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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1915
Page
5
Women suffrage advocates held a soap box talk on Boston Common despite cold wind, addressing arguments from anti-suffragists who spoke at Faneuil Hall and criticizing a claimed alliance between suffrage and Socialism as listeners gathered.
Brookline millionaire William Whitman Hobbs, age 24, leaves a Brookline mansion and blooded-horse life for a Marion farm to raise Rhode Island Reds. He plans to marry Helen Foss, daughter of former Governor Foss, after improving health amid farm work and poultry ventures.
The Work-Horse Relief Association extends parade entry deadline to May 5. A new class will feature candy pedlars with horses, plus a segment for horses discharged as cured from the Ashton Lawrence Free Hospital for Horses at 78 Northampton Street. No entry fee or hospital charge.
Beverly reports Clifford Trafton longtime Traf ton Hotel manager died by his own action today at his home 46 Pleasant Street. Despondent for some time he turned on a gas jet in the bathroom and was found by his wife.
Anthony H. Kenrick, long a Bedford resident and former highway department worker, died at his South Street home. He was born in East Boston 68 years ago.
The body of Rev. James B. Troy pastor of St. Vincent’s parish South Boston will be moved from the rectory 267 West Third street at 4 this afternoon to the church at Third Street and there lie in state until the high mass of requiem at 10 tomorrow morning. An escort of honor from St Vincent’s brigade of boys and young men will accompany the cortege with Rev F A McNeil assisting.
At 7 36 this morning a high mass of requiem will be chanted for the children as Monsignor George J Patterson of Sts Peter and Pauls West Broadway leads the services. Cardinal O Connell will preside tomorrow at 10 o clock and give final absolution after the solemn high mass.
Ex-Congressman Lewis Dewart Apsley wed Mrs Abigail Fobes Black widow of Victor Black at the Apsley residence. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Newton F Black Needham with only close relatives present. Mrs Black had lived as companion to Mrs Apsley and since her death cared for the Apsley home.
In Avezzano Italy after the May 2 tremors residents report continuing shocks with variable intensity. The morning earthquakes prompted widespread alarm as more walls collapsed and many people camped in fields following the town's near total destruction.
Berlin papers react to Dr Bernhard Dernburgs remarks made in Portland on April 17. They question whether he had instructions from the chancellor to state Germanys aims. Debates continue over German war aims and defensive war policy.
The Rev Walter E C Smith rector of St Marys Dorchester will speak at St Pauls Cathedral on life and work of Shakespeare as the first in a series honoring contributors to mankind Other noonday speakers include Chauncey H Blodgett Harry Beal and Allen Jacobs The Rev Willard L Sperry will preach on The Attitude of a Christian Toward the Abolition of War at Central Congregational Church The Brookline Federation of Church Clubs annual meeting will be at Harvard Congregational Church with J Randolph Coolidge Jr speaking on The Architect His Influence Upon the Public.
A special meeting of the Men's Club of the Roslindale Unitarian Church will be held tomorrow evening. Lieutenant Governor Grafton D. Cushing will address the gathering.
Sheridan's famous comedy The Rivals will be staged Wednesday evenings at Dorchester High School hall by the Dorchester School Centre dramatic club under the direction of Mrs Janet Putnam dramatic teacher Currie School of Expression.
In South Somerset a car carrying Manuel Paze, his wife Antonia, and six children veered into a ditch. Mary Paze, 12, died after being thrown against a stone wall. others were injured, with Pazo and Antonia in critical condition at the city hospital. The family, including the sausage maker, had just bought the car for a birthday outing.
In Brockton on May 2, six year old John Flannagan died after being struck by a car driven by Miss L. Ruth Cosgrove English teacher at Brockton High School. His sister Helen, ten, carried him toward home but he died at a hospital from injuries.
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