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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
12
Governor Foss and Mayor Fitz urged general observance of Mothers Day in the state and city. They asked citizens to wear white carnations next Sunday and praised maternal love, duty, and sacrifice as a civic virtue.
Mayor Fitzgerald urges widespread observance of Mothers Day on the second Sunday in May. He favors personal tribute over public spectacle, recommends church remarks on motherhood, and asks citizens to wear white carnations in memory of a mother's love. The piece notes the holiday’s four-year existence and global observance.
Edward Flore of Buffalo New York was elected general president of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance and Bartenders League of America at a convention in Faneuil Hall He defeated incumbent T J Sullivan of Hartford Connecticut who had led the organization for seven years and previously served as vice president two terms.
New York May 11. HW Phillips Oppenheim British born novelist arrives for a stateside trip to visit relatives in Boston and play golf. He received a hearty reception at the American Booksellers Association banquet at Hotel Astor before planning further travel and fewer directorship duties in Leicester.
In a heated internal election, Mr. Flore secured 265 1 8 votes to defeat Mr. Sullivan who had 92 2 3. Richard J. Garrity received 111 votes, with many Garrity supporters shifting to Flore to defeat Sullivan. Flore, Erie county New York supervisor and son of a former Buffalo saloon keeper, was praised as bright and popular. Sullivan and Garrity moved to make the vote unanimous as Flore was reelected, while other officers and delegates to the AFL convention were announced, including Mrs. Elizabeth Maloney as the first woman international officer.
An Italian woman, 42 years old, living on Salem Street in the North End, is diagnosed with leprosy the second case in a week. She reportedly had the disease for about three years and was sent to the Detention Hospital then slated for transfer to Penikese Island leper colony.
The will of George H. Morgan, who died recently in Lenox Mass, provides $8000 to Holy Comforter Free Church Home for Incurables, $2000 to Home for the Ruptured and Be Ba obra at t, Barnabés a ceives $1000, $4000 goes curate ontees, Lenox, $1000 to House of Mercy Pittsfield Mass, and $3000 to American Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity Paris. He leaves his widow $60,000 outright and a life interest in $200,000 more, his brother $75,000, and the remainder to his children and grandchildren.
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