Memorial Sunday Service by Ninth Massachusetts Regiment Veterans
The Ninth Regiment Veteran Association held a memorial service at Cathedral of the Holy Cross. About 200 members, uniformed and civilian, marched at 10:15 under Captain P T Sullivan. The mass was led by Rev Michael J Splaine with seminarians from Brighton Theological Seminary assisting.
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Ninth Regiment Veteran Association
Cathedral of the Holy Cross
P. T. Sullivan
Michael J. Splaine
Brighton Theological Seminary
Thomas J. MacCormack
Michael J. Scanlan
Michael Scanlan
Ninth
Massachusetts Regiment
Thomas R. McCoy
James J. McCarthy
Massachusetts
Memorial Day Service Echoes Call to Colors and Loss
The Rev Dr Stockdale spoke to 300 veterans and Relief Corps members at Berkeley Temple on Memorial Day praising the cost of freedom and the call to colors 1861 to 1865 He noted 5000 veterans dying monthly and shared poems amid a service that honored the dead with colors and band music. He urged aid for flowers and funds as posts plan cemetery decorations across Boston.
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Post 15
Maxwelly
Allen A. Stockdale
Woman's Relief Corps
Berkeley Temple
Mr. Stockdale
Charles Russell Lowell
Sons of Veterans Camp and Relief Corps
John A. Andrew
Sons of Veterans Camp
Kearsarge Association of Naval Veterans
Stars and Stripes
Stockdale
de Kovem
Sons of Veterans
Andrew J. Houghton
Kearsarge Veterans
Kinsley Post 113 G A R Attends Tremont Temple Service
Nearly one hundred members of Kinsley Post 113 G A R attended morning services at Tremont Temple led by Rev. P S Henson. He preached on American Princes naming Columbus Jefferson Washington Lincoln and Grant as founding figures while warning against loose immigration laws. Rev William Howe of Cambridge marked his 100th birthday with reminiscences of 1860s and 1865.
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Kinsley Post
Tremont Temple
Hengen
Columbus
Jefferson
Washington
Lincoln
Grant
Henson
William Howe
Cambridge
Scarcity of Flowers for Memorial Day Graves
Relief corps women warn that wildflowers and garden blooms for fallen soldiers graves will be scarce unless sunshine returns from now to Memorial Day. Daisies, buttercups, irises, roses, and peonies are late or sparse, though lilacs remain plentiful.
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Robert Gould Shaw
State House
Relief Corps
Funeral services for Edward P. Preble in Mt Auburn Chapel
Adjutant Preble death prompts Massachusetts department G A R to set funeral services for Tuesday May 29 at 2 pm. John A. Andrew Post 16 will conduct with department chaplain Rev W C Litchfield assisting. Officers and staff to report at 1 45 in uniform without belts or sidearms. past commanders urged to attend.
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J. Payson Bradley
Edward P. Preble
Massachusetts Department
Mt. Auburn
John A. Andrew Post
W. C. Litchfield
Mt.Auburn Chapel
Johnson Tribute Praises Soldiers and Mothers at Warren Avenue Church
Rev Herbert Johnson delivered a tribute at Warren Avenue Baptist Church praising motherhood for lifting the country alongside soldiers who gave strength and life. He noted churches schools and organizations have done immense good but stressed the dead soldiers’ contribution.
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Herbert
Johnson
Warren Avenue Baptist Church
Services in Roxbury Echo Calls for Reform
Rev. W. W. Bustard urged ending corrupt politics and reducing strife between capital and labor at Dudley Street Baptist Church during memorial services. Roger Wolcott Camp 26 and the Woman's Relief Corps attended as Bethany Baptist Church later hosted Thomas G. Stevenson Post 26 and the Woman's Relief Corps.
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W. W. Bustard
Roger Wolcott
Woman’s Relief Corps
Dudley Street Baptist Church
Bethany Baptist Church
Thomas G. Stevenson
Woman's Relief
Cor
Veterans Hear Patriotic Sermon at St Mark's Brookline
Gettysburg Post 191 G A R attended the morning service at St Mark's Church Brookline with Rev Dillon Bronson delivering the Lest Thou Forget sermon. Afterward members and ladies were hosted at Senior Vice Commander George W Moore's Brookline home with a luncheon served and church autos to transport veterans.
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Gettysburg
St. Mark’s Church
Brookline
Dillon Bronson
George W. Moore
Aged 86 vows to march in Memorial Day parade
August Brigham, 86, of Worcester plans to walk in this year’s Memorial Day procession if able. He joined the Twenty first Massachusetts and Company F Fourth Heavy Massachusetts Artillery and has long walked to Hope Cemetery with veterans, rejecting a carriage.
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Worcester
Brigham
Hope Cemetery
Mr. Brigham
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Artillery
Memorial Service for Sea Dead Held Aboard New Jersey
A memorial service for sailors who died at sea was held aboard the battleship New Jersey at the navy yard with Belief Corps assisting and Mrs. Bessie W. Noyes leading patriotic singing. Taps sounded by the ship’s bugler as flowers floated on the water. Memorial Sunday observances followed at First Parish Church and St. John’s Church with sermons on Christian statesmanship delivered by Rev. Peter MacQueen and Rev. Philo W. Sprague. Ensign Worth Bagley Camp and marine detail escorted church processions.
