Dorchester Day 10 Mile Run Draws Star Entrants
Dorchester Day features include a 10 mile cross country run at 2 pm from the municipal building on Columbia road to Mattapan square and back to Franklin Field with Hugh McGrath as starter. North Dorchester A A lists 19 runners with numbers and clubs among Brookline YMCAs and Dorchester groups. Prizes total nearly 1500 dollars across district playground events and a municipal ball at Roger Wolcott School with free dancing lunch and coat checks, all tickets claimed.
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Columbia Road
Mattapan Square
Franklin Field
St. Mark’s Garden Party
Municipal Hall
Roger Wolcott
Mattapan Civic Improvement Association
Mars
Louise C. Duffy
Fitzgerald
John F. Duffy
North Dorchester A. A
Municipal Building
Blue Hill Avenue
Pope’ & Turner
Milton
Hugh McGrath
Thomas Conrick
A. G. Horne
Brookline Gymnasium
E. Clark
Chelsea Y. M. C. A
E. B. Kempton
A. B. Horne
Cc. B. Thompson
Hyde Park H
Israel. Saklad
Dorchester
Howard A. Pearce
George J. Balch
Wellington A
Christopher Robinson
Walter R. Boone
Robert A. Stone
Patrick Lally
North Dorchester
A. A
Thomas Lilley
Parade Route of School Cadets Led by Mayor and Colonel
Cadet parade assembles at the high school at 10 with Colonel William G. Brooks in command. They proceed to Peabody square via Ashmont and Ocean streets, meet Mayor Fitzgerald at 10:15, then march in line to Washington Street and on to School and Harvard streets ending at Franklin Field. List of local cadets and affiliations follows.
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William G. Brooks
Peabody Square
Ashmont Street
Ocean Street
Welles Avenue
Fitzgerald
Brooks
Washington Street
Harvard Street
Blue Hill Avenue
Talbot Avenue
Franklin Field
Air Man Atwood to circle Dorchester from Franklin Field
Roxbury flyer Harry N. Atwood will fly from Squantum to Franklin Field and circle over Dorchester today. Mayor Fitzgerald plans to greet Atwood on the field and may land briefly. afterward Atwood will hover over the Mayor's lawn party on Welles avenue dropping souvenirs.
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Fitzgerald
Franklin Field
Harry N. Atwood
Roxbury
Dorchester
Welles Avenue
Atwood
Lawn Party at Mayor Fitzgeralds Residence
Preparations are complete for a lawn party at Mayor John F. Fitzgerald’s residence in Dorchester to benefit St. Mark's Church. Thousands of parishioners will attend as bunting lights, calcium lighting, Japanese lanterns, and a Star Spangled display decorate the grounds. Rose and Agnes Fitzgerald direct a pop concert and band music followed by dancing for hundreds of guests.
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St. Mark’s Church
Dorchester
John F. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerld
Rose
Agnes Fitzgerald
Stage Matters Boston Theatre Hosts Bernhardt Farewell
Boston Theatre opens with two Bernhardt performances today Sister Beatrice and Jean Marie in the afternoon and Madame X in the evening Lindsay Morison stock company also reports crowded houses through the week in both sessions
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Boston
Mme. Sarah Bernhardat
Beatrice
Jean Marie
Madame X
Lindsay Morison
Cascarets Promote Health Benefits and Daily Cheer
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a daily laxative that prevents and cures bowel troubles. It claims broad benefits for men women and children and urges immediate use with a pocketable box for ten cents.
First Flight From Waltham Aerodrome
Dorchester Day programme lists multiple events across Dorchester venues from 1 p m to 10 p m. includes band concerts baseball games vaudeville moving pictures and fireworks with the first flight from Waltham Aerodrome announced. Mayor Fitzgerald to open speedway and Edward Everett statue rededication noted.
Theatre line offers long run amid summer crowds
The Majestic Theatre keeps The Chorus Lady playing for another week due to high demand. Valeska Suratt performs The Red Rose at Tremont Theatre today, while The Commuters ends a long Park Theatre run as summer crowds fill Boston venues with multiple acts and new reels at the New Palace and Globe theaters. Newark
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Valeska Suratt
Tremont Theatre
Miss Suratt
Park Theatre
Boston
Colonial Theatre
Ralp Herz
Doctor de Luxe
Gordon Brothers
Kangaroo
Jeff
B. F Keith's
Eddie Leonard
Mabel Russell
Martinnetti
Sylvester
Linton
Lawrence
Arthur Whitelaw
Henrietta McDaniel
Castle Square
Mr. Craig
Austin and Stone’s
Moward
Human Dynamo
Fyall
Marton
New Palace Theatre
Boyd
Lorenzo
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Hub Theatre
Alice McAvoy
Young Sisters
Ward & Culhane
Shorty DeWitt
Frances Stewart
Newmans
Billy the Drew Sisters
Elsie Lavedau
Nelson
Oswald
Borger
Deizhan
Honan
Heim
Gardone
Orpheum
First Flights From Metz Aerodrome by J V Martin
Aviator James V. Martin vice-president of the Harvard Aeronautical Society made the first flights at Metz Aerodrome Waltham late yesterday afternoon circling inner and outer meet courses six miles total He plans a Boston flight today weather permitting using his baby White biplane on Claude Grahame White plans
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Metz
Waltham
James V. Martin
Harvard Aeronautical Society
Harvard
Boston
Claude Grahame- White
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Pacific Northwest
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Robert DeMar
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Clarence DeMar
Giles Threadgold
Joan Fleming
Patrick Catalano
Alfred Nyman
Thomas Wilkinson
James Chisholm
Karl B
Louis J. Keezing
Dorchester Y. M. H
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Franklin
Ford
the Press Publishing Co
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Bill
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Ashmont
Eaton Square
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dorchester Gentlemen's Driving Club
Locust Street
Savin Hill
Neponset
Pierce Square
Lower Mills
William E. Russell School
Dorchester Historical Society
Edward Everett Square
Savin Hill Club
Dorchester High School
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Greenbrier Tonawanda
Bloomfield Streets
Waltham Aerodrome
Martin
McCormick and Diving
Paragon Park
Palm Garden
Lagoon
Mace Gay
Grand Opera Trio
Paragon Quartet
Marie Ungvarsky
Norumbega Park
Village Choir
Les Ploetz-Lavella
Rastus Brown
Bob Taylor
Frank Carmen
Faust Brothers
Bass Point
Nahant
King Philip
Commercial Wharf
Edward Dixon
Lexington Park
Edna Simmons
Provincetown
Dorothy Bradford
Plymouth Colony
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