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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1911
Page
6
Crisped celery with a yolk and oil dressing is served as a cold wavy salad. Also includes Mrs H B Crosby and Mrs F L Smith recipes detailing celery with dressing and a pork potato corn chowder made with onions milk salt and pepper served hot with address notes.
An advertisement promises a free outfit and a hair remedy claimed to thickens eyebrows lengthen eyelashes restore natural hair color stop itching remove dandruff and improve hair appearance for all ages. Readers are instructed to mail a coupon to receive the offer.
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Daily and Sunday Post offers a woman’s forum for home and household topics. Readers discuss domestic perplexities, family management, health hints, remedies, baby care, gardening, and more, often using noms de plume and asking each other questions.
A letter describes a friend's daughter with a leg deformity who improved after her mother bathed the legs in salt and water, gave limewater in milk, and used leg braces prescribed by a doctor. The writer notes the girl is now healthy with no deformity.
A reader advises on hair washing minimalism to avoid shine and hair loss, detailing dust removal with a fine tooth comb and bay rum with glycerine. The letter to a bride suggests a simple white traveling dress, glove handling, and not wearing the engagement ring during the ceremony, with linen initialed VENETIA.
Person seeks guidance on re ink ing typewriter ribbons recalling a past method using printers ink baking soda and one other ingredient. Request for practical steps and ingredients to restore ribbon color and ink transfer.
A 22 year old expecting her first baby in July writes asking why she feels tearful and anxious. She fears dying in July, cites her mother's death in a previous birth, and asks if her feelings are normal or inherited, noting a loving husband.
Mortgage sale note explains buyers can assume the loan or pay it off with the amount deducted from the purchase price, clarifying common practice in property transactions.
A pretty pink party dress for a little girl is described with a low neck short sleeves and fancy trimmings. The ad signs off with the name Mazie and targets mothers seeking stylish attire for their child.
A reader asks for a cost estimate to furnish an eight room flat for herself and a widower with four children. She notes the fiancé earns $31 per week and seeks budgeting guidance to determine affordable furnishings.
A Newtowne note asks guidance for washing parlor and dining room curtains, a net with handmade lace, and avoiding leave marks on the stretcher. Also seeks ideas for a May party and questions if a baby a year old is suitable for Russian suits, with opinions on romper outfits for a walking boy.
The War Time Post extracts from the Boston Post reveal Civil War era tensions as the crisis nears. It highlights contemporary reflections on days of 1861, offering glimpses of public mood and reportage from a city at the heart of national upheaval.
On April 5 1861 Captain Foster tallied provisions at Fort Sumter reporting one half barrel of corn meal one seventh barrel of grits and 11 codfish. On the same day Governor Pickens informed the Union garrison that Confederate orders barred any man or laborer from leaving the fort to hasten starvation of the Northern troops.
In New York on April 5 1861 the U S government charters Baltic and Ariel to transport troops under sealed orders. Baltic will carry Captain Barry's Flying Artillery company and 90 men while Ariel will take seven or eight infantry and marine companies. Powhatan sails tomorrow with three military companies. Forts Simter and Pickens expected reinforcement. 100 men marching from Governor's Island. 2600 troops in port. Atlantic chartered with government stores. Illinois to sea under sealed orders. City of Baltimore to carry mails and passengers to Europe.
Fifty years ago today the Virginia convention debated staying in the Union or joining the Confederacy. A Richmond despatch details parliamentary moves to alter the resolution, with votes on replacing terms and a push for adjusting rather than dissolving ties, reflecting wartime friction over secession.
The passage expresses a wish for an adjustment that restores the Union and fraternal feelings. Mr Lake proposed an amendment demanding the North desist from interfering with slavery in states and territories and to abandon hostile political organizations. The amendment was rejected 40 to 93.
Chicago despatch dated April 35 1861 reports fugitive slaves moved to Springfield on Wednesday. They were examined before Commissioner Corneau and handed over to their owners.
Marshal Rynders of New York seized a clipper bark on a slave trade charge. Evidence failed to convict, and the ship likely will be released. The vessel had returned from a China voyage six weeks earlier.
A leading Wall Street banking house exposed in a daring forged Virginia bonds scheme. Authorities believe a large volume of counterfeit securities was dumped on the market by the implicated parties. The note recalls how Civil War era Southern securities and Confederate money devalued until one U.S. gold dollar bought 60 Confederate paper dollars.
John Trower, reputed to be the wealthiest negro in the United States, died after a long illness at his Germantown home. He was 61, born in slavery, and his fortune was reported around 1.5 million dollars. He led church work and founded a Baptist seminary in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
The upcoming Sunday Post will feature another amusing tale in the John Henry series as told by humorist George W Hobart. Readers can expect light satire and geographic flare from the noted wit.
Advice from Uncle Walt Mason urges go West East South or North to seek wealth renown and honor. It emphasizes heart head courage and steady labor as paths to success across regions, concluding that earnest effort earns an honored name regardless of direction. Copyright 1911 by George Matthew Adams.
Brief profiles reveal Theodore Henry Tuttle a legal writer born in 1830. Albert Estopinal of Louisiana, a congressman, has 10 children. Rev. Robert Collyer of New York City is 88 and rose from factory work to ministry. Jeff Davis from Arkansas became a lawyer at 19 and stayed neutral in the Civil War.
Miss Mary Boyle O'Reilly spoke before Roslindale Unitarian Church on Fellows Citizens. A World Children's Secretaries meeting convened at Bromfield Street Church. Holy Week services announced at Church of the Ascension East Cambridge with a lineup of clergy. Harvard Church Religious Education Society heard a Jewish history address by Rev A W Vernon D D. A Baptist Sunday School convention gathered at Ruggles Street Baptist Church with Harle Fulton and other clergy in attendance.
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