Christie girl dies by own action in closet note found
Miss Christie aged 27 died in a Brooke House room from chloroform poisoning after placing a note beside three bottles labeled chloroform. Friends and Regatives deem it death by own action. Dr. Cushing and Assistant Medical Examiner Richardson ruled the death self-inflicted. Christie, a missionary family relative and St George's School instructor's sister, had long believed she suffered a fatal disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Christie
St. George's School
Newport
R. I
Miss Christie
Thomas Christie
St. Paul's College
Para Parsus
Turkey
Christies
Brooke Settlement House
Gilberta de Fine
Miss de Fine
Brooke House
O. F. Cushing
Chandler Street
Cushing
East Dedham Street
Richardson
Wenonah Street
Roxbury
Christie
Miss Christie Suffered Recurring Mental Derangement Claim
Under care at the Pope Dispensary she complained of abdominal pains but female physicians found no physical cause. Friends fear the real issue is a recurrence of her long noted mental derangement, previously leading to a suicide attempt at a Waverley hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Christie
Waverley Hospital
Bishop Lawrence's New Year Greeting Voices Unity 1920
Bishop Lawrence of the Episcopal diocese issues a New Year message via the Post urging "Carry on" into 1920. He calls for good will among workers and employers, Republicans and Democrats, League supporters and reservationists, American citizens of all races, churches of different creeds, to achieve peace across industrial political social and sectarian realms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Episcopal
League of Nations
Drowned Chelsea Girl Ida Collela Recovered After Incident
The body of Ida Collela nine year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Pasquale Collela of 21 Carroll street Chelsea was recovered yesterday after she and friend Margaret Keating drowned in the creek near Slade's Mill Revere Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Collela
Pasquale Collela
Carroll Street
Chelsea
Margaret Keating
Slade’s Mill
Revere
Boston Welcomes New Year With Community Singing
A crowd on Boston Common joins Joe Dane and War Camp Community Service for a New Year celebration. They sing America, Auld Lang Syne, and The Star Spangled Banner as bells and whistles fade. Ives Band performs Ring Out Wild Bells, with choral clubs joining for a finale of Ring Out Sweet Bells of Peace. Godfrey W. McMullin gives a cornet solo and Thomas Clifford a baritone solo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkman
Boston Common
America
George $. Dane
War Camp
Ives
Boston
Godfrey W. McMullin
Thomas Clifford
New Year Services United Boston Protestants in 1920 Welcome
Boston churches observed 1920 with sober prayer and choral music, led by St Paul Cathedral and others across the city. The Prayer Around the World connected congregations from palaces to missions, as chimes marked midnight and numerous parishes held Watch Night and communion services.
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Boston
Wilds
Africa
New York
St. Paul
St. Paul’s
Dean Rousmaniere
Jesus
America
Tremont Street
F. J. Walton
Henry Goddard
Back Bay
Beacon
Trinity Church
Copley Square
Alexander Mann
John S. Mores
Howard Brown
Sydney B. Snow
King’s Chapel
Unitarian
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Henry Abrahams
Boston School Committee
Samuel Spring
Winthrop
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Ralph M. Harper
Tremont Street Methodist Church
Bromfield Street
Fire department reassignments salt Boston stations and chiefs
Twenty four Boston Fire Department members are shifted to new stations under a general order by Fire Commissioner John R. Murphy. Promotions include nine members moved from West End to South Boston and Dorchester, District Chief Fitzgerald M. O Lalor to District 1 in East Boston, and others to Engine 3 and Engine 36. New promotions elevate John J. Ryan and William P. Dungan to engineering posts, Walter J. Burke becomes wire department superintendent, and Peter E. Walsh sets a new gong alarm rule with 15 taps for general alarms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Fire Department
John R. Murphy
Murphy
Pittsburg Street
South Boston
West End
Fitzgerald M. O’lalor
Lally
O’brien
East Boston
Harvard Street
Dorchester
Frank A. Sweeney
Warren Avenue
South End
Joseph P. Hanton
Harrison Avenue
George A. Carney
Centre Street
Bellevue Street
West Roxbury
William Levis
O'Lalor
Ingineer
John J. Ryan
Chestnut Hill Avenue
Brighton
Imngine
Marion Street
Boston
William P. Dungan
Ladder 11
Ryan
Engine
Walter J. Burke
Interior Division
Wire Department
Peter E. Walsh
Department
Boston Harbor
District Chief Lally reassigned within city fire districts
District Chief John N. Lally formerly captain at Imgine 3 Harrison avenue South Find moves to District 8 stationed at Ladder 12 Tremont street Roxbury. District Chief Cornelius J. O'Brien is reassigned to District 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John N. Lally
Harrison Avenue
South Find
Ladder 12
Tremont Street
Roxbury
Cornelius J. O’brien
Edwards Cheers 26th Division and New Year Clubhouse Hope
Major General C R Edwards sends New Year greetings to men of the 26th Division. He expresses hope for the 1920 successful establishment of the YC Memorial Clubhouse, praising their wartime spirit and his role as their commander in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwards
France
C. R. Edwards
Deaf mutes hold New England ball with loud jazz
Nearly 200 deaf mutes from New England gathered at Huntington Chambers Hall for a New Year celebration under the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf Boston Division. Thomas Cryan of Lynn arranged the event. Music reached deaf attendees by vibration, with fox trots and encores drawing applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Huntington Chambers Hall
National Fraternal Society of the Deaf
Boston
Thomas Cryan
Lynn
Fox Trotters
British airmen gather at Westminster Hotel to toast New Year
At the Westminster Hotel a group of British aviators in uniform celebrated the New Year with army songs and flying stories. Attending were Lieutenants William S. Long F H Potter W A Banks J A Flanagan Robert Champagne and Gerald Goad all aero pilots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster Hotel
William S. Long
F. H. Potter
W. A. Banks
J. A. Flanagan
Robert Champagne
Gerald Goad
First Fire Alarm of 1920 in Charlestown
A false alarm rang in from Box 422 at Water and Gray streets Charlestown exactly at midnight marking the new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlestown
Water and
Gray Streets
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Trinity
Quintine
G. W. Lkrove
Gilchrist
Bae
Serge
Priday
Oxford
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A. Rogers
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