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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1917
Page
5
Boston will greet the Belgian mission with the citys largest military and civic parade in years. The reception committee plans the central patriotic demonstration honoring Belgium and its small army which held back the Germans until France and England mobilized.
Baron Moncheur and associates of the Belgian Mission will visit the city for two days with an elaborate program planned. Russian commissioners arriving the same day may join. the event will also bid farewell to Massachusetts National Guardsmen heading to Charlotte NC mobilization camps before overseas service to aid in defending France and Belgium.
The Eighth and Ninth Regiments and possibly the Fifth join a parade with sailors marines State Guard units and Belgian society representatives from New England. Tomorrow Belgian delegates address the constitutional convention at the State House then attend a public reception at Faneuil Hall. They tour historic sites including Concord Lexington and Gaston Common where W Bourke Cochran will speak. A Copley Plaza reception and dinner end the two days of events.
The will of Mrs. Ellen A. Cain lists several bequests to Catholic institutions. Gifts include 400 dollars to Holy Ghost Hospital Incurables Cambridge and 100 dollars to multiple Boston area charities and schools.
Roslindale residents protested sleep disturbance from dancers at the Normac Bungalow in Murray Hill. Mayor Curley revoked the dance license, stating sleep is more important than dancing in announcing the ruling.
Mrs. George W. Wardner sits on her veranda at 75 Rosseter Street Dorchester and tells a Boston Post reporter how housewives can manage their chores and stay cool during the 98 degree heat.
Mrs. Wardner aged 89 and her husband 89 share a home life based on an early start and calm routine. Their daily creed emphasizes hard work, harmony, and staying active to endure heat and aging gracefully.
Six hundred members of the John T. Connor Associates and their families attended the ninth annual outing at Norum bega Park. They arrived before noon, enjoyed a basket lunch, and took part in games and races. A morning ball game between Connolly district and Jones district supervisors ended 2 to 1 for Jones.
Dean Edwin F. Gay of Harvard Business School was forced to postpone his lecture on The Economic Conduct of the War at Harvard Summer School because of a minor heat illness. In his stead, Dr. Julius Klein spoke on South America and the War, with Gay rescheduling the original talk for next week.
A committee of striking workers met with George Lawley & Son Ship Building Corp superintendent Fred Lawley in Neponset. Lawley proposed a 20 cent daily raise plus a rating system for further increases. The workers refused, demanding a flat 50 cent daily rise for all employees.
Mrs Thomas Robertson age sixty of Crescent street mailed a letter into alarm box No 414 at a newly installed Signal station yesterday. Quincy firemen dashed two miles during the hot day responding to the unusual call and found Mrs Robertson had pulled the box hook as instructed and mailed the letter herself.
Ten people were hurt when a light engine collided with the Airline train from New Haven on the New York New Haven Hartford line in Willimantic Conn. Three were hospitalized including Mrs Annie Zimbel of Chelsea Mass Mrs Fannie Heller of Colchester Conn and Miss Sadie Leinstein of New York City. Most injuries came from flying glass.
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