Christmas Church Services Across Cities Highlight Seasonal Music
Churches and organizations celebrate Christmas with solemn ceremonies and rich musical programs. Episcopal and Catholic congregations feature modern composers, choirs, and notable organists. service times vary by church, including high masses at Church of the Immaculate Conception and Cathedral of the Holy Cross, vesper services, and a special 50-voice vested choir at Trinity Church. Diverse choirs and soloists perform Bach, Gounod, Venite, and Advent and Christmas works across Saint John the Baptist, Our Saviour Roslindale, the Lithuanian Church, and the Brimmer Street Advent Church, with orchestral accompaniment directed by John J. Burns and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Immaculate Conception
W. G. R. Mullan
George E. Whiting
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Handel
Capport
Falkenstein
Obehoffer
Gounod
J. T. Whalen
Trinity Church
Copley Square
Sanford
Barnby and Eyre
Wallace Goodrich
Bach
Purcell
Arthur Foote
St. John the Baptist
North Bennet Street
Cirillo
Adam
A. Guilmant
Marie de Avellar
Marion Costa
Amelia Sears
Emma Fernandez
Joseph Grace
William P. le Suer
Elizabeth L. Gaffney
Church of Our Saviour
Roslindale
McFarren
Monk Tn C
Vincent
Shawmut Avenue
Lachner
Haydn
Novello
Meyerbeer
Elizabeth Slattery
Minnie Moone
Francis McQueeney
Margaret McCarthy
Joseph Collins
Edward Machugh
Margaret A. Dowd
John J. Burns
Salvation Army to Feed 16500 Poor in Boston Today
The Salvation Army plans Christmas dinners for 14000 poor, with 4000 dining at Mechanics' Hall and 10000 meals sent to homes. Two sittings at the hall run 10 30 to 12 30, clothing distribution begins at 8, and a 64 foot tree will distributed gifts to 3000+ children. About 7500 to 8000 dollars have been raised to fund the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army
Mechanics’ Hall
Mechanics
Mechanics’ Building
Boston
William Evans
Richard Evans
Army
P. A. Collins
Dr. Crane
People's Temple
Volunteers Prepare Christmas Aid for Boston Needy
Volunteers of America plan a day of aid in Boston with 1000 baskets of provisions costing about $1 each, clothing donations, and a Christmas tree for poor children at Pleasant Street. About 50 volunteers and 50 helpers to serve from 8 to 11 p m at four headquarters, with tickets issued at Pleasant Street and Park Square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Volunteers of
America
New England
Ant Street
Pleasant Street
Park Square
Santa Claus
Greater
South Boston
South End
Stock Exchange Christmas Pranks Amid Piano and Tin Horns
Brokers on the stock exchange celebrated with pranks before Christmas. A grand piano filled the hall, songs and classical airs followed, but tin horns and wild cheers disrupted quotes and the day ended as brokers wrapped up the session and left.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stock Exchange
Dolly Gray
Noted Boxers and Toledo Mayor to Address Salvation Dinner
At the Toledo Salvation Army dinner for the poor, James J. Corbett and John L. Sullivan, along with Mayor Jones and the Rev. F. D. Kelsey, will speak to diners. Sullivan and Corbett are appearing at a local theatre and volunteered as waiters, though the army asked them to give speeches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Sullivan
J. J. Corbett
Mayor Jones
Toledo
Salvation Army
James J. Corbett
F. D
Kelsey
Sullivan
Corbett
Army
Making Children Glad During Christmas Season
The Children's Aid Society plans gifts for up to 300 children across New England in homes or with families. The Little Wanderers Home on West Newton Street, district nurses from Associated Charities, the Franciscan Sisters fete led by Rev. Father Ubaldus, and an entertainment at Horace Mann School for deaf mutes on Newbury Street all feature Christmas activities to brighten lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children's Aid Society
New England
Little Wanderers
West Newton S'Reet
Associated Charities
Father Ubaldus
Horace Mann
Newbury Street
Christmas Day Afloat and Ashore Off Boston Harbor
Sailors across foreign and domestic ships in Boston Harbor celebrate Christmas with decorations, sermons, and meals aboard ships and at Sailors Home, Seamen’s Union, and Bethel missions. Turkeys, plum duff, and grog featured. crews as well as officers honor the day aboard Cunard for Liverpool, and numerous steamers sail or remain in port for holiday observances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Thomas Potter
Altonia
Liverpool
Dorothy
Newport News
Chattahoochee
H. F. Dimock
Old Dominion
New York
Juniata
Baltimore
Admiral
Farragut
Jamaica
Sailors’ Home
Catholic Seamen’s Union
Charlestown
Seamen's Bethel
Hanover Street
St. Mary’s
Marginal Street
Fiske’s Wharf
Montenegro
Newcastle
Eng
Patria
Miramichi
Louisburg
Priestfield
Iribal
Turkey
Kansas
Cambrian
London
Bothnia
Shields
Hexham
Gena
Minnetonka
Newport
Ing
Dominion
Colonian
Steward’s Department
Queenstown
Sachem
Murdoch
Bostonian
Foot
Copenhagen
Needles
Norse
Coningsby
Mobile
Two Dorchester Boys Help Deliver Christmas Mail
An overburdened Dorchester letter carrier enlisted two 12 year old boys to help carry a large sack on Stoughton Street. The youths, entrusted with portions of the mail, aided the carrier by shouldering the sack while he managed the rest of the parcels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Dorchester
Stoughton Street
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Bosting
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Volunteers of America
Sommer
Philadelphia
J. J. Keppel
the Volunteers of America
Salvation Army and Volunteers of America
Elite Studio
San Francisco
Sunset Studio
Annie Pearson
I Ingie
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Bill Bailey
Mr. Dooley
Mary Gray
Ie Anza
Sylvania
Caledonian
Assyria
Hamburg
Osborne
Ashanti
Kildona
Fitzclarence
St. Andrews
Antwerp
Armenian
Sagamore
Liv
Erpool
Columbian
Daltonhall
Rotterdam
Manica
Calcutta
Mancunia
Nicaragua
Admiral Dewey
Port Anton O
Trentham Hall
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