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New Jersey
Navy Yard
Belief Corps
Bessie W. Noyes
Grand Army
Charlestown
Relief Corps
Sons of Veterans
Legion of Spanish War Veterans
Peter MacQueen
Ensign Worth Bagley
Marine Corps
Abraham Lincoln Post
St. John’s Church
Philo W. Sprague
Memorial Sunday Services Attend Local Organizations
In Waltham on May 27 memorial Sunday services were held at Immanuel Methodist Church. Attending groups included F R H Rogers Post 29 G A R Women’s Relief Corps General N P Banke Camp 41 Sons of Veterans Mother Stickney Tent Daughters of Veterans Dorothy Brewer Chapter Daughters of American Revolution Camp Dermody Irish War Veterans and its auxiliary Rank Knights of Pythias Company F Fifth Regiment MV M Beth Eden Cadets and the Waltham Board of Aldermen. The sermon was delivered by Rev Roscoe L Greene D D with special music directed by Mrs. George F Leslie.
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Waltham
Immanuel Methodist Church
F. R. H. Rogers
Woman’s Relief Corps
General N. P. Banke
Sons of Veterans
Mother Stickney
Daughters of Veterans
Dorothy Brewer
Daughters’ of American Revolution
Camp Dermody
Informed Rank
Knights of Pythias
Fifth Regiment
Waltham Board of Aldermen
Roscoe L
Memorial services for Josepha Hooker Post 23 members
Memorial services were held yesterday afternoon in East Boston at the Sonic Temple for coronies members of Josepha Hooker Post 23 G R. Major Grady Camp presided. The address was delivered by the Hon William M. Olin and the prayer by the Chaplain.
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Coronies
Josepha’ Hooker
G R
Waesonic Temple
East Boston
Grady Camp
William M. Olin
Memorial Service Honors Brighton Veterans
John Lawson reports a large Francis Washburn Post G A R memorial service at First Parish Church Brighton with Rev C W Wendte delivering a stirring patriotic address. Relief Corps and Daughters of Veterans joined the morning service at Flint Street Church and later marched with Sons of Veterans to West Somerville Baptist for a patriotic sermon and musical selections by the Weber Quartet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Washburn
Brighton
C. W. Wendte
Patriotic Service Held in Brookline Church
Willard C. Kinsley Post G A R Somerville and allied groups attended a patriotic service at Harvard Church Brookline yesterday with a sermon by Rev Reuen Thomas centering on the occasion.
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the. C. H. Chandler.Post
Brookline
Women’s Relief
Corps
Harvara
Reuen Thomas
Miss Lillian L'Africain Meets Rough Initiation
Medford reports Miss Lillian L'Africain among high school pupils initiated into a girls Greek letter society. The ceremony left her so shaken a physician was summoned to attend her care.
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Medford School
Medford
Lillian L’africain
Miss L'Africain Not Seriously Hurt After Initiation
Reports claimed serious injury but witnesses describe a taxing initiation that exhausted Miss L'Africain. She received medical aid, but states she is in good health and satisfied with her experience as a member of the girls' Greek letter society.
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L’africain
Girls’ Greek Letter Society
Lightning Kills Five At Mobile Ball Game
A thunderstorm struck during a ball game three miles from Mobile Alabama killing five spectators and injuring about 25 others. The dead include Donald Touart 21 Steven Touart 19 Arthur Moody 19 John Green and Charles Thomas. Serious injuries included John Yokers and Fred Johnson with others knocked down but surviving. Shoes and clothing were scattered and one victim’s silver dollar melted.
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Mobile
Ala
Donald Touart
Steven Touart
Steven J. Touart
Arthur Moody
John Green
Charles Thomas
John Yokers
Fred Johnson
Fred Hurc
Joe Dolbear
George Cleveland
Man Killed On Job At Petaluma Argus Plant
Petaluma California May 27 1913 P G Brockway a linotype operator employed by the Petaluma Argus was killed at work yesterday He reached up to grasp an electric light globe while standing on the zinc mat beneath the machine The live current ground through the globe and killed him instantly
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Petaluma, Cal
G. Brockway
Petaluma Argus
Memorial Day Service by Bostom Young Men’s Christian Union
The Boston Young Men's Christian Union held a memorial service with a quartet including Mrs H Carleton Slack Miss Heith Munroe Willard P Gerriph and H Carleton Slack. Rev William H Lyon D D of Brookline delivered a speech titled The Soldier of Christ.
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Bostom Young Men's
Christian Union
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Grand Army of the Republic
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Women of Relief Corp
Adjutant Preble
Bradley
MR. Johnson
New England Gas and Coke Co
Columbus Ave
Old South Building
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Oxford
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Berkeley
Temple
John Lawson
Weber Quartet
First Parish Church
Somerville
Willard C. Kinsley Post
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van Camp Packing Co
Indianapolis
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Manumet Bluffs
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