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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1911
Page
7
The Post Santa program begins high volume gift packing at the Santa Claus headquarters. Bundles for thousands of tots are prepared as letters pour in from readers and donors. Raim Morandi-Proctor Company leads with a $10 contribution and a wave of gifts will be distributed to financially strapped families in the area.
Donations pour in from readers and companies including the New England Telephone & Telegraph as the Post Santa Claus prepares to buy toys and clothing for needy children. Letters detail thanks and urges for early submission to ensure Christmas morning happiness.
Veronica Sarkizian a 14 year old of 14 Jay street West Somerville is the 11th victim of Jack the Snipper. Between Boston and Somerville on Wednesday evening a 12 inch portion of her 23 inch braid was cut. She had been shopping with her mother in Boston and returning home to find the cut hair surprise.
Veronica says no tugging she felt hair loss, as police pursue a single suspect linked to a series of hair-snipping attacks since November 20. Victims include Bertha Hoffman, Esther Little, Catherine Dacey, Frances Giordian, Mary McGovern, Alice F. Burke, Alice Daley, Majorie Arnold, and Katherine Kelleher across Dorchester, East Cambridge, Somerville, and Cambridge.
The Dominion Atlantic Railway steamer Boston from Yarmouth delivered about 1100 crates of lobsters, the season’s largest shipment. Most will be sold in Boston, helping Christmas dinners and bringing substantial returns to Nova Scotia fishermen.
An elevator in the Importers and Traders building on Stone Street collapsed six floors to the basement injuring eight people, some seriously, in New York City on December 21.
Woodrow Wilson clubs in every Illinois county pledged support for the national organization backing Woodrow Wilson for President. The Illinois group will open headquarters in Chicago in January and county societies will report to that office. Resolutions urged Governor Dunne to call a special legislature session to amend the primary election law to provide for a presidential primary.
Twenty three pounds of dynamite were set off today in the Connecticut river between South Hadley Falls and Holyoke to locate the body of Mrs Charles H Davenport Sr who vanished from her home yesterday morning. No trace was found and a woods search failed. Bloodhounds have been requested from New York and another river search is planned for tomorrow.
A number of grand officers of Masons of Massachusetts held a banquet last night at the Bromfield Inn on Bromfield Street after a dispensation was granted to inaugurate a new Masonic lodge in Boston.
Vienna dispatch reports the emperor is only suffering a cold and hoarseness with good appetite and sleep. Despite alarming rumors, a reliable source says there is no reason for alarm as Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his family depart Vienna for a Christmas at their country home near Prague.
Monte Cross, ex-manager of Scranton in the New York State league, resigns to take charge of Haverhill in the New England league. The move shifts Cross from Scranton to Haverhill with the start of the new assignments.
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