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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1911
Page
6
Joseph Lee of the Massachusetts Civic League argued before the South Congregational Church citizenship class that Sunday laws damage the day by enforcing idleness and restlessness. He linked gambling lawlessness fatigue and disease to the current restrictions and urged reform.
A speaker criticizes Sunday restrictions as driving young people to lawbreaking and gambling. He argues laws impede rest and growth, forbidding healthy recreation and compensating activities for ages 14 to 21, labeling the Sabbath observance as distorted by prohibition.
The St Catherine's Guild retreat for women graduates connected with the Church of the Immaculate Conception ends in the Boston College chapel. Mass at 8 o'clock was celebrated by Rev J M Prendergast S J and communion was received. Attendance at services was large and closing exercises exceeded officers' expectations with members coming from across Greater Boston.
Dr Charles V Chapin Rhode Island health commissioner told Harvard Medical School that disease germs do not originate in filth nor grow outside the body. He said germs are not carried through the air and are not found in the breath of the sick, except in the mouth and nose. He warned kissing is the surest way to transmit disease.
A physician warned that disease spreads through bodily excretions and secretions and that kissing is a common transmission route. He urged personal hygiene, fresh air, sunlight, and avoiding saliva discharge to reduce spread, noting many carriers unknowingly spread illness without showing symptoms.
The Rev. William Frederick Wilson ends six years as pastor of Market Street Baptist Church and will become pastor of West Somerville Baptist Church on April 1. The E. P. Wallace post G A R attended the service in a body as a tribute. A reception for the Rev and Mrs Wilson is planned tomorrow evening in the church social rooms.
Arthur Gray 31 a weaver fell down stairs at 19 Turner street Waltham this morning and died of a broken neck. Found unconscious by landlady Mrs Ruby Stone at the foot of the stairs he died before a physician arrived. He leaves a wife and two children in Somerville. police could not locate them.
District Attorney Pelletier weighs summing the full Finance Commission records before the grand jury as part of Mayor Fitzgerald’s charges that executors undervalued Quincy A. Shaw’s estate by about 15 million dollars. Fitzgerald has presented the matter to the DA and Pelletier is studying the legal points. The grand jury convenes this week.
Mayor Fitzgerald seeks $82,000 in back taxes from the Copley Square Trust that held the Boston Art Museum property in escrow since 1902. The Finance Commission plans to request the trustees Moses Williams John P. Reynouds Jr and J Morris Meredith to follow the Shaw executors in paying the moral obligation.
A blaze at 61 Phillips Street, West Reap, caused about $600 damage to the house and contents. Jacob Baker bravely dived through smoke and flames to rescue a baby amid the fire.
Labor meetings report sympathy for Lucius Tuttle of the Boston and Maine railroad on his wife’s death. Members initiated and transferred. sick benefits and dues collected. scaling of five weeks of sick pay approved. Various union leaders spoke at meetings across multiple locals.
Team Drivers' Union 25 voted to reaffiliate with the Massachusetts State Branch A S L. Harry P Jennings, third international vice president, attended as a guest and awaits action by the international executive board in Indianapolis next month. A special committee from Boston Bakers' Union 7 and Bakers' Union 24 will push for strict enforcement of Sunday laws for all city bake shops following a satisfactory conference with Police Commissioner O Meara. The joint council of city department employees' unions plans a mass meeting.
The 13 and 17 year cicadas will swarm this spring across 21 states and 389 counties. They hatched eggs in 1894 and 1898 and will emerge in May after nightfall, with a brief life of a few weeks and limited damage, mainly to young orchards from female egg-laying punctures.
A father awoke to smoke and found a room ablaze next to his daughter’s bed. He carried the feverish, months-old child out wrapped in bedding, then returned to rescue his wife as flames trapped them inside before escaping to the street.
Lorenzo Ruzzo was attacked with an axe during a card game on East Street and taken in dying condition to Massachusetts General Hospital. Police seek Tony Gallo, hold Dominic on revolver charges, and describe a chaotic quarrel that led to the injuries.
The Rev. James A. Supple of St. Cecilia's Back Bay delivered the final lecture in a Guild of St. Elizabeth series at the archbishop's house Bay State Road on The Logic of Infallibility. He argued the church's infallibility is a reasoned truth central to directing faith and morals taught by the Apostles and upheld by the church.
A proposed summer hotel in Revere valued at 150000 dollars is planned to complement the town’s new 800 foot steel pier. Investors have long discussed boosting Revere as a summer resort and now expect the hotel to be built soon.
Tentative plans call for a 150 to 200 room hotel on 25 to 30 acres beside the land end of the new steel pier. Backers include Lawrence B Sherman and Fred A Wilson of Nahant and Dudley & Hodge of Revere. The pier project features a 135 by 50 foot main dance hall with a spring floor and two balconies, plus an up to date roof garden for meals and entertainment.
The annual alumni sodality retreat began last evening in the sodality chapel at Boston College with about 300 graduates from U S colleges and European institutions in attendance. Rev. Francis P. Powers S J led the opening service as the exercises start a week of gatherings each evening through Sunday morning.
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