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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1916
Page
13
Massachusetts citizen soldiers headed the first war strength division reviewed in the U S since the Civil War at a massive parade in El Paso Texas. The Bay State unit led about 26 000 troops, proving to militia men they are the best drilled equipped and organized among national guard contingents gathered for the event.
Massachusetts units led a long parade under Generals Morton and Sweetser, with the Fighting Ninth and Eighth regiments at the front. Troops endured a five hour twenty eight minute march, covered twenty miles, and prepared for potential home orders as Villa developments loomed.
Hyman D. Davis of Cleveland, supreme dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose, will be guest of honor at Boston Lodge 4s grand ball and entertainment at its clubhouse 2181 Washington Street Roxbury tonight. Twenty five subordinate lodge dictators from New England will assist in entertaining Davis.
Seven delegates from the metropolitan district were chosen at a Boston mass meeting of the Equal Rights League and the Citizens' Committee of 100 to attend the National Colored Citizenship Rights Congress in Washington on October 4. Delegates include William Monroe Trotter, E. T. Morris, Mrs. M. Cravath Simpson, Allen W. Whaley, Wesley J. Furlong, N. A. N. Shaw, and William D. Brigham. The group urged Equal Rights Sunday on October 1 and condemned lynching and crimes against Africans. The next meeting is set for October 2.
The feature page notes a Boston store's stance over a year, triggering over two million dollars of orders for this season. It claims 85 percent of fall goods will be sold at last year's prices while maintaining fabric quality and tailoring.
Returns from nearly all districts show William M. Calder with 151,379 votes to Robert Bacon's 142,445 in the Republican U.S. Senate race. With 47 districts still to report, Calder's 8934 vote lead is not expected to change the outcome.
Professor Eleanor Densmore Wood of Wellesley College married John Pratt Whitman last night at her home The Forest Tamworth New Hampshire. The bride a Quaker uses Thee and Thou and dresses in plain gray while active Fabian Club member and dramatist Elijah was staged at Neighborhood Theatre. Whitman is a Boston newspaper man.
A runabout was smashed on Tremont Street outside the Hotel Hollis when struck by a coal truck carrying three tons of coal. The owner and driver J. W. Leavitt of 17 Homestead Street Roxbury escaped injury.
Several Zeigfeld Follies stars led by Bernard Granville and Anne Pennington will attend this afternoon's performance at B F Keith's Theatre as guests of Arthur Deagon a former Follies member who has also acted with Granville in Chicago productions
Directors of the New England Milk Producers Association will meet in Manchester New Hampshire to discuss a milk war with large contractors unless a 50 cent price for a 12 quart can is met by October 1. Plans include mass meetings across New England and New York to organize marketing if demands are not met. The dispute status remained unchanged with contractors saying they have contracts for all milk desired while fewer than 10 percent of farmers had signed, says Richard Pattee of Laconia secretary of the association.
The body of Major-General Albert L. Mills, chief of the militia division, was laid to rest in the United States Military Academy post cemetery after services in the academy chapel, escorted by cadets and on duty troops.
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