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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1910
Page
3
The Salvation Army plans a large Thanksgiving dinner in Boston at the People's Palace, its New England headquarters, with turkey and chicken meals prepared for hundreds of needy men and women. Crews are coordinating plans to ensure a day of real thanks for thousands.
The Salvation Army outlines a Thanksgiving dinner plan including 4000 pounds of turkey and chicken, 1000 loaves of bread, 1000 pounds of sugar, 1500 mince pies, 350 plum puddings, 5 barrels of onions, 40 bushels potatoes, 30 bushels turnips, 2 barrels coffee, 30 bushels celery, 500 pounds rice, 500 pounds beans, 60 dozen condensed milk cans, 60 dozen tomatoes, 5000 oranges, 7000 bananas and 1200 pounds candy.
The event plans at People s Palace corner Brookline and Washington streets include 11 o clock start with tickets issued for service. Hundreds of baskets will go to the sick, widows with children, and those unable to attend the main meal served tomorrow by Salvation Army organizers led by Colonel Adam Gifford. Catering will feed up to 5000, with cooks beginning early tomorrow and tables reset multiple times. The drive relies on penny and nickel donations from city residents to cover thousands of dollars in costs.
An old advertisement promotes eye tonics and skin creams for weak eyes and blackheads. It likewise offers a fat-dissolving solution, a home made blood purifier tonic, and a complexion cream jelly claim benefits for clarity, firmness, and youthfulness. The ad urges simple mixtures and nightly or before meal use.
Boston Mayor Fitzgerald urges a new street slicing through the heart of the city to connect North station with the retail district. The plan widens Brattle and City Hall avenues, cuts through Elm Hanover and Bromfield streets and even the Orpheum Theatre, with millions in cost offset by higher property values and tax gains. The mayor would pursue the project once a legislative bill allows wider takings.
Professor Charles M Spofford of MIT warned at a Tech Union dinner that Back Bay would be demolished by a severe earthquake. He said no building made of low tensile resistance or little elasticity is safe, citing adobe and lime mortar brickwork as examples.
Mayor Fitzgerald said he will take up the question of a new City Hall with the City Council. He favors tearing down the old Court House in Court Square and erecting a large office building to house most city departments. He noted current high rental costs for offices that cannot fit in existing municipal buildings.
A basement fire at the Rogers building in front of Young's Hotel on Washington street caused $1000 damage. The Estabrook and Eaton Company occupied the basement and the blaze started by spontaneous combustion. An alarm from Box 86 summoned firefighters.
Frank H. Murphy of 81 London street Somerville a teamster was arraigned in the Cambridge District Court yesterday on a charge of obstructing the tracks of the Boston Elevated railway on Bridge street Cambridge. After hearing the evidence the defendant was found guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine.
George Baklanoff will perform Iago in the Boston Opera House Otello tonight marked by his first American outing in the role. He studied with Ernst Possart last summer and prepared in Germany. Slezak stars as Otello, Mme Alda as Desdemona, with Arnaldo Cont conducting the orchestra.
At the AFL convention in St Louis President Samuel Gompers and allies averted a confrontation over Canada’s autonomy within the federation. The special committee urged Canadian unions keep self rule, issue local charters, and affiliate at their discretion. delegates approved most provisions after debate. A subsequent push urged universal US local unions to affiliate with state and central bodies. A vigorous fight looms over Western miners and future labor measures.
A tonic claim promotes Oil of Pine as a pure non opiate cough remedy, safe for children. It advises two or three drops on sugar for obstinate cough and suggests a cold curing formula with Oil of Pine glycerine and whiskey, with a dose every four hours.
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