Elephant Fair Aims To Boost Elephant Campaign
The Elephant Campaign enters its third week with a goal of $6000 and over $2500 still needed. The Elephant Editor urges every boy and girl in Greater Boston to participate, proposing an Elephant Fair as a simple fundraiser with games, candy, crafts, and small donations. Organizers envision home based fairs in attics or living rooms, selling tickets, lemonade, grab bags, and handmade goods to engage neighbors and raise funds.
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Greater Boston
Eant
Quarantined Boy Sends Money for Elephants to Franklin Park
A crowd of Massachusetts children and families mail small donations to the Elephant Fund, urging the Franklin Park zoo elephants Tony Molly Waddy be bought and displayed. Letters from George Shepherd Florence Preskenis Kenneth Tobby Annie Knowles Walter Gordon Knowles Anna Murray Eleanor Wilkie Robert Wasson Hildred Graystrom Baby Bell and others describe their ages locations and hopes for the elephants.
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Tony
Frankin Park
Florence Preskenis
Dread Meadow Rd
Needham Mass
Molly
Waddy
Anna Murray
Spring Street
W. Roxoury
Mass
Post Elephant Fund
Franklin Park
Tanny
Lee
Melvin Dunn
Claxton Street
Dorchester
Mags
Community Kids Send Support For Franklin Park Elephants
A collection of letters and small donations from children and residents across New Hampshire Massachusetts and Kansas to the Elephant Fund. Donors include Dorothy Belding Winchester NH Elizabeth Hurley Charlestown MA and Missy McGrath Boston MA among others sending cents and dollars to help buy Waddie Mollie and Tony for Franklin Park Zoo.
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Winchester
N. H
Boston
Dorothy Belding
Tony
Elizabeth Hurley
Tremont Street
Charlestown
Maia
Elephant Fund
Waddie
Mollie
Franklin Park Zoo
Massachusetts
Children Donate For Franklin Park Zoo Elephants
A collection of letters to the Elephant Fund editor shows numerous readers from Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire sending small sums to help buy elephants for Franklin Park Zoo. Contributors include Marjorie Orcutt Harts, Lillian Cullen, Rachel Raymond, Harold Jenkins, and several others, with amounts ranging from a few cents to a dollar.
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Post
Mollie
Waddy
Tony
Franklin Park Zoo
Mamma
Marjorie Orcutt Harts
Maple Ave
Somerville
Mass
Elephant Fund
Harold Jenkins
Mechanic Street
Marlboro, Mass
Young readers send stories of elephants and pets
Clarence Emerson nine writes from Naples Missouri sending 35 cents and his colt Nancy nine months old and eager to visit Boston elephants. Robert Doherty eleven from Charlestown Massachusetts sends 3 cents earned from his mother and says he loves to see elephants and asks to publish his note.
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Boston Post
Boston
Nancy
Clarence L. Emerson
Naples
Robert
Letters From Children Rally Support For Zoo Elephants
A flood of letters from Massachusetts children pours into the Post Office as youngsters pledge pennies toward elephants at the Franklin Park Zoo. The elephant editor notes popular names Mollie Waddy and Tony and shares several donor notes from Dedham Weymouth Rockport and other towns.
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Waddy
Franklin Park Zoo
The
Post
Boston
Elephant
Tony
Elephant Fund Donations From Readers
Readers from Lewiston Maine and Everett Massachusetts send small coins to support a charitable Elephants Fund. Sonny Purinton Raymond Safford Clinton Brayton contribute a few cents each, noting savings from everyday purchases and a wish to aid the elephants.
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Clinton
Brayton
Kendall Green
Boston charity contributions list totals and donors
A dated contribution ledger records sums donated to a charitable drive in the Boston area. Names include Oliver Ames Sr., Thomas W. Lawson, Governor Walsh, Ex-Governor Guild, and many residents from Boston and nearby towns. Totals show various gifts and a grand total of $6601.19, with yesterday’s receipts noted.
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Boston Post
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Paul Robert G
Buckminster Rd
Boston
Am Castes
Os Reid
Oliver Ames
Commonwealth Ave
Thomas W. Lawson
Scituate
Frank J. D. Karnjum
Devonshire GE
T. B. Fitzpatrick
David I. Walsh
Curtis
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Cou
Lee
Adams Express Co
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State St
Charles H. Stewart
Washington Street
Davenport
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Auhuar
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A. Adams & Co
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Sean A
Edwin P. Brown
Lincoln St
Regent Garage
Lans- Oowwng
James M. Curley
Jono
Whitegerald
Bostods
Fanny Brooks
Readville
Mass
Roslindale
Danyvadseat Meng
the Round Table
Richard and
Philip Emerson
Phillips Building
Tremont Et
I. L. Maguire
Wright & Potter
Ibn Aye Lointie Waleed
Emerson Piano
Believue
Fenway Garage
Ipswich St
Jamaica Plain
Elephant stories to come in Past paper
A preview promising upcoming Past tales about elephants. Stories cover elephant taming by elephants, African and Asian elephants, their labor in lumber camps, and their role in battles. All claimed true and entertaining for children to read.
