Peace Flag Service Highlights Liberty Song in Boston
The Massachusetts Floral Emblem Society staged a peace flag service on Boston Common with 200 school children singing, including the world peace song by Hezekiah Butterworth and music by Christine Brown. Dr. Freedman carried The Hague peace flag as City officials raised it at noon amid broader ceremonies and speeches on liberty and world peace.
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Hezekiah Butterworth
Christine Brown
Massachusetts Floral Emblem Society
Flagstaff Hill
Boston Common
A. Shuman
America
Shuman
Ellen H. Richardson
Massachusetts Floral Emblems Society
Leontine Richardson
Elizabeth Porter Gould
William O. McDowell
LL. D
Hague
Freedman
Peace Congress
Philadelphia
Boston
Lyceum League of America
McDowell
New York
Atlantic Highlands
Society
The
England
Great Britain
China
Great Peace Country
Hague Court
Friends of America
Runnymede
Victoria
Father Hutchinson
Solomon Hutchinsons
United Nations
Parliaments of Nations
R. 8. Freedman
Bouquets for Children Distributed in Boston Common
The Boston Floral Emblem Society gave over 2000 bouquets to poor children on Boston Common from 11 to 12. Flowers from statewide florists and conservatories funded the event. Tickets were distributed through police stations, and many un-ticketed children received flowers after persistent pleas. Committee members included Mrs. John Googin and Miss Marie Seaman among others.
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Boston
Massachusetts Floral Emblem Society
Boston Common
State
John Googin
J. S. Wordsworth
A. Parker Lesser
Elizabeth Merrit Goss
C. S. Blackmar
Alice Joselyn
Nellie M. Atwood
M. Ella Tuttle
M. Anna Soule
Marie A. Seaman
Anna Stevens
Margaret A. Richards
Freda Henson
Dorchester's Day Fireworks and Games Draw Big Crowd
Dorchester closed the holiday with band concerts and a large fireworks display at the old town field. Morning athletic events at Gibson playground directed by Alderman Hennessey featured winners in races and field events, plus tug of war between divisions. Evening programs included fireworks at city expense and concerts at Ashmont Greenbrier Tonawanda streets and Franklin Field drawing sizable crowds.
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Dorchester
Gibson Playground
Alderman Hennessey
Louis Neederberg
D. Redhouse
J. Kennedy
E. Burgess
J. Beaton
W. Mullaney
J. Braley
J. Murphy
E. Siney
Boston Elevated
Suffolks
Bowdoins
J. Conners
J. J. Daley
Thomas Murphy
D. Gong
John Dewire
M. D. Toohey
John Andrews
Old Town
Ashmont
Greenbrier
Tonawanda Streets
Franklin Field
Carriage Runaway After Cartridge Explosion Injuries
A horse spooked by a cartridge explosion near Hotel Tudor in Nahant threw Crowley and Butterfield from a closed carriage. Crowley sustained a severe head injury and is reported dying at Lynn Hospital. Butterfield is severely hurt and taken home.
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Lynn
A. L. Crowley
Charles E. Hayden
Hayden & Stone
Boston
John Butterfield
Nahant
Butterfield
Crowley
Tudor
Lynn Hospital
Independence Day Sports Celebrate Chelsea Event
In Chelsea the Fourth of July started with races on the Everett avenue oval and a championship baseball game between the Glenmonts and Highland A A under city auspices. The Working Boys Band of Newton played. juvenile races and baseball followed at East Side Park with evening concerts and fireworks.
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Chelsea
Everett Avenue Oval
Glenmonts
Highland A. A
Working Boys’ Band of
Newton
East Side Park
East Side Improvement Association
Lincoln Hall
Father Power
R. Perry Bush
Willard Howland
Everett Officials Battle in Morning Game at Glendale Park
In Everett on July 4 two baseball games drew crowds. The Board of Aldermen beat the Commons Council 13 to 12 in seven innings at Glendale Park. An amateur game followed, with a fireworks display lighting the evening.
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Everett
Glendale Park
Board of Aldermen and Commons Council
Council
Fitchburg Wins Guards Reunion Prize Drill
Fitchburg companies with about 400 participants won the prize drill defeating Worcester 274 to 260 of 340. Gardner led in athletics scoring 33 points to 81 over Brockton.
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Fitchburg
Guarde d’Honneur
Worcester
Gardner
Brockton
Quiet Fourth in Watertown Sees Three Arrests
Watertown reports a calm Fourth of July with only three arrests. Police detained two for firing guns in the streets and one unknown man for drunkenness as festivities passed peacefully.
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Watertown
Chelsea Man Robbed of $70 in Nighttime Assault
Stanley Weymond, a Pole of 2 Medford Street Chelsea, was knocked down near midnight on Ferry Street Chelsea by four men who beat him and took his $70 roll. Weymond landed in Chelsea after crossing on the last Chelsea ferryboat. police note he was intoxicated.
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Stanley Weymond
Medford Street
Chelsea
Ferry Street
Weymond
Tammany's Fourth of July Celebration in Manhattan
The Tammany Society marked Independence Day with an annual parade in front of its wigwam on Fourteenth Street, featuring Governor Robert B. Glenn and Lieutenant-Governor Jared Y. Sanders as chief speakers. Open house followed with a luncheon for guests.
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New York
Tammany Society
Fourteenth Street
Manhattan
Robert B. Glenn
North Carolina
Jared Y. Sanders
Louisiana
Bronx
McKinley Polo and Flag Association
Knights of Columbus United
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Cavalryman Injured After Fall From Kentucky Horse
A. S. Tirrell of Dorchester, a Roxbury Horse Guards rider, was thrown from his smooth shod Kentucky horse slipping on asphalt on the way to Westfield camp. He sustained knee and hip contusions abrasions facial lacerations and multiple bruises and cuts. He received treatment at the Emergency Hospital then went to the Westfield field hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westfield
A. S
Tirrell
Quincy Street
Dorchester
Roxbury Horse Guards
Westfield Camp
Davis Street Fourth Celebration Honors Independence
In Boston on Davis street, youths gathered in front of Mrs. Lottie Milliken’s residence as Max Henry Newman read the Declaration of Independence and spoke on the day’s significance. Fireworks followed amid cheers while a lawn tree glowed with Japanese lanterns.
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Lottie Milliken
Davis Street
Boston
Young America
Max Henry Newman
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Boston Carmo
Christ
New
Dr. McDowell
Earth
United States of America
T. Reiner
Lillian Quint
Peewee
Rosa _ P. Heinzman
Clara P. Boynton
William H. Alline
E. E. Eaton
C. Porter Tewksbury
Gertrude Y. Bodfish
Christine Brown Wheeler
Harriet G. Minot
E. Frances Brown
Clara Randolph
Floral Emblem Society
Everett City Fathers
Tammany’s
Sunday Post
Senator Chauncey
School of Diplomacy
New England
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