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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1912
Page
4
The high cost of turkeys this year forced the Salvation Army to omit the traditional bird from its Thanksgiving Day menu, yet it still plans to aid nearly 4000 needy children widows and homebound residents with alternative meals and support.
A widow’s illness and advancing years consumed a large store of farm goods including a ton of chicken one hundred bushels of potatoes and various vegetables and a quantity of bananas as part of a domestic supply possibly prepared for distribution or sale.
Salvation Army at People's Palace feeds 1500 children and dozens more at Industrial Home Hampden Street and Rescue Maternity Home Dorchester. About 1200 families receive Thanksgiving baskets from charity drives as Volunteers of America host West End families. Colonel Adam Gifford, John J. Attridge, Major Burleigh Hillman and Captain Frank Ulzer oversee servings and distribution before 10 AM.
About 200 people including several women shared the annual Thanksgiving meal at the Boston Industrial Home on Davis Street South via under Superintend ent and Mrs Elliot. The event featured George W Fowle, 91, president of the institution from Jamaica Plain, who has attended every Thanksgiving for four decades.
About 1500 people joined the special Thanks King meal, priced at three pence, offering New England boiled dinner with plum pudding coffee and bread. Some lunches matched the usual three penny portions in quantity and variety.
The annual Thanksgiving meal at the Children’s Hospital drew more patients than before with 75 inmates and 55 able to eat turkey. Those well enough joined in a ward gathering while bedridden children shared in the festivity. A separate noon feast for over 100 youngsters at the Little Wanderers Home on West Newton Street was hosted by Boston and New England churches. A special table served 16 tots with all the trimmings and ice cream provided by Davis Ice Cream Company.
About fifty detained immigrants marked Thanksgiving at the government detention station on Long Wharf. A real American turkey dinner followed by a concert and entertainment showcased more than a dozen nationalities with expressions of thanks in many languages. Chef Joseph Ballem provided the feast of American delicacies.
A large gathering of American residents with English guests celebrated Thanksgiving at the Savoy Hotel London. Ambassador Whitelaw Reid missed the event due to illness, the first time in 18 years that he was absent from the holiday dinner. Consul-General John L. Griffiths presided in his stead.
A speaker addressed the crowd with eloquence about American progress while humorously recalling the austere Pilgrims who established the commemoration. The remarks blended solemn memory with lighthearted nods to early settlers.
Robert E. Davie the convicted broker was too ill yesterday to take part in the Deer Island House of Correction Thanksgiving exercises. Turkey dinner was served to 1100 inmates. In the morning two inmate baseball teams played a spectacular game and an afternoon program featured an orchestra and vaudeville show.
The Thanksgiving charity run by the City Mission Society fed over 800 families across the city. The 35th year of the society was marked by a dinner distribution directed personally by Rev. D. W. Waidion, the superintendent.
Thirty five men and seven women prisoners at the Somerset street city jail were served a Thanksgiving meal of corned beef potatoes plain bread and black coffee. The police department provided the dinner and the menu closely mirrored the usual weekday fare.
John Quinn Jr celebrated his first Thanksgiving as Suffolk county sheriff by serving a chicken dinner to 300 male and 60 female prisoners at the Charles Street jail. The meal included apple sauce sweet potatoes mince pie fruit and coffee.
The South Ends and St. Charles Co. T. A. S. fought to a 0 0 tie at Library Park in Woburn yesterday. Both teams produced a hard fought game but failed to score.
The Winthrop Midgets defeated the Dorchester Midgets 4 to 2 in a fast game at Winthrop High School gym last night. Winthrop scorers were Bond and Millen, and Dorchester’s Kennedy scored.
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