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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
4
Mayor Fitzgerald urges Boston to celebrate Flag Day by unfurling the American flag at home and having schools pause for a 15 minute discourse on the flag. He stresses the flag as a symbol of emancipated humanity and patriotic duty, asking veterans to recount its history and calling for daily reverence.
Members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce were invited by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to tour the Alaska Territory. The trip would cover every major town, departing Seattle June 21 and returning a month or two later. Secretary McKibbon said few Boston members would go.
A Boston bound freight derailed two miles west of Dover, New Hampshire, disrupting traffic on the Dover branch of the Portland division of the Boston and Maine railroad for hours. A journal break caused the accident. damage was small.
June 12 The Nagahama prosecutor investigates the arrest of the American yacht Columbia owned by J Harvey Laden of the New York Yacht Club The owner says he had verbal permission from customs to enter Nagahama for repairs The Japanese government says permits allowed Miyajima and Takamatsu but not Nagahama
In Worcester on June 12 eighty three graduates received bachelor of science degrees at Worcester Polytechnic Institute commencement. Professor Ira N. Hollis delivered the address. Heinrich Schmidt, a U S golfer in Europe, is listed among the class, with his diploma awarded to his twin brother Charles Schmidt.
Mayor John F. Fitzgerald of Boston umpired two innings of a charity game at Everett High field Chelsea Street Everett as part of Chelsea Day celebrations. Carter Grammar School Alumni lost 18 to 3 to Williams Alumni after a ninth inning rally.
Mayor Fitzgerald officiated as umpire during the Chelsea Williams field day game watched by about 3000. The Williams team, featuring Steve Mahoney and Cy Eaves, dominated as Billie Robinson batted and ran with little misstep, while the crowd cheered the mayor after the action and a Nahant entertainment follows.
Agents of the Animal Rescue League brace for thousands of strays as families depart for summer. Last year the league rescued nearly 28,000 cats. this year over 11,000 have been saved so far. As people leave, many animals are brought to the league where they are electrocuted, with some placed in homes, but the majority meet death in cages.
If you missed the first chapter of Henry Kitchell Webster's serial Torn Across, readers are assured of the second instalment in next Sunday’s Post Magazine.
A vintage advertisement promotes a beauty bath using warm water with pulverized camel. It claims to remove tan freckles blotches and water marks, leaving the skin velvety and transparent. Instructions urge washing hands and arms bathing briefly in the solution twice daily, noting cost and availability at drug stores.
A large party of railway and steamboat men with ladies sails from Boston via Yarmouth on the Prince Arthur to Nova Scotia. They visit Digby Kentville Halifax St John and return to Boston June 17, with Board of Trade entertainments and special trains and boats. The Annapolis Valley is praised for its foliage and apple country status.
The Grand Commandery of Maine and New Hampshire Knights of Malta chose Concord New Hampshire as the 1914 meeting site during the closing session in Lewiston Maine. Officers elected include Grand Commander W H Beane Concord. Grand Generalissimo Warren H Rowe Bangor. Grand Captain General Charles G Fenton Derry. Grand Prelate Oscar E Sanborn Portland. Grand Recorder Thomas B Sale Portland. Grand Treasurer F L Oldfield Portland.
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