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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1916
Page
2
Special Liquor Officer Charles W. Wyman led Cambridge police to a club room at 8 Hastings Street Cambridgeport where 19 men were rounded up on charges of presence where gaming implements were found. Officers seized cards bottles whiskey beer gin and creme de menthe during the raid.
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross drew several thousand for the Boston Society of the Propagation of the Faith reunion presided by Rev. Fr. Joseph F. McGlinchey. Officials praised Boston Catholics for supporting missions and thanked Cardinal-Archbishop as the appeal urged continued generosity to bring Christianity to distant fields.
The Rev D J O Sullivan of the Society of African Missions in Lyons preached a long sermon on St Francis Xavier and its relevance to modern missionary work. He praised the Boston archdiocese for aid and noted 65 000 missionaries and over 30 000 missions worldwide, now strained by the war.
Mrs Edward B Nevin widow of the former senator offers her Columbian and Main street property valued at 10000 dollars to Weymouth for the town s proposed school The gift requires razing the old buildings and naming the school the Edward B Nevin School
The Rev. Dr. Charles C. Earle, longtime Baptist minister and former pastor of the Ruggles Street Baptist Church in Roxbury, has been chosen to lead the First and Third Universalist churches in Weymouth and North Weymouth. He has applied to the fellowship committee seeking recognition as a Universalist minister.
The Rebecca R. Douglas went ashore on Fiddler's Ledge at Fox Island entrance yesterday and was floated today by the coast guard steamer Ossipee near Rockland Maine with no report of damage or injuries.
The Massachusetts Naval Militia aero squad will start practice this week with the new seaplane presented by Eben S. Draper of Hopedale son of the former governor. The plane rests at Crocker Park Marblehead and the naval airmen will conduct maneuvers there.
Greenwich Bleachery in East Greenwich Rhode Island with 425 workers grants a voluntary 10 percent wage increase, effective tomorrow. This marks the first local company to initiate a raise.
The Rev Dr Harry Levi at Temple Israel said prohibition is rapidly moving to end liquor traffic. He warned saloons enable vice and crime and suggested prohibition could become a political party with eventual triumph. He urged public support to curb saloon licenses.
The Executive Council of the United States of the Irish National Foresters met yesterday at Quincy House with Supreme High Chief Ranger Martin E. Joyce of Boston presiding Delegations from across the country attended and reports showed the organization financially sound and growing A Ballinor Ireland convention report noted satisfactory conditions with 1,590,000 members including New South Wales New Zealand Australia and Africa
The Roslindale Unitarian Church sermon titled Paganism up to Date argued that Billy Sunday’s church critique exposes pagan influence in modern Christianity. Rev Casson declared the revival is a revival of devil worship and warned that hell and the devil echo ancient Persian beliefs.
A critical tirade accuses Billy Sunday of placing Satan above God and denounces his revival tactics. The piece labels his theology as dangerous and mocks Unitarian influence in Boston while condemning Sunday’s assertions about converts and social reform efforts.
Massachusetts Unitarian ministers opened a December sermon series answering Billy Sunday. They argued against eternal hell and a personal devil, presenting God's mercy and a universal path to obedience as core beliefs.
The speaker argues future punishment aims to cure sin, not torment sinners, and asserts redemption will complete with all souls won to God. The passage emphasizes salvation as a collective outcome rather than individualized punishment.
Civil Service Commission bulletin lists open government posts across agencies. Exams include designing engineers for Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, petroleum economist and accountant for Bureau of Mines, Springfield Armory screwmakers, translator in Bureau of Chemistry, and dairy manufacturing specialists. Stenographers and typewriters (male) to be tested January 9. salaries from 900 to 2500 dollars annually.
British French and Japanese ministers in Pekin back their bankers in protests to China against a $5 million loan arranged with a Chicago bank. Members of the former Quintuple group object that the new American loan violates the 1918 loan agreement.
Plans are complete for the 15th annual Roscommon Benevolent Association ball and reunion at Hibernian Hall Dudley Street Roxbury next Thursday evening. Frederick W Mansfield chairs the reception committee with Thomas J Finnegan as floor director and Mayor Curley as guest of honor to lead the grand march.
Howard Sumpter a 15 year old from 41 Woburn street Lexington escaped Friday from the Lyman School Westboro for the second time in two months. He was arrested Saturday night by Patrolman James J Sullivan after being found asleep in bed at his home and spent yesterday in the Lexington lock up.
Professor Adolf Deissmann of the University of Berlin says the idea of arbitration is gaining ground in Germany. The wireless message to Rev. Charles Macfarland, secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, was made public in New York. Macfarland sought a reply in time for the League to Enforce Peace dinner on November 24.
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