President Wilson Attends Surprise Birthday Service
In Gulfport Mississippi on December 28 President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson attended an unpublicized service at a small Presbyterian church near Pass Christian. They arrived with Dr Cary T Grayson to a surprised congregation of fewer than 100 and heard a sermon on individual accountability to God. A public cable from George V of Britain offered congratulations on Wilson's birthday.
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Gulfport, Miss
Ilson
George of
Gulfport
Miss
Wilson
Cary T. Grayson
Pass Christian
Herbert Albert Jones
President attends coastal service with Rev Jones in Pass Christian
Reverend Jones preaches to the President and party in Pass Christian praising accountability and a new era in diplomacy. The President, with white hair and spectacles, listens as four Confederate veterans greet the motorcade before passing Beauvoir.
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United States
Paul
Dr. Jones
Santa Makes Seafaring Santa Visit Aboard Bohemian
The Leyland liner Bohemian reported a Christmas Eve visit from Santa Claus 700 miles east of the Atlantic. Twenty eight passengers, including nine children, claim to have seen him as the ship neared East Boston after departing Liverpool and Queenstown.
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Santa Claus
Atlantic Ocean
East Boston
Liverpool
Queenstown
Santa Claus Delivers Onboard Christmas On Bohemian
Eyewitnesses recount Santa Claus visiting ships in mid ocean aboard the Bohemian. Miss Marion Tunstall notes a five winters and summers childlike belief as stockings overflow with candies nuts oranges and a Teddy bear hangs from Miss Marion’s stocking. Navy and shipboard services mark an unusual Christmas at sea.
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Marion Tunstall
Santa Claus
Marion
O. K
Fire drives 300 from Hotel Northampton on Washington Street
About 300 guests at the Hotel Northampton on 1850 Washington Street were forced to flee just before 5 pm when a fire was discovered on the third floor. The blaze, of unknown origin, spread through the upper floors and roof, gutting a section of the building after an hour of efforts by fire crews.
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Northampton
Washington Street
Petition Referendum on Hospital Question in Lowell
Nearly 2000 voters have signed the petition to refer the contagious hospital issue to voters or to be acted on by the new city government taking office next month. The petition requires 2009 names, about 15 percent of the last election’s vote.
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Lowell
Death in Quincy Husband Found After Christmas Note
Mrs John Christianson of 39 Irving Street Quincy returned from Hartford to a note on the door saying she would find him in their son's room. She found her 72 year old husband dead by gas in his son's room police believe suicide Christmas Eve. He was a former Boston mechanical engineer and Quincy box factory founder who later faced financial reverses and despondency. He is survived by a widow, a son and a married daughter.
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John Christianson
Irving Street
Quincy
Hartford
Conn
Christianson
Boston
Christmas Tea at St. Mary's Asylum Dorchester
Under the Ladies' Aid Society of St. Mary's Infant Asylum Dorchester the annual Christmas reception was held in the sun parlors on Everett Avenue yesterday from 2 to 6 pm Mrs Frank Giblin presided directing gifts from a well laden tree to mothers and their children while tea and cocoa were served at numerous tables in the decorated rooms.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Mary's Infant Asylum
Dorchester
Everett Avenue
Frank Giblin
Romance of Sea Brings Bride and Groom Home on Steamship
The Bohemian returned to Boston from Liverpool with Edith Ellicott and Percy Denison, who had become engaged en route to England. The couple, originally strangers, married within 30 hours of reunion in Liverpool, and plan to live at 9 Bowdoin Street, West End.
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Liverpool
Boston
Hiscoe
East
Edith Ellicott
Richmond
Surrey
Percy Denison
Leeds
Yorkshire
Denison
Mr. DenIson
Bowdoin Street
West End
Mrs. Denison
Firm mislisted in Shoe & Leather blaze sign
Co. K. Berger & Co. were not occupants of the Shoe & Leather building. They had moved to 19 Cross Street before the fire, the name only remaining on the sign after the Saturday night blaze.
New X ray breakthrough shown by Coolidge at New York dinner
William D Coolidge demonstrated a new X ray tube at a Hotel St Denis dinner in New York. The invention uses ductile tungsten for the cathode and anode, enabling precise dose control and potentially transforming cancer treatment, with widespread use a year away.
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New York
William David Coolidge
Schenectady
Hotel St. Denis
L. G. Cole
Prices and Phrases From a Jumbled List of Amounts
A garbled sequence presents various price ranges from eight to eighty dollars including lawn care items and small sums. The text features repeated “Usually” markers and scattered, unclear phrases that resemble a catalog or price list with inconsistent formatting.
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