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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1915
Page
8
Pollyanna moves in with her aunt Polly and introduces the glad game. She brightens Mrs. Snow the invalid and gloomy John Pendleton. Her optimism even inspires Reverend Ford to preach based on rejoicing texts from the Bible.
Pollyanna visits Dr. Chilton and jokes about a woman's hand and heart making a home. She reveals a mistaken claim about Pendleton, and the doctor cautions that such gifts are not always available “for the asking.”
Pollyanna lies injured after a roadside accident and a motor car scare. Aunt Polly and Nancy react with worry as Dr. Warren and nurse Miss Hunt tend her. Pollyanna, waking, speaks of school, pills, and rainbows while clinging to hopeful gratitude.
After a week Pollyanna regains full consciousness and learns she is injured rather than ill. She compares her broken legs to Mrs Snow’s invalid status, expressing relief that she can recover and walk again. Aunt Polly watches, contrasting Pollyanna’s sunny outlook with the gravity of the accident.
Mary Jones known as Mother Jones testifies on eight years of labor unrest from Pennsylvania to the national scene. The commission hears Professor Frank J. Goodnow and Harry A. Cyphers on labor in courts, completing the day with Will iam D. Haywood of the I W W examination to follow.
Patrolman Joseph W. F. McDonough of City Point station is reassigned to the Board of Health for duty. The Board requested the patrolman be devoted to their department and the transfer was issued in a general order by Police Commissioner O'Meara last night.
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