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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1905
Page
5
Towle & Fitzgerald distributed a $25,000 Christmas gift among 30 employees of their Postoffice Square banking house. The envelope for the office boy drew a warning to avoid investing. he was urged to stay out of the market while others debated pooling.
The Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children held its annual Christmas tree event with about 200 pupils at 241 St. Botolph Street. The youngsters gathered around a brightly lit tree, sang hymns, cheered, and received presents as part of a short, informal program.
Mrs David A Codman returns to Newton home with her two children Harold and Dorothy after a week away. She declines to reveal where she went, and her return is sudden. The children are glad and hopeful for a merry Christmas.
The Post cheerfully notes the receipt of one dollar from O. B. who may rest assured his gift has brought joy to a young heart.
In Providence Rhode Island a second explosion in a week sparked a mass stampede of women workers in the Enterprise building at Eddy and Fountain streets. About 20 fainted and a man was burned as losses reached around 1000 dollars. The Board of Police Commissioners may vote against licensing a repeat Christmas Day prophecy spectacle.
Superintendent Martin said Christmas would be observed in the usual manner with mince pie and apple sauce added to the roast pork bill. Dances in the women’s department and open-door privileges will be allowed across all rooms to ease restraint. He noted a gold medal award from the Lewis & Clark exposition in Portland to Boston’s penal institutions for Work and Results, following a St. Louis medal last year.
In Louisville, Miss Stella Rescher won 6000 in damages after a street car collided with a Henderson route train on Illinois Central tracks. The verdict apportions 4000 to Illinois Central and 2000 to Louisville Railway. Henderson line exonerated. The trial followed a cross‑year collision that injured over 20 people.
Lawrence officials announce Daniel F. Kiley the clerk of the board will take a two month vacation due to long standing health problems.
In Taunton a 20-year-old Ludwiga Kapinos was fined 20 dollars for cutting a Christmas tree on Theodore Marvel’s grounds. Her brother-in-law paid the fine, while many residents offered to cover it. Police reports say she was later released, prompting communal relief and joy.
At a lavish Asbury Park dinner a actress dominated the scene while steel magnate Corey flirted with Ma belle Gilman. Mrs Corey, seated amid champagne and Paris chansons, finally rose with other women in protest as the night’s excesses climaxed.
Judge Elbert H. Gary, head of the steel trust, married Mrs. Alexander Stevenson Scott in New York less than four months after her final divorce. Mrs. Scott, 20 years his junior, once worked at Arthur Tooth’s art store and co founded a $1000000 art firm with a colleague. He dominates major financial institutions and the $1.3 billion steel trust.
Lawrence dispatch reports that George B. Thomas, formerly general secretary of the Fitchburg Y M C A, began duties as the local association's general secretary yesterday.
The funeral of George H. Conley, late superintendent of Boston public schools, took place at St Marys Church of the Assumption in Brookline. Prominent New England educators attended a solemn high mass. Honorary pallbearers and Boston school masters served, with burial at Holyhood Cemetery.
A five year old boy named William Mahoney sat on a Summer Street curb with a performing monkey and a bundle, showing no worry as crowds gathered. He told Patrolman Rowell he came to town with his mother, later found to live at 70 Hudson Street. His father arrived and claimed him at the station.
In Albany New York today Fred S Harlow about 50 and his wife about the same age are dead in a suspected mutual murder suicide in their Saratoga rooms. A coroner’s letter suggests Harlow shot his wife then killed their dog before shooting himself. He had no regular employment.
Medford, Dec. 22. The caboose of a freight shifted and fell on the inward bound track near Tufts College station, delaying southern division traffic for about three hours. The 6:15 p.m. express was flagged at West Medford. A wrecking crew from Boston cleared the track after over an hour. brakeman John Carlsbad was slightly injured.
Albert Atwood of Waltham sues the Weavers' Union to recover 50 dollars claiming a loan to the union. The Waltham Savings Bank is named as trustee. P. J. Duane represents the plaintiff.
Clement Rondeau began a six month sentence in Lawrence refusing to name the man alleged to have aided in 11 robberies here. He faces larceny charges for items valued at 50 dollars taken from Mrs. Annie O'Brien's boarding house.
A man who could not identify himself or his residence was found dazed near Dover and Tremont streets, claiming at times to be Alexander Williams or Albert Simpson. He sustained a head injury and may need skull surgery. He listed multiple addresses including 84 West Cedar Street and 8 and 36 South Russell Street.
In Wooster Ohio Judge Mason overruled the motion for a new trial in the Taggart divorce. Mrs Taggart seeks appeal to the Circuit Court. Three judges were fined fifteen dollars each for contempt, with collection suspended pending circuit action.
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