Day of Feasting for All America
Boston and New England mark Thanksgiving with homecomings after the war and armistice celebrations. Church services, charity dinners for children and the homeless, dinners in institutions, and parades and concerts fill the day from morning prayers to evening entertainments across churches, Salvation Army shelters, and civic venues.
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Boston
New England
France
Turkey
Salvation Army
People’s Palace
Volunteers of America
Cedar Street
Roxbury
Goodies
City institutions plan holiday dinners for inmates and workers
Boston city facilities will host a festive day with turkey and roast pig meals for prisoners, inmates at Deer Island, Lone Island infirmary, and Rainsford Island school of correction. Morning track sports, baseball games, and a noon banquet lead to afternoon basketball and soccer, plus evening musical shows.
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Boston
John Kelcher
Charles Street
House of Correction
Deer Island
Henry Higgins
Master Higgins
Lone Island
School of Correction
Rainsford Island
John Ryan
Dinners Given to Needy by Volunteers of America
The Volunteers of America distributed 100 basket dinners to needy families last night. Each basket contained chicken or fish, soup, vegetables, bread, crackers, fruit, and candy for children, with special meals for the elderly. Some families also received coal. Today a large Thanksgiving dinner is planned at the Volunteer Children’s Home, Roxbury, led by Colonel and Mrs. Fred A. Lindsay.
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the Volunteers of America
Cedar Street
Roxbury
Fred A. Lindsay
Thanksgiving Feast for Detained Aliens on Long Wharf
Uncle Sam hosts 68 detained aliens at the immigration station with a festive Thanksgiving meal led by Mrs. A. M. Clark and government caterer John Piscopo. The feast centers on a roast turkey as a morale booster for those under deportation orders.
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Uncle Sam
Long Wharf
A. M. Clark
Boston
John Piscopo
Jitneymen Lose Out in Lawrence
The Eastern Massachusetts Railway trolley service, halted at midnight for alleged unfair jitney competition, will resume Friday after the City Council passed a 22 section ordinance to largely eliminate jitneys. The vote followed talks in Boston among city officials, the railroad, and the Chamber of Commerce. The ordinance takes effect immediately, but 10 days must pass before enforcement.
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Commonwealth
Fidelity and Surety Company
Railway Company
Hurley
Twomey
Jitneymen's Association
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Dawn
Boston
Lowell
Haverhill
Lynn
Salem
Power House
Peter Carr
Eastern Massachusetts Railway Company
Carr
Wade
James H. McBride
Paulist Choir Seeks New England Scholarship Candidate
Father Finn arrives in Boston with his seven-voice Paulist choir for a single Symphony Hall concert. He will name the scholarship winner soon after a brief try-out of many local hopefuls. The choir already includes 20 from Chicago and similar numbers from New York and other cities, plus one from Paris, Master Francis De Comtois.
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Embryo Carusos
John McCormacks
Finn
Paulist
Boston
7 Voices
Symphony Hall
New England
Chicago
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Paris
Francis de Comtois
Thanksgiving Day Grid Classic at Harvard Stadium
The 101st Field Artillery faces the 101st Engineers in Harvard Stadium this morning at 10 o clock. A large turnout is expected from Cadets and Artillerymen along with local followers and officials including Governor Coolidge, Mayor Peters, and district commanders.
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101St Field Artillery
101St Engineers
Harvard
Coolidge
Peters
Waterfront calendar notes for November 27 with planetary positions
The fragment lists a waterfront calendar entry dated November 27 with astronomical details. It notes the 86th day of autumn and provides morning and evening height estimates. It mentions a new moon on December 22 and that Mars Jupiter Venus and Saturn appear as morning stars.
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Nestilien
Mars
Jupiter
Venus
Saturn
Shipping News Arrived And Sailed With Numerous Vessels
Shipping notices list steamers Langton Hall Jenkins Calcutta and Colombo Kangaroo Norris Inland Hudgins Pawnee Robinson New York Cedar Spring Galiano Beverly City Gloucester Isen Gloucester schooner Gladys I Creamer Crowley Grand Manan tugs Mary W Potter Nesquehoning Panther Greek Radnor Mercury Freeman towing barges Troy Hawthorne Swim Sandwich Howard Sisters L and W barges L and W Nos 15 from Gloucester and Salem etc Sailed steamers Stanmore River Araxes Hypatia Wyandotte Brandon Lake Yemassee Ontario Philadelphia tugs Honeybrook Mary F Scully etc
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Langton Hall
Jenkins
Calcutta
Colombo
Kangaroo
Norris
Lake Capens
Tonnesen
Norfolk
Kershaw
James
Hudgins
Pawnee
Robinson
New York
Cedar Spring
Galiano
Beverly
City of Gloucester
Isen
Gloucester
Gladys I. Creamer
Crowley
Grand Manan
N. B
Mary W. Potter
Nickerson
Stanmore
Liverpool
Halifax
N. J
River Araxes
Piraeus
Constantinople
Smyton
Hypatia
Wyandotte
Cto
Brandon
Lake Yemassee
Ontario
Philadelphia
Honeybrook
Port Johnson
Mary F. Scully
Sandwich
Auto victim buried in Concord funeral for William D Wilder
William D Wilder of Concord and formerly of Brockton was killed Friday evening by a motor vehicle as he walked home. His funeral was held yesterday afternoon from his Bedford street residence.
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Concord
Brockton
Bedford Street
William D. Wilder
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Wee En ‘Theatre
SEAIS
London
Petki
N— Subway
Tittle
Kise
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Arnold Bennett
BE. Knoblauch
Copley Theatre
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Jordan's
Fred Nevins
Eddie Mahoney
McConnell & Simpson
Lillian Watson
Fred & Albert & Others
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Mary Miles Minter
Elks’ Ball Room
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Anne of Green Gables
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Coastwise Transportation Company
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Peaked Hill Bars
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Lake Dancey
Eatables
Army of Aspirants
Batile
Ladies’ Orchestra
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Shipping News
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Bernie Wickes
Bay State Motor Car Co
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Tel Beach
METZ
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Geo. E. Keith
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