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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1916
Page
5
Reverend George G. Dowey of St. Pauls Reformed Episcopal Church Philadelphia spoke at Dudley Street Baptist Church detailing preparations in Boston ahead of Billy Sundays evangelist campaign.
Dr. Dewey praised Sunday campaigns citing Philadelphia results with 12 000 new members in top 100 churches and 20 000 men in Bible classes, arguing campaigns build the church and reduce saloon power and pledging to mobilize Philadelphia if needed. He urged Boston churches to witness the gospel through organized teams and broad outreach.
Harvard University senior and junior social season reaches new heights as the junior prom takes place in the Harvard Union on Friday night with a full-house guest list. Dancing starts at nine with a midnight supper, and the program features twenty dance numbers including eight fox trots seven one steps and five waltzes.
Mrs Mary C Daly marks what she calls the 934 anniversary of her birth with a reception at 1298 Massachusetts avenue Dorchester attended by four children and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is in good health reads the Post daily and follows European fronts and enjoys weekly movie outings. Of ten children seven survive with four living in Greater Boston including Edward Daly a South Boston druggist who shares her home.
Harvard Medical School audience heard Dr. F H Verhoeff warn that impaired sight often stems from milk consumption, especially in children, during a lecture on diseases of the eye delivered yesterday afternoon.
A speaker warns the audience that tuberculosis germs from cattle can affect lymph glands and eyes urging pasteurized milk. He links hatpin pricks and substances like alcohol and tobacco to blindness and stresses regular eye checks for unequal pupils and vision issues.
Mer Splaine spoke to the Sacré Coeur Heart Club an Italian youth group in the North End at a communion breakfast yesterday morning. The club members attended the 8 o clock mass at the Church of the Sacred Heart then went to the New American House for the meal with Miss Kittie Cassassa directing the club.
The Rev Joseph F Coppinger schedules four federation mass meetings across South Boston parishes. The first at St Augustine's School hall on FE street at 3 PM next Sunday, with Hon Joseph D Fallon presiding. Speakers include Mer Splaine, Joseph F Coppinger, William J Day, Frederick W Mansfield and Francis E Slattery. A 200 voice choir will sing two Cardinal O Connell hymns.
Dr Lyman A Jones of the State Department of Health warned at Dr Hale's Church that measles and whooping cough are more lethal than scarlet fever, urging parents to study death-rate charts in state records and avoid complacency as diseases rise in perceived normalcy.
The Russian Music Society schedules its third concert for Tuesday February 29 featuring soprano Mrs Woith Chapmin Gould and violinist Albert Stoessel. Gould will sing two Rimsky Korsakov groups and Moussorgsky pieces while Stoessel performs Rimsky Korsakov Fantasie de Concert and a Cesar Cui group. The event is at N Oulukanoff studio 2% Huntington Avenue at 8 pm with tea to follow hosted by Mrs John Albert Barbour and Mrs Emily Selinger.
Funeral services for John T. Trow Bridge are set for tomorrow afternoon. The war office in Petrograd said Russians captured Garbounovka, a village on the direct road to Dvinsk, improving the defense of Dvinsk.
Former Alderman William P. Jones of Somerville announces his candidacy as a delegate to the national Republican convention on the Roosevelt ticket. His rival is ex Representative William H. Dolben, who is unpledged. Jones is a Roosevelt admirer and Harvard 1891 graduate.
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