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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1915
Page
5
The National Council of Congregational Churches began its 41st biennial session at Centre Church New Haven with the first sitting focused on officer elections reports reception and prep for denominational matters.
Henry M. Beardsley of Kansas City was unanimously chosen moderator to succeed Dean Charles R. Brown. The Rev. Dr. William Horace Day of Los Angeles was first assistant moderator and the Rev. Dr. Alfred Lawless Jr. of New Orleans second assistant. The council invited the 1917 meeting to Los Angeles and heard reports from standing committees.
Leon E Baldwin acting chairman of the Progressive State committee filed a formal protest with the Boston school committee against an American history textbook. The letter challenges several statements about the Progressive party and Roosevelt Taft era, calling the description false and urging removal or correction. It notes 4,009,000 voters backed the Progressive ticket in the last presidential election.
The Progressive move introduces the text Elementary American History and Government in Boston classrooms. It was compiled by James Albert Woodburn of Indiana State University and Thomas Francis Moran of Purdue University. The work includes a section on Presidential Nominations 1912 the Progressive Party.
Within two hours yesterday afternoon twenty men registered as students of a new military school for business and professional men opened by the First Corps Cadets of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Classes expected by mid November will meet Friday evenings at the armory on Columbus avenue with prospective enrollees including Major General Francis Henry Appleton James A Symonds and George P D Mackintosh. Enrollments should contact Franklin L Joy at 42 Water street.
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Hamburg American Line weighs moving the steamships Cincinnati and Amerika from Boston Harbor to Gloucester to cut costs. New York officials and Gloucester leaders including Mayor C Homer Darrett discuss the plan with Cape Ann harbor master Alfred W Spurr. Line executive W G Sickle says docked ships in Boston Harbor are expensive and a Gloucester layup could save money. The potential transfer of other interned ships remains undecided.
Henry Lamy son of a Paris broker and MIT class of 1918 was killed by German shrapnel in Champagne France while serving with the 28th company of the 132d infantry. A Paris mineral broker's son, he studied in Paris and earned a B S from the University of Paris before enlisting. He previously lost use of his left arm while in a munitions factory.
Harvard University will be represented at the 1st annual convocation of the University of the State of New York by Professor Edward C. Moore and Professor Thomas N. Carver. The convocation opens today and continues through tomorrow. Carver will address delegates on The Psychology of Farm Life and Moore on The State and the City.
White House Coffee expands distribution by 25 percent to meet rising demand. Dwinell Wright Company reports over 256 000 grocers stock White House Coffee in 1 2 and 8 pound all tin cans. Each intact can guarantees fresh flavor and protection from deterioration.
Governor Hiram Johnson, Roosevelts running mate and prospective presidential candidate, sends a stick tight battle cry to Bay State Progressives via Chester R. Lawrence. Lawrence says Johnson urges perseverance and confrontation to defeat the combined major parties, citing California progress in 1912 as precedent.
The Democratic city committee announced its ratification meeting in Tremont Temple is moved to Saturday October 23 instead of October 30. Tickets originally listed October 30.
A Zion Association of Greater Boston appoints a committee to represent Jewish fraternal, educational, Zionistic and congregational groups in New England. Rabbi M. M. Feichler chairs with Louis E. B. Kirstein, Isaac Harris and Julius Meyer as members.
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