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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1915
Page
14
William Shaw, running as the Prohibition candidate for Governor, attacked both major parties in Worcester at Adams Square Congregational Church, saying the campaign boils down to a fight between rum and righteousness.
The speaker condemns liquor interests and party collusion with them saying Republicans and Democrats ignored reform, forcing him to run for Governor as a protest to protect children and homes. He recalls Bishop Potter’s failed once reform saloon and urges voters to uphold Christian principles over party loyalty.
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Samuel W. McCall launches a week of speeches across southern Massachusetts and Essex County. He will rally crowds in western areas, head to Springfield Thursday night, hold Boston meetings Wednesday, and finish with large Essex County events Friday and Saturday.
The article describes Shadow Lawn in Elberon New Jersey as a future summer White House for President Wilson and his fiancé Mrs Galt. It outlines the mansion’s colonial design grand hall mezzanine gallery art glass dome and rooms prepared for political meetings and entertaining guests. The choice follows the proximity to Washington and the approaching presidential campaign.
William Shaw the Prohibition candidate for Governor publicly invites Governor Walsh and ex-Congressman Samuel W. McCall to a joint public discussion on the liquor question. He suggests meetings in Boston Worcester and Springfield to compare party platforms and address liquor traffic costs and social harm.
The International Typographical Union will hold a referendum next Wednesday to decide amendments. Questions include a five cent per month per capita tax for Printers' Home, abolishing seven day situations, establishing a six day standard, and letting subordinate unions set scale provisions for filling situations and extra work.
Louis D. Brandeis addresses Ford Hall on Zionism and the aims of Jewish democracy. He argues Zionism is not a world transplant, notes 14,000,000 Jews, praises the Jewish national fund and people's bank, and describes land purchase, housing, cooperatives, and an information bureau aiding settlers.
A historical excerpt describes Jewish return to homeland life, self governance, and social progress. It highlights democracy in colonies, equal rights for women, Hebrew language revival, education, and wartime public works to counter unemployment, noting community financing of major industries.
John Edmands longtime librarian and originator of many classification systems died at his Philadelphia home at 95. He served as librarian emeritus of the Mercantile Library, connected with the institution since 1856. A Framingham Mass native and Yale alumnus.
Boston Post Office Clerks, Branch 5, met at Longfellow hall where Major Thomas Walsh spoke on Unity and Unselfishness. Miss Mary A. Carson spoke for suffrage and Mrs Henry Preston Whits for anti suffrage, both receiving applause. President William J. Magee, delegate to the Los Angeles convention, reported on plans for the service and employees.
Miss Lucille Davis aged 18 died after severe burns from the Mutual Film Corporation office fire in Atlanta. The blaze claimed three lives, with another woman fatally burned in the building and a second victim dying soon after hospital admission.
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