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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 23, 1910

Page

4

Thousands Kneel for Pontifical Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help

A crowded street and church fill with worshippers for a solemn pontifical mass led by Archbishop O Connell in Boston. The service honored St. Clement Hofbauer with sermons by Father Tomas Hanley and remarks praising his life from Warsaw to Vienna, stressing universal charity, moral reform, and the churchs role amid war and oppression.

Ialiy Hethy Mission Church O'Connell Fichad T. McManus P. R Church of St. Mary's Brookline Arthur T. Connolly Church of the Blessed Sacrament Jahaica Plain Inand Litz Baltimore Redemptorist Order Charles W. Regan Allints Church Roxbury Joseph R. Wissel C. SS. R New York Mgr Michael J Splaine D. D Archdiocese Charles S. Hoff Asnt Tomas Hanley Esopus N. Y Hanley St. Clement Poland Hell Russia Prussia Austria Warsaw Europe France Gener Clément Hofbauer Father Hanley Clem Ent Vienna Joseph SI Clement Christ St. Clement Hofbauer Our Lady of Perpetual Help Holy Family St. Alphonsus Boston Jesus Mary Mer Denis O'Callaghan St. Augustine's Church South Boston John O'Brien Church of the Sacred Heart Eastmorris Mer. A. J. Teeling St. Mary’s Church Lynn St. Peter’s Rome Joseph G. Anderson D. C

Children Parade Honors Virgin at St Marys Church

Children of the School of St Marys held a May procession through the North End streets, ending at St Marys Church for crowning the Virgin Mary. The ceremony featured a large floral altar, a choral service led by Miss Mary Barr, and a solemn vespers with priestly conductors and helpers.

St. Mary's North End St. Mary’s Church Cooper Street Endicott Keany Square Acounter Washington Street Thacher Street St. John Baptist Joan Hogan Holy Name James Kavanagh Infant Jesus Sodality Jesus George Cody Joseph Lennox Francis Langone Alpha and Omega Joseph Maraghy Mary O'Dowd Martha Graham Catherine Higgins Annie Flynn Queen of Martyrs Guardian Angel Mary Buccuzzi Holy Angels’ Sodality Doctors of the Church St. Catherine Catherine Wilson Cecilia Brogan Holy Angels Sodality Hope Cécilia McLeod Nine Choirs of Angels Queen of Angels Blanche Sitawich Mildred Leary Mary Annino the Sacred Heart Thomas Kelliher Joan Littlé Sylvester Cardinali Victor Lotsk Children of Mary’s Sodality Joseph Nutter James Riley Joseph Zarella Frank Riley Willes Gertrude Boyle Mary F. Brogan Mary Barr Minnie J. Gallant Gertrude McShane Michael Finn Thomas M. Dundon Thomas F. White Mary P. J. O'Connell S.J J. Giraud John Friel Pos ST. Mary's Parish

Harvard Professor Lashes Burbank Prize Hype

Professor FE M Fast of Harvard branded Luther Burbank a fakir during a Bussey Institute lecture at Forest Hills. He argued Burbank’s famed wonderberry is not a new discovery but part of a long established species known by botanists and horticulturists for years.

FE. M. Fast Harvard University Luther Burbank Bussey Institute Forest Hills East

Critics dismiss white blackberry as old and of little value

Professor Hast and Professor East challenged seed dealer hype about new fruits and improvements. They argued the white blackberry is an ancient European variety with no special merit, while noting press agents inflate claims like the wonderberry. East showed 1858 potato photos and noted oil in corn kernels aiding artificial rubber, stressing selection, fertilization, and soil effects over heredity.

Hast Hke Leaming Luther Burbank Burbank Europe East Professor East

Tragedy at Somerville Home Reveals Illumination Gas Suicide

Patrick D. Marley aged 27 committed suicide early yesterday by inhaling illuminating gas through a tube at his sister Mrs. Louis F. Harer’s home on 33 Tbbetson Street Somerville. No motive is given for the act.

Patrick D. Marley Louis F. Harer

Arrests of Eight Boys As Crap Shooters In Swampscott

May youths aged 11 to 14 were stopped at Mountain Park near Swampscott at noon by police. Officers Henry Holmes Ralph Holden Henry Gage George Smith and Frank Lucas were named in the report as involved in the incident.

Found blue eyed boy guest of Lieutenant Crowley at station

A three year old blue eyed golden haired rosy cheeked boy in a light blue sailor outfit was found wandering Dudley street terminal at 6 pm by an elderly woman. She brought him to Northampton street and turned him over to Patrolman Charles Gillette. He was fed cocoanut cakes, wrapped in a blanket, and sent to the Chardon street home for the night.

Station 5 Crowley Dudley Street Northampton Street Charles Gillette Dedham Street Chardon Street

Canoeists On Charles River Face Capsizes In Mild Thrill

May 22 Newton reports a thronged Charles River despite cold weather. Two canoes overturned in the afternoon with both parties reaching shore safely. A young man capsized near the Weston bridge and waded ashore, while another pair of canoeists also waded to the bank and sought dry clothes at the metropolitan park police station.

Newton Charles River Weston Bridge Metropolitan Park

Among the Churches of Greater Boston

A church listing notes yesterday's delivery by Rev Samuel McComb at Emanuel Church and noonday services this week with multiple clergy. The Norwegian and Danish Church Dorchester marked its first anniversary with 3 30 p m events led by Rev Dillon Bronson and several speakers.

Greater Boston Howard Avenue Dorchester Dillon Bronson D. D E. J. Helms M. B. Lytle J. M. Leanard Eliot Church Roxbury Mr. Mallory N. F. van Hoasen

Hens Use Coal Dust To Produce Black Eggs In Oxford

In Oxford New York on May 22 residents tout a discovery by F J Dedrick involving coal dust consuming black Minorca hens that lay coal black eggs. Early tests show shells hardened by intense heat, suggesting a novel fuel source potential despite fragmentary reporting.

Oxford N. Y F. J. Dedrick

Daylight Robbery Victim Struggles After Attack

Peter Gearey a restaurant keeper of 515 Harrison avenue was assaulted in daylight on Washington Street. He escaped City Hospital in critical condition with a fractured skull and reached home in stocking feet, refusing to return. Doctors reported his condition remains critical.

Peter Gearey Harrison Avenue Washington Street City Hospital

Assault on Gearey Reveals Bold Street Robbery

Police describe a brutal attack near Washington street and Medford court in which two unidentified colored men robbed a restaurant owner, Gearey, of money from his pockets after he left the store to pay a bill. He remains severely injured and unable to recount details. Mrs Gearey says 15 dollars was taken from the restaurant, with more money elsewhere. Local gang rumors surface as the investigation continues with few witnesses despite many in the vicinity.

Aff Buckley St. Gearey Morris Rodman Washington Street Grand Opera House Gearey Medford Court City Hospital South End

Worker killed by suction fan at Pittsfield plant

Pittsfield May 22 John Nichols 22 of Boston was killed almost instantly today when caught in a large suction fan at his place of employment in an electrical plant. His body was badly mangled. Nichols had arrived two days earlier and worked as a fireman's helper. Monarch House Paint 100 percent pure one gallon will cover 300 square feet.

Pittsfield John Nichols Boston Nichols

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