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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
12
Elaborate services planned across St Augustine and multiple churches. Masses at 6 to 11:15 oclock with solemn high masses. Senior choirs feature many named singers and instrumentalists. Christmas Eve and Day services include Adeste Fideles, Nazareth, and other carols with orchestra and organ.
In New York on December 24 Augusta Stetson resumes leadership of First Church Christ Scientist to restore Mary Baker Eddy’s pure form. Court battles and bans spark controversy within Christian Science as factions clash over church property and governance.
A reflective reminiscence on how Christmas returns to childhood memories after war. The piece laments lost innocence and describes a gate back to fairland opening again, inviting joy, gratitude, and simple unselfish gifts as Christmas tide heals and renews faith.
A parish-by-parish roundup lists Sunday Mass times and services. St Augustine's on Washington and Pequonnock hosts several masses and a high mass, plus Sunday school and evening vespers. St Mary's Pembroke Street offers multiple masses, Sunday school, and Christmas events. choir music planned. St Paul’s on Kosssuth features Holy Communion and sacred events. Sacred Heart on Myrtle Ave lists masses, school service, and children's mass. Other churches including St Patrick's North Avenue, St Charles East Main, Blessed Sacrament Union, St John Nepomuck Brooks Street, St James Stratford, Holy Cross Crescent Street, St Thomas Fairfield, Ste Cyr and Methodius Crescent Avenue, and St Michaels Sterling Street provide varied Sunday schedules with multiple masses, vespers, benediction, and Sunday schools.
Multiple churches in Fairfield and Clinton avenues announce a busy Christmas schedule. Protests Grace M. EB hosts talks on prohibition, along with holiday services, carols, and a pageant. First Methodist and St Luke's plan morning and evening Christmas rites, with special sermons and school pageants.
Berkeley December 24 William Shakespeare long cited as essential English will be replaced by the Bible in UC English literature classes. Upperclassmen voted 95 to 51 in favor of the Bible as the key text. Professor Clares Mills Gayter will lecture on the Bible next semester after Cayley urged weighing merits of the two subjects.
Claude Burton, a London journalist of prominence, claims to have published more verses than any living man. For twenty years he wrote about one poem daily, totaling 6360. A female cockroach insect burial scene follows as Reverend Fish Sherman Jr. lies dead, guarded by sunlight, with Reverend Donald Greene assisting. Christmas season services for children are noted at St. John's Church near Park and Fairfield.
An undertaker was sentenced for killing one hundred people by selling wood alcohol. He lamented that rivals sabotaged his business by taking all the customers, breaking his heart.
Salvation Army volunteers packed four auto loads of food and gifts for 230 needy families at the Citadel on Elm Street. Donations gathered at the High School and kettles yielded bills and coins, with large gifts including ten dollars and a drum donation total of 160 dollars. A Christmas tree event will help 500 children, while gym activities and letters to veterans in hospitals extend the charity’s reach.
Boston December 24 General Ballington Booth urged keeping families together in hard times. Volunteers of America will erect a large Boston home with a private stove and own living space to prevent family drift after disaster. Dr Edgar Banks will lecture on Buried Cities of the East at the Universalist Church December 28. Eastern Soil Pipe Manufacturers' Association will disband and open competition after two years.
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