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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1919
Page
7
Thirty children in the Boston City Hospital children and other wards enjoyed a day with Santa Claus from 5 AM to 7 PM yesterday. Dr. John A. Foley arranged activities for patients unable to attend, who stayed in white cots yet remained alert to the festive spirit.
Night shift nurses packed stockings with sweets and fruit for children in wards after eight. The Boston Elks and Knights of Columbus staged a show with magicians, ventriloquists, and dancers for Ward 6 patient John O Leary and others. Santa Claus delivered gifts as a hospital dinner was served and visitors arrived.
Mr. Werbert J. Wilder of Norwood Mass praises Osmo-Chemic Physicians saying after treatment he can hear again. The ad touts X-Ray therapy as curing catarrh deafness bronchitis stomach issues nervous disorders skin diseases birth marks moles and facial blemishes with Osmo-Chemic doctors living to treat any disease.
Report on Post Santa Claus from the first day to the end notes record totals and wide support. The editor thanks helpers and donors for larger funds and more bundles distributed, with praise for volunteers and contributors across multiple towns.
Christmas Day at Mayor Peters home featured Mrs Peters and the mayor giving gifts to their five children from a large tree in the library. He spent forenoon with family, walked with Andrew J Jr, and later toured Buzzey Park and West Roxbury with two sons. His mother and brother Iarda Peters attended dinner.
Evelyn Burke of Watertown New Jersey saw her plans for a Christmas wedding and holiday honeymoon evaporate when she learned that the prospect of matrimony would not materialize as expected yesterday in Chicago.
Christmas celebrations at the reformatory included a brief yard liberty, two hours of chapel motion pictures, and a special noon dinner with roast pork dressing mashed potatoes squash onions plum pudding squash pie fruit cakes and cocoa to be taken to cells.
A volunteer report describes the Boston Post Santa Claus delivering Christmas packages to poor families across New England. The letter credits Post Santa and staff, including Joseph Hurley and Thomas McLaughlin, for smooth operations, and thanks Minnie Brown for free services.
Bishop Lawrence served as celebrant at the Church of St. Paul for the Nativity feast with Dean Rousmaniere and clergy assisting. Services at 8 9 and 10 o'clock included Holy Communion, with a very large attendance across all observances.
James O Grady has returned to London from Copenhagen where he conferred with Maxim Litvinoff on prisoner exchanges. The negotiations were postponed on December 19 to allow leaders to confer with their governments.
An advertisement touts Hayes Healing Honey for throat relief and cough cure with Grove’s Open-Trath Salve free on chest colds head colds and croup with every bottle as a bonus offer.
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