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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1913
Page
5
Cardinal Gibbons denounces government aid to build churches or fund clergy in a Baltimore sermon. He warns civil rulers could dictate church doctrines and pleads for direct, voluntary offerings from spiritual communities. He asserts abuses of civil religious liberty violate church authority.
London reports Dublin strikegoers chant protest tunes in public amid labor conflict. Pieces include God Save Larkin set to God Save Ireland, Who Fears to Speak of 98 to the red hand badge, a long verse about promises and robbing workers, and a ragtime tune for Jim Larkin's Union.
Store highlights inexpensive Christmas presents with a large stock. Examples include Gold Watches for Women from $300 and up, Sterling Silver Mesh Bags from $5, Berry Spoons at $5, Cutting glass marmalade jars with silver cover at $3, and Gillette razors in sterling silver case.
Miss Sybil Foster, 21, a graduate of the Art Museum School, has been chosen by Hughes Elliot to receive the Women's Educational and Industrial Union scholarship. She learns the silversmith trade from George Gebelein at 79 Chestnut Street, saying women can master hand-wrought silver with equal success to men.
The article lists upcoming talks by Rev. Michael J. Scanlan and Rev. Peter J. Walsi at Boston area venues, including the Cathedral and Houston College Hall, plus topics on social service, parish life, and biblical prophecies. It notes a Mt St Josephs Academy sale fundraiser in Brighton and Forty Hours devotion observances in several churches. Denis J. O Farrell invited to offer prayers at the Massachusetts Senate opening session. he previously officiated at Mayor Fitzgeralds inaugural in 1905.
In Gulfport Mississippi on December 17 the Great Southern Hotel staged a quirky Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Dicky the hotel canary. A mouse named unknown was the guest, marking an unusual pairing and longstanding friendship.
Some 3500 travelers depart Boston for European ports on December 11 for Christmas holidays. The White Star Cretic sails with 1675 passengers to Genoa, while Cunarder Alaunia and Leyland Hesperian head to Queenstown and Liverpool. Each passenger carries substantial spending money, with estimates of 3000 for second cabin and 1000 for saloon passengers, and organizers promise smooth connections home after holidays.
Mrs. Katie M. Welch age 43 wed Luther G. Welch age 66 of Littleton Illinois creating a complicated family tangle. Her first marriage produced a son Jay Welch who is now married and has a daughter Viola. Her second marriage makes her stepmother to her former husband from whom she had a divorce two years earlier.
William M. Sullivan of Fall River has been chosen as Rhode Island’s Rhodes scholar for the year by the Rhode Island committee of selection. A Harvard Law School enrollee and Brown University graduate, he excelled academically and was a standout basketball player and Phi Beta Kappa member during his undergraduate years.
In Upper Egypt a quarrel led one man to curse the other’s religion. The religious court ruled the offender renounced Islam, and by local law a Muslim woman cannot remain married to a non Muslim man.
A false death notice circulated for a Detroit man who is alive. The rumor claimed the man, listed as Mr Percival, died in July 1898 after serving in Company F, Thirty third Michigan Infantry, but friends later learned he was living.
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