Christmas Help Sent To Santa Claus Fund
The Taunton Post reports reader donations to the Santa Claus fund for poor children. Contributions include $2 from a Post reader in Exeter and $1 each from Vincent A. Galligan of Taunton and an unnamed contributor, plus a further $1 from an anonymous donor and other $1 gifts to boost the fund.
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Peter Petersen
Santa Claus
POST
Exeter
Vincent A. Galligan
Lawrence Street
Taunton
Richard Ong
Santa Claus Brightens Cambridge Family This Christmas
A Cambridge family in hard times was cheered by the Boston Post Santa Claus last night. The mother and four children will have a Christmas dinner, and Eunice Wynch 14 appeals for others to help her siblings. Santa’s appearance brought joy and gratitude, with the mother at church. The family is described as deserving.
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Cambridge
Boston Post
Eunice Wynch
Magee Street
Post
Santa Claus
Luecern
Willie
Romayne
Santa
Christmas visitors brighten Boston hospitals on Christmas Day
Holiday colors, flowers, and holly transformed hospital wards as patients in Boston received numerous gifts and endless visitors. Christmas Sunday was observed with open doors, Episcopal volunteers provide linen handkerchiefs, and each patient received some small reminder of the day.
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Boston
Episcopal Society
Ivery
Christmas program at Mass General Hospital
At Massachusetts General Hospital a day of vocal and instrumental entertainment is planned for patients. An full orchestra and several singers have volunteered to perform in wards where possible. Convalescent wards will receive Christmas dinners and tidbits. Hospital children had a Christmas tree last Saturday as charitable societies visit to distribute gifts.
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Massachusetts General Trospital
Roscommon Social Club Elects New Officers
The Roscommon Social Club met in Jacobs Hall Roxbury and elected officers for the year led by President Thomas J Ganley Vice President John Connaughton Recording Secretary Edward J Curley Financial Secretary John J Galvin Treasurer Martin Hughes and Warden Frank Mulkern. Twelve new members were initiated and ten membership applications were received.
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Roscommon Social Club
Jacobs Hall
Roxbury
Thomas J. Ganley
John Connaughton
Edward J. Curley
John J. Galvin
Martin Hughes
Frank Mulkern
Cambridge Christmas Visit Claims Mary Eaton
Mrs Mary J Eaton 82 widow of Rev Eben W Eaton of Lewiston Me died at her daughter Mrs Oliver H Durrells home 17 Dana street Cambridge after a short illness. She came to Cambridge from Lewiston to spend Christmas with her daughter and fell ill soon after arrival.
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Mary J. Eaton
Oliver H. Durrell
Dana Street
Cambridge
Eben W. Eaton
Lewiston
Eaton
Brockton man identified in fatal New Haven train incident
The unidentified man killed by a freight train near Fourth Street South Boston on Saturday night has been identified as Adam Pigiga of 160 Ames Street Brockton. Police say Pigiga is married with a family in Brockton.
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N. H
A. Pigiga
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Fourth Street
South Boston
O’donnell
Adam Pigiza
Ames Street
Brockton
Pigiga
Christmas Congregations Fill City Churches
Christmas services drew immense attendance with many churches at or near capacity. Tremont Temple spoke on God, faith, and the Christ child, urging worshippers to follow the Savior and reflect on the shepherds and wise men who found the babe in swaddling clothes.
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God
Magi
Christmas Sermon on Poverty and Charity at Tremont Temple
Rev. Dr. P. S. Henson urged compassion for the poor during Christmas, condemning wealth inequities and urging gifts to children. He warned against selfishness and hypocrisy, praising Christianity while noting societal faults and calls for reform. The message blended faith with social critique, ending in a hope for widespread goodwill.
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P. S. Henson
Tremont Temple
Wireless Christmas greetings across Navy stations
The chief of the bureau of equipment sent a Christmas message to all wireless stations. Boston received the Washington message at 8 95 last night and relayed it to Annapolis New York Newport Cape Elizabeth Beaufort and stations along the Atlantic and finally to Cuba and Porto Rico.
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Bureau of Equipment
Boston Navy Yard
Washington
Boston
Annapolis
New York Navy Yard
Newport
Cape Elizabeth
Atlantic
Beaufort
N. C
Cuba
Porto Rico
Police revived by two officers save man from gas exposure
Two Dedham street officers Flaherty and Campbell pulled Charles Hirshman from possible death by illuminating gas at his Southland home. They applied artificial respiration, revived him before Dr Bernhart arrived, and Hirshman recovered enough to be sent to the hospital. The officer rescue was commended in a letter from Dr Bernhart to Captain O'Lalor.
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Charles Oo Hirshman
Genesee Street
Southland
Hirshman
Flaherty
Campbell
Dedham Street
Bernhart
Flaherty and
O'Lalor
Crane Attacks Police Board at the People's Temple
At the People's Temple last evening Rev. Charles A. Crane fiercely arraigned the Police Board, accusing officials of winked at liquor, screen, Sabbath, 11 o'clock and schoolhouse violations. He questioned Governor-elects and former governors, urging resignations, and warned that lawlessness in high places invites broader crime.
