Sunday Sermon Sparks Mass Prohibition Rally in Boston
Sunday stirred 40,000 people with a fiery prohibition sermon at a Boston Tabernacle. 8,000 remained after the meeting, passing resolutions urging Senators Lodge and Weeks to back every prohibition measure. He denounced liquor interests with fierce rhetoric, warned against gin mills, and tied their fate to two million American boys, rallying a massive, chaotic crowd.
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Boston Evangelist Billy Sunday Denounces Saloons in Prohibition Push
Sunday delivers forceful speeches in Boston urging a total ban on liquor. He argues liquor fuels crime poverty and insanity, cites tax losses and social harms, and calls for church members to vote against saloons while praising prohibition. He includes brutal statistics and vivid homelife imagery to rally support.
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America
Billy Sunday to Stay Home All Day in Boston Campaign News
Mr and Mrs Sunday will stay at 324 Commonwealth avenue all day while the Sunday party plans a New York conference with the executive committee at the Hotel Astor at noon. The address outlines Sunday rhetoric linking temperance to national welfare plus a vivid critique of saloons and liquor traffic.
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William Asher
Florence Kinney
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Rome
Capitol
Washington
Speech against liquor drives and votes for prohibition
A fiery orator denounces the whiskey trade, blaming Congress and liquor interests for hunger and social ills. He urges a water wagon and vows hell to those who vote for or sell whiskey, arguing alcohol funds crime and ruins families while flour meat and calico remain unaffordable.
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Notable figures attend service and laud candidate
Among those present were ex-Representative Thomas Giblin of East Boston ex District Attorney Thomas Lavelle Postmaster Murray ex-Governor Foss and others. Giblin praised the candidate calling him a winner who will make the city dry.
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Sunday Tabernacle collections compare across cities
First 25 days of Sunday campaign collections show Philadelphia 43,964.92 and Detroit 46,602.55, with gains in Kansas City 32,385.60 and Syracuse 22,199.06 while Boston had no Monday meetings. The figures indicate varied regional fundraising performance during the campaign’s early period.
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Prohibition Sermon Calls Out Pure Beer Taint and Demands Vote
A speaker denounces diluted whiskey and steam aged beer, accusing distillers of corrupting liquor and demanding a stand against prohibition. He challenges American men to pledge to vote against it and tests the crowd in Boston Massachusetts.
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Hell
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Pledged Funds Grow Toward Jewish Philanthropies Drive
More than 100000 was pledged in New York today toward a 2000000 fund for Jewish philanthropic societies. The drive total reached 1832219.
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Forbush Rites in South Boston Observe Fort Hill Roots
In South Boston on December 10 Catherine A Forbush widow of the late Joan Forbush formerly of Fort Hill funeral from her residence 117 F street Tuesday December 13 at 8 am high mass at St Augustine's Church at 9 o'clock relatives and friends invited.
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Award Prizes To bostonians
The National Academy of Design announced winners in its winter exhibition. Prizes include Howard Russell Butler for meritorious oil painting by an American artist, Philip L Hale for best portrait, Lawton Parker and E Irving Couse for figures or genre painting, George Fellows for youth under 35, Marie J Page for American woman artist new prize, Herbert Adams for sculpture, and Laura Gardin-Fraser for best sculpture under 30.
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Chicago
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Herbert Adams
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Beatrice Hale Backs Brookline High Standard Theatre
English actress Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale spoke at the Brookline Civic Forum at Harvard Congregational Church urging a first class moving picture house. She said a Brookline theatre would be beneficial if it maintains high standards and offers suitable shows for children, noting youths would otherwise travel to Boston for cinema.
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