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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1914
Page
7
Ideal weather and splendid services drew huge crowds as Boston marked Easter 1914. Early morning clouds cleared before sunrise and sunshine encouraged stylish attendees to stroll fashionable streets, creating a vivid scene around church parades.
On Commonwealth Avenue Huntington Avenue the Fenway Franklin Park and Aquarium grounds glow with spring colors as churchgoers and visitors enjoy floral displays music and sermons. St Pauls Cathedral and the Cathedral of the Holy Cross draw vast crowds filling auditoriums and leaving few empty seats. In the West End the Mission hosts an all day service with a hearty breakfast drawing a crowded, standing room only crowd.
Huge crowds fill Protestant churches across Greater Boston with St. Paul Cathedral and Tremont Temple among the hardest hit. Doors are closed before services as 5000 turned away at Tremont Temple. several choirs, lilies, and azaleas decorate services at numerous parishes. Some worshipers fainted and winds damaged Tremont Street storefronts.
Frank J. Perron a Worcester motorcyclist was injured when his bike collided with Archibald K. Stace s auto at Chandler and Main. Perron was taken to City Hospital with bruises and cuts. the motorcycle was demolished and Stace reported the accident to police.
Miss Kitty Gordon of Cort Theatre reported to police that her maid Miss Mary Gray and valuables over 2000 dollars vanished. Gray had worked for 18 months in Toronto before leaving Saturday night. a diamond cluster ring valued at 750 dollars and pearl earrings over 1500 dollars are missing.
The Monsignor Ronan Association of St. Peter's Church opens the Ronan Memorial Parish House on Meeting House Hill. Under James Treanor the house committee schedules bowling, pool, billiards, whist, forty-fives, checkers, cribbage, chess and dominoes, in a well equipped facility.
Newfoundlanders of Boston raised 500 dollars in cash and pledges at a mass meeting last night and plans a three week campaign to raise twenty thousand dollars for the relief of two thousand widows and orphans of sealing expedition disaster victims.
Mayor William F. Ellis and other speakers recalled 77 sealers lost in the blizzard and salved the fate of the Southern Cross with 173 souls aboard. A relief fund was organized with pledges and a Boston committee to raise 20000 dollars, while Newfoundland Parliament matches funds.
Mr and Mrs Thomas O Donnell celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at 58 South Huntington Avenue Roxbury. The couple aged 72 and 74 were visited by many friends who offered congratulations and best wishes.
The Hon Curtis Guild plans to preside at an anti suffrage mass meeting in Faneuil Hall on April 28 with delegations from across the state to oppose votes for women Speakers will include Mrs John Martin and Miss Marjorie Dorman from New York and John A Pee from New Jersey Also hoped is former President Taft as a speaker The event signals organized opposition to women's suffrage with prominent figures lining up to address the crowd.
Antonio Messina, 30, was attacked by three men he met on Sumner street East Boston shortly after 8 pm. A stranger fired four shots from a .32 caliber revolver. three hit Messina. He was taken to East Boston Relief Hospital for bullet extraction and is expected to recover barring complications.
Messina tells police three men approached on Sumner Street and one named Tony fired four shots hitting his left leg right hand and abdomen before a final bullet skimmed over his head. He lives at 69 Charter Street North End and says he knew one assailant by sight. police doubt the last name and investigate a feud as the motive.
One man was seriously hurt and several others injured when two streetcars collided at Broadway and Marshall streets in Somerville shortly after 11 o'clock. Wong Kong, a Chinaman of Teele square, sustained the most serious injuries and was taken to Somerville Hospital.
Dr Allan Foster Barnes a bacteriologist for Cambridge and prominent young physician in Greater Boston died at Massachusetts General Hospital at 1 30 yesterday morning from a severe throat affection after a brief illness An abscess formation led to his infection about ten days earlier He was treated at the hospital in Boston Cambridge resident and physician death noted in local newspaper accounts
Dr. Barnes was born in Somerville on October 6 1875 to Albert Mallard and Emily Leighton Barnes. He moved to Cambridge as a child, attended Cambridge Latin School, then Harvard College class of 18%, and Harvard Medical School graduating in 1902. He served as surgical house officer at Massachusetts General Hospital for two years under notable surgeons.
Two young men were swept into the Charles River at Auburndale after their canoe overturned. They kept afloat for several minutes before Officer Coombs of the Metropolitan Park Police rescued them as winds made the water choppy.
Passover services were held yesterday at all synagogues and in state and city institutions. Charlestown prison hosted services led by Rabbi M. Hichler and the Rev. E. Wolfowitz.
A quotation attributed to Abraham Lincoln frames honest marketing. The piece argues that Fooling the public is costly and that the Filene store pledges truth telling in pricing and advertising. It notes staff expertise and a policy to reward price error detection.
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