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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1915
Page
2
The author Inez Hayes Gillmore hosts a visitor at her Scituate by the Sea summer home. She recalls attending Willie Ritchie vs Harlem Tommy Murphy and discusses women’s rights, education, and independence with frank, thoughtful commentary.
An advertisement urges thin readers to use Sargel with meals for two weeks to gain five to eight pounds. promises lasting fat and checks results by scales. It claims Sargel turns eaten fats into nourishing fat tissue, stops waste, and cites Boston druggists selling forty tablets per box with a money back guarantee.
At a Cambridge Business Men's Union meeting the group voted unanimously to discontinue all trading stamps on and after Thursday July 15. F Sears was reappointed pro tem chairman and A M Travers secretary.
The first industrial branch of the Traders' Credit Union was formed at a M and C Skirt Company meeting with 200 to 300 workers at 9 Federal Court. Maxwell Copelot and William J Stanton spoke in English and Dr J J Golub in Yiddish. Members were enrolled and officers to be elected. The branch targets workers lacking capital or bank credit at fair rates.
A reader from Ulster defends Irish patriots and argues Germany’s victory would free Ireland from taxation and famine. He mocks opponents of Gallagher and Carson and asserts no sectarian sides exist, claiming 4 000 000 Irish would suffer without Germany winning. Newton July 11. G A Crawford.
Dennis Donahue of Lewiston Maine writes to the editor defending Irish enlistment figures. He argues that initial wartime recruitment enthusiasm tied to the home rule bill faded once the Irish realized home rule was a sham, countering claims by Gallagher and Redmond about overstated enlistments.
A $100 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of the thief who stole a chestnut horse and harness from the team at 24 Lowell Street Boston on Tuesday July 6. The horse, weighing about 1500 pounds, had a white face and legs and a short cut mane, belonging to A Berkman and co. at Cross and Endicott streets Boston.
Letters arriving in 1815 debate Mr Gallagher’s claim that many Irish in the British army are "tinkers and rag pickers." Endorsing service, Irish veterans praise England and figures like Kitchener and Roberts. An Irish-American speaker condemns prejudice, urging sympathy for those who wear England’s uniform. Mrs Michael J Sullivan of South Boston signs.
A poem urges respect for Irish soldiers fighting in distant lands. It rebukes scornful labels like ragmen and tinkers and calls for mercy and pride in mothers who bore the fighters. Signed by John J. Fitzpatrick of the Royal Irish Fusiliers with an address in Somerville.
A reader argues Irish soldiers have long shown courage from Wellington at Waterloo to Nicholson at Delhi and Roberts at Ladysmith. Mary Hall Cummings of Woburn reflects on bravery, recalling Major Talbot and others, praising Ireland's honored dead and Britain’s remembrance.
Letter from Mrs F S Sullivan of Roslindale defending two Irish brothers serving in the Connaught Rangers. She says one wounded in an English hospital while the other fights at the front, condemning insulting remarks from Gallagher and defending loyal Irish soldiers.
Letter writer defends Ireland as part of the United Kingdom and its royal symbols, arguing Irish soldiers should fight for England as readily as Americans defend their states. He rebuts claims by David Sliney and others, recounting army life and his father’s long service in Queen Victoria’s era.
Under the Metropolitan Park Commission, the first in a series of Chelsea concerts will be held on Carter field ground next Wednesday evening. The Post 68 G A R band of Boston will render the programme.
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