Gorgeous Electric Pageant to Pass Through the Streets Tonight
A dazzling electric parade featuring 19 floats with maidens and youths will glide from Lenox street car barns at 8 pm through Boston and Cambridge. Led by Col William H. Oakes, mounted police and autos, with a marching band, the procession visits multiple streets and culminates back at Lenox barns.
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Boston
Cambridge
Lenox
William H. Oakes
Oakes
Bunker Hill and
Sackville Streets
Lenox Street
Colum
Tablet to Boys Who Opposed British Is to Be Unveiled Today
Dedication ceremonies unfold in Boston to honor the interview between General Frederick Haldimand and Boston Latin School youths. The tablet on School street faces the Benjamin Franklin statue in City Hall garden. Boston leaders and alumni join under Charles Kimball Darling as Robert Treat Paine unveils it. The event proceeds to Shaw monument and Beacon street, with Rev. Edward Everett Hale delivering the King's Chapel address. Mayor Fitzgerald expected to accept for the city.
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Frederick Haldimand
Boston Latin School
School Street
Benjamin Franklin
City Hall Garden
Oston
Sons of the American Rrevolution
Shaw Monument
Charles Kimball Darling
Beacon Street
Coast
Robert Treat Paine
Laration
Independence
King’s Chapel
Edward Everett Hale
D. D
Haldimand
Fitzgerald
John L Sullivan Seeks Old Home Week Welcome
John L Sullivan declares fond attachment to Boston while admitting pleasure in visiting friends elsewhere and enjoying brief alfalfa while touring. The remark frames a sentiment of hometown ties and social connection.
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John L. Sulivan
Blessing When Churches Burn Urges Mergers for Unity
The Rev Dr Howard Anderson at Berkeley Temple argues for church mergers to strengthen shrinking congregations. He cites Boston suburbs with multiple minor creed differences and urges universal Sunday school alignment. He praises women’s higher education and Mt Holyoke College while noting past opposition by clergy.
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Howard Anderson
Berkeley Temple
Boston
Anderson
University of Chicago
Mt. Holyoke College
Jesus Christ of the Isle of Shoals sermon criticized
Reverend O P Gifford at First Baptist Church Boston denounces the Isle of Shoals convention for downplaying Jesus Christ. He contrasts Christian Science with true Christian doctrine, calling the universe a creation of God and rejecting the notion that it stems from human mind.
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First Baptist Church
Boston
Clarendon Street
Commonwealth Avenue
O. P. Gifford
D.D
Christ
Isle of Shoal
Christian Science Church
God
Women’s Orchestra to Play at Mechanics Hall Boston
For Old Home Week Boston features the Empire Women’s Orchestra led by Rita Mario. Twenty five members perform nightly from 8 to 10:30 at Mechanics Hall under city auspices, with solos by Louise Horne Nellie M Hoone Charlotte Gary and Lauretta De Lone.
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Boston
Empire Women’s Orchestra
Rita Mario
Mechanics
Empire Women's Orchestra
Mechanics’ Hall
City of
Louise Horne
Nellie M. Hoone
Charlotte Gary
Lauretta de Lone
Fairbanks Family Reunion Draws 1000 To Old Home Week
Nearly a thousand Fairbanks relatives are expected in the city during Old Home Week. They will attend large meetings and on the 80th visit the old homestead in Dedham with speeches by notable figures. A family supper with receptions, toasts, a poem, and music follows at Berkeley Temple.
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Fairbanks
Dedham
Old Homestead
W. E. Barton
D. D
Chicago
A. S. Roe
Worcester
Josiah Quincy
Boston
Wilson H. Fairbanks
Warren
Berkeley Temple
Jonathan
Margaret L. Ray
Franklin
Ella Fairbanks
H. B. Fairbanks
Watertown
N. Y
A. C. Smith
Fitchburg
Henry Fairbanks
St. Johnsbury
Martha M. Allen
Walpole
Alice H. Dow
Braintree
C. S. Emmons
Newton
Boston Men Arrested in Crowds at Quincy
Quincy July 28 Boston hosts large crowds for Old Home week with visitors heading to Nantasket Beach and Houghs Neck. Pickpockets operated as valuables disappeared. Chief Burrell Lieutenant McKay and Patrolman Lyons pursued suspects arresting two men named George Bush and James Boyd who claimed residences at 626 Tremont Street and 24 Buckingham Street in Boston.