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Africa
Statewide search for fleeing chauffeur Floyd P. Richardson
A state-wide hunt was started by Woburn police for Floyd P. Richardson, chauffeur of Miss Lilla K. Littlefield, who used an officer’s unfastening a cell door at the station to escape on Saturday night.
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Woburn
Floyd P. Richardson
Lilla K. Littlefield
Liberty
Elephant Day at the Movies Benefits Local School Children
Two Boston area theatres host Elephant Day benefits this afternoon to aid schoolchildren. In Roslindale manager Charles J. Gorman charges 5 cents for children and 10 cents for adults at the Roslindale Theatre after school with special features planned. In Roxbury manager H. S. Wasserman sets 2 cents for children and 5 cents for adults at the Eagle Theatre 2227 Washington Street. Similar benefits follow Wednesday at Shawmut Theatre and Scenic Theatre in Allston.
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Moving Picture Theatres
Roslindale
Charles J. Gorman
Roslindale Theatre
Eagle Theatre
Washington Street
Roxbury
H. S. Wasserman
Shawmut Theatre
Blue Hill Avenue
Scenic Theatre
Allston
Toes for a Penny Drive Letter to the Editor
A Provincetown reader VAN BROWNE sends 25 cents and a note to Elephant editor expressing a desire to own a piece of elephants, offering funds to pay for one toenail and signing with address 562 Commercial St.
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van Browne
Commercial St
Provincetown
Mass
Dedham Girls Battle Fire At Burgess Home
Miss Elizabeth Burgess and Miss Frances Fairchild volunteered during a blaze at the Burgess residence on High street. They aided firefighters by delivering chemicals and climbing to the roof as the roof fire raged yesterday afternoon.
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Elizabeth Burgess
Theodore P. Burgess
High Street
Dedham
Frances Fairchild
John Fairchild
Burgess
Veteran Medford Policeman Dead
John Grady an old-time Medford resident and longtime police officer died at his home on West Street Medford after nearly 38 years of service He joined the force in 1870 and was the oldest officer by tenure He had been retired for eight years through ill health or age.
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John Grady
Medford
West Street
Grady
Quincy Pastors Exchange Pulpits Across Denominations
Sixteen Protestant pastors in Quincy swapped pulpits yesterday to reinforce fellowship. Despite the snowstorm, large congregations greeted the exchanges, marking the first concerted multi church pulpit swap in New England with no pastor remaining at his own denomination church.
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Quincy
New England
Death of J C Ela in Woburn at 55
John C Ela a veteran Democrat and longtime Woburn official died of heart disease at his home in Woburn aged 55. He served on the Common Council and was sealer of weights and measures for many years. He is survived by his son Edgar Ela a Boston area horticulturist.
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John C. Ela
Woburn
Edgar Ela
Boston
Tony the elephant swallows passport in St Petersburg tale
Mollie Waddy and Tony tour Europe in a playful travel story set in St Petersburg. Tony, seeking sugar, swallows Johan's passport causing delay while a replacement is issued. The scene blends juvenile humor with a mock peril of travel documents.
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New Haven
Tony
Mollie
Waddy
St. Petersburg
Mrs. Orford
Johan
Parishioners Hear Novel Readings Instead of Sermons
The Christian Union Church in Reading will replace sermons with readings from a historical novel by Pastor Marion Franklin Ham. He read the first chapter to congregants yesterday, describing Bethany in Judea during Augustus Caesar. The arrangement will continue for several weeks.
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Christian Union Church (Unitarian
Bethany
Judea
Augustus Caesar
Marion Franklin Ham
Renal Disease Case Shows Recovery After Fulton Compound
A Sacramento man named George W. Newton aged about 30, once near coma from ureamic poisoning due to Brights disease, recovered after three months on Fultons Renal Compound with eliminatives. He weighed about 200 pounds and was visited with his father, returning home healthy.
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8. P. BR. R. Company
Sacramento
Cal
Bright
Fulton
John J. Fulton Co
Francisco
Riker-Jaynes Pay
Wash St
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