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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1915
Page
2
The Crowe house built in 1664, reputedly the town’s oldest, was damaged by fire today in Plymouth. Three rooms burned with smoke and water damage reported on arrival.
Edward P. Metcalf former Atlantic National Bank president was found guilty on 10 counts of misapplication of bank funds. He received five year sentences on each count to run concurrently in U S District Court.
After sentencing Metcalf told the court he would go to prison with a clean heart and denied intentional harm to the bank. Henry E. Dekay, a New York broker, received an extension to April 22 to appeal on nine counts aiding and abetting in the misapplication. The Atlantic National Bank closed on April 14 1913 and both men stood implicated as part of a lengthy Rhode Island case.
Poslam promises rapid relief for itching burning and surface disorders including eczema pimples barbers itch scalp scale and rashes with overnight effects and progressive improvement. It says Poslam is effective in stubborn cases and available at all druggists with free samples from Emergency Laboratories New York.
The Professional Women's Club presents a benefit program on Monday April 5 at the Toy Theatre. A women only garden scene from Faust will be performed with Faust and Mephistofeles in male attire to prey upon their own sex.
Miss Bernice Fisher, famed in the Boston Opera Company, will debut as Marguerite in Gounod’s opera in Boston. The cast includes Miss Clara, Katherine Ricker, Edith Mac Gregor Woods, and Jenne Bell Ellis. The program features two scenes from The Shaughran, plus readings, plays, songs, and dancing with an active supporting company and Belle Renfrew's orchestra.
The Rev. Joseph P. Turner leads a mission at Cathedral of the Holy Cross titled The Kingdom of God is Holy. St Vincent's Orphan's Guild hosts a clothing shower on Camden Street with a 2:30 to 4:30 whist. Men of St Patrick's Roxbury attend a Jesuit retreat, concluding Palm Sunday. Forty Hours Devotion begins Thursday at several parishes including St Joseph's West End St Mary of the Angels Roxbury Most Holy Redeemer St John the Baptist Portuguese East Boston SS Peter and Paul St Mary's Lithuanian South Boston and St Columbkille's Brighton.
The Boston Seaman's Friend Society at 287 Hanover Street hosts a Wednesday evening old folk's concert. A large mixed chorus with suitable instruments will perform duets and choruses in period costumes. The event supports a society that for over seven years has daily cared for sailors visiting the port.
The legislative committee on constitutional amendments is expected to decide today on three sectarian amendment bills. Indications from the State House yesterday suggest all three may be withdrawn or the Fitzgerald bill may be reported ought to pass.
The committee remains split on three bills. Five members back the Bachellor amendment banning public funds for sectarian bodies, five oppose it as stirring religious strife, and five favor alternate plans like the Fitzgerald bill excluding private controlled institutions. One wavering member shifts toward Fitzgerald. The Cross bill for state hospital funding has no advocates, with report routing unsettled.
A 35 year old woman, likely Mrs Joseph Be Rea of Boston, committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas in a room at 125 North Sixteenth street. A note to her husband spoke of illness and causing him worry. Police found her after another tenant smelled gas. she died at Hahnemann Hospital. The husband’s identity could not be confirmed in Boston directories.
Alderman Wood suspended highway work to attend the funeral at St James Church for Patrick J. Dillon a 27 year city teamster. His hearse carried by two black horses driven by Dillon for over ten years. The Rev James D Canarie led the requiem mass with city department bearers and interment at St James Cemetery.
The Rev. Joseph P. Turner preached that the Catholic church alone preserves the unity of faith worship and government through a divine guide Christ established as the one true church. He argued unity exists in faith worship and authority and cited the mass as central to ecclesial unity before a crowded cathedral audience.
Miss Tda M. Cannon of Massachusetts General Hospital Social Service speaks on Our Individual Responsibility for the Health of the Community at 4:30 tomorrow at 6 Marlboro Street. Organized by the AM A committee on public health education and Boston Women’s Municipal League department of public health. Public invited.
Catholic men across the city attend nightly parish retreats under the Young Men's Catholic Association of Boston College. At Immaculate Conception Harrison Avenue over 3000 men filled the church for sermons by Rev. George J. Krim and Rev. John W. Coveney. Other parishes including St Augustine's Roxbury and St Patrick's Holy Name Society begin retreats with visiting Jesuit and religious speakers guiding talks on faith and renewal through Palm Sunday.
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