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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
7
Walt Mason muses on fools who play tricks year round and the urge to ignore capers until All Fools Day returns. He imagines ignoreable pratfalls like loaded hats and hempen twine, arguing for ironclad rules to curb perpetual folly.
A chance encounter on a train leads a narrator to a young man with big dreams but little money. Six weeks later in a dusty bookstore they uncover a 1807 inventory revealing stored coins beneath a Colonial chimney. The trio unlocks a hidden coffer full of wealth, changing the young man’s fate.
A reader asks if she should write to a promised correspondent who has not replied for months. The column weighs reasons men may not write, noting mail loss and illness as legitimate factors, but emphasizes that absence can signal the heart moving on and the need for cautious expectation.
Recipes collected for Sunday Post readers feature imperial cookies with walnuts and chocolate treats from Mrs H B Crosby of East Boston, plus mushroom and potato dishes from Mrs Louisa Brindle of Haverhill and others blending butter sugar eggs and spices.
A recipe advises mixing two ounces glycerine with tincture cadomene note the spelling cadomene, rose water three ounces, borax five cents worth. Shake, stand two hours then add borax and rose water. Apply to neck arms and bust twice daily for weeks. rub until absorbed and rinse with hot water and soap. Endorsed as highly effective by experts.
John Todd a lime manufacturer aged 78 widely known in western Connecticut died today in Redding. He was a prominent local business figure and remembered for his long service in the regional lime industry.
In Belfast Maine on March 31 workers at the Leonard and Barrows shoe factory face a threatened strike by 30 lasters and helpers. Management has refused a wage demand, sparking fear the stoppage could halt the entire shop.
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