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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1911
Page
13
A Boston post office still holds a few hundred Christmas gifts awaiting pickup. The letter carrier delivered half a million delayed presents yesterday in four hours along with letters and remittances, blaming recipients for late mailing.
The South and West saw heavy mailing on Saturday causing some delay and a portion of mail to be postponed until today. Postmaster Mansfield credited good weather and most of all the clerks and carriers for handling Boston’s largest Christmas mail on time and thanked the service staff publicly.
Mayor Fitzgerald spent a lively Christmas distributing about 300 baskets of chickens and fixins to needy families via Salvation Army. He delivered gifts to friends by auto and enjoyed time with family after a long day, receiving a warm Christmas telegram from Sir Thomas Lipton for the Misses Rose and Agnes.
The Boston lodge of Elks opened its Somerset street clubhouse to 600 homeless people from the North and West Ends for a turkey dinner and gifts. White and Black, Jew and Gentile shared food and music in a spirit of charity, with Santa Claus and a vaudeville act concluding the event and mitten and glove distributions to attendees.
The women prisoners at Charles Street jail gathered a Christmas tree yesterday afternoon. It brought many useful gifts to about 60 inmates. A Christmas dinner was served Sunday, though the celebration was modest.
In a noon meal of beef stew, bread, and coffee, women received a concert in the jail corridors followed by a gift distribution before being returned to their cells.
The St. Catherine's Church sanctuary choir of Somerville, led by Benedict J. FitzGerald, marched through streets on Christmas Eve to serenade patients at Somerville Hospital with carols, aided by eight candle bearers.
A Christmas Day meal was served yesterday at the Chardon Street home for 40 mothers and children who otherwise would not have had dinner. The piging hot roast pork with squash and vegetables, plum pudding, nuts, raisins and candy delighted attendees. The afternoon featured Christmas songs, games, and toys for the children.
In Flint Michigan on December 25 Z Tucka was shot in the left lung and killed while five companions looked on as a gun trick went wrong. Fred Matz offered the gun. when he showed it was unloaded a discharge occurred. Matz was arrested then released after inquiry.
Indianapolis December 5 Twelve hundred Christmas letters arrive for Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley who has been ill for months. He cannot answer due to loss of use of his right arm and hopes to try writing with his left hand if possible. The notes include verse and well wishes from unknown friends.
Eight steam trawler arrivals reported with pounds of mixed fish at the wharf including Foam 55000 Cynthia 70000 Buema 70000 Morning Star 44000 Virginia 18000 Priscilla 11500 Raymah 65000 and W H Reed 5000. The Alice and Josie Phebe will add large trips today and Tivives the first of three new steamships reached Long wharf yesterday awaiting permanent route shift next August to West Indies and Central America ports.
A passenger on a West Indies excursion sustained a head injury from fireworks aboard his vessel and is recovering with crutches. Another passenger, Joseph Perry, sought treatment for a broken collar bone. The Tivives will unload bananas and fruit then sail to New York for a January 6 departure. The Leyland liner Winifredian from Liverpool arrived late, delaying 49 cabin passengers, while East Boston docked at 8 am after a weather delay. Various ships decorated in port and a festive day included Chinese crew from the St Patrick and multiple steamers from American and British ports enjoying a holiday in harbor.
Daily almanac notes sunrise at 7 12 am and sunset at 4 17 pm with a 9 hour 5 minute day length High water and rise of tide listed for morning and afternoon with eight foot four inch and eight foot eight inch measurements Indicates a compact coastal reference for mariners and sailors
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