Marlboro Father Cries Over Missing 14-Year-Old Daughter
George Ellin of 1 Ryancourt pleads for help as Annie Elizabeth Ellin vanishes after last Tuesday. Police searches in Marlboro and Boston fail to locate her amid concerns of hypnotic influence by a mysterious woman. Annie, living with her father since his wife’s death, was last seen leaving for work at the shoe factory. disordered dishes suggest sudden departure.
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Marlboro
Annie Elizabeth Ellin
George FE. Ellin
Ryancourt
Boston
Annie
Pleas for Santa Claus from Boston area children
Letters to Mr. Santa Claus from young readers recount hardship and wish lists for Christmas 1905. Recipients include Carrie Sartell Roxbury, Arthur E. Yates Roxbury and Victor Bartlett East Boston, among others, asking for sleds dolls shoes and other simple gifts as families face poverty and loss.
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Santa Claus
Little Boy Sends Dollar to Santa for Gifts
The Boston Post prints a letter from Harold Scribner of Danielson Connecticut asking readers to give Santa a dollar to buy Christmas presents for poor children. He is five years old and hopes Santa will bring many gifts, noting many children may be disappointed otherwise.
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Victor Bartlett
Maverick
Boston
Mass
Methuen
Santa Claus
Rachel L. Donovan
West Street
Mary
Jackie
Frankie
Santa
Maurice Costigan
Everett Street
Roxbury
Benton Street
Lillian Lynch
South Weymouth
Mr. Post
Abbie EF. Turner
Little Boy
Dollar
Boston Post
Harold W. Scribner
Bridges Caught Fire By Faulty Wires In Malden And Chelsea
Electrical lines caused small blazes on the Malden and Chelsea bridges with alarms from Boxes 454 423 and 484. Firemen responded to a minor Warren Street grocery fire at 10 10.
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Malden
Chelsea
Warren Street
Pension Commissioner Warner's Father Dies at 86
Clinton Ill Dec 21 Dr John Warner 86 father of Commissioner of Pen gious Vespasian Warner died suddenly this afternoon He was Civil War veteran major wounded at Shiloh head of John Warner & Co bankers and last year gave Clinton a 25600 hospital endowment and donation
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Clinton
Ill
John Warner
Pengious
Vespasian Warner
Warner
Shiloh
John Warner & Co
Bankers
Constitution In Asphalt Plan Draws Navy Debate
Washington December 21 A plan to preserve the frigate Constitution was explained to Secretary Bonaparte by Representative McNary of Boston who urged moving the ship to Marine Park Boston and sealing it in an asphalt lake to last for all time. He argued a refit with old style guns would cost 500000, while preservation in asphalt would cost about 30000. A letter from E B Billings of Lynn Mass objected to disposing of the vessel as a target and criticized the President and secretary for their handling of the Navy.
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Washington, D. C
Bonaparte
McNary
Boston
Navy Department
Marine Park
Naval Affairs Committee
Congress
Farragut
Mobile Bay
U.S
Lackawanna
Lynn
Mass
Cars Crash in Waltham at Maple and Crescent
Two Newton Street Railway electric cars collided at 6 50 AM at Maple and Crescent in Waltham. Windows were broken but no serious injuries occurred among passengers including workers from the American Watch Company. The Stone Street Newtonville car and the Bleachery watch factory car narrowly avoided harm.
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Waltham
Newton Street Railway Company
Maple and
Crescent Streets
Watch Factory
American Waltham Watch Company
Stone Street
Newtonville
Crosby
Dorion
Crescent Street
Maple Street
Dalway
Murphy
Toy furniture sale price notes
Readable text shows enameled doll furniture sets priced at 50 to 75 cents previously and 1.50 each for a set of three chairs and a table now discounted to 50 cents.
Post Card Albums Sale in Stationery Section
In the Stationery Section Third Floor Centre a Post Card Album holding 200 cards is discounted from 1.00 to 50 cents.
Hold Up Boys Nabbed By Somerville Police
Five young men accused of terrorizing Somerville merchants were detained after patrolmen Ray and Cadman spotted them near Pearl and Cross streets. Three alleged leaders Sears Carney and McElroy face grand jury bonds of 500 each. two others await Dec 28 hearings on 400 bonds. All five were later moved to East Cambridge jail.
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Ray and
Cadman
Somerville
Harry Sears
Cornelius Carney
Edward J. Mellroy
Pearl
Cross Street
Ray
Sycamore Street
Woodman
Perry
Edward J. McElroy
Charlestown
Carter
Camery
John H. McNulty
William J. Boyce
Abraham Weinberg
Broadway
Moses Abelovitz
Sears
Carney
McElroy
East Cambridge
Reader asks for nationwide Christmas holly wear week
A letter to the editor proposes that during Christmas week many people wear holly and evergreen. The writer asks the newspaper to suggest this practice to spread the idea across the country and the world.
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Post
London lecture frames socialism and university life
Jack London addressed Harvard men in the Harvard Union criticizing public and political immorality. He praised Russia’s student movements while noting Germany’s higher energy and warned that every man has a price. He cited a socialist army of 400,000 in the United States and nearly 7,000,000 globally.
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Harvard
Jack London
Harvard Union
Russia
Germany
Tom Lawson
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Albatross Kimonos
Cretonne
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C. IL. Hertford
Hamilton W. Mabie
Seymour Eaton
George Washington
Eugene Watsons
James Otis
John Clark Ridpath
Daniel Webster
Elizabeth A. Reed
Abraham Lincoln
Robert Dickinson Sheppard
Samuel Adams
Samuel Fallows
Peers Franklin
Frank Strong
John Adams
Samuel Willard, LL. Dd
John Hancock
John R. Musick
John Randolph
Richard Heath Dabney
Henry Clay
H. W. Caldwell
Alexander Hamilton
Edward S. Ellis
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Edward 8. Ellis
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