Christmas Meal and Concord Christmas Traditions Recalled
A Boston charity fed 150 horses with a Christmas supper, while Frank B. Sanborn recounts Concord memory of old time Christmas. He recalls Louisa May Alcott and the Wax Works tableaux, communal dances, and democratic schooling with Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne families shaping festive custom.
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Santa Claus
New England
Louisa Olcott
Emerson, Thoreau, Ripley and Channing
Concord
Jolly St. Nick
Post
Frank B. Sanborn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louisa May Alcott
Henry David Thoreau
Dr. Ripsey
Ellery Channing
Harvard College
Louisa
Bronson Alcott
Anna
May
Anna Alcott
John Pratt
Boston
Pratt Farm
John
Pratts
Alfred Whitman
University of Kansas
Louisa Alcott
Laurie
Whitman
George Curtis
Alcotts
Freed by Confession of Convict in NC Hills
In a dilapidated North Carolina hillside shack last night four patched stockings hung by the fireplace. A mother, worn by grief, told her children there would be no joy on Christmas Day as they climbed to bed in the loft.
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New Hampshire
Concord
Cambridge
Concord Public Library
Old Middlesex Coffee House
Colonel Holbrook
Cape Cod
Louisa Alcott
Louisa
North Carolina
St. Nicholas
Mama
St. Nick
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Comet
Cupid
Clement Clark Moore
Animal Rescue League Feeds Drivers and Horses Citywide
In the market district teams fed horses and provided hot coffee and sandwiches to cab drivers and wagon drivers along Tremont Street and Maneuil Hall route. Over 100 drivers received warm drinks and food as the League wagon toured the South End Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, praised for its thoughtfulness led by president Mrs Huntington Smith.
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Touraine
Tremont Street
Maneuil Hall Market
League
South End
Roxbury
Jamaica Plain
Animal Rescue League
Huntington Smith
Taft Inspects Gatun Dam and Canal Zone
President Taft visited the Panama Canal Atlantic division and the new dock at Colon, then met ex-presidents Federico Boyd Rodolfo Chiari and Carlos Mendosa on local issues. Four hundred sailors from USS Delaware will travel through the canal zone by special train on Sunday.
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Panama
Taft
Atlantic
Panama Canal
Colon
Gatun Dam
Panama Republic
Federico, Boyd
Rodolfo Chiari
Carlos Mendosa
United States
Delaware
Canal Zone
Alderman Hii and a Mistaken Assailant in Cambridge
William Danehy Cambridge Board of Aldermen member was assaulted outside his business on Broadway. He received treatment for a bad cut near the right eye at Cambridge Relief Hospital. The alleged assailant, Arthur Sullivan, claims a mistaken identity linked to a domestic dispute.
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Wiliam Danehy
Cambridge Board of Aldermen
Broadway
Cambridge
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Arthur Sullivan
Sullivan
Harvard President and Mrs Lowell Dedicate New Home
The new official home of President and Mrs Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University was formally dedicated last night in the presence of 200 students unable to return for Christmas. The couple, assisted by about 560 professors and their wives, hosted the event and introduced the students to the mansion, which is said to have cost 80,000.
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Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Lowell
Largest drydock in world approved for South Boston
Port Directors voted to authorize a $3,000,000 drydock on Commonwealth lands in South Boston. It will be the largest and finest of its kind globally. Cunard, White Star and Hamburg American lines offered to pay $50,000 annually for 20 years if the dock is completed.
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Commonwealth Lands
Boston
Cunard
White Star
Hamburg American Lines
Large Drydock to Welcome World’s Biggest Vessels
Port directors plan a new drydock capable of housing the world’s largest ships. Current liners bound for New York and Atlantic ports must be drydocked abroad due to insufficient dock size. Chief Engineer Hodgdon has orders to finish plans and estimates for the facility.
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New York
Atlantic
Hodgdon
Gifts Of One Dollar To Mills Children In Decatur
In Dec. 24 report from Webster headlined by Mrs. Mabel Hunt Slater twenty five hundred children aged 1 to 15 in the mills of S Slater & Sons Inc received gifts of one dollar each. The bills survived a fire when an express car caught fire yesterday. One North Village family with ten children received ten dollars.
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Webster
S. Slater & Sons, Inc
Mabel Hunt Slater
North Village
Parsons Elected Amoskeag Co Head
Manchester New Hampshire December 24 At a meeting of Amoskeag Company directors today Theophilus Parsons of Boston was chosen president of this the largest cotton manufactory in the world to succeed C W Amory.
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Manchester
N. H
Amoskeag Company
Theophilus Parsons
Boston
C. W. Amory
Visit From St. Nicholas Poem Presented as Festive Rhyme
The narrator recounts a Christmas Eve scene with stockings hung, children sleeping, and St. Nicholas arriving by sleigh. The elflike figure fills stockings, delivers toys, and departs with a cheerful farewell, ending with a Merry Christmas to all.
Gold and short days as Christmas gifts
Portsmouth workers receive 2500 in gold as Christmas gifts at Morley Button Manufacturing Co. The firm announces a shift to a fifty hour work week starting January 1, with a half holiday on Saturdays. Plant previously operated fifty five hours weekly, and the change is voluntary by management.
Quaker Outfielder Paskert Stricken With Typhoid Fever
Dad Paskert star outfielder for the Philadelphia National League team is seriously ill at home in Cleveland with typhoid fever. The case was reported today from Cleveland Ohio.
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Cleveland, CO
Dad" Paskert
Mother Reunites With Cleared Circus Worker This Christmas
In North Carolina a mother with four children celebrates Christmas as her husband Charles Luckey is freed after a Massachusetts jury finds him innocent of manslaughter. The case hinged on James J. Gaughan’s confession about a bottle causing Henry Day’s death at a Barnum & Bailey circus fight. Assistant District Attorney Lavelle drops the case, noting Luckey’s innocence. Luckey receives travel funds and toys from his attorney and a court officer helps clothe him for travel as he heads home.
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Ripleys
Dr. Ripley
Waltham
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Emersons
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
Ripley
Daniel Ripley
Boston
Dan
Alabama
North Carolina
Charles Luckey
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Henry Davis
Luckey
Massachusetts
James J. Gaughan
Masachusetts Reformatory
Henry Day
Lavelle
Gaughan
Concord
South Station
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John Crowley
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Tremont Row
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Walden Pond Association
Thoreau
Walden Pond
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William
Munich
Miss Bregmer
Hans Christian Andersen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Julian
Ana
Rose
George Bartlett
University OF Virginia Man
University of Virginia
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Washington
Joseph Wall
Teneriffe
America
John Brown
Easton
Penn
Reeder
Kansas
Franklin Pierce
Brown
Martin Conway
Maryland
Conway
Philadelphia
Wall
Frank Higginson
Alexander Clark
Henry James
Syracuse
Una Hawthorne
Samuel Storrow Higginson
Storrow
Una
Argentine Republic
Sarmiento
Samuel Hoar
George Frisbie Hoar
Rockwood Hoar
Hill
Bradford
Alexander Hamilton
France
Hamilton
A. H
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Big Gatun
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Hii
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Amoskeag CO
Portsmouth
Morley Button Manufacturing Co
Outfielder Paskert
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