Christmas Rush Brightens City Markets and Prisons
Crowded stores and decorated markets mark a busy Christmas Eve with evergreen displays and festive lights. At Charlestown the prison prepares a pork dinner for about 80 inmates, with warden Bridges defending inmate care while recounting large rations and regular meals. teachers and volunteers bring gifts to children and hearing impaired students receive dolls and candy from Miss Dolly Brooks.
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General Bridges
Charlestown
Bridges
Ridges
Deputy Allen
Grammer
Dolly Brooks
West Medford
Horace Mann School For the Deaf
Christmas rush at express offices and post office
The piece describes crowded express and post office lines as Christmas approaches. Postmaster Thomas warns mailings should occur by Wednesday to ensure delivery. Banks report strong demand for five and ten dollar gold pieces as gifts, while stores and vendors offer scores of toys, mottoes, and novelty items for the season.
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Express
Thomas
Philadelphia
Christmas Preparations Across City In Institutions
Inmates at Charles Street Jail and South Boston House of Correction await turkey dinners tomorrow. The city will deliver Christmas gifts to children's institutions including Marcella Street Home Parental School for Truants and Absentees and the reform school on Rainsford Island. City officials handle presents for children and churches plan festive services with elaborate decorations and special music in Catholic and other churches.
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Charles Street
House of Correction
South Boston
Santa Claus
Marcella Street
Rainsford Island
Christmas Vacation Grips Boston Schools
Boston schools closed for Christmas with teachers and pupils joining in holiday activities. The day centered on a grand Christmas party with something over 80,000 children participating in the festive observance.
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Boston
Christmas Shadows and Child Neglect Cases Stir Boston
In South Boston six neglected children aged 2 to 12 were removed to the Harrison avenue home after Agent Mann found them in a cold, unheated dwelling. Mary Malloy 22 and a 7 year old girl were caught shoplifting in a department store. Malloy received three months at the House of Correction while the child stayed with a children’s charity agent. Police and Associated Charities leaders warn that charity fraud and demand for aid have reached a crisis level.
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Boston
Agent Mann
Thomas Coyle
H Street
Mary
Martin
Agnes
Jane
Catharine
Thomas
William Appleton
Appleton
Mary Malloy
East Providence
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Associated Charities
Street beggars under plain clothes police watch
After Street Beggars, Patrolmen Nixon and Patterson detailed as plain clothes men to observe beggars. They report to the Associated Charities for action. Superintendent Eldridge says no broad crackdown, only an investigation to direct charitable money to best use.
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Nixon
Patterson
Associated Charities
Eldridge
Gamma Delta Christmas Spread At Bb. A
Gamma Delta XMAS was celebrated yesterday by the girls of Bb. A. in the chapel with round tables and dainty decorations. Miss Nellie Hill spoke as president, with Miss Margaret Tyacke and Dr. Marshall Perrin as speakers. Hostesses were Miss Sadie Pickour and Miss Aimee Sears.
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Gamma Delta
Bb. A
Cassie Souther
Mabel Moore
Miss Hood
Nellie Hill
Margaret Tyacke
Marshall Perrin
Sadie Pickour
Aimee Sears
Borden P. Bawne
Taylor
Untington
Fall
Malvina Bennett
Marion
Katherine Chamberlain
Elizabeth
Rutan
Neva Small
Miss Cooley
Miss Whitman
Miss Barnes
Christmas High Mass at St Marys Church
The Christmas mass at St Marys Church begins at 10 30 with a full musical program including Beethoven Ave Maria Tantum Ergo and Adeste Fideles The Rev Owen Doherty will sing the solemn mass and celebrate his first high mass after recent ordination The church presents its traditional decor with Rev M F Byrne S J deacon and others assisting Father Doherty is a North End native and Boston College graduate ready to celebrate with friends.
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Arcadell
Aebling
Handel
Christmas Music Services At First Baptist Church
The First Baptist Church on Commonwealth Avenue will hold Christmas services with a morning quartet and an evening performance from The Messiah. The choir is enlarged for the occasion with principal solos by Helen Wright, Jennie Patrick Walker, Gertrude Edmands, F H Reed, Ernestine Fish, Frederick Smith, and Arthur Beresford directed by Norman McLeod.
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First Baptist Church
Commonwealth Avenue
Nathan E. Wood
Helen Wright
Jennie Patrick Walker
Gertrude Edmands
F. H. Reed
Ernestine Fish
Frederick Smith
Arthur Beresford
Norman McLeod
Christmas Services Mark Roslindale Anniversary
Sacred Heart Church Roslindale stages a Christmas program for its fifth anniversary with solemn masses at 5 30 am and 10 30 am led by Reverends Connolly Norris and Cummins delivering the anniversary sermon. Helen Burke directs a expanded choir for carols and special masses including Batt and Gounod settings.
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Roslindale
Father Cummins
Sacred Heart Church
Edward Connolly
Thomas Norris
Helen M. Burke
Battman
Gounod
Crib
Henry O’meara
Ruskin’s Ex Wife Lady Millais Dies in London Cancer
London reports Lady Millais widow of Ruskin and later Sir John Millais has died after a throat cancer struggle. The piece recounts Ruskin’s sacrifice in letting her wed Millais and his subsequent fall into mental illness, his Brantwood estate, and society’s evolving view of divorce.
