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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1916
Page
2
A longtime town figure completed four terms in the Legislature and chaired most of the town’s major committees over the last two decades, highlighting a career of steady influence and policy impact.
Seven hundred Civil war veterans, carrying tattered battle flags, paraded before Governor Whitman in New York at the Soldiers and Sailors' Monument. The display capped the Memorial Day observance and honored fallen comrades.
About 10 000 men women and children from Greater Boston attended the annual festival in aid of the Home for Destitute Catholic Children held all day in Mechanics building. Sister Gabriel and the sisters supervised the children while Mayor Curley visited during the day.
An entertainment programme featured children of the home in acts led by Miss Rose I Byrne. Highlights included a French doll dance by eight six year olds in white, a military drill, rose and Dutch dances, America by the girls, and a jockey dance. An orchestra provided music while thirty parish tables offered refreshments and souvenirs.
Arrangements are set for a Jubilee for Thrift Fund meeting at Ford Hall tomorrow evening as part of a $5 000 campaign by the Massachusetts Credit Union to promote thrift and fight usury. Congressman Meyer London and Mary Antin will speak. Maxwell Copelot will preside. Civic Service House women will serve as ushers. tickets are free at 78 Devonshire Street or via campaign captains. Constance and Henry Gideon will perform Yiddish folk songs.
San Francisco report from Shanghai says Yuan Shih Kai president of the Chinese Republic has been poisoned and is in critical condition. Earlier dispatches noted serious illness with no cause given. The Chinese Republic Association headquarters relayed the latest advisory.
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