Memorial committee forms for Curtis Guild memorial
A public committee of citizens forms a permanent Curtis Guild memorial plan. The notice lists a full honorary committee including Henry Cabot Lodge as Permanent Chairman and John T. Wheelwright as Vice Chairman with dozens of notable Massachusetts figures supporting the effort. Contributions are welcomed via Allan Forbes at State Street Trust Co Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Governor Guild
Curtis Guild
Commonwealth
Allan Forbes
State Street Trust Company
State Street
Boston
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge
Nahant
John T. Wheelwright
Care State St. Trust Co
Herman A. MacDonald
Beverly
Louis A. Frothingham
Robert W. Lovett
Lincoln
Charles K. Boston
Shirley
Holker Abbott
Leon M. Abbott
Brookline
Joseph Adamowski
Cambridge
Charles H. Adams
Melrose
Talbot Aldrich
Canton
Butler Ames
Lowell
Edith Andrew
Hingham
Luther Atwood
Lynn
Charles F. Ayer
Hamilton
Edwin BE. M. Bailey
Amesbury
John L. Bates
Charles S. Baxter
Medford
A. A. Berle
J. Bapst Blake
J. Q. A. Brackett
Arlington
Channing Cox
J. Tucker Burr
Milton
Charles L. Burrill
Arthur B. Chapin
Joseph A. Conry
J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr
W. Murray Crane
Dalton
Alvah Crocker
Fitchburg
James M. Curley
Edwin A. Curtis
John A. Curfin
Thomas J. Cusick
James DeNormandie
William H. Devine
South Boston
Joseph N. Dinand
Worcester
Robert G. Dodge
Newburyport
George H. Doty
Waltham
William B. Edgar
Fall River
Wiliam Fadicott
William
Felton
Salem
John F. Fitzgerald
Joseph Flamand
Jank Leveroni
Jamaica Plain
William H. Lewis
Edward J. Logan
James Logan
John D. Long
Arthur Lord
Plymouth
Arthur H. Lowe
Vitchburg
Skobert Luce
Somerville
George H. Lyman
Dana Malone
Greenfield
George S. Mandell
Guy Murphie
Michael J. Murray
Lexington
Benjamin H. Robrish
John J. Rogers
Nathaniel J. Rust
John W. Saltonstall
A. Shuman
Cue S. Sears
Franklin FE. Smith
Newton
William ®. Sohier
Frederic J. Stimson
Dedham
Charles H. Taylor
Thomas ©. Thacher
Yarmouth
Ghalers Irving Thayer
Ira Vaughan
George R. Wallace
David I. Walsh
Charles FE. Ware
John W. Weeks
West Newton
Barrett Wendell
Addison L. Winship
Roger Walcott
Militen
Mary E. Woolley
South Hadler
Songs of Sunshine Life Purpose Poem Fragment 1915
A poetic piece extols life’s purpose as a steadfast battle with fortitude and joyous song. It celebrates purity and love, praises snow flowers on hills, and upholds clean, true intentions amid shadows or golden days. Copyright 1915 Southern Press Lynd.
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Southern Press Lynd
What Would You Do Sewing Circle Debate on a Mother's Duty
A Boston Post Sewing Circle column prints reader letters and a new question about a mother torn between protecting a son who has dissipated and truthfully informing a fiancée’s parents. Mothers, physicians and other readers weigh moral duty, consequences for future children, and personal sacrifice.
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New York
Malden High Pupils Censured for Flag Respect
Chaplain Morrison of Post 40 G A R condemned Malden High School pupils for failing to show respect to the flag during Memorial Day exercises. He cited his observations as 150 students passed the building without saluting the Stars and Stripes, prompting a public rebuke.
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Malden High School
Morrison
Post 40
Grand Trunk Railway Fined in U S Court
The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada was fined $500 by the Federal District Court in Portland Missouri for selling transportation without tariff rates on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission. The transportation was sold to five immigrants who arrived March 30 bound for points in the west.
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Portland
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
Federal District Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Granddaughter Fulfills Promise to Take Grandmother Home
Louise sacrifices her college funds to take her grieving grandmother to Memorial Day services in Massachusetts. At the cemetery the Veterans and a moving taps and The Vacant Chair render tribute to Captain Sterling, ending with Grandmother's fainting spell and a helpful stranger.