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London
Lady Millais
John Ruskin
Sir John Millais
The
Royal Academy
Sir John
Princess Louise
Marchioness of
John Ruskin and Millais and the Pre-Raphaelite circle
Euphemia Chalmers Grey of Bowerswell, a beauty linked to Ruskin, marries John Millais after a brief courtship. Ruskin supports the Pre-Raphaelite painters, while Millais, a prodigy at seventeen, is described as handsome and influential, loved by many women and rising to fame in his early twenties.
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Euphemia Chalmers Grey
Bowerswell
Perth
John Ruskin
Ruskin
Mystic
D. G. Rossetti
Holman Hunt
Millais
Oxford
Hincksey Road
Academy
Rossetti
Unbounded Liberality Led to Wealth Loss and Hardship
The article describes a person whose vast generosity drained his funds. Although book revenue once covered about half his total income, excess giving ultimately left him penniless. The narrative notes his long-standing philanthropy and support for various causes.
R H Whites Show Windows Delight Shoppers on Washington
A newspaper feature highlights R H White Company show windows on Washington Street. The handkerchief window uses mirrored arches and phantom extensions to create a 90 foot illusion with 9900 handkerchiefs. Santa figures guard each window with holly borders.
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Washington Street
R. H. White Company
Fivery
Santa Claus
Robbery on Swett Street Strikes Local Sailor
Albert Johnson a Swedish sailor 23 says three inebriated men robbed him on Swett Street near the railroad bridge last night. He entered Station 6 on Broadway South Boston and stated he was robbed after being struck in the face. he had just received $70 from a vessel's voyage.
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Aibert Johnson
Sweden
Broadway
Boston
Enright
Swett Street
Johnson
Pope urges peace and papal independence at Vatican
In Rome on December 23 the Pope addresses Catholic dignitaries at the Vatican, condemning conflict between the state and the Holy See. He notes most Italians oppose coercion and favor papal rights, seeks just state reparation, and blesses attendees including twenty three cardinals.
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Rome
Vatican
Holy See
Papacy
Italy
Labor Notes from St Stephen's Hall and Engineer's Hall
The Roofers Protective Union met in St Stephen's Hall electing George C. Coyle as president and J Fitzgerald as vice president along with other officers. A slate of delegates was chosen for Building Trades and Central Labor Union. At Engineer's Hall Local Union No 7 initiated nine new candidates and elected J H Hazlett as president with others in leadership. A lecture and educational feature was approved.
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Roofers’ Protective Union
St. Stephen’s Hall
George C. Coyle
J. Fitzgerald
J. Renton
M. Morrissey
ID. Scannel
F. Devose
J. A. Haley
B. Hood
Jeremiah J. Donovan
Building Trades
Central Labor Union
National Union of Steam Engineers
A. F. of
Engineer’s Hall
Washington Street
J. H. Hazlett
B. W. Whelan
W. F. Detheredge
Bourke Cochran Lecture for Working Boys Home
The Hon. W Bourke Cochran will lecture at the Boston Theatre on January 2 to aid the Working Boys Home. Tickets go on sale at the theatre from Monday. The Ladies' Friend Society plans a Christmas tree with donations welcome from members listed, plus entertainment by boys from Newton Highlands and the Boston home.
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W Bourke Cochran
Boston
Ladies’ Friend Society
James Ellis
Glassett
John H. Cochran
A. M. Nolan
Grace L. Tucker
J. English
Miss English
Christmas Gift Ideas From The American Wringer Co
A Christmas gift guide highlights life and labor saving devices like the No 1 Eclipse ball bearing wringer and Bissell carpet sweeper. The American Wringer Company advertises repairs and shows a shop at 77 and 79 Franklin Street.
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American Wringer Company
Franklin Street
Foster Comments On Behring Sea Award And Payment
General John W. Foster said he was not surprised by the $426,000 settlement as Cleveland declared it just. He noted the commission method would satisfy the country and believed Congress would provide the payment, with McKinley likely to back the appropriation. Foster emphasized acceptance by Canada and mutual good faith.
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Washington
John W. Foster
Behring Sea Affairs
Cleveland
Foster
Japan
Congress
McKinley
Giant swindle of the decade shocks New York arrests
New York police move to indict thirteen people linked to the E S Dean gang for grand larceny and conspiracy to defraud. The scheme, tied to the Dean Kellogg company, allegedly robbed 39 009 victims nationwide of more than 7 million dollars through dubious pools and investments. Civil suits target brokers and associates connected to the firm.
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E. A. Dean Company
New England
Dean-Kellogg
Equitable
Boston
Wall Street
Chicago
New York
Dean Kellesg ~Ang
Samuel Keller
West One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street
Alfred R. Goslin
Hotel St. George
Brooklyn
Harry D. Kyle
Theodore W. Myers
Theodore W. Myers & Co
J. F. Barrett & Co
Chicago Board of Trade
A. J
Obituary notices for Callaghan Maree and Hall in Massachusetts
Funeral notices from South Boston Jamaica Plain and Cambridge announce Dennis Callaghan age unknown from 75 Peter Parley street to St Thomas arch and services, William Maree 63, with services at St Thomas's arch. Lewis Hall dies in Cambridge after last year with service at residence 1481 Cambridge Street on Sunday at 2 30 p m.
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Callaghan
South Boston
Dennis Callaghan
Magee
Jamaica Plain
William Maree
Peter Parley Street
St. Thomas's Arch
Hall
Cambridge
Lewis Hall
Cambridge Street
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Antinous
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Titian
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