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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1916
Page
16
Comrade Elias H. Marston, longtime chaplain of the Willard C. Kinsley Post G A R in Somerville and a Wendell Phillips School master in Boston, collapsed and died as he finished a prayer.
A Grand Army burial service for Dr. Sanford Hanscom was held yesterday afternoon at Grace Baptist Church in East Somerville, ending with a prayer led by the post.
Mr Marston collapsed during prayer as the choir prepared to sing The Long Day Closes at the church. Dr Buffum and Dr Curtis attended him. pallbearers at Dr Hanscoms funeral. He served 32 years as Wendell Phillips School principal retiring in 1913. Born August 21 1842 in Little Bear's Head NH, he enlisted at Civil War and fought at Antietam Gettysburg Cold Harbor where he was wounded. He later taught at Wendell Phillips starting 1864 and led the school from 1881 until retirement.
Miss Margaret Nevins 19 of 6 Linden Avenue Roxbury was badly beaten by a stranger in her doorway while returning from a dance. A punch shattered her, requiring six stitches. Police have a description and search for the suspect as her father rushed to help.
Worcester county gathering of Republican committeemen and workers to be held at the Hotel Bancroft Worcester next Friday afternoon. Nearly 300 men expected for a 1 30 o'clock dinner as part of a rousing rally for party candidates.
The Rev. George Loring Thurlow, pastor of the Lexington First Baptist Church, said a visiting friend used a commutation ticket 22 years old yesterday to ride from Boston to Lexington on a Boston & Maine railroad train. The ticket was dated 1894.
The Second Regiment camp in Columbus New Mexico held dual chapel dedications one Catholic Mass led by Rev George S L Connor and a Protestant service with Chaplain Walton Danker. Knights of Columbus funded the project and soldiers contributed through canteen proceeds. A new Sacred Name league was formed during the ceremony. Three Springfield soldiers were injured in a motor truck incident with no fatalities reported. Rattlesnake displays continued at the camp with large specimens captured. A rifle shooting contest among D Company NCOs concluded with chicken dinners as prizes. Massachusetts regiments received permission to ship 795 overcoats from Springfield, signaling they will not return soon.
The French Mediterranean liner Caucase of 4126 tons reached port safely after a Teutonic submarine chased and fired upon her. The captain ordered all aboard to go below deck as the attack unfolded.
Miss Juanita J Gresham daughter of Mrs M C Clarke Cambridge and Thomas W Kenney Jr Cambridge jeweler will marry in Concord Junction as six former students of Rev Robert Walker who served East Cambridge church and later at the Concord Reformatory followed his guidance to wed there. The 1914 Sewing Circle counts her among its members.
Matthias J Nesdale Boston Car Men's Union business agent says he did not see or authorize a circular endorsing Senator James P Timilty for renomination. William H Sullivan, challenging Timilty in the sixth district, obtained a copy and Nesdale forbade any use of his name.
A devoted mother Mrs S Barson of 19 Bailey St Lawrence Mass endorses Father John's Medicine as a pure non alcoholic body builder. She notes both her children benefited and keeps a bottle for emergencies. Thousands of mothers use it when family health wanes or strength is lost due to illness.
Chicago police arrested Homer T. French known as Jack French and Jimmie Christian as the latest members of a gang posing as federal officers to extort thousands from victims across major cities. Christian had been arrested earlier and released on a small bond.
Hinton G. Clabaugh district superintendent of the Department of Justice says the case centers on A R Wesley and Miss Alice Williams who were said to be held in a Southside hotel while crooks posed as government officers and demanded hush money. Wesley paid $12 500 in cash and another 2500 later to prevent prosecution and publicity.
Rev Dr John Haynes Holmes says Theodore Roosevelt embodies a monstrous survival of a pre niocene age. He calls war preparation a moral danger and labels the present era the darkest in human history. He asserts the masses seek to abolish war as humanity did infanticide persecution and slavery.
Maynard's new high school building on Summer street, costing 64500, opens tomorrow morning for occupancy. It will house all high school pupils and seventh and eighth graders, relieving congestion at other buildings and sheltering students displaced by the Nason street fire until further plans are made.
Lieutenant Sumner C. Andrews of Massachusetts Hospital Corps No 1 secretly married a Southern girl before his unit was ordered home from El Paso Texas. The news comes as the Bay State troops return and the officer is surprised by the romantic turn in his farewell.
Lieutenant Andrews a young Gloucester physician and Boston Children’s Hospital staff member, won Miss Hilda Simmons of Waldo Arkansas. They wed at El Paso after meeting amid Bay State militia encampment days earlier. Andrews left a New York fiancé after a patriotism filled letter, then married Simmons by a reverend.
Bay State troops wait for orders to go home amid doubt that many will leave soon. Chaplain H Boyd Edwards defies Colonel Graves by sending telegrams to Senators Lodge Weeks and the War Department claiming 98 percent wish to return. Regular duties continue as some soldiers borrow civilian clothes and mingle in Juarez. Some are detained by Mexican authorities for cameras, with fines reported. Private B J Reisman of A Company, a former Russian Army veteran, forms a Jewish soldiers club and arranges for Ras Has hanah and Yom Kippur services with leave for Jewish soldiers.
Lexington police broke up a Sunday baseball game in a vacant field near Wood street and dispersed about 30 players and spectators. Officers pursued the crowd through swamps and woods but made no arrests, though recovered five coats a cap a soft hat a sweater and a catcher's mitt left behind as players fled.
Five occupants of a touring car were injured when it overturned on the State highway near Dunstan Corner. Mrs Morris C Spitzer of Portland was badly cut and internally injured and taken to Maine General Hospital in critical condition. Her husband, a clothing dealer, their 13 year old daughter, William H Maley a Portland cigar dealer, and Miss Sadie McGrath a nurse suffered various injuries.
President Wilson travels to Baltimore to speak before the National Grain Dealers Association. He will reinforce his stance on the threatened railroad strike and discuss Rural Credits law and the Federal Reserve Act, focusing on the eight hour railroad employee rule. telegrams praising yesterday’s Shadow Lawn address bolster his campaign.
Governor McCall of Massachusetts with his wife and daughter is weekend visitors at New Hampton renewing old acquaintances. He is a graduate of the New Hampton Literary Institution.
A newsboy Morris Bernstein contributed $1 to the fund for the new Franklin Square House building. Rev. Dr. George L. Perin, president of the associated home for girls, announced the receipt of the first donation yesterday.
A group of 12 Cambridge boys who visited Bedford and damaged electric light bulbs on Shaw sheen road were rounded up by Chief Edward P. Kelley. Their names were taken and they will be summoned into court.
In Portsmouth on Richards avenue an auto owned by John R. Riley struck Louis Co Beane's milk wagon. Driver Sidney Frink and two boys William and Paul O'Brien were thrown from the wagon. Frink and William O'Brien suffered cuts and bruises. the horse was fatally wounded and shot.
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