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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
8
Santa taps the Boston Post to distribute gift tops to 1200 newsboys before dawn. The glass spinners boast twenty tricks and come in wooden boxes with cards of merry Christmas. The scene echoes a department store rush as four small merchants claim the final tops for happy recipients.
Sophie Maloof, a dark-eyed Syrian girl, recounts being pressured into an unwanted marriage after a New York abduction. Her family and police allege Jadour Nadre and relatives abducted her. three relatives posted $1000 bail. Sophie rejects marriage to Joseph Maloof and insists on freedom and no more lovers.
The preliminary joint note from the powers was delivered to China as Li Hung Chang could not attend. Prince Ching presented the credentials and promised to convey the note to the Emperor, seeking a speedy reply as China desires peace and prosperity. A Paris despatch notes ministers met at Senor de Cologan’s residence and Prince Ching accepted the note, with Ta Hung Chang ill and excused.
Alfred Harmsworth argues in the North American Review that newspapers remain clumsy. He envisions a future with compact, indexed papers and a few dominant journals through global networks and centralization. He praises French literary quality and US press leadership, urging nonpartisan public will representation.
Boston police will search for Pat Crowe, charged with kidnapping young Cudahy in Omaha. A telegram from Omaha officials describes Crowe, 5 feet 10 inches, 160 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes, nervous, with sandy beard, possibly in new clothes and traveling by steamship. A $25,000 reward awaits arresting him.
Omaha police report conflicting clues in the Eddie Cudahy case. A bay pony with white star, left at Mrs Mack’s barn, matches the abductor’s description. A lantern used for ransom was recovered near Omaha with ribbons intact, reinforcing theories about the second robber.
The case of Alice Scott, arrested Monday evening for shoplifting, puzzles police. Described as a well meaning girl driven to theft to buy Christmas presents for her siblings, she says it was a first offence and acted on impulse. Bail posted. police investigate her past as the matron refuses to identify her.
The Massachusetts Anti Double Taxation League mourns the deaths of three directors, Alanson W. Beard of Boston, James S. Grinnell of Greenfield, and William Minot, Boston, all long-time public welfare advocates. The executive committee honors their service and notes their shared aim to reform the Commonwealth’s tax system. Beard died August 27, Grinnell September 4, and Minot November 30.
The German embassy presented to the State Department the claims of German subjects for damages linked to the Spanish American War and the insurgency that preceded it. Other governments also have claims, which may be held in abeyance until Cuba becomes independent.
A lamp toppled and started a fire at Martin Kelly's residence on 76 Longwood Avenue yesterday morning. The blaze caused about $200 in damage before firefighters brought it under control.
A framed Christmas gift shows two white doves with olive wreaths, one labeled Innes and the other Dyar, and a car reading Hon Perlie A. Dyar chairman of the Board of Aldermen 1901. The piece marks Ward 10 peace between Innes and Dyar factions and the election of Major Dyar to the board.
Representative Charles H. Adams proposes state supervised caucuses on a single ballot or unified ballot options to curb multi caucus voting. Charles R. Saunders backs primary elections and direct nomination ideas. Debate includes enrolled lists, property assessors elections, and voting machine standards amid contest among machine suppliers.
Department of Agriculture reports experiments with Sumatra tobacco near Hartford show yield and quality rivaling imported leaf. One acre could net over 900 dollars profit, versus about 260 dollars under traditional Connecticut valley methods. Savings to farmers projected at 6 to 7 million dollars annually.
Prisoners across Boston’s facilities enjoyed extended dinners, extra yard time, and entertainments for Christmas. At Charles Street Jail inmates ate turkey, while Cambridge and Deer Island houses hosted variety acts and self-made performances. Eastman the Harvard instructor and others received messages, with Sheriff Seavey expressing special interest.
Washington and Brattice Streets designers and makers of Superior ready-to-wear clothing gathered for Christmas. Men left the shop for yard games like baseball and football while others played leap frog. Pictured prisoners exchanged gifts and outside deposits funded extra delicacies for over 400 inmates. the prison population stood around 80.
Alf Grant recalls a Boston comedian performance before about 1100 prisoners at Charlestown State Prison. The crowd cheered through a long show with acts by Wiggin, Daly and Tate, Alexander, Howard, Meyers and Davis, Robinson and Speck, and Bowman. The audience’s sympathy rose during The Blue and the Gray and The Harvest Days Are Over, ending with prisoners sharing handshakes after the show.
James Montgomery of Woodcliff Street, while playing Santa, leaped from a porch window to escape his children on Christmas Eve. He landed with a dislocated right shoulder and was treated at City Hospital. Police reportedly claim he jumped from a third story window, which Montgomery disputes.
Clergymen within fifty miles of New York are summoned for a mass meeting to discuss a Twentieth Century Crusade gospel drive in Greater New York and surrounding areas. The plan envisions local, district, and central committees to direct the national campaign and mailing of appeals. William Phillips Hall, head of the national committee, says Protestant churches are aligning with the movement.
George Gould and Edith Kingdon host about 100 guests at Georgian Court New York. The program includes dinners dances golf hunts auto tours and in bad weather equestrian drills in the private casino arena. Notable attendees include Mrs Stuyvesant Fish the Duke of Newcastle and several Hewitts Colliers and Barrymores.
New York reports deny that Melville Hillis the secretary to the Duke of Manchester was discharged by Mr Zimmerman. Ellis arrived from Cincinnati and confirmed a prior suit involving a New York woman who claimed he used her words to create music and not paid. He acknowledged a $13 settlement and denied leaving the duke.
A leaking water main at West Springfield and Washington streets last evening caused widespread pedestrian annoyance and briefly threatened to flood the street. Patrolmen found the leak and a watchman was posted as repairs were delayed, while percolating water created a miniature flood but no damage was reported.
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