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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1915
Page
2
Harvard drops new fancy dances as social elite suffer fewer injuries than football players. The era of chicken flip and turkey trot ends, leaving waltz two step fox trot one step and hesitation as survivors with running waltz as the sole novelty. The running waltz resembles a 440 yard dash and stirs perspiration.
Rear Admiral Caperton, commander of the American expeditionary force in Hayti, informed the Navy Department that a detachment probing near Port au Prince found all remained quiet.
An old verse praises King Cole and contrasts with King Spear the Great, noting comfort in the gums teeth and digestion aided by Wrigley mints. Two flavors are offered.
The Hon. Frank J. Donahue led a Tremont Theatre suffrage gathering before 2000 attendees criticizing Republicans and Democrats for not adopting suffrage in party platforms. Edward S. Alden and Maude Wood Park urged support, noting Wilson and cabinet votes, and listing Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates pledged to back suffrage.
The speaker argues that both parties avoid firm stance on woman suffrage, decries the historic feudal roots of voting denial, and cites Massachusetts as example with a 4 hour/48 hour labor law juxtaposed to suffrage rights, noting the next great political change may be emancipation of women.
Boston detectives traced a man identified as Motley aboard the Bay State boat from Portland. He appeared at 6:40 p m, reached an upper stateroom, later ill on the deck, and vanished after an apparent fall or jump from the boat with the Stateroom 103 window found open and whisky bottle on the floor.
Daniel H. Slattery Dover street baths superintendent was presented with a dress suitcase and a box of cigars by his employees as he prepared to depart for vacation. A collation followed the presentation.
One hundred volunteers under Dr. Louis Silver canvassed thousands of homes to aid the starving and homeless Jews in war torn Europe. They wore arm bands and collected from rich and poor alike with no refusals. Over $1200 was raised for the New England branch of the American Jewish Relief Committee.
East Boston resident Judith W. Smith aged 94 will ride the Lucy Stone carriage in the Suffrage Victory Parade on Saturday. She is described as the oldest suffragist orator, a longtime ally of Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, and will present Mayor Curley with a letter thanking him for supporting woman suffrage during the procession near City Hall.
Mr and Mrs Frank Curtis hosted the 100th Good Cheer breakfast at 42 Green Street mission yesterday morning. The event served about 8500 men with 1600 loaves of bread 850 gallons of coffee and 200 quarts of beans.
The two week long missions at Sacred Heart and Immaculate Conception churches in Malden ended yesterday. Men from the parishes attended the past week’s mission while women took part the week before. Both sets were marked by overflow services.
Panama engineers report a slide area in the Galliard cut moving about 10,000,000 cubic yards of earth requiring dredging before a permanent channel can be formed. They conced e there is little chance to open the waterway for any shipping before the first of the year.
A massive canal slide moves at a rate that would take at least ten months to clear at a million cubic yards per month. The canal bottom bulges up to 15 feet above water due to weight, with a motion area around 175 acres extending 2600 feet along both banks. Major-General George W. Goethals has not announced a temporary channel, but shipping may be diverted as many as 100 ships await passage.
A proposal to create a veteran reserve of one million men to replace a standing army is to be discussed at a meeting in this city led by Army of the Philippines head General Jacob H. Smith. Backed by Dewey and the War Secretary, it envisions regular meetings in armories or federal buildings and preserving existing units across campaigns in the Philippines Mexico Panama Alaska and China.
Go to Church Sunday brought great crowds to Protestant churches in Greater Boston yesterday. The October plan by the Massachusetts Federation of Churches led by Rev. Charles F. Rice aims to bring stay-at-homes into church attendance.
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