Unusual Veteran Parade Impresses Nation Yesterday
A great parade of veterans featured numerous incidents and striking displays. Reported as one of the most remarkable and impressive spectacles of its kind ever witnessed in the country.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1904
Page
9
Boston Crowd Packs Streets for Historic Parade
Boston officials catalogued yesterday's parade attendance with estimates of 1.75 million in the city and 1.04 million watchers. Elevated and trolley lines carried hundreds of thousands, traffic halted, and many spectators pressed along windows and roofs seeking views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Cruiser Diana Arrives at Vladivostok, News Agency Dispatch
A St Petersburg telegram to a family reports that the cruiser Diana has reached Vladivostok. The Navy officer relayed the arrival in a despatch from London dated August 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vladivostok
London
St. Petersburg
Diana
Facts and figures of the big parade in one long line
Public attendance reached 1 040 000 with all states represented as 800 policemen protected the route. The procession featured 20 mounted police 158 brass bands and drum corps 2981 musicians 47 girls and women 150 Sons of Veterans and 295 horses. Five and a half hours passed a given point while crowd heat prostrations set records. Grandstand seating held 15 000.
Massachusetts Veterans groups host national officers at Nantasket Beach
On Wednesday afternoon and evening the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of Veterans will entertain the national officers of both the Ladies' Aid Society of S Veterans and the Sons of Veterans at Nantasket Beach where a fish dinner will be served. Thursday evening the Massachusetts Society Ladies' Aid and Sons of Veterans will give the national officers a reception at their headquarters in the Revere House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Society of the Sons of Veterans
Ladies’ Aid Society
National Encampment and Veteran Events Across Boston Area
Delegates gather at Tremont Temple and other venues for the National Encampment of the G A R and related reunions, with presiding officers and public luncheons. A Naval ship launching, carnival on the Charles River, and multiple veterans associations hold reunions, receptions, ocean trips, and district meetings throughout the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C
Tremont Temple
Park Street Church
National Ladies of the G A R Send Greetings from Boston
The National Society of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic gathered in Boston for the 18th national convention, sent heartfelt thanks to Massachusetts for the warm welcome and splendid preparations. Belinda S. Bailey, National President, expresses appreciation from 25 departments nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Rich
Boston University
D. OF V
Chipman Hall
Tremont Temple
Ladies’ Aid Society
S. of V
Gilbert Hall
National Society of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
Boston
United States
Massachusetts
Belinda S. Bailey
PUBLIC RECEPTION BY ARMY NURSES
The Massachusetts Army Nurses Association holds a public reception this afternoon from 4 to 6 at Memorial Hall in the State House. Miss Clara Barton and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore assist with receiving duties. Governor Bates will attend and no tickets are required. Mrs. Micah Dyer, chairwoman, invited Spanish war nurses to attend.
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Cumberland
Navy Yard
Charlestown
Peter Norton
Morton
Governor Bates
Massachusetts Army Nurses’ Association
Doric Hall
State House
Bates
Memorial Hall
Clara Barton
Mary A
Livermore
Micah Dyer
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Boston & Worcester
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Revere Beach
Lynn Road
General Blackmar
The
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Common Council
City Hall
Symphony Hall
John C. Black
Knights of Malta
Chelsea
F. B. Hutchinson
Washington Street
Nineteenth Army Corps
Parker House
Aaron Wilkes Post
New Jersey
Horton Dunbar
Maine
Reno
Horace B. Claflin
New York
Fortieth New York Volunteers
George H. Thomas
Chicago
Joseph Hooker
Washington Elm Chapter
D. C
Children of the American Revolution
Colonial Building
Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Regimental Association
Revere House
Massachusetts Division
Sons of Veterans
Nantasket
Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry
Sharpshooters’ Association
New England
Veterans of the Department of the South and South Atlantic
Old Tenth Corps
Winthrop School
Tremont Street
Roanoke Association
Charles River
Waltham
Riverside
Massachusetts Department
Ladies of the G. A. R
Lorimer Hall
M. E. Church
Columbus Avenue
U. S. Grant Post
Melrose
Veterans of
Malden
Stoneham
Wakefield
Reading and
Saugus
Illinois
John C. Shottz
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