Ireland Relief Drive Voices Intervention Call in Boston
W Bourke Cockran led a mass meeting at Symphony Hall urging U S intervention in Ireland to end British rule. The Irish relief committee raised 2330 with Boston aiming at 35000 as funds for widows and orphans amid famine warnings and renewed calls for Irish independence.
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Cuba
Ireland
W. Bourke Cockran
England
Symphony Hall
Irish Relief Committee
Boston
United States
John S. Crosby
Harvard
Bonar Law
Carson
Bourke Cochran
Rosby
East Boston
H Company
Ninth Regiment
Edward I. Kelley
Joseph Murley
Joseph P Kennedy
Columbia Trust Company
John J. Corrigan
Sumner Savings Bank
Childs
WHY U S WON SPANISH WAR
William Howard Taft argued the U S won the Spanish American War because Spain was the less prepared nation. He urged preparedness as a moral obligation and outlined the League to Enforce Peace as the only certain path to avert future international conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Spain
William Howard Taft
Cleveland
Great Britain
Venezuela
Sandy Hook
Ship wrecked crews arrive aboard Halifax liner
Crews from two wrecked vessels reach Commercial Wharf onboard the Plant line steamship Halifax from the British provinces. Four men from the three masted schooner Gracie D Chambers list Thino Lima Manuel d Olivari Eric Touxaira and Manuel Ramos. Eleven seafarers from the British steamer Stormount wrecked off Nova Scotia on June 20 are also aboard and are placed in the British consul's care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plant Line
Halifax
Thino Lima
Manuel d’Olivari
Eric Touxaira
Manuel Ramos
Gracie D. Chambers
Liverpool
Canso
Stormount
Nova Scotia
Charles Brand
J. F. Gibens
Walter Sheppard
James McGeady
C. Collett
J. Donovan
S. O. Danielsen
Helmer Soesen
William Mullen
EB. Anderson
E. Jordfald
Sunday Finds Mother Dead at Winona Lake Home
Mary Jane Stowell 76 mother of Billy Sunday was found dead in bed at the Sunday home in Winona Lake Indiana. Cause heart trouble deemed unexpected. She was born in Syracuse Indiana and lived with Sunday for years. Remains to be taken to Ames Iowa for burial on the old homestead with burial set for Wednesday. Surviving sons Edward Sunday Woodworth North Dakota and L GC Hood River Oregon.
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Warsaw
Ind
Mary Jane Stowell
Billy
Winona Lake
Bryan Stars in Cupid Role in Federal Wedding Tale
William Jennings Bryan plays Cupid linking Miss Mary Gertrude Morton of a Boston family with Edward Jeremiah Kelly, a New York lawyer. The wedding will be held in Boston on June 28 with Monsignor Supple performing. Bridesmaid Agnes C Morton, flower girl Helen Conway Kelly, best man Arthur Kely, and ushers Jack and Lee Morton plus several named professionals attend.
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New York
William Jennings Bryan
Cupid
Mary Gertrude Morton
Boston
Huntington
L. I
Italy
Mr. Bryan
Edward Jeremiah Kelly
Venice
Kelly
Miss Morton
Bryan
Supple
Mr. Kelly
Agnes C. Morton
Helen Conway Kelly
East Orange
N. J
Arthur Kely
Jack and
Lee Morton
Leo Pierre Callan
St. John’s College
Brooklyn
James Pendleton Wilson
Camp Kitchen Gift For Cambridge Militia
Cambridge Women's Relief Committee plans to present a camp kitchen to the Cambridge battalion of the Eighth Regiment before they depart for the Mexican border. The kitchen was ordered from London Ontario by Mrs. Richard W. Sutton after Colonel Graves urged the gesture. The committee began the effort once sufficient pledges were secured.
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Cambridge Women's Relief Committee
Cambridge
London
Ont
Richard W. Sutton
Graves
Society Women in Relief Work Across Massachusetts
Relief efforts for militiamen dependents and soldiers proliferate from Boston to the Berkshires. Clubwomen form a new Greater Boston unit. state committees, church and civic groups plan cash aid, comfort kits, and provisions, while cities like Malden and East Boston raise funds and organize committees to support soldiers and their families.
