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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1916
Page
14
Judge Thomas H. Dowd addressed the Elks memorial at the Orpheum Theater urging loyalty to American citizenship and warning against malcontents and hyphenated citizens. The ceremony featured a candlelit tributes, musical performances, and a final angel tableau.
The Somerville Lodge of Elks held its annual memorial at the Olympic Theatre on Warren Avenue with IX alted Ruler Harry J. Norton presiding. Officers present included John H. Adcock Henry C. Hoyt Joseph H. Dow John S. McGowan and David H. Fulton. The address was by Hon. John F. Meaney of Woonsocket and the Beethoven Quartet provided music with Bernice Orcutt Taft as soloist. Since founding the lodge there have been 43 deaths.
Memorial exercises by the Chelsea Lodge of Elks were held in the Empire Theatre Chelsea yesterday afternoon with Judge Thomas P. Riley delivering the oration on Americanism and the World's Peace.
Dr A Gideon of the Simplified Spelling Board told the Union Park Forum that at least 100 million dollars a year is wasted in useless letters under current spelling. He based his estimate on United States census figures.
Boston unveiled a new high pressure fire system after tests around Haymarket square. Officials say the demonstration with over 100 feet of hose and noz zles from 1 1/8 to 2 inches shows potential to cut fire losses and lower insurance premiums.
Funeral services for Herbert E. Fisher former treasurer of the Boston and Maine railroad were held yesterday at the home of his son Dr. Irving I. Fisher 79 Chestnut Street Waltham.
The Christian Science board of directors declares a fund over 1 million dollars to support two growth phases. At least 600 thousand will finance a sanatorium on Lone Tree Hill Brookline and 525 thousand more will buy adjacent real estate near the Mother Church. The Mother Church vows broader, universal activity as it expands.
Patrick McDonald a 33 year old of East Cambridge died from a fractured skull after a Friday night street fight near Franklin and Pearl streets. Police have found no witnesses and ongoing inquiries seek the assailant who fled after the incident before noon yesterday.
New York December 3 resolutions passed by the Middle Atlantic Eight Hour Center urging Congress to establish an eight hour day for women and to create a women's division within the labor department. The action supports pending federal legislation and reflects reform efforts in the period.
For the first time in history mortal man invaded the sacred precincts of Zeta Alpha Sorority house at Wellesley yesterday. Wellesley girls sat at the feet of Rabindranath Tagore and became his students like his own boys at Bolpur.
The poet Rabindranath Tagore visited a Wellesley sorority where hundreds of girls gathered by a roaring fire. He read from The Crescent Moon and The Post Office after an informal reception, inscribing names in books and papers for eager students.
Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore visits Wellesley College and talks to about 100 students in the chapel and to a larger audience of 1500 in the Copley Plaza suite. He calls his Gitanjali poems inspired rather than written for publication.
A Ford collided with a trolley after hitting a hole on Blue Hill Avenue. The driver and a passenger were injured, the car smashed, and the owner decided to auction it off. He refused a check, waited two hours, then sold the vehicle and plans to sue the city of Boston.
In New York on December 3 the jury deliberated over 24 hours but could not agree in the federal case of Albert Freeman. Freeman, Julian Hawthorne, and Dr. William J. Morton faced conspiracy charges over mailing schemes to swindle mining stock investors. The three were convicted previously and sentenced, with Freeman granted a new trial on appeal.
The notice invites readers to request full quoted authorities from Father John's Medicine in Lowell Massachusetts. It claims the product is a pure wholesome body builder with no alcohol or dangerous drugs and promotes throat and lung benefits.
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