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Louise
Grandmother
Captain Sterling
Georgia
Massachusetts
Dr. Morton
Poems for Pour Scrap Book Favorites From The Post
The Post requests well known men and women to share favorite short poems for the Scrap Book feature. It invites renewed reading of classics and new finds, noting selections may have appeared before but many are printed here for the first time. The piece echoes themes of love duty perseverance and courage in compact lines.
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the Post
Remarkable Coincidence Drives Louise Toward Early Bride
Louise believes fate linked her to Dr Wheeler through her grandmother’s cookies. She plans to spend her college fund on a dainty trousseau before Memorial Day. Grandmother says the Doctor views Louise as nearly perfect and cannot wait four years for marriage.
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Dr. Wheeler
Louise
Trousseau
Grandmother
Three Men Fined For Contraband War Material Scheme
In New York on May 28 pleas of guilty were entered by Franz Rosenberg Sigmund Karman and Albert B Newman in federal court to indictments charging them with defrauding the United States by filing false manifests at the customs house. They allegedly tried to export contraband of war by concealing rubber in cotton waste and resin barrels. Rosenberg and Karman were fined 500 dollars each and Newman 200 dollars.
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New York
Franz Rosenberg
Sigmund Karman
Albert B. Newman
United States
Customs House
Newman
Sympathy At Boston Canadian Club Meeting For Flanders Losses
The Canadian Club of Boston at its Parker House gathering adopted a sympathy resolution for Canadian troops who suffered losses in Flanders. The minutes praise their courage and moral fiber and forward a copy to the Canadian defense minister. Officers elected include President Frederick A. Tupper and Secretary Malcolm Green with an executive committee led by James Berwick and Guilford M. Stuart.
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Canadian Club of Boston
Parker House
Flanders
Canadian Club of
Boston
Belgium
Frederick A. Tupper
Heber Bishop
D. J. MacNichol
Tird
Kenneth van Allen
Malcolm Green
G. G. Stevens
John F. Masters
John I. Campbell
James Berwick
W. E. C. Condy
A.r. Conn
A. 2. Graham
John B. Patterson
Guilford M. Stuart
Call for Telegraph Pleas on Leo Frank Case
Boston newspapers urge citizens to telegraph Georgia Governor and prison officials with pleas to commute Leo M. Frank’s death sentence to life imprisonment. A Foss-led delegation from Faneuil Hall plans to present thousands of signatures supporting mercy, and more messages are welcomed to influence the outcome.
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Boston Traveler
Boston Post
Prison Commission of
Georgia
Leo M. Frank
Foss
Faneuil Hall
Frank
Man Arrests in Roxbury Cosmopolitan Club Shooting
Boston police announced the arrest of Harry Connett alias Harry Corbett in the Cosmopolitan Club shooting at 1969 Washington Street Roxbury early March 29. The suspect was located through efforts by Superintendent Crowley after Brooklyn police were alerted.
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Boston
Brooklyn
N. Y
Harry Connett
Harry Corbett
Cosmopolitan Club
Washington Street
Roxbury
Connett
Crowley
Wood Urges Harvard Men to Attend Summer Military Camps
Major General Leonard Wood, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, and Adjutant General C. H. Cole addressed about 800 students urging participation in government-supported summer camps. Wood argued for military training as civic duty and proposed integrating camps into college programs and closer ties between militia and regular army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Wood
A. Lawrence Lowell
C. H. Cole
United States
Harvard
Union
Massachusetts Militia
Switzerland
Washington
Congress
War Department
Army
Harvard Urges Preparedness as War Cloud Grows
President Lowell recalls a year-old call for temperance toward war with Mexico and urges summer military camps. He says Harvard men would volunteer for the front if war comes, asserting the college must foster preparedness and responsibility.
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Mexico
Higginson
Lowell
Harvard College
President Wilson Slightly Ill Cancels Cabinet Meeting
President Wilson was indisposed but virtually recovered by afternoon. He stayed in bed in the morning, then briefly rode in an automobile and addressed several important matters later while noting no pressing business remained.
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Washington
Wilson
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Grand Trunk Road
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Laura E. Kierman
Pearl Street
George A. Gordon
Robert Browning
Canada
Roxbury Club
Cleophee Robillard
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