01 Jan 1876
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Newspaper
Massachusetts Cambridge Chronicle
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1876
Page
1
A prose collage presents poems about love and loss, then a column laments East Cambridge lacks a public library. It argues for a free, neighborhood library funded by local benefactors and cites a Woburn donor as a precedent. The piece urges Harvard-adjacent residents to fund educational access.
Christmas was observed as a holiday with family gatherings and gifts. On Christmas Eve the Universalist Sunday school children dined in the church vestry. Christmas night the Methodist Sunday-school children were entertained by Harry Bryant the ventriloquist and got gifts from a Christmas tree at the Mission of the Ascension Church.
The East Cambridge church published a Christmas morning choir performance and Holy Innocents Day program with candies and oranges given to children. The column also shares humorous “answers to correspondents” from the New York Ledger department, featuring local names and satire about whiskey, clothing, transit manners, and other social quirks.
Recounted events include a Poor Society lecture at Universalist Church on Otis Street by Rev. W. A. Start with clergy attendance urged and a charitable appeal. Also reports from Post 57 GAR officers for 1876, Daughters of Rebekah officers, Union Div No 8 and S of T officers, a young people assembly at Harugari Hall, governance notes from city politics, and local social updates including a wedding, a death, a bridge reconstruction, and a club program for next week debating clerical versus legal professions.
Regular correspondent reports on the Odd Fellows dance at Porter's Hotel with large prizes to be drawn next week. Universalist Sunday School Christmas Concert at Allen Street Church featured a children’s program and messages about love and Christian truths. A Dramatic and Musical Entertainment by Temperance Hall next Wednesday, 25 cents, with H. S. Andros and Mrs Andros and Miss Little performing. The Universalist church on North Avenue nears completion and the building committee earns praise for progress. The funeral services of the late Mr.
Brattle Square’s City Building was to be occupied by multiple departments today after the police took possession last week. The fire and telegraph rooms, drawing schools, armory, court rooms, and Overseers of the Poor office were all set to move in, with furnishings by E. H. Brabrook & Co. and fixtures by Pan P. Adams.
A set of humorous and provocative snippets from street chatter and local remarks. Topics range from morbid jokes about hangings in Louisiana to a Detroit woman's memory struggles with mince pie ingredients and social barbs about scholars and beer saloons. A wife teases a husband about baldness prompting a sharp response.
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