Child Hit By Car Still Lives in East Cambridge
Four year old Arthur White of 133 Amory Street was struck by an inbound Arlington car at Amory and Hampshire yesterday. He sustained concussion and a severely damaged right ear but survived the crash after being rushed to his home for examination by Dr. Donnelly. The motor man and conductor faced no charges as no police were on the scene. the car number was 1560.
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Arlington
Amory and
Hampshire Streets
Cambridge
Arthur White
Amory Street
William White
Hampshire Street
Donnelly
Sewing Circle Offers Homemaker Forum At Boston Post
The Sewing Circle column invites New England housewives to discuss home and family topics. Questions and advice on domestic difficulties, health hints, parenting, and household management welcome. writers may use pen names and should mail to Sewing Circle Editor at the Boston Post.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Advice Against Marrying Widowers From Aged Reader
A reader warns young girls against marrying widowers citing heavy responsibility and criticism as stepmothers. She recalls marrying at 20 a man with two children, then giving up personal pleasures to adapt to his ways. She urges staying single over such unions.
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Constance
Water glass questions and bedbug tips from Vermont Hills
Reader asks about water glass for eggs and whether thin shells and lime sediment affect safety. Advice suggests checking mixture strength and solution setup. Also offers home remedies for bedbugs including sealing rooms, brimstone vapors, cayenne pepper paste, and kerosene in crevices.
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Vermont Hills
Vaseline Used For Baby’s Head Care Advice
Instructions advise a mother to apply vaseline behind the baby's ears and on the head at night, wash in the morning, and avoid powder. For Mavourneen, Vaseline aids coating on the head. apply at night and comb in the morning, washing over several days and reapplying occasionally. Arbuthus.
Family upstairs or front hall carriage debate
Dear Sisters readers discuss a dispute over baby carriage placement in a shared building. A first floor resident argues the family upstairs has a right to keep the carriage in the front hall if no back hall exists, while the half believes it forces use of back doors and kitchen dining room space.
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Elsie
Wart cure inquiry from reader Oliver
A reader asks for treatment options and a cure for warts. The letter requests a prompt and practical response and is addressed to Sisters.
Circle reader urges kindness to parents and in law
A letter from O. J. M. urges readers to honor their mothers and parents, respect in laws, and keep families united. She argues wives should value their husbands and his mother, sharing duties to keep the elder generation active and appreciated.
Mother-in-Law Respect Advised by Happy Somerville Wife
A letter urges wives to honor their mothers-in-law as husbands do, arguing that speaking ill of the mother-in-law harms the husband’s feelings. The writer expresses pride in her own mother-in-law and hopes to be a mother-in-law to her son, wishing love from daughter-in-law.
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Lucy B
J. M
Somerville
Customs for godparents in church ceremonies
The reader asks about duties and costs for a godmother and godfather at a baptism. It notes concerns over which expenses each should bear and whether a gift to the godmother is expected. Editorial signoff from GODMOTHER-TO-BE and praise for The Boston Post and The Sewing Circle.
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P. S
Boston Post
Sewing Circle
Boston Bess Seeks Advice on Starting a Small Grocery
A letter to the Post Sewing Circle asks how much capital is needed to open a tiny grocery. Boston Bess writes she has some savings but wants guidance on startup funds and plan.
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Daily
Sunday Post
Boston Bess
Dye for Gray Hair Question in Dear Easter Lily
A reader asks if henna tea can darken gray or black hair and seeks a harmless alternative dye. The inquiry appears in the Easter Lily column and requests safe, effective options for gray hair coloration.
Birthday Party Candy and Refreshments Request
A letter from Everett asks for inexpensive home made party ideas for a little brother. The writer seeks simple candy recipes and budget friendly refreshments for a birthday gathering.
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Everett
Care of Rose Plant for Polly R
Advice to Polly R. about a rose kept in a dry atmosphere suffering red spider. Suggest syringing with warm water to remove chill, then place in a moist location. Emphasizes roses should not stay in dry rooms where pests thrive.
