Roosevelt Eulogizes Lincoln On Gettysburg Field
President Roosevelt on Gettysburg Cemetery Hill delivers a solemn Memorial Day address praising Lincoln, marking the field’s soldierly duty and the entwined fates of blue and gray. He underscores liberty, law, and self government, honoring veterans and urging readiness to sacrifice for the nation.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Yale
Flowers for Dran Daddy Memorial Seaflower Procession
A morning memorial at the South Boston Yacht Club featured the Kearsarge and Dahlgren Posts with 80 veterans and 400 children. White dressed children carried flowers and cast them into the water while a dirge played. about 2000 spectators attended, with 800 seated at the yacht club.
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Kearsarge Post
Dahlgren Post
South Boston Yacht Club
Make as well as shine shoes by Peter Parlin Garrison
An oration by Charles H. Taylor urging thrift prudence and self reliance among the colored race. It proclaims equal American citizenship and calls for becoming creators as well as consumers, including making shoes as well as blacking them.
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Charles H. Taylor
Peter Parlin Garrison
Shaw Monument
Worn Curtain Night Ends With Unexpected Heartbreak
In a Waterville Town Hall production of Heads of Brass, nerves and a fragile audience marked opening night. Dora Patterson and I, her lover on stage, faced a curtain collapse and jeers before a dramatic rescue by Hefty Granger. Dora tended Hefty after a fatal accident to show love, they wed, and I remained distant, learning a woman’s wary grace.
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Heads of Brass
Waterville Town Hall
Dora
Dora Patterson
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Granger
Tessie
Lily Scott Recites Battle of Lookout Mountain for Veterans
Lily Scott a 16 year old from Winthrop recited The Battle of Lookout Mountain graphic rendering to veterans of Winthrop G A R post. She is daughter of Captain J L Scott former Wanderer owner. The yacht Wanderer was bought by Rev Frank Sandford last year and turned into his gospel yacht for the Holy Ghost and Us Society.
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Lily Scott
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G. A. R. Post
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Massachusetts War Record Emphasized By Governor Bates
Governor Bates lauds Massachusetts as a nation shaper in a Lynn address, noting the state’s role from resisting royal authority to sparking the Civil War, financing the Union effort, and supplying soldiers. He calls veterans enduring symbols of liberty and unity across America.
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Wakefield Parade Honors Veterans With Flowers
Wakefield May 80 The parade included Post 12 G A R H M Warren Camp Sons of Veterans Ritchards Light Guard Company A Sixth Regiment High School Cadets and the Woman's Relief Corps. They marched to the soldiers monument at the park where four flags were placed and flowers strewn on the lawn by 12 high school girls.
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Post 12
H. M. Warren
Sons of Veterans
Ritchards Light Guard
Woman’s Relief Corps
Memorial Day Observance by Four G. A. R. Posts in Cambridge
Memorial Day was celebrated in Cambridge with four G. A. R. posts 30 56 67 and 186 joining after many years aided by Spanish War Veterans and Sons of Veterans. The soldiers' monument and tablets at Memorial Hall were decorated. The group then attended an address by T. W. Higginson at Sanders Theatre.
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Chandler Post Memorial Services in Brookline
Chandler Post G A R of Brookline held memorial services yesterday at Walnut Hills cemetery and decorated the soldiers monument. The post then proceeded to Longwood to Captain C Crowninshield s grave. Services were also held at Brookline cemetery and at Holyhood.
Kind Words for Confederate Soldiers at Tremont Temple
Rev Edward Anderson praised Confederate soldiers while recounting war memories and sharing humorous notes from his Irish servants. Rev Edward Horton voiced support for Japan, equating its struggle to the Union’s 1861 65 fight and urging expansion as aiding the oppressed worldwide.
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Edward A. Horton
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Memorial services across cemeteries in Chelsea and East Boston
Theodore Winthrop Post 3 and Camp 81 Sons of Veterans led morning rites at Woodlawn Cemetery and decorated tablets at Cary Avenue Baptist Church and graves in Naval and Marine hospitals. Afternoon processions visited Garden Cemetery Union Park and the soldiers' monument. Other posts held services at Woodlawn, Holy Cross and Village Cemetery with local officials delivering orations.
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Marine Hospitals
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W. W. Joseph Hooker
Holy Cross
Chabei Shalom
John A. Hawes
East Boston
P. J. Grady
Church of the Sacred Heart
Holy Cross Cemetery
Malden
James M. Curley
Boston
Revere
William B. Eaton
Harvard May Honor Old Foe
Memorial Hall at Harvard, praised by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, could add tablets honoring those who died for the Southern cause, signaling postwar fraternal ties. He recalled Samuel Storrow of the class of 1860 and other Harvard men who fell, as students in caps and gowns filled Sanders Theatre.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
North
South
Sanders Theatre
Higginson
Samuel Storrow
Mt. Auburn
High Mass of Requiem for Holy Name Society
A solemn high mass of requiem was offered yesterday morning for the deceased members of the Holy Name Society of St. Patrick's Church in Roxbury. Rev. James F. Regan directed the society and served as celebrant with Deacon Rev. Thomas A. Walsh. The pastor Rev. Joseph H. Gallagher officiated as sub-deacon.
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Holy Name Society
St. Patrick's Church
Roxbury
James F. Regan
Thomas A. Walsh
Joseph H. Gallagher
Services at Rainsford honor 110 dead G A R post
Inmates of the reform school at Rainsford Island aided Robert Bell Post 1% G A R to honor 110 buried on the island. Flowers were cast on the Charles from the new bridge under women’s direction, with breaths placed on Lincoln's and Colonel Shaw's statues.
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Rainsford Island
Robert Bell Post
Charles
New Bridge
Lincoln
Colonel Shaw
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