Troops Care for Children in Coblenz Christmas Event
Nine hundred children toured a large Christmas tree in Clemens Platz as teachers led them to receive warm clothing candy and toys from American forces. The Eighth Infantry Band played music while Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion groups hosted meals for orphans and supported milk purchases for local children and invalids.
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Coblenz
Associated Press
Clemens Platz
Eighth Infantry
Rhineland Post
American Legion
Eighth
Ehrenbreitstein
Woman Kills Friend Then Surrenders in Louisville
Louisville police report Mrs. O. L. Jones, 32, shot and killed her friend O. Black, 40, a salesman for a local auto firm, in her apartment early last night and kept a Christmas Eve vigil over the body before surrendering.
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Louisville
O. L. Jones
Woman surrenders after fatal shooting claims threat
The woman said she shot Black after he threatened her. She walked to the station at daylight and confessed, then was jailed on murder charges.
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Black
Santa Claus Contributions Totals Revealed
Community drive results show overall contributions reaching twenty four thousand nine hundred seventy six dollars and seventy two cents. Fundraising efforts highlight donor generosity during holiday season without specific donor names disclosed.
AAAS 76th Annual Convention Opens Across U S and Canada
Some 3000 eminent scientists from the United States and Canada gather for the 76th AAAS convention in Cambridge and Boston. Major sessions, dozens of talks daily, and affiliated societies promise open minded inquiry across mathematics physics chemistry astronomy geology geography zoology and more. Officials from Harvard MIT Boston University Tufts Simmons Wellesley host events with Eliakim H Moore to speak at opening sessions led by J Playfair McMurrich as president.
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United States
Canada
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Curley
Quinn
Cambridge
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston University
Tufts College
Boston College
Simmons College
Wellesley College
Pratt
Tech
Somerset
Boston
Walker Memorial
Eliakim H. Moore
University of Chicago
Lowell
Harvard
Dean Talbot
J. Playfair McMurrich
Tenomuns
Association
Make Merry at Hospital Opens Christmas Carnival
More than 1800 patients at Med field State Hospital were entertained as guests of hospital officials on the first day of a week long Christmas carnival. Dr. Allen G Troxell led the event with Miss Celia Lynch chairing a committee. The program featured a vaudeville show and gifts of fruit candy and nuts. Dr Elisha H Cohoon helped distribute gifts as relatives and friends joined the open house and meals. The celebrations continue into the new year.
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Medfield State Hospital
Allen G. Troxell
Celia Lynch
Elisha H. Cohoon
Christmas Spirit Behind Bars at Deer Island Prison
Prisoners at Deer Island House of Correction enjoyed a two day Christmas celebration starting with a Sunday night film and vaudeville show and culminating with cigars after a final screening of Over the Hill. Gifts from two chapel trees, a roast pork dinner and fruit accompanied the festivities while 22% inmates at Charles Street jail were hosted by Sheriff Kelliher for a rotunda dinner with fruit candy and smokes.
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House of Correction
Deer Island
Kelliher
Charles Street
Little Walks Through Boston Book Bargains
A reader shares a method for finding cost effective literary treasures in Boston book stalls. From a dollar, items include Pope's Odyssey with Flaxman designs for 35 cents, Dante's Divine Comedy in Italian for 25 cents, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress for 25 cents, Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tales for 5 cents, and Emerson's Representative Men for 10 cents, all described with careful notes on bindings and condition.
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Pope
London
Flaxman
Florence
Bunyan
Hawthorne
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Howe
Eleandore
Emerson
Ticknor & Co
Fire at Kennedy's Store Caused by Careless Matches
A small basement fire at Kennedy's store 36 Summer Street caused 100 damage early yesterday. The blaze was attributed to careless use of matches.
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Kennedy
Summer Street
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