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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
9
Readers respond to Mrs. Luther Burbank's proposal for housemaids to live away from employers and report to work by set hours while still enjoying personal leisure. A man and a manicurist add views on wages, autonomy, and gender roles in domestic labor and appearance.
Letter to the editor questions if young ladies may wear Red Cross nurse uniforms at a fundraising fete. The reply notes the law bans non nurses from wearing the uniform and warns official duty is required for nurses.
A reader questions the city of Boston's right to collect admission for Punker Hill Monument. The response notes the monument is not city property but under the custody of the Bunker Hill Monument Association.
A Boston era tale recalls French traders at Massachusetts Bay before Plymouth. Indians purportedly killed the traders and burned their ship by Peddock's Island, with survivors enslaved and an ensuing epidemic leaving skeletal remains unburied for years.
The answer states five sons and one daughter for the current king and queen. It gives Queen Mary of England's full name as Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes.
The draft asserts rights to life liberty and property as fundamental. It adds the right to support and defend these rights in the best manner possible, reflecting colonial demands for personal security and lawful self defense within the community.
CABBAGE SALAD details chopping cabbage salting and soaking several hours, then a vinegar and mustard paste. SALMON LOAF uses mashed salmon bread crumbs eggs butter and seasonings baked, served with white sauce and peas. SWEET MILK RAISED BREAD instructions mix new milk and boiling water, add flour to fritter consistency, rise six hours, then bake. WADSWORTH.
The speaker recalls conversations with a lord as they travel the King s highway and question each other on deeds. The lord notes acts of kindness toward beggars, workers, mothers, children, and the suffering, while the speaker claims to have shown God and eased troubled minds.
Washington August 2 The Senate moved to force a vote on the Susan B Anthony amendment after protests against taking up suffrage amid the prohibition fight. Senator Cummins pushed to discharge the suffrage committee to bring the measure to a vote amid objections over credit for the effort.
New York Aug 2 Plans by the Naval Consulting Board and a committee under Major-General George W. Goethals aim to protect American relief ships from submarines. W L Saunders urged war relief societies to adopt the system after four relief ships were sunk in three weeks. Details remain secret as federal authorities move to implement premiums via the War Risk Insurance Bureau.
A reader praises a gingham sports skirt with three fabric breadths, waist cinch, diagonal slits, and large buttons. The design includes deep pockets that flop down, finished by a band across the top and painted ends in a blue and white check. The wearer plans to have more made in heavy material for mountain use.
Miss Anita Grosvenor of Newport Rhode Island will marry Richard Carey Curtis of Boston. The couple plans a forthcoming ceremony as families announce the engagement.
General Cipriano Castro former Venezuelan president arrived in Havana aboard a Spanish steamer but secret service prevented landing. Asked about revolution rumors he denied them and said the trip was for pleasure with a ticket to Colon.
Brookline plans a public vegetable market at Betthany School Building on School and Washington streets. It opens Wednesday at 7 am to 11 am and again Saturday August 11 from 2 pm to 8 pm. Amateur gardeners may sell surplus goods with truck gardeners charged six cents per table Wednesday and ten cents Saturday. Unsold vegetables go to the Pierce School canning kitchen.
Poetic fragment describes larks and doves in August fields and meadows. It evokes sunlit corn, green valleys, and silver mist over the hills. The piece moves through day and night imagery, ending with a nocturnal partridge call.
Boston police opened an investigation into the death of Delia Thurston 29 of 157 Chilton Street Cambridge who died at Relief Hospital from an overdose of morphine. Her mother says the daughter was a habitual user of the drug and the death may be the result of an overdose.
Miss Anita Grosvenor of Newport Rhode Island will wed Richard Carey Curtis of Boston a First District Naval Reserve member. The marriage date depends on reserve regulations with a furlough request pending and a possible wedding on August ninth or fourteenth.
Frank Curtis the Good Cheer Evangelist will attend the Old Orchard convention of the Christian and Missionary Alliance from today to August 13. He will bring a straight gospel message to churches in Old Orchard Beach Saco Biddeford and Portland. A memorial service for Harman Bushnell Craig who died at Verdun July 16 1917 will be held at the Church of the Advent on Brimmer and Mt Vernon streets Sunday August 6 at 4 PM conducted by Rev William Harman van Allen rector. Friends and relatives are invited. A committee including Rev W D Goble and Hugh H Heath was named to investigate religious work at the Ayer encampment.
Sir Douglas Haig and General Petain exchanged telegrams of congratulation on the Franco British success at Flanders. Haig paid tribute to the core of the French troops under General Antoine.
Paris August 2 Rear Admiral Lacaze minister of marine in the French cabinet resigns. Premier Ribot takes note and a new arrangement follows.
Washington August 2 Republican Leader Mann, who has been indisposed for several days, has left the capital on his physician's advice. Information on his destination was refused at his office.
A request to Governor McCall asks for wide publicity of names addresses workplaces and reasons of all persons claiming exemption from military service linked to shipyards and munition plants in the state.
Edward F. McGrady, Boston Central Labor Union president, asks the governor to require exemption boards to publish names addresses workplaces and exemption reasons to expose illegal claims and prevent employers from aiding draft evasion amid wartime. He cites shipyards and munitions plants as potential grounds for abuse and urges full transparency.
Petrograd reports General Alexei Brussiloff resigns as commander-in-chief and General Korniloff is named generalissimo. General Tcheremissoff will replace Korniloff on the southwestern front with command of the Eighth Army assigned.
Charles Brett who claims to be a French baron and was discharged from the French army was held in $1,000 by the Municipal Court for a hearing on August 9 on a charge of passing forged checks on business houses and hotels
An advertisement touts a prescription by a prominent physician for removing freckles. Sold by druggists with a money back guarantee if it fails, using ethine double strength. First applications promise improvement with lighter freckles possibly vanishing.
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