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Quincy
Boston
Nantasket Beach
Hough's Neck
Burrell
McKay
Lyons
Turner Welcomed by Boston Turnverein for Old Home Week
The Boston Turnverein hosted Old Home Week in Boston at 29 Middlesex Street with a sacred concert and reunion. In Europe absent president Dr A Wengenwrothe the event was led by F C Chandler and RB EF A Demuth. An orchestra played national selections and a choir performed German and American patriotic airs under Alfred Ritchell. The Arbeiter Turnverein joined Boston in the celebration under the house committee and board of management.
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Boston Turnverein
Boston
Middlesex Street
Europe
A. Wengenwrothe
F. C. Chandler
EF. A. Demuth
Alfred Ritchell
Arbeiter Turnverein
Boston Society
House Committee
Board of Management
Better Men Wanted in Boston Mayor’s Chair
The Bromfield Methodist pastor urges Boston to seek manly men in leadership and on the streets. He warns of looming political danger from corruption and mobs, urging statesmanlike governors and a city built on manhood, education, and civic virtue. He cites Washington and McKinley as ideals and contrasts Boston’s current drift with a safer, nobler future.
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George F. Durgin
Bromfield Methodist Church
City Hall
Boston
Washington
McKinley
White House
New York
Massachusetts
Old Home Week Sermon Draws Crowds at Tremont Temple
Dr. Roland Dwight Grant, national See America First League secretary, spoke to a packed Tremont Temple crowd during Old Home Week. He praised Boston, warned against intrusive signs, contrasted New York and Boston, debated Darwin, and urged study of spiritual welfare. He urged interpreting the earth as God’s days not human hours.
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Tremont Temple
Roland Dwight Grant
Scenic America
See America First League
Grant
Temple
John Hancock House
Old State House
John Hancock
Andrew Jackson
George Washington
George the
Patrick Henry
Cook
Rhode Island
George III
England
Dr. Grant
Darwin
List
Marine Park Crowded By About 60000 Visitors
South Boston saw a large turnout as Marine Park drew an estimated sixty thousand visitors from early morning to night. At Castle Island Fort Independence hosted day rests while Strandway yacht clubs wore festive decor and Dorchester Heights monument glowed with incandescent lights visible across the district and harbor. Businesses also illuminated storefronts for the occasion.
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Boston
Marine Park
Castle Island
Fort Independence
Dorchester Heights
Bonaparte Denies Presidency In North Carolina Rate Case
Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte, staying at Hotel Aspinwall, stated no presidential involvement in the North Carolina 214 cent passenger rate dispute. He said reports of presidential instructions or military action were unfounded and the case will likely reach the U S Supreme Court after railroads appeal. The department will enforce federal court orders through regular agencies.
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Lenox
Charles J. Bonaparte
Hotel Aspinwall
North Carolina
Raleigh
N. C
United States Supreme Court
Bonaparte
Department
Epidemic of Hive Rashes Promoted By Circulating Ad
Promotes a liquid called X Zalia to wet inflamed skin to stop itching halt the rash spread and hasten healing, presenting it as a remedy during an outbreak.
East Boston to Start Celebration Tonight With Mammoth Bonfire
East Boston will begin Old Home Week with a massive bonfire 50 feet tall, built of 10 carloads of railroad ties at Prescott street and Nep tune avenue. About 20,000 are expected to view the spectacle, with readers guided via tunnel exit routes to East Boston.
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Boston
Neptune Avenue
Mammoth
Prescott Street
The
Post
East
Lexington Street
Orient Heights
Saw Families United at Old Home Week Service
The Rev H Clinton Hay praised the Old Home Week institution at the Church of the New Jerusalem Bowdoin street Boston urging a hearty welcome for returning families. James N Cornell of Selma Alabama 70 visited opposite State House Park and recalled his 30 years away from Boston saying no place like Boston. He was a leather merchant here 35 years ago and once lived on Warren street Roxbury.
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Boston
H. Clinton Hay
Church of the New Jerusalem
Bowdoin Street
State House Park
James N. Cornell
Selma
Alabama
Post
Cornell
Warren Street
Roxbury
Old Home Week in Boston At Mass Ave Obituary Note
Acrostic tribute for Old Home Week in Boston praising happiness and friendship. Includes a blessing to visitors, references to city improvements and a note honoring Louanna Olivia Williams age 86 of 665 Massachusetts Avenue Boston.
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Lousanna Olivia Williams
Massachusetts Avenue
Boston
Mass
Texas liquor law shuts about 500 saloons
Austin report says new liquor restrictions have closed roughly 500 saloons across Texas by July 28, reflecting a sweeping regulatory impact on small vendors and local nightlife.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
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