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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1914
Page
18
The Purim festival was celebrated in synagogues and temples citywide with after dusk services crowded by worshippers of all ages. Children used graggers to noise Haman’s name while families shared cakes, songs, and masked performances. Leaders arranged charity gifts to the poor during the week of merrymaking.
In color the Sunday Post narrates a derelict confronted by a looming ocean liner in a tense drama. The vivid artwork underscores danger and fate as the figure faces the vast vessel's wake.
Boston prepares for a mass meeting April 1 at Tremont Temple to back seven states voting on woman suffrage this year. Helen Hoy Greeley of the National American Woman Suffrage Association organizes with Massachusetts societies. Speakers include Anna Howard Shaw Jane Addams Medill McCormick Antoinette Skunk and Desha Breckinridge.
George Lewis 45 a machinist committed death by own action yesterday by inhaling gas in his room at 57 Clarendon street South End. The odor of escaping gas was detected by landlady Margaret E McDonald who summoned two police officers.
Governor Walsh will open a 12 day drive at Intercolonial Hall Roxbury to raise 60 000 to 100 000 for the Roxbury Institute of Industry and Boys Club. Mayor Curley and Albert H Curtis are among speakers with 600 invitations accepted. The executive committee meets at 2307 Washington street to name 15 business and 15 citizen team captains.
A new Sunday Post Magazine feature begins a fresh series titled Be Ginning, exploring social promotion and public life through personal anecdotes and observed trends. The piece promises sharp first-person reflections and urban insight.
Washington March 11 The Senate immigration bill faces final action tomorrow on whether to keep the literacy test. Committee members predicted the House passed test will be retained despite questions about White House reception.
President Wilson has voiced no hesitancy against the literacy test proposal and will veto a bill containing it. Immigration committee members Sheppard and Gore met with the President and discussed potential changes. Some senators favor keeping the literacy provision. others fear a veto and consider substitute restrictions.
The Harvard Dramatic Club selected The Fourflushers by Cleaves Kinkhead as the final play for April. Performances will be in Brattle Hall Cambridge on March 31 and April 2, and in Copley Hall Boston. Clayton G. Gilbert and Theodore H. Koch will supervise rehearsals.
West Side residents petition the Boston Elevated to extend the Highland avenue line to the boulevard for a shorter route to Boston. Alderman Joseph H. Kelley chairs the citizen group. Meetings have occurred and organizers plan a mass meeting at Hibernian Hall with Division Superintendent Center to hear the case.
Robert A. Woods and Mrs. Eleanor H. Woods of the South End House will speak at Blackwell Hall Huntington Avenue tomorrow evening on Resultful Neighborhood Work. The talks are under the Ward 10 Good Government Association and the public is invited.
A girl baby arrived yesterday morning at the home of Lieutenant Governor Barry at Thomas Park South Boston. Both the baby and Mrs Barry are doing well. The lieutenant governor took yesterday off to celebrate the event despite an executive council meeting.
After an all day inquiry into the death of James P. Williams a Lynn leather salesman three men were arrested. Mark Brennan Fred Devine and Ellsworth Cressey were taken into custody as the last known associates to see Williams alive. Police say motive may have been robbery as Williams watch and wallet were missing. Williams lived with W H Whittier at 15 Suffolk street in Lynn and was known as Doc Williams. He died from a fractured skull possibly from a blow or fall.
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