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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1915
Page
11
The American Unitarian Association holds its annual convention in Boston May 24 to 28 with debates on prohibition and peace. Billy Sunday, the baseball evangelist, will likely join discussions. A broad social program aims to place the denomination at the forefront of Massachusetts reform efforts.
The convention opens at King's Chapel, with key talks on international justice by Charles H. Levermore and W Harris Crook at Channing Hall. The Unitarian Temperance Society meets at Arlington Street Church to discuss national prohibition with noted speakers. An Educational Motor show spells prohibition facts outside Park Street Church. Samuel Eliot will preside.
May 18 A D Wiet bree, prominent Denver merchant, committed death by own action in Central Park by drinking poison. He left two notes to his father R F Wiet bree of Denver and Ten Eyck R Birds ley, a New York lawyer.
At Arlington Street Church a Peace Day program featured Miss Fola LaFollette delivering a scholarly address on war futility. Alice Carpenter reported from The Hague Peace Congress, while others spoke on pacifism and cooperation. A peace chorus performed as speakers argued militarism is a relic and economic links must replace force.
Speakers at a peace meeting condemn war’s economic waste and loss of life. They call for a world federation replacing national arms, a secretary of peace, and generous funding for peace plans, education, and cooperative trade to end militarism.
Mrs Robert Lincoln O’Brien presided on behalf of the Boston City Federation and the Woman's Peace Party as part of a civic gathering. The event highlighted reform efforts and public advocacy.
In Municipal Court Harry Caro faced a charge of willfully obstructing a fire escape. A demure woman identified as Mrs. Caro stepped forward as proxy, saying her husband was busy and offering to take punishment. The judge refused, ordering Mr. Caro to appear in person. case adjourned to next week.
Marie C Williamson testified she was persuaded into marriage at 17 to Harry Adams who used aliases including Burns Ferris and claimed white race. A witness said Adams had no steady job and was seen with money in Portsmouth, while Marie recalled being taken to a justice of the peace for a ceremony she did not understand and later taken home by her mother after crying.
The passage states that she acted despite Adams objections and that, as far as she knows, he has never seen her since up to the time the case was called in court. The text implies ongoing.
The annual meeting of the Bay State Historical League will be held June 12 at Plymouth. The league includes Massachusetts historical societies and visitors will be hosted at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth by the Pilgrim Society.
A memorial altar for the late Rev David Gregory Supple D D formerly curate at Immaculate Conception Church Malden will be erected at a Central America mission station. His former Malden parishioners led by Miss Annie Reardon have raised a large subscription to cover the cost.
State Forester F W Kane leads the annual gypsy moth campaign across the infected area. Assistants prepare arsenate of lead and spraying gear as moths hatch. Owners urged to inspect white oak leaves for signs of small black caterpillars on undersides.
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