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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 08, 1916

Page

2

Boston Revival Board Incorporation Formed for Billy Sunday Drive

Articles of Incorporation filed with the Commissioner of Corporations establish the Boston Revival Board Incorporated. Arthur W. Robinson signs as clerk with Alan F. Emery as president and William T. Rich as treasurer. Members include George Louis Richards Frank F. Davidson Austen K. de Blois Arcturus Z. Conrad and others.

Boston Sunday Evangelistic Committee, Incorporated Commissioner of Corporations Arthur W. Robinson Boston Billy Sunday Evangelist Alan F. Emery William T. Rich George Louis Richards Frank F. Davidson William EF. Blodgett Austen K. de Blois Arcturus Z. Conrad Charles L. Page Warren W. Adams Henry 8. Bowen Thomas Wood Alvan T. Fuller Franklin P. Daly William Shaw Fred S. Retan Duncan A. MacPhie Ferdinand F. Peterson Frank J. Donaldson Arthur C. Stone de Witt G. Wilcox W. Peirce W. W. Iliffe S. M. Sayford Dillon Bronson George W. Brainard Cortland Myers Edgar C. Linn Kenneth M. Munro George W. Mehaffey Frank W. Wyman Alfred H. Colby Grace Coleman Lathrop

Four Drown During Revival at Connelsville

Four men were drowned and several injured when the roof of a vat of hot water in the Baltimore and Ohio railroad shops collapsed during a religious revival. The incident occurred as evangelist services drew attendees to the top of the vat. Six were saved by nearby helpers.

Connellsville Penn Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Steamer City of Vienna Strands in Dense Fog Off Cape Ann

The British steamer City of Vienna, recently arriving with a million dollar cargo from the Far East, lost its way in thick fog off the coast Friday night and was found off Cape Ann when the fog cleared, instead of near the Boston Lightship.

City of Vienna Cape Ann Boston Austria Far East

Year Limit for Actors at Harvard

Harvard introduces a one year rule affecting actors in feminine roles. Students who perform girlish parts in Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta club musicals this year will be barred from acting in skirts next year. The faculty argues repeated feminine portrayals may feminize male students.

Harvard Hasty Pudding Pi Eta Yale

Harvard Men Barred From Women Roles In Annual Pudding Show

Harvard students face exclusion from feminine parts in the upcoming Hasty Pudding show due to a faculty rule based on psychological studies. Notable performers including track manager Fred C. Clement and several athletes who previously acted as chorus girls will be unable to participate. Radcliffe and Cercle Franis groups are unaffected. Yale adopted a similar policy last fall.

Harvard Fred C. Clement Pi Eta Delta Upsilon Harvard Dramatic Club Radcliffe Cercle Francais Yale

Harvard to the second university to adopt the idea

Harvard plans a second university adoption of the idea. The Hasty Pudding show The White Elephant will be staged this spring with four principals in dresses and a chorus of girls. R Whistler leads the feminine role with three others, Cabot Jr, HE Douglas, and Hodges in key parts. Chorus changes due to last year’s performers seeking wigs and corsets. The plot involves men in Siam selling their wives and a soulmate who threads the tale. Retirement marks for Munro, Ellsworth, and Hayden after their Pudding acting.

R. Whistler Frederick H. Cabot, Jr HE. Douglas C. H. Hodges Harvard Samuel P. Sears R. M. Jopling Donald M. Stewart Lewis P. Mansfield Gerald Courtney Siam Ist W. L. Munro, Jr E. M. Ellsworth A. H. Hayden

Dynamiter Convicted in Windsor Armory Plot

Charles Respa was found guilty by a SandWich Ontario jury of three dynamism charges. He received a life sentence after a 15 minute deliberation for bombing the Walkerville Peabody factory June 21 and conspiring with Albert Kaltschmidt to destroy Windsor armories. The judge warned clemency unlikely, estimating 200 would have perished.

Windsor Ont Marsh Charles Respa Sandwich Respa Peabody Overall Walkerville Albert Kaltschmidt Detroit Windsor Armory Falconbridge

Boston Horses Suffer Under Harsh Pavements The Post

A letter from Francis H. Rowley, president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, denounces Boston pavements as cruel to horses. He cites slipping, falls, and injuries on Milk Street and urges safer, humane street surfaces, noting impact on horse welfare and the teaming industry.

Boston The Post Milk Street Oliver Street Francis H. Rowley Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To

Raincoat Makers to Get 15 Percent Wage Increase

Boston Raincoat Manufacturers Association approved a 15 percent wage raise for hundreds of workers at its monthly meeting held at the American House on Monday evening. The increase takes effect Saturday, July 15.

Boston

Silver Cup Award At Somerville Board Boost Campaign

A drive to raise Somerville Board of Trade membership to 600 begins tonight and runs to Monday. Mayor iff offers a silver cup as prize to the member who recruits the most new members. About 30 men will work in teams. current membership is 350.

Somerville Board of Trade Mayoriff

Heavy Box Falls on Truck Driver’s Face in City

Patrick Walton of 165 Cambridge Street, a truck driver, is hospitalized at Relief Hospital with a painful and serious facial injury after a slip while unloading a box from his truck at 18 Farnsworth Street yesterday afternoon. He lost his footing and the box struck his face.

Patrick Walton Cambridge Street Relief Hospital Farnsworth Street

Caldwell Will Contested by Son in Newburyport

Newburyport March 7 The will of Alexander Caldwell famed Caldwell distillery founder is being contested by his son George M Caldwell. The elder Caldwell died recently at an advanced age leaving a large estate and a heated dispute over the will's provisions.

Newburyport Alexander Caldwell Caldwell Brothers George M. Caldwell

LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Ad Notice

An advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine to fight colds and grip. The box bears the signature of B W Groves and is priced at 250.

B. W. Groves

Mrs Marguerite Carpenter Facing $250000 Attachment

Attorneys filed in Suffolk registry an attachment for 250000 on the Copley Plaza Hotel property of George A Carpenter, father in law. The filing precedes a suit for alienation of affections planned to begin promptly.

Ralph G. Carpenter George A. Carpenter Boston Wolfeboro N. H Ralph Carpenter Marguerite Paul Carpenter Suffolk Country Registry of Deeds Copley Plaza Hotel

Court Case Involving Carpenter Family Tangles

Carpenter and his son Ralph remain in seclusion after a New Hampshire kidnapping case. Mrs. Carpenter, living with her parents since separation, declines to comment as attorney Walter Badger details a dispute over alienation of affection and custody. The boy was taken to Wolfesboro, New Hampshire, then released in Dover. divorce proceedings followed.

Carpenter Ralph G. Carpenter Harvard Bass New Hampshire Copley Plaza

13 Killed in Zeppelin Raid

London reports the total dead from Sunday night’s Zeppelin raid rising to 13 as 90 bombs were dropped with no military damage. The official statement notes casualties were Civil, with one earlier injured death in Lincolnshire bringing the fatal count to 13.

London Lincolnshire

Rehearsals Begin for Colleen Bawn Play at Boston College Hall

A special cast under the direction of the Young Men's Sodality of the Immaculate Conception Church Harrison Avenue has started rehearsals for Colleen Bawn to be presented on March 17 at Boston College Hall.

Young Men's Sodality of the Immaculate Conception Harrison Avenue Colleen Bawn Boston College Hall

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