Millionaire Day brings Christmas joy to two wounded veterans
Two World War II veterans, Crofton of Providence and Romaine of Chicopee, received a Christmas treat funded by a comrade and Dr. Wheat of Manchester. After hospital care and a holiday dinner at the Touraine, they toured the town and attended Keith’s matinee and a Hollis box party, ending with gratitude to the Post and Dr. Wheat for the joyous day.
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Teeur
Wheat
Manchester
N. H. Ann
Post
Allonaire
William F. Croften
106Th Infantry
Michael Romaine
16Th Infantry
Crofton
Homme
Sayles Street
Providence
R. I
Romaine
PRRS
Ellen Street
Chicopee
Mass
Army
Navy
Keith’s
Touraine
Hollis
New York
Dr. Wheat
Santa Claus
Suits and Overcoats Offered at Savings Event
A wide range of suits and overcoats advertised to fit most men including stouts regulars some longs shorts and ultrasters with full lining. Savings reach $11 per item compared with previous prices as hundreds sold in August.
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Resac
Man
Birthday Almanac of Stage and Screen Stars
The Boston Sunday Post previews an upcoming Magazine feature titled Birthday Almanac highlighting notable stage and screen stars. It promises an interesting reference with concise notes on birthdays and career highlights for prominent performers.
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Boston Sunday Post
Millionaire-for-a-Day: Miriam Luscomb Visits New York Foundling Hospital
Miss Miriam C. Luscomb of Brighton Massachusetts and her fiancé Edward E Graves toured Manhattan in a Post limousine raising funds for the New York foundling hospital on East 68th Street. She is the seventeenth winner in the Millionaire-for-a-Day Contest and answered Should smoking cars be abolished with a quip on giving man his place.
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New York
Yuletide
Miriam C. Luscomb
Brighton
Mass
New York Foundling Hospital
East 68Th Street
Foundling Hospital
Sisters of Charity
Miss Luscomb
Edward E. Graves
Arge
Woman Burned By Back-Fire At Winthrop Home
Mrs Grace Shorey 46 of 12 Cottage Ave Winthrop was severely burned yesterday afternoon when a back fire from the furnace ignited her clothing as she opened the cellar door to inspect the blaze. Family members aided her until flames were extinguished and she was taken to East Boston Relief Hospital on the danger list.
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Grace Shorey
Cottage Avenue
Winthrop
Ralph W., Shorey
East Boston Relief Hospital
Pte Dinner Happy Brings Joy at Lincoln Park Zoo
Happy the Pte Dinner, new Boston Zoo figure, played Santa for animals at Lincoln Park Zoo. Money raised via the Boston Post bought Baby Hippo from Philadelphia Zoo, leaving $40 for the animals. Elephants Tony and Waddy asked for cane sugar. Happy seeks watery celery.
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Santa Claus
Boston Zoo
Children of
New England
Boston Post
Happy
Hippo
Philadelphia
Boston
Baby Hippo
Funny Fat
Tony
Waddy
Happy Aver
Zoo
Ku Klux Klan Disrupts Christmas Services in New Jersey
Hooded Klansmen interrupted two church services on Christmas Eve in Montclair and Belleville. In Silver Lake Baptist Church Belleville six robed men arrived in a car, formed two ranks, with a flag bearer, torches, and an envelope later found to contain two five dollar bills. Similar display occurred at Italian Presbyterian Church. Baskets were left at two Kearny homes.
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Montclair
N. J
United News
Kearny
Revere Firemen Stage Santa for 500 Local Children
Five hundred children in Revere were entertained by the fire department at the central station on Broadway. Santa distributed candy nuts and toys amid a Christmas tree and entertainment featuring music a magician and Punch and Judy. A 30 foot roof tree with electric lights stayed up through New Year’s Day. Chief Kimball led the organizing committee with Santa Claus portrayed by motorman Shorty Morris.
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Revere Fire Department
Central Fire Station
Broadway
Santa Claus
Kimball
Shorty” Morris
Massachusetts
Redvere
Robbery at Chicago home of merchant Schaaf
Police report reveals a band abducted and chloroformed the wife two children and two maids at the residence of Adam Schaaf a wealthy Chicago merchant last Thursday. The robbers looted cash and jewelry valued around 10000 and fled the scene, the details only now released by authorities.
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Chicago
Adam Schaaf
Tha‘ ‘Police Todal
Woman in lodging house commits suicide by gas
Mrs. Lucy H. Hillman 60, who ran a lodging house at 89 St Botolph street, was found dead in a lower room with gas from an opened jet. Dr. Timothy Leary ruled death by self action. A half brother Philip Haggard found the body around 9 am after a search. She was from Maine with relatives in Bangor.
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Lucy H. Hillman
St. Botolph Street
Timothy Leary
Philip Haggard
Human Torches Save Lives by Daring Leap
A man and a woman whose clothes burned from an oil stove explosion in a Brooklyn home escaped by leaping from a second story window. Both suffered burns but no injuries from the fall. Arthur Nikkelsen, who tried to throw the stove out, burned himself and started the fire. Neighbors and firefighters helped contain the blaze with minimal damage.
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New York
Brooklyn
Arthur Nikkelsen
Elizabeth Christiansen
Nikkelsen
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