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Polly R
Alcohol for furniture care tip from Mae
A brief household tip suggests pouring pure alcohol on the white spot on furniture and rubbing with a soft cloth. The advice warns to avoid wood alcohol and attributes the tip to Mae and L. D. P.
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Mae
Ll. D. P
Shorthand Girls Form Stenographers Mutual Benefit Association
Seventy five Boston stenographers and typists gathered at Perkins Hall to form the Stenographers Mutual Benefit Association. Thomas M. Nolan presided as a constitution and by-laws were adopted and officers appointed. The group set May 24 for the first meeting and planned monthly sessions.
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Boston
Perkins Hall
Stenographers’ Mutual Benefit Association
Thomas M. Nolan
Boston Women Form Mutual Benefit Association
Miss Emma L. Martin elected president with Miss J M Caddell as vice president and Miss Florence K. Glynn as secretary. The group, formed after an investigation of mercantile establishments, will offer sickness and death benefits to unmarried women in Greater Boston working as stenographers or typewriter operators, with two membership classes and weekly dues. Initiation is one dollar and an advisory board oversees affairs.
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Emma L. Martin
J. M. Caddell
Florence K. Glynn
Kathryne L. Nolan
Boylston Jr
Harry W. Kimball
General Insurance Guarantee Fund
H. LaRue Brown
Maud W. Park
Equal Suffrage Association
Alice H. Grady
Massachusetts Savings Bank Insurance League
Greater
Boston
Savings Bank
Blanche Denig
Glendower Evans
Caroline J. Cook
Gertrude Prouty
M. M. Farrar
Chicago Pastor Called to Lead First Baptist Church
The Rev. Austen K. De Blois D D of Chicago is unanimously chosen as pastor of the First Baptist Church on Commonwealth Avenue. The church had been without a pastor since the resignation of the Rev. Francis H. Rowley D D over a year ago. De Blois is Nova Scotian by birth and studied at Arcadia College Brown University Newton Baptist Theological Seminary and the University of Berlin. He has led the Union Baptist Seminary in St Martins New Brunswick for five years and served as president of Shurtleff College.
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Austen K. de Blois
D. D
Chicago
First Baptist Church
Commonwealth Avenue
Francis H. Rowley
da Blois
Nova Scotia
Arcadia College
Brown University
Newton Baptist Theological Seminary
University of Berlin
Germany
Union Baptist Seminary
St. Martins
N. B
Shurtleff College
Bible Tercentenary Observed By Massachusetts Bible Society
The King James Version tercentenary was marked with services at Trinity Church. President W H Faunce praised the Bible as a priceless heritage and argued for its enduring influence across industry literature science art home and church. Other churches held observances with diverse sermons praising the Bible’s history and impact.
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Trinity Church
W. H. Faunce
Brown University
James Wood
LL. D
American Bible Society
Faunce
England
John Bunyan
America
Abraham Lincolln
Brookline Baptist Church
H. B. Grose
D. D
First Baptist Church
Jamaica Plain
Walter Calley
Emmanuel Church
McComb
A. Z. Conrad
Shawmut Congregational Church
A.A. Berle
Jelly Beans Fatal Poisoning Suspected
Earl Johnson seven, of Warwick Rhode Island, died after eating jelly beans purchased the previous night. Dr J Edward Duffy says arsenic poisoning suspected and federal authorities will test the confections for contamination.
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Warwick
R. I
Earl Johnson
J. Edward Duffy
Federal Pure Food Authorities
Dog Worth 15000 Dollars Kicked About County
Philadelphia April 23. Fifteen thousand dollars has been loose in Montgomery county for days. People have held it and kicked it away, losing a reward for the return of the original loss. The money is in dog flesh valued about 1000 pounds, carried on a French poodle from the estate of James Sinnott, a wealthy whiskey rectifier.
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Philadelphia
Montgomery County
James Sinnott
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