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Massachusetts
Atlantic
Berkshires
Commonwealth Armory
Back Bay
Brookline
Milton
Cambridge
Greater
Boston
John Balch
Armory
Mary E. Batchelder
Charles B. Guilford
B. L. Robinson
Governor McCall
Massachusetts Patriotic Fund Committee
Louis A. Frothingham
North Easton
George Rye
Dedham
Bayard Thayer
Lancaster
Protestant Church Services Highlight Week
A heavy turnout filled St. Johns Episcopal Church Winthrop for a service by Rev William Harman van Allen. Other preachings included Rev Franklin C Southworth at a union service and Rt Rev Charles H Brent at St Paul Cathedral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John's Episcopal Church
Winthrop
William Harman van Allen
Church of the Advent
Brimmer Street
Boston
Charles H. Brent
The
Philippines
St. Paul
John H. Deming
Dean Rousmaniere
Roosevelt denies Rough Rider reorganization report
Walter Hayes secretary to Colonel Roosevelt denied that the colonel issued any instructions about reorganizing Rough Riders for service in Mexico. Roosevelt's mail shows daily requests from former soldiers to join if he forms a fighting body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Walter Hayes
Roosevelt
Milwaukee
Mexico
United States
Marshall Blanchard to be buried in Cambridge today
The body of Marshall F. Blanchard who died in North Falmouth Saturday will be brought to his Cambridge home for funeral services and burial tomorrow afternoon. Blanchard was a longtime president of the T Wharf Fish Merchants' Association and connected with Bunting & Emery, fish dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall F. Blanchard
North Falmouth
Cambridge
Blanchard
T Wharf Fish Merchants
Aeay
Bunting & Emery
First Regiment Artillery Captain Swaim Weds Miss Bradley
At Fram ingham Centre Episcopal Chapel in a steady rain the wedding of Captain Roger D. Swaim of the colonel's staff to Miss Margaret Hinckley Bradley of Boston drew 200 relatives and friends. The groom's brothers officers stood in honor as the ceremony was conducted by Rev. Joseph S. Swaim and Rev. Murray DeWart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flagstaff Field
Field Artillery
Framingham
Roger D. Swaim
Margaret Hinckley Bradley
Boston
Episcopal Chapel
Framingham Centre
Leverett Bradley
Walter H
Ralph Bradley
J. Payson
Joseph S. Swaim
Cambria
Murray DeWart
First Artillery
Philip Harvey
Flagst. Field
Salem
Second Corps
Robert Davis
John J. McCoy
Worcester
Douglas Lawson
Thomas W. Lawson
Oregon
John Simpkins
Willard Simpkins
Nathaniel Simpkins
Manfred Rowditch
Massachusetts Militia
Victor W. Knauth
Felix W. Knauth
New York
Frank Bowditch Balch
Charles Bowditch Balch
Norton W. Wigglesworth
Sherburne
Regular Army
Koenig
Henson
Fort Banks
Herbert Parker
Massachusetts
Parker
Mr. Parker
Herbert O. Fisher
Sumner B. Pearmain
Battery Wa
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U. S
Cockran
Curley
Hibernians
Ladies’ Auxilaries
Joseph F. O'Connell
Patrick O'Hearn
Matthew Cummings
Joseph P. Lomasney
America
Family of Nations
McKinley
Congress
Ulster
Poland
St. Patrick
Idlenes
Canada
Australia
Parnell
A. Shuman
Patrick O’hearn
State Board of Ladies’ Auxiliaries
Suffolk County
Division 28
Irish National Foresters
Mitchell
Tailor
St. Patrick's
Suffolk County Ladies’ Auxiliary
Monsignor Chittick
John Mullen
John F. Crosby
Purdy
Beckwith
Ana Aa
Sam’l J. Beckwith & CO
Washington St
U.S
Taft
Sunday
John
Maurice Ketten
K. Boss
Tae
Boss
Chamber of Commerce
Exchange Club
Walter C. Fish
Lynn
General Electric Company
Grafton D. Cushing
Russell G. Fessenden
Chamber
Maany
Chamber Bureau of Investigation
Somerville
Special Aid Society For American Preparedness
Katherine W. Dunham
Powder House Boulevard
Malden
L. Company
Fifth Infantry
Malden Rifle Association
Berg
L Company
Camp Whitney
East Boston Meeting
Edwin O. Childs
Newton
C Company
Fifth Regiment
William F. Garcelon
Frank W. Stearns
Fred P. Barnes
George H. Ellis
Thomas J. Maloney
P. Lorillard Company of
National Guard
Wendell D. Rockwood
Eighth Regiment
Cambridge Companies
John J. Mullen
Everett
Everett Company
South Framingham
George H. Newhall
Franklin C. Southworth
D. D
Meadville Theological School
South Congregational Society
Church of the Disciples
Arlington Street
James DeNormandie
Roxbury
Lincoln Unitarian Church
Lincoln
James E. Walker
Billy Sunday
Union Square Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Winter Hill Baptist Church
Charlestown
South Boston
Rough Rider
Marshall Blanchard
Capt.swaim
Lawson
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