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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1917
Page
7
Harriet A. Varney of West Upton sits with the other woman prisoner in the women's wing of the jail during Thanksgiving. Her trial for the murder of Mrs. Pauline A. Keyes in Brookline last summer is set to begin next Monday at the Norfolk county courthouse in Dedham.
More than 600 residents of the Mt. Pleasant district attended the double flag raising at the Dudley Street police station yesterday afternoon. Lieutenant Albert F. Lovell unfurled an American flag donated by Charles W. Girard of Roxbury, and Sergeant W. J. Flynn unfurled a service flag with seven stars. Uniformed patrolmen joined in the ceremony as they sang The Star Spangled Banner and America.
Three leading Hebrew congregations in Greater Boston joined for a union Thanksgiving service at Temple Ohabei Shalom. Attending temples included Temple Israel Temple Mishkan Tefila and Temple Ohabei Shalom on Commonwealth Avenue. Rabbis Nowak Levi and Rubenovitz spoke on home community and nation themes. A special musical program was performed by Cantor Wolkowich and choir.
Every officer patient and inmate at city institutions in Boston had turkey or chicken with fixin's for dinner yesterday. Sheriff Kelcher at the Charles Street jail closed the day with a moving picture and vaudeville show rivaling any Boston movie house.
The Salvation Army served 1600 dinners to hungry children at the Vernon Street social centre in Boston. About 2000 pounds of chicken and large quantities of produce and bread were used. Colonel Adam Gifford led the serving with the Boston community contributing meals and support. Lewis R. Sullivan, member of the Governor's Council, spoke to the children and urged faith and honesty before a moved crowd.
Members of the Lexington First Baptist Church hosted four Camp Devens cadets and four Harvard Radio Training School youths for Thanksgiving dinners yesterday. The pastor Rev. George Loring Thurlow oversaw the community gesture as part of a holiday outreach.
President Wilson kept a quiet Thanksgiving reading in his study with Mrs Wilson. They attended church services at Metropolitan Methodist, skipped a planned drive due to rain, and joined a Navy Relief Society ball. Dinner with household members emphasized simple, conservation minded fare.
A shipment by the American Tobacco Company was sent directly to the Red Cross in France with reasonable assurance of delivery to the boys at the front and in overseas training camps by Christmas.
The Columbia Amusement Company across Boston and the American Circuit organized Smokes Week. Burlesque theatres collected about 30 000 dollars for soldiers. The American Tobacco Company will ship 120 000 kits to France containing cigarettes tobacco and rice as compliments from the theatres and patrons.
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