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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1920
Page
13
A St Patrick Day greeting from Eamon De Valera to Irish in New England will be read at many Greater Boston public meetings today. The message honors the success of the Irish bond certificate drive and is distributed from New York.
Boston bids farewell to the bond drive with an open air noon rally on Boston Common led by former Mayors John F. Fitzgerald and James M. Curley. Speakers include Thomas H. Mahoney Charles S. OConn or and Minnie Mulry. 20 costumed children sing a victory song as Roxbury trumpeters and Frazzini’s singers urge support. Subscriptions roll in from Peabody South Boston Everett and Ward 6 pushing city totals toward $20 000 with notable gifts from Martin M Lomasney Joseph Lomasney Daniel Whelton and Michael Doherty. An Irish rally at the Hibernian Building Dudley Street Roxbury brings 63 county clubs and 15 000 members together with city state officials and professionals invited.
Poem extols Erin’s enduring sorrow and triumph in the fight for freedom. It calls readers to bear her cross and honor her by uniting in praise, offering a timeless tribute to national spirit and resilience.
Dr William S Walsh argues insomnia signals an underlying issue such as eye defects dental disease worry or hypertension while a Canadian aged man John Shell is said to have lived 181 years by some reckonings but now 97. The piece cites Elliott C Lincoln a Montana teacher turned professor and recalls Colby secretary Nathalie Sedgwick wife described as bright from the Stockbridge Sedgwick clan.
Mrs. Eim ma P. Paul of 23 Monmouth Street Somerville died by suicide at home yesterday, grieving over her husband’s death a few months earlier and fearing an incurable disease, per Medical Examiner McCaffrey’s report.
Railroads appeal for faster unloading of freight cars as hundreds remain to be emptied. Industrial plants have provided hundreds of workers, easing the burden but box car shortages persist due to slow unloading in yards. Manufacturers and merchants are urged to cooperate more, with New Haven yards reorganized to handle cars more efficiently.
Manchester New Hampshire will observe summer time this year after the Board of Aldermen passes the daylight saving ordinance. Clocks move forward one hour at 2 a.m. March 28 and back at 2 a.m. October 31.
A collage of maxims from Irving T. Bush and notices on Edward Meredith becoming Wilson’s Secretary of Agriculture. It mentions a farm upbringing, past ad soliciting, and Meredith’s rise. Also notes on Crown Prince Carol’s morganatic wife and a projected legal marriage in Romania amid royal scandal.
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