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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1912
Page
13
Rockland, May 30. More than 50 persons were poisoned at a dinner served in G A R Hall by the Woman's Relief Corps. All affected grew violently ill soon after the meal and it is believed the coffee was responsible.
The town faced widespread illness after a dinner for 450 guests with coffee tied to a poisoning incident. Two pounds of coffee were bought to supplement meals as physicians rushed to high demand while many residents, including Mrs. S. J. Snell and Mrs. Hattie Everson, fell ill with severe pains and vomiting.
Flowers deck graves of nations heroes as corner stone laid for Melrose Memorial building and a Franklin Park patriotic pageant unfolds. Boston Elks hold memorial services while Huntington Wolcott Post Malden avoids marching. 100 Revolutionary graves at Stoughton Street burial ground are honored by Mrs. Yeaton and A C Kendall. Cambridge veterans march to Soldiers Monument for exercises.
Crowds gathered for indoor ceremonies at Sanders Theatre and Lyceum Hall while veterans decorated graves in Cambridge and Mt. Auburn. Orators warned against militarism and warned of post Civil War issues as thousands honored comrades in ceremonies from Boston to Malden. A rider suffered a fatal injury after a parade fall in Brooklyn.
Memorial ceremonies in Cambridge commemorated Harvard students and professors who died in the Civil War. Veterans led a procession to Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre where taps sounded and colors dipped. The program included a Harvard Memorial Society address, a glee club performance, prayers, and a reading of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, followed by wreaths at monuments and a collation at 1232 Washington Street.
Memorial Day ceremonies in New York were interrupted by rain and thunder as about 800 veterans, headed by a line of whitehaired marchers, moved slowly along to the strains of marching music.
About 100 members of the Kearsarge Association of Naval Veterans marched from the old Franklin School to the Soldiers Monument on Boston Common at noon. They laid wreaths and heard prayers, then 2000 citizens attended a banquet at Franklin School. Admiral Andrew Houghton presided with J Mitchell Galvin as orator, and Rev Allan A. Stockdale lauded veterans.
Lynn May 30 One more scene of sorrow after decorating graves of comrades Loring Burrill age 71 collapses to death on street near Pine Grove cemetery from apoplexy while marching with General Lander Post 5 G A R. Burrill long served as police officer for 32 years and was former chief of police of Revere and president of the Thirty Second Massachusetts Veterans Association.
Holiday slowed traffic as Boston Elevated Railway Company laborers started excavating on Winter street for the Dorchester tunnel. Eight hours saw about twenty workers sinking a surface shaft and setting planks to open the thoroughfare to the public today.
A combine of 49 independent film manufacturers and exchanges in New York will form the Universal Film Manufacturing Co. The plants involved are valued at about 3,000,000 dollars.
John J. Reynolds of Irish American AC won the 26 mile 385 yard marathon at Celtic Park in 2h 57m 11 5s after a thunder storm and slippery country roads. William J. Kramer of Long Island AC captured the 10,000 metre title in 82m 12 1 5s as the best American time to date.
While watching a baseball game at Franklin Park yesterday Miss Trances Barry of Dorchester was badly injured when a batted ball shattered her eyeglasses and glass fragments struck her eyes.
The Colonel Robert Gould Shaw Veterans Association honors their dead commander and comrades with wreaths. They visited Mount Auburn Cemetery to decorate graves, then returned to Boston to decorate the Shaw monument memorial tablet. A brass band played and prayers were offered by the chaplain amid brief remarks by the commander.
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