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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1922
Page
4
Boston residents rally for Baby Hippo at Franklin Park Zoo with support from Governor Bates and Old Colony Trust Company. contributions pour in from Boston Post readers and many communities as the June 17 deadline nears.
Bareback clown Poodles Hanneford will ride the Moxie Company giant rocking horse on Boston Common at 11 45 a m for the Baby Hippo fund. The stunt, riding the largest rocking horse, aims to please children and raise money as Sells Floto Circus finishes a week in Boston.
Mildred and Buddy visited the Boston Post Baby Hippo Fund headquarters in Newspaper Row yesterday. They contributed the pennies they had saved, dressed in playful outfits including a dotted pink percale dress for Mandy and Chaplin style for Charlie.
A Baby Hippo party at 18 Robeson Street Jamaica Plain proceeds this afternoon for the Baby Hippo Fund of the Boston Post. W A Barry hosts a stereopticon show on animal habits and pranks with dancing by local pupils and a modest admission for children five cents and adults ten cents.
Plan to auction 50 buildings that remain in the path of the Stuart street extension follows a Street Commissioners ruling. Owners failed to remove structures by the June 1 deadline, forcing Public Works to raze the buildings and recoup costs from property owners who kept rents current.
Greater Boston theatres unite to raise money for a Baby Hippo at Franklin Park zoo. The plan features special Hippo shows with Charlie Chaplin and Ben Turpin stunts, coin boxes in foyers, and a June 10 matinee fundraising event across multiple venues including Niagara Dorchester Uphams Corner Roxbury Jamaica Plain East Boston and more.
Montagu Love, a moving picture star, has toured the Waldorf Theatre in Waltham urging local families to support the Baby Hippo Fund. He will perform his own monologue and share film stories before collecting for Franklin Park’s young hippo appeal.
A candle used to fumigate clothing and goods in the home of Mrs. Marion G. Simmons at 112 Richmond street Dorchester Lower Mille started a fire yesterday afternoon. The blaze damaged the house and furnishings valued at about $1000 before it was extinguished.
A playful feature about Baby Hippo entertaining crowds with ear wiggles. The piece explains how the hippo, with a tiny ear and large head, wags his ears to shed water and dirt, and compares him to other four footed animals. It also shares a simple DIY method to imitate the trick using tape or gum, thread, and careful hand placement.
Boston readers are invited to an 2:30 pm benefit at Doris Bramson Whitehouse Studio to support the Baby Hippo Fund. Eleven year old Elizabeth Nuzzo will perform with Mrs Whitehouse inviting pupils from 15 Montrose Street to join in the show and raise donations.
The Franklin Park Zoo announces a playful share offering titled Baby Hippo Stock. Investors may expect daily dividends of laughter and happiness as shares sell out.
Delegates at Paine Memorial Hall selected Boston Massachusetts as the general headquarters for the Amalgamated Shoe Workers of America. The convention backed craft unionism over industrial unity and approved a craft-focused preamble. The session continued with discussions on wage and work conditions to be settled peacefully.
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