Navy Hosts 600 Children for Christmas Dinner on Bridgeport Yard
Six hundred Boston-area children spent Christmas Day aboard ships at Charlestown navy yard with turkey dinner and gifts. Adjutant William A. Antrim organized the event with chaplains from Bridgeport Birmingham Utah Delaware and North Dakota. Santa Claus gifts and a movie followed the feast with funds from sailors officers and petty officers and help from Carney Hospital social service staff.
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Boston
Charlestown Navy Yard
Ingram Club
Sailors’ Rest Club
William A. Antrim
Salvation Army
S. W. Salisbury
Bridgeport
T. L. Wood
Birmingham
Kirkpatrick
Utah
C. H. Hastings
Delaware
H. B. Foster
North Dakota
Sailor Boys
Santa Claus
Leonard
Bridgport
Boatswain
Benjamin
Santa
Claus
Social Service Department of Carney Hospital
South
U. S. S. Bridgeport
Navy Yard
Bos’n’s
H. C. Benjamin
The
Navy
Christmas Aboard Ship Delayed Liner United States
More than 200 aliens arrived in New York aboard the Scandinavian American Liner United States from Copenhagen and Christiania and spent Christmas aboard. A dance and feast were held while Captain Volborg reported a two day delay due to fierce gales blowing up to 80 miles per hour that tore down the ship’s antenna mast leaving the liner without wireless for 10 hours.
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New York
United News
United States
Copenhagen
Christiania
Volborg
Traffic Tieup Delays Commuters After Elevated Pole Snap
An elevated trolley pole snapped near Bowdoin and wedged in the East Boston tunnel causing a power shutdown. The resulting jam held up traffic for over 80 minutes, with delays from 2 to 40 minutes as Scollay Square and Devonshire stations crowded with express cars from Orient Heights to Day Square East Boston.
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Bowdoin
East Boston
Scollay Square
Devonshire
Orient Heights
Day Square
Boston
Woodhouse family seeks verdict set aside in Burlington
In Burlington Vermont lawyers for Mr and Mrs Lorenzo E Woodhouse plan to move to set aside a jury verdict awarding 465000 to Mrs Dorrit Van Deusen Stevens Woodhouse. Judge Sherman Moulton and two assistant justices will hear the motion in Chittenden County court. The Woodhouses are absent as the elder couple winter South and Dorrit Woodhouse stays with her mother in Westfield.
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Burlington
Lorenzo E. Woodhouse
Dorrit van Deusen Stevens Woodhouse
Woodhouses
Sherman FR. Moulton
Chittenden County
Four Guards Arrested in Conn State Hospital Death
Four attendants at the Connecticut State Hospital for the Insane, John H. Walsh James Morrison Thomas Tobin and Daniel Keefe, were charged with manslaughter in the death of inmate Petrol Pallanalli. Pallanalli died from internal injuries two hours after being beaten following a breakfast incident.
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Middletown
Conn
Connecticut State Hospital For the Insane
Petrol Pallanalli
John H. Walsh
James Morrison
Thomas Tobin
Daniel Keefe
Pallanalli
John E. Loveland
Thallanalli
Ten Ton Rock Crashes Through Village
A 10 ton rock thundered down from the mountain at 100 mph and ripped through the village of Durana s trampling into a dining room before halting. A sleeping villager in an adjoining room was unaware of the crash and no injuries were reported.
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Nice
United News
Duranus
Auto Truck Crash Sends 15 Youths to Pole Injures Two
In Ware a truck carrying 15 young people from a Gilbertville Christmas celebration crashed into a telegraph pole. Marion Burgerson and Remus Romulus, both of Southbridge, are hospitalized with injuries but expected to recover. The steering gear failure caused the crash. the owner driver was N. N. Carpenter of Southbridge.
Policemen in Boston Enjoy Christmas Half Holiday
Boston police received a Christmas half holiday division for the day with morning and afternoon shifts doubling up on beats. The plan let officers spend at least part of the holiday with families as Christmas activity stayed peaceful and disorder was minimal.
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Boston
Torch Put On Large Cross in Freeport Christmas Eve Fire
Police seek identity of those who set a large burlap cross saturated with kerosene ablaze in an empty lot in Freeport Illinois Christmas Eve. Firemen and police cooperate to investigate possible Ku Klux Klan involvement as the village lighting system failed, leaving streets in darkness.
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Freeport
IL. S
United News
Ku Klux Klan
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