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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1911
Page
9
A Boston Post Sewing Circle column invites home makers to share tips on family life, health, and homemaking. A reader laments lenient courts for juvenile offenses and urges reporting to police, hoping courts will heed property protection complaints.
A reader questions Juvenile Court rules as she recalls defending property from local schoolchildren. She describes attempted detentions of boys aged 11 or 12 and the police reaction that under 12 are protected, leaving her unable to act without arrestable behavior.
Mrs Housekeeper dreads wash day and Monday drudgery. Anty Drudge persuades using Fels Naptha soap to make washing easier and clothes look better, turning Monday into a smoother day.
The ad promotes Fels-Naptha soap as a revolution in washing by using cool water to dissolve dirt, claiming less labor, whiter clothes, and healthier hands. It urges following wrapper directions for best results and markets the soap for all household cleaning.
A reader shares details of making a five year old girl’s dress using flouncing of hamburg at 871 2 cents per yard and lawn for the waist. The dress features a Dutch square neck, banding, pale blue ribbon, inserted edge, and short sleeves. The writer seeks guidance and notes practice improves embroidery.
In a three flat Dorchester residence a top floor tenant contests a first floor neighbor who moved a baby carriage into the front hall. The landlord claims first floor rent grants hall privileges, prompting the tenant to move out after a dispute and advice to assert rights.
I saw your request for a cure for warts and here is one that has proved satisfactory in several cases. Get a small bottle of glacial acetic acid at the drug store and apply a little to the wart with a cork. Be careful not to get it on the skin around the wart for though it is not painful it is apt to burn it.
The O Hara family, a large clan of horse traders and farmers, will hold its annual funeral in Atlanta on Friday. Six members will be buried, a yearly custom to allow maximum kinship attendance as bodies collected in April are interred together after embalming.
E H Dollar of Heuverton owns Pontiac Pet a HolsteinFriesian cow that set a world butter production record after a seven day test yielding 37.87 pounds. Cornell experts retested the cow for two days and found 6.35 pounds of butter in one day.
Albany April 26 The State treasury will gain 4000 dollars from the remaining portion of Catherine Grimes Albany estate The Court of Appeals upheld the Appellate Division Third Department ruling that alleged heirs in Ireland failed to prove their claim to the estate The Albany County Surrogate Court found insufficient proof and the estate administration costs including attorneys fees and funeral expenses totaled about 13000 dollars
Among the Churches of Greater Boston reports Mayors from Somerville and nearby cities as guests at the Day class gathering of Broad way Congregational Church Winter Hill Somerville. Tuberculosis Day is set for April 30 with 200000 churches to observe.
Only 2 percent of the young women students in the University of Chicago junior colleges plan to marry, from a survey by Miss Merian Talbot, dean of women. Of 96 respondents, 36 intend to teach, as cited in President Judson’s annual report.
Rose Degeran a former cook suffocated while napping on a sofa due to a tight collar. Mrs Anna Scotch of No 242 West Nineteenth Street found her unresponsive and summoned police. Dr Ross of New York Hospital ruled the death a strangulation by the tight collar.
Washington April 26 a bill by Representative Sheppard of Texas proposes minting a two and a half cent coin. The measure targets benefiting shoppers especially women who hunt bargains and read about item reductions. The proposal contrasts with current prices and imagines a new small denomination in U S currency.
Soak one cup white beans overnight in warm water Drain in morning and cook in pints fresh cold water Simmer four hours then add canned tomatoes onion celery flour dissolved in cold water Cook 1-2 hours longer Strain through a colander Sprinkle chopped parsley in tureen and season with salt butter and pepper Recipes attributed to Mrs Theodore Alexander Mildred Lloyd and Mrs Caroline F Sherburne in Roxbury Kentville Malden with bread crumb butter molasses eggs raisins spices and rum as optional serving accents
Aborn English Grand Opera Company brings Puccini's La Boheme to the Boston Opera House in English, with Elena Kirmes Blanche Duffield and Bertha Shalek among cast, sharing Mimi and Musette roles across alternate performances. Edward P. Temple returns as producer with the Aborn forces guiding the production.
The Associated Press directors elected officers and an executive committee at their April 4 meeting in New York. Frank B. Noyes was named president and Melville E. Stone as secretary and general manager, with R. M. Johnston and Frank P. MacLennan as vice presidents and J. R. Youatt as treasurer. The executive slate includes A. S. Ochs and others.
Four men attempted to crack the Anoka National Bank but failed to reach the inner door after blasting a nitroglycerine charge. They tied a man to a telegraph pole, seized a railway motor, and fled toward Minneapolis where the motor was struck by a freight train. Six suspects were later taken from trains at St. Cloud.
Supreme Court approves a negotiated settlement of the late Miss Sarah S Tuftis estate worth 2120 0 dollars. Receivers include Atary Reed Horace G Williams Theodore C Williams and Mary T Robinson each given 5000 and Emma V Powers and Edward Tufts Williams 1000 each. They gain 8000 more apiece under the agreement. Other bequests total 5000 to the Women s Board of Missions 5000 to the Women s Home Missionary Association and 1000 to the Young Men s Christian Association Charlestown branch.
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