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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1909
Page
7
A column of light anecdotes and reports from Boston includes a 13 13 group photo humor, governance chatter with ex Governor Guild, local rail and streetcar quirks, poetry of milk as a vital food, and notices of clubs, players, a fox hunting chat, and a new Elks lodge in Winnisimmet square. The piece also mentions Mayor Hibbard’s summer plans, a Parker House banquet, and a Belleville sportsman returning to the Atlantic coast.
A grieving six year old boy Jean wanders from home at dusk to find his mother who has vanished. He braves the cold night and frosty road believing his mother will return, and is led to dreamlike reunion as she calls to him and he falls asleep in her arms.
The piece muses on death as a normal end to life and worries about burial costs being advertised by insurance salesmen. It reflects Mason’s humorous yet somber take on mortality, noting the town papers and the idea of an ad in death.
A collection of home cooking notes with fried pork items and cabbage dishes. Recipes include fat salt pork with batter and eggs, fried pork chops with lemon milk gravy, and a cabbage fried with butter pepper salt and vinegar. Endorsed by readers H Campbell and Mrs George P Ayres with their Boston and Leominster addresses.
Old fashioned fishballs made from salt fish and mashed potatoes mixed with salt pork and milk. Form into balls, roll in flour and fry brown in lard until crisp. Recipe credited to Mrs G N Bowers of Newmarket New Hampshire, Mt Pleasant Street.
Foliage colorings abound and are mellow. Enormous black cherries adorn hats while three quarter length coats become common. Girls coats are plain with embroidered Piccadilly collars. men wear star sapphire pins. Skirts fuller with side pleats, cretonne upholstery fabrics, new dalmatic contrasts, poker work rising in popularity. A rain dust proof spring summer auto costume material mimics silk in fashionable shades.
Mildred Champagne reports on a German titled policy devised by Frau Wiehe Bereny where women pay yearly until marriage or age 40. If wed before 40, payments fund a general pool. if not, a pension starts at 40 for life or until marriage.
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