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People’s Temple
Charles A. Crane
Police Board
Supreme Court
Preparing for War While Celebrating the Prince of Peace
The Navy Department tightens war readiness as celebrations unfold. The unprotected cruiser at Charlestown guards repairs before militia transfer. Missouri gains gun mounts and air compressors and sails January 3 with the North Atlantic squadron. Illinois advances to sea. Tennessee nears dry dock. Washington nears Camden for cleaning. New Jersey work accelerates toward March dry dock.
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Navy Department
Navy Guard
Charlestown
Illinois
Tennessee
Cramp & Sons
Washington
Camden
N. J
New Jersey
Quincy Ship Yards
Midnight Supper Feeds 200 at Union Rescue Mission
A crowd of about 200 hungry men lined up outside the Union Rescue Mission on Dover Street for a midnight feast. Christian volunteers served devilled ham sandwiches and coffee as a steady stream of visitors pressed for seconds in the busy hours past midnight. Superintendent P. E. Call led the event and organized the service.
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Union
Misson
Dover Street
P. E. Call
Irish Scholar Richard O Flynn Dies in Worcester
Richard O Flynn born February 27 1829 in Grenane Newton parish Waterford died in Worcester just before 3 PM He came to America in 1841 and organized the Independent Sons of Erin in 1856 He was a Gaelic scholar historian and temperance advocate who abstained from liquor for 50 years
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Worcester
Richard O'Flynn
Grenane
Newton
Waterford
America
Independent Sons of Erin
Tie
End duel cripples two Italians in Boston feud
In a bloody kitchen fight at 28 Fleet Street Boston two Italians, Guglielmo Scarpino and Salvatore Caparrotta, both East Boston residents, exchanged razor and jug blows over a Calabria feud. Caparrotta slashed Scarpino, who struck back with a jug, leaving both men hospitalized. A peacemaker suffered a near severed thumb as police arrived.
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Fleet Street
Francesca di Grazia
W& Fleet Street
Guglielmo Scarpino
Saratoga Street
East
Boston
Salvatore Caparrotta
Marion Street
Calabria
Italy
di Grazia
Caparrotta
Scarpino
Curley and
Becker
Station 1
Rev Dr Storrs Delivers Goodbye Sermon in Brookline
At St Pauls Church Brookline the Rev Leonard Isip Storrs D D preached a farewell sermon yesterday before a two months Europe visit. He will visit his daughter wife of Captain Bedwell who sails for India after the year in Brookline. Mrs Bedwell is a Vincent Club Boston member.
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St. Paul's Church
Brookline
Leonard Isip Storrs
Europe
Christmas at the Home for Blind Babies Roxbury
At the Home for Blind Babies in Roxbury the 16 inmates enjoyed a Christmas dinner and a vocal and instrumental concert. Six of the children are completely blind and lacking touch sensation, receiving drums horns and other instruments to brighten their day. Several well known Back Bay women connected with the home attended the Christmas offering.
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Roxbury
Back Bay
Christmas Vesper Service at Boston Y M C U
At the Boston Young Men’s Christian Union vesper service last evening the program featured Christmas music by a male quartet Arnold Proudfoot Willard Gerrish William Walker Alexander Ellis with soprano and alto and boy soprano under George Mendall Taylor. The Christmas sermon was delivered by Rev James Clement Sharp of Waban on The Gifts of God and Man’s Present Need.
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Boston Young Men’s Christian Union
Arnold S. Proudfoot
Willard P. Gerrish
William W. Walker
Alexander Ellis
Alice Taylor
Lillian Tortorella
Alfred C. McGuire
George Mendall Taylor
James Clement Sharp
Waban
Bay State Court M C O F Elect Officers for Year
Bay State Court of the Catholic Order Foresters in Chelsea Massachusetts last night elected officers for the year ahead C R John J McDougall V C R Michael J Phair recording secretary Henry J Nugent financial secretary Charles B Dolan treasurer Francis L Golden senior conductor Frederick Thompson junior conductor Francis t Asenault I S John J Farrell Co S Peter Tierney board of trustees Kh M Cashman George H Curley Jere Keating delegates to State convention John J McDougall John P Callan alternates John E Casey and George F Phair
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George H. Curley
Jere Keating
John J. McDougall
John P. Callan
John E. Casey
George F. Phair
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General Hospital
Caroline E. Dole
Earth
King’s Chapel
Holy Cross
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St. James
Harrison Avenue
St. Mary’s
North End
St. Vincent’s
Mass
Carol Services
Episcopal
Emmanuel
Newbury Street
Church of the Advent
Church of the Messiah
Gainsboro Street
St. Paul’s
Tremont Street
All Saints
Beacon Street
Christ Church
St. John’s Memorial Chapel
Salvation Army
Dr. Henson
Henson
Heaven
Shep
Man
Hydes
McCurdys
McCalls
Prince OF Peace
Missouri
Razor and Jug
England
Boston Y. M. C. U
BAY State Court
Portland
Sudbury
Prudential Supply Company
Washington St
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