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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1915
Page
7
Sixty five Boston clergymen and laymen from the Boston "Get Billy Sunday to Come to Boston" committee held an enthusiastic song service aboard the Boston Billy Sunday Special en route to Philadelphia. The train departed Boston this afternoon with notable religious organizers onboard.
A Boston delegation formed by roughly 200 Greater Boston churches will travel to New York to meet with the evangelists Moody and Sankey. They will return to Boston to appeal on a coming Sunday that falls on a Wednesday morning.
A Boston delegation travels with a special train to Philadelphia to recruit Billy Sunday for a city revival. The committee led by Rev. Dr. Cortland Myers and Rev. Dr. A Conrad seeks Sunday’s arrival, citing wide church support and only minor opposition. The plan includes meetings with Sunday’s team and attendance at his tabernacle services.
A train bound for Boston carried a large list of clergy and their spouses from churches across Massachusetts. The roster included ministers from Tremont Temple Park Street Congrega tion Dorchester Roxbury Cambridge Medford Lawrence and other towns.
Senator Fall of New Mexico urged U S intervention by the United States Argentina Brazil and Chile to police Mexico and restore order. He attacked General Villa claiming Villa seized a French woman in Mexico City for four days and held her against her husband who had joined France.
John F. Barry New England chess champion played 20 games simultaneously at the Boston Chess Club yesterday. He scored 17 wins and two draws with one loss. Opponents included Boyd Newell Hitchens Kinure Bellamy Allen Bubier Hill Hall Schiller Wellington Davin Pray Ringrose Brockman Robinson Slutzker. He drew with Woodbridge Major and lost to Snow.
Fairies flowers and sunbeams along with falling leaves and snowflakes formed a nature pageant at the Mechanics Building Barnard Memorial children's festival yesterday. Miss Amelia Burnham demonstrated modern dances during the event.
Nearly 100 children ages four and up joined a spring inspired dance under Mrs Lilla Wiles Wyman. Notable performances included Little Murial Crowell as a toe dancer and 4 year old Bernice De Groff in a dance di on. The cast depicted seasonal figures from Father Time to the Spirit of the Storm with elaborate flower tinted costumes.
The children's church under Superintendent Rev. Paul Drake held a Washington's Birthday festival with nearly 6000 children attending the program and then joining in ballroom dancing.
Palm Beach on February 22 hosted Washington's Birthday festivities drawing a record crowd for athletic sports directed by John F. Fitzgerald with Eben D. Jordan and Quincy Shaw as judges. Boston dignitaries attended including Mr. and Mrs. Manning Freeman Fitzgerald and Miss Agnes Fitzgerald starred in morning water sports and the evening ball as one of the prettiest attendees.
Plymouth February 22 John F Moore leading local merchant died at his home after a brief illness He was 61 born in Parsonfield Maine where with his brother he founded a dry goods store
Advertisement claims a home formula destroys the dandruff germ within one to three applications and stops hair loss. The mix includes Bay Rum Lavona de Composee menthol crystals and is applied twice daily with optional perfume for scent. It promises restoration of gray hair and even new growth after years of baldness.
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