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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
11
Hundreds of admirers applaud Mollie Waddy and Tony as they perform in the Franklin Park elephant house at 3 p m yesterday. The trio entertains with tricks from their famed repertoire plus new acts including a table cutting during their Christmas dinner display.
The Boston Post reports Christmas dinner for all Franklin Park zoo animals. Elephants in the ze received bread apples carrots and peanuts. Bears polar deer elk biscen ostriches lions and monkeys also enjoyed special holiday meals with mutton fish and fruits.
Visitors watch animals enjoy the holiday feast as the Chacma baboon dances for joy and monkeys crave fruit. Lizzie the pig-tailed ape waves and greets a keeper while Mona monkeys and Sacred Cows settle into their new cages. Birds receive modest rations, and feeding stations brim with grain for wild wildlife around Scarboro Pond.
Paris December 25 AP says the general peace conference will likely assemble in over three weeks. Officials expect no statements yet on governments represented or qualification tests. Technical experts from major powers have studied the issues, with negotiations to follow President Wilson’s return from London. Recognition talks include Czecho Slovakia and other fragments seeking state status.
More than 200 representatives from free nations and soon liberated states joined the postponed Christmas Eve procession on Beacon Hill. Thousands of citizens watched and later sang carols on the steps of the State House under the League of Free Nations after rain postponed the event.
The postponed program shortened the parade and canceled carol singing at the Boston Common yet the event remained a novel spectacle. Japanese education delegates joined, helped sing national anthems, and the procession culminated at the State House with the international flag unfurled. Mayor Peters and Captain Wilson attended as speakers, with T Moriya and City figures among the dignitaries.
The article outlines expected delegate credentials and admission practices at the approaching peace conference. It notes provisional lists, possible restrictions for initial sessions, and later admissions for central powers and neutral states. It mentions likely participation from Zionists, Arabs, Armenians, Georgians, and Mesopotamian governments under British and French guarantees.
United States battleship Nebraska crew raised 637 for a Christmas dinner and gifts for hundred poor children. Second Naval Base Band performed as William A. Kelly led the event with six young women servers. Chief Master-at-Arms J. T. Murphy and 15 assistants distributed shoes stockings mittens caps fruit peanuts and toys after dinner. committee members Kelly Cannon and Dineen secured special furlough to arrange the affair at the Newsboys Lab in Boston.
Miss Carey, a social professional, turns a social obligation into romance and profit in a lightly humorous tale. The story follows her wits as she navigates relationships and financial gains, presenting a sprightly portrait of society life.
Children of Washington servicemen attended a Christmas program in the Capitol rotunda as a Mt. Vernon tree stood nearby. Secretary of War Baker distributed gifts and spoke to the youngsters marking a first of its kind celebration in that location.
William G. Ryan, son of Mr and Mrs Michael J Ryan of Concord, has been commissioned a captain and now commands M Company 75th Infantry. He went overseas October 1917 as a first duty sergeant with the Military Police, attended Officers Training, and led a company over the top at St Mihiel where his captain and first lieutenant were killed, later becoming first lieutenant and then captain on November 4 1918.
In next week’s Boston Sunday Post II F. Wheeler details how General Pershing commanded a major campaign to control the Moro tribes in the Philippines. The article promises many little known details about the army captain’s methods and achievements.
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