school accommodations tonight
The school committee holds a public hearing at Mason Street headquarters at 8 o'clock tonight. All who seek better school facilities for the district are invited. A large extension of accommodations is expected next year due to a larger available fund to improve quarters for students.
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Mason Street
Widespread Support Clears Debts and Dispatches Talks
At a Brockton gathering led by Bishop John W Hamilton four thousand one hundred dollars was raised in under two hours to wipe out seven thousand dollars of debt. In Boston Bible class today Rev William Harmon Van Allen reviews Dr Gordon’s Religion and Miracle. Rev Myra C Hoyt of Wales Avenue Free Baptist Brockton elected head of local W C T U. Newton Centre Trinity Church men discuss plans for a new parish house.
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John W. Hamilton
Central Methodist Church
Brockton
Boston
Gilbert Hall
William Harmon van Allen
Gordon
Myra C. Hoyt
Wales Avenue Free
Trinity Church
Newton Centre
Charles Boardman Dies in Cambridge at 91
Charles Boardman died at his home 58 Washington Avenue North Cambridge after a long illness. He was 91 and formerly a soap manufacturer. He attended the Bunker Hill Monument dedication and recalled Daniel Webster's speech. A member of the Third Universalist Church he enriched Sunday services with flowers from his garden.
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Charles Boardman
Washington Avenue
Cambridge
Bunker Hill
Daniel Webster
Third Universalist Church
Local Children Write to Santa in Boston Post Appeal
Letters from Somerville Roxbury Charlestown and Chelsea children begging for Christmas gifts reveal hardships. Families ask for dolls toys mittens shoes sled and help. Windsor Road group sends $2 to purchase presents.
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Post
Santa
the Prince School
Windsor Road
Somerville
Santa Claus
Arthur
Chelsea
Mary
Charlestown
Boston Post
West Somerville
Walter Love
Roswell Baker
Fan Wiley
Ella Currie
Gertrude Currie
Walter Currie
Reta Slack
Walter Holmberg
James McNamara
Joseph Crowley
Paul Crowley
Herbert Crowley
John Leavis
Eleanor McLaughlin
Mary McLaughlin
Girls Save Men In Peril On Thin Pond Ice
Four skater girls led by Morrisey and Pitts formed a human chain after Pitts sank in a deep icy patch. Morrisey threw a branch to help, but the ice broke as they pulled Pitts to safety, with all four remaining on the ice until rescuers reached solid ground.
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Pitts
Morrisey
Rescuers Save Three Skaters From Fellsmere Pond Ice
In Malden on December 19 a thin ice surface on Fellsmere Pond broke trapping three skaters Fred Barthlemess 18 Leo Dunn 17 and Arthur Woodman 19. A human chain of six youths dragged them to safety as hundreds watched then skated away without providing names to police. Five others and two children had fallen through the ice earlier and John McCann 2 was pulled out after the ice collapsed beneath him.
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Malden
Fellsmere Pond
Fred Barthlemess
Watts Street
Leo Dunn
Highland Avenue
Arthur Woodman
Barthlemess
Dunn
Woodman
Metropolitan Police
John McCann
Charles Street
Van Nostrand Hosts Annual Dinner At Youngs Hotel
A. G. Van Nostrand proprietor of Bunker Hill Breweries hosted the executive corps at Young's Hotel for the annual dinner. The event featured jack roses on the table an orchestra lively songs and a long reminiscence of the century old brewery. Guests received souvenir steins and the crowd bid good night with Oh Be Jolly Boys.
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A. G. van Nostrand
Bunker Hill Breweries
Young's Hotel
Jack Roses
Big Gift by Mrs Sage To Met Museum Of Art
Mrs Russell Sage of New York donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art a $100,000 collection of early American furniture. The pieces, mostly American oak aged up to a century, were purchased by her agents from H Eugene Bolles, a Boston lawyer in Dorchester. Some items were shipped to New York for the Hudson Fulton celebration.
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New York
Trainmen Seek Higher Wages Across Eastern Railroads
Trainmen issued a notice demanding wage increases tied to mileage with new day work terms for freight service and higher rates for conductors, flagmen, and brakemen. They claim living costs rising and aim to standardize East rates with Western levels, warning of a possible general strike if denied.
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Boston & Maine
New York
New Haven & Hartford
Boston & Maine Railroad
A. B. Garrettson
Order of Railway Conductors
William G. Lee
Chicago
East
Chizens Take 300 Negroes in East St Louis
Police hold 300 African American men after citizens captured suspects matching the highwayman description. The gunman shot and killed Motorman Eugene Gouby and likely fatally wounded Conductor M P O'Brien after taking $40. The car ran ungoverned four miles to the city's center. Rewards total 700 from employers and the street car union for arrest.
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East ST. Louis
Ill
Eugene V. Gouby
M. P. O’brien
O’brien
Wood from 42 States Burn in Doctor Stevens House
Fire gutted the residence of Dr. J. E. Stevens in Waltham's Piety Corner destroying wood from 42 States used in finishings. Damage is estimated at 5000 dollars. Mrs. E. F. Whittaker, elderly and ill in the apartment, was removed and may not survive the shock. Colonel Silas A. Bartlett, former G A R commander, formerly owned the home.
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Waltham
Union
J. E. Stevens
E. F. Whittaker
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