Expect 35 000 at third annual Memorial Service at Fenway
About 35 000 people are expected to attend the third annual Sunday Memorial Field Service of the Municipal Council of the United Spanish War Veterans at Fenway Park. The event is jointly hosted by Catholic and Protestant churches with a memorial mass at 10 30 led by Rt Rev Mer M J Splaine and a large male choir conducted by Pio de Lucca. Cardinal O Connell Governor Walsh and Mayor Curley are slated to attend. The mayor will lead the parade from Copley Square at 9 15 to the park.
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United Spanish War Veterans
Fenway Park
Mer. M. J. Splaine
Pio de
Walsh
Curley
Copley Square
Public support shifts in British war leadership debate
The Chronicle defends Earl Kitchener against Lord Northcliffe criticisms as Stock Exchange members burn Times and Daily Mail. Protests against attacks on the war minister spread while Pall Mall Gazette notes Kitchener’s increased power. London gossip linked to Sir John French is dismissed. a probe may be needed. The Times shell shortage critique sparks further debate.
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the Chronicle
Lord Northcliffe
Earl Kitchener
Stock Exchange
The
Times
Daily Mail
Lord Kitchener
Pall Mall Gazette
Kitchener
London
Sir John French
France
House of Commons
Field Marshal French
Major Pierce Dead Aged 84 Civil War Veteran
Major Elliot C. Pierce longtime 18th Massachusetts officer and Civil War veteran dies at his daughter's Weymouth home aged 84. He helped found Reynolds Post 58 G A R and served in nearly every Army of the Potomac battle. Survived by a widow and two daughters. Funeral set for Sunday at 3 30 p m. Also note Massachusetts Bay transit to debut a new two car trolley trailer with 114 seats on the Allston Brighton Newton and Watertown lines next week.
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Elliot C. Pierce
18Th
Massachusetts
William E. Thayer
Commercial Street
Weymouth
Pierce
Loyal Legion
Reynolds Post 58
Antietam
J. C. Pierce
Pierce Rubber Company of
Danvers
Kansas City
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Allston
Brighton
Newton
Watertown
Circolo Italiano elects officers at Harvard campus
The Circolo Italiano at Harvard selects new officers for the coming year. President Angelo Perez of Andover, vice president Allen Shortt of New York, secretary Victor H. Willard of Cambridge, and treasurer George C. Wood of North Easton are named.
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Circolo Italiano
Harvard
Angelo Perez
Andover
Allen Shortt
New York
Victor H. Willard
Cambridge
George C. Wood
North Easton
Harvard Students Submit Finger Prints at Memorial Hall
About one hundred Harvard University students lined up at Memorial Hall to give finger prints during the noon hour. One thousand impressions were collected in under an hour for an anthropological thesis in Harvard's department, with undergraduate volunteers assisting the researchers.
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Harvard
Memorial Hall
Equal Rights League presses for immediate ban on Birth of a Nation
The Equal Rights League vows no delay in demanding the film The Birth of a Nation be taken off theaters. W. Monroe Trotter leads a three hour meeting at the Guardian offices and plans a delegation to Mayor Curley. The neutral censors, under new law, have not yet met but will decide policy for current and future productions.
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Equal Rights League
W. Monroe Trotter
Guardian” Office
Curley
The
Guardian
Tremont Theatre
Mr. Trotter
National Protective Association
O’meara
Wilfred
Equal Rights League Calls for Censors Over Film
Mr. Trotter for the Equal Rights League denounces the film Birth of a Nation and urges immediate censorship action. The heated dispute frames a broader cultural clash as authorities review the censorship bill while City officials weigh the case.
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