Children Will Buy Baby Hippo for Boston Zoo
The Boston Post reports a plan to bring a baby hippo to Franklin Park Zoo. Mayor Curleyen Governor Cox and others back a 95000 fund from readers to cover purchase transport and care. The paper starts the Baby Hippo Fund inviting children to donate, host hippo parties, and print each contributor’s name daily.
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Hippo
Zoo
Quaker City
Boston
Curleyen
Franklin Park
Cox
Cheildren
Mollie
Waddy
Ony
Boston Post
Riverside Recreation Grounds Open for Season
Riverside recreation grounds open today as crowds flood the tennis courts and the large outdoor pool. The Rek grounds near the canoeing area draw hundreds of picnickers and autoists as 1500 new locker accommodations and new swimwear await bathers under proprietor J J P Honovan.
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Riverside Recreation Grounds
J. J. P Honovan
Baby hippo fund promises Boston debut at Franklin Park Zoo
A Boston Post feature promotes a forthcoming baby hippo, urging subscriptions to the Baby Hippo Fund. It teases daily secrets about the unnamed cub, describes its size, pink hooves, tail, head, and goofy charm, and promises more on its birth and ancestry tomorrow.
Zoo Welcomes New Member to Franklin Park Family
A note invites supporters to help a soon to arrive animal join the Franklin Park Zoo community. The appeal highlights the animal’s journey and asks the public to assist with a smooth arrival and placement within the zoo.
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Franklin Park Zoo
Child Army in Brockton Musical Festival
About a thousand children and chaperons from Brockton district churches paraded from Brockton High School to Porter Church for the first Brockton District Sunday School musical festival. The Boy Scout band led the march with Allison Baldwin as marshal. Rev. Charles Arbuckle of Newton preached at the church. Attendees included youths from eleven local churches and neighboring towns such as Bridgewater Abington Rockland Stoughton Easton and Whitman.
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Brockton
West Elm Street
Main Street
Porter Church
Boy Scout
Allison C. Baldwin
EK. BE. Dwyer
Raymond Perron
Ray Coulter
Charles Arbuckle
First Baptist Church of
Newton
Bridgewater
Abington
Rockland
Stoughton
Easton
West Bridgewater
Hanover
Whitman
Avon
Arlington Elks Plan First Public Party at Robbins Hall
Arlington Lodge B P O Elks announces its first public party to be held Wednesday evening at Robbins Memorial Town Hall in Arlington.
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Arlington Lodge
Benevolent
The Golden Flaw The Barber’s Romantic Fife
P G Wodehouse crafts a light tale in which a simple barber’s romance unfolds with comic complications. The Boston Sunday Post Magazine promises a complete, charming story in a period voice.
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P. G. Wodehouse
Boston Sunday Post
Avon dentist arrested on statutory offence charge
Brockton May 14 Dr W S Garland of Avon a prominent dentist with an office here was arrested at his home by a Brockton officer on the complaint of Miss Eva Guay about 20 charged with a statutory offence. Garland 48 is married and has one stepdaughter. He will be arraigned in district court tomorrow morning.
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Hippo
Post
Baby Hippo
Boston
Franklin Park Zoo
New England
Brockton
W. S.garland
Avon
Eva Guay
Court Street
Women wets plan campaign in New York rally
New York May 14. Women wets of the city plan a large anti prohibition campaign led by Miss Elizabeth Marbury who challenged Lady Astor to a prohibition debate. She says mothers will wipe out the 18th amendment and repeal is coming as organized groups spread nationwide converting temperance opposition into action.
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New York
Elizabeth Marbury
Lady Astor
Miss Marbury
Belfast Disorders Wound Several Civilians In Shootout
In Belfast on May 14, fierce firing occurred in the Townsend street area between Falls road and Shankhill road with military involvement. Two women and one man were wounded and hospitalized. Pedestrians along Royal Avenue and main arteries appeared accustomed to the shooting frays.
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Belfast
Associated Piers
Townsend Street
Falls Road
Shankhill Road
Royal Avenue
Ambush injures four constables near Lurgan
Four special constables were wounded, two seriously, when their patrol was ambushed near Deprymacash in Lurgan Armagh just after midnight. In Belfast Marrowbone Ardoyne residents kept indoors due to curfew, while shooting occurred on Great George Street and York Street injuring Bridget McKennis and the Burns brothers.
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Deprymacash
Lurgan
Armagh
Marrowbone
Ardoyne
Belfast
Great George Street
York Street
Bridget McKenns
Little York Street
Robert
James Burns
Coolidge Finds Best Asset in His Wife
In Washington on May 14 the vice president’s routine is quiet and unglamorous. Mrs Coolidge is regularly acclaimed as the most popular woman in Washington society and is described as the best asset the vice president has.
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Coolidge
Washington
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Lifebuoy
Child Army
Arlington
Elks’ Party
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