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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1911
Page
4
Mrs Frances B Patterson described a China mission strategy at a Sunday mass meeting of the World in Boston asserting the yellow peril would fade if business leaders saw benefits in sending missionaries as advertisements to China for commercial gains.
Miss Patterson outlined China progress in business and argued it could be joined with religion to bring a complete regeneration of the Flowery Kingdom.
Miss Patterson cites an imperial edict for a Sunday rest day and advocates missionary expansion in China. Boston hosts the World in its final leg with 300000 visitors, Canadian day attendance, and excursions from Toronto Montreal Detroit and New York. Preachers praise missionary work in India and Turkey while discussing race, West conditions, and the Baptist chapel car.
In Topeka Kansas City and Wichita school children in grammar and primary grades may win small cash prizes for the best essay on The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease. Edward Hatch Jr of Washington chairs the fly fighting committee for the American Civic Association. He offered 75 dollars to prizes to be split equally among the participating schools in the three cities. Each city will have two classes in the contest.
Colonel William F. Cody led a parade into Boston yesterday at the head of more than eight hundred riders and performers from many nations. The procession included cowboys cowgirls Bedouins Mexicans Cossacks and variously painted Indigenous groups as part of the show’s colorful display.
As dawn broke a colorful Buffalo Bill troupe arrived by special train, cow-punchers and mahouts driving elephants, camels, and buffaloes toward the Ipswich show grounds. Colonel Cody observed, joked with reporters, and spoke of Mexico as the crowd moved to the cookhouse and arena. Chief Iron Tail and the cookhouse crew described meals, while Liars, camels, and Nellie the elephant drew attention among the crowds and tents.
Fifty or more Colored Odd Fellows paraded in South End streets to mark the 67th anniversary of the order among colored people. After the march 2000 people heard Rev M N Johnson and Dr Columbus Harrison at African Methodist Episcopal Zion on Columbus Ave. They spoke on promotions of colored men in mercantile ranks due to Odd Fellows membership. The Household of Ruth women’s branch met at the church with about 00 strong. Charles D Ward led as chief marshal with Massachusetts Lodge and Bay State Lodge and Plymouth Rock Lodge the largest groups, each under own marshals.
A small boy gently fanned by a shingle and the $25,000 mare Wild Bouquet, last Irish Derby winner, mingle with Nellie as Cy Compton, head of the cowboys, predicts the wardrobe tent will soon be ready for tomorrow’s grand Wild West event. The ginger ale squad accepts the claim and departs.
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