Parker Seeks Another Wooden Fireboat for Boston
Fire Commissioner Parker told a Post reporter that Boston needs a wooden fireboat able to handle the citys draws and the Mystic docks. He favors a fleet plan with Engine 44 as district chief boat and two smaller wooden hulls with iron superstructures to patrol the waterfront at North End and Charlestown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Boston
Post
South Cove
Mystic Docks
Mullen
New York
Boston Insurance
Department
Jesson
Engine 31
North End Park
Charles River
Fort Point
Charlestown
Chelsea Creek
Mystic
Northern Avenue Bridge
East Boston
Best Recipes From New England Housewives and Household Suggestions
A Sunday Post feature presents a collection of era recipes and tips. The item lists specific cooking steps for fish, doughnuts, breakfast dishes, and confections, with contributor names and addresses in East Boston Roxbury Uxbridge Philadelphia New Bedford and Salem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Housewives
The
Sunday Post
Fathers of big families issue challenge in Rockland
James Kane of Rockland Massachusetts boasts ten living children and calls out fathers with at least eleven offspring for athletic contests. Replies arrive from Salem Attleboro and beyond but none meet his strict living-child criteria. Kane may stage an exhibition at the Church of the Holy Family picnic on August 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday Post
James Kane
Rockland
Mass
Kane
John Geary
Salem
Mr. Kane
Geary
The
Post
Attleboro
Church of the Holy Family
Fagan
Ryan
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
Church notices from Boston describe Bishop Lawrence's London conference activity and Roepmann residence use. Other clergy updates include Rev. Spearing at the Knights of Pythias in Shreveport, Peloubet’s vacation plans, and lay led revival at Northfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lawrence
Episcopal Church
Massachusetts
England
Lambeth
Lawrence
Jagger
Europe
Doaney
J. Pierpont Morgan
Roehampton
London
Joseph H. Spearing
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Shreveport
Supreme Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Louisiana
F. N. Peloubet
D. D
Auburndale
Waterville
N. H
W. R. Moody
Northfield
Newell C. Maynard
Eliot Church
Newton
Maine
Walter Calley
Bowdoin Square Tabernacle Church
W. B. C. Merry
Baptist Mission Society
Bethany Baptist Church
Dorchester
Abner F. Newcomb
Mr. Newcomb
Halifax
Blue Envelope Sparks Riches Then Ruin in a City Tale
A woman named Allida Treshem awakens penniless after a windfall from a blue envelope. The newsroom screams headlines as she loses wealth. she returns to work and rekindles a personal conflict with Ted Jossleyn amid lingering social pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allida Treshem
Macey Sons Company
Pandora
Allida
Macey
Allicia
Allica
Ted Jossleyn
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Mole Turned Mere
Civisr Side
Scorchon
Mattie EB. Flynn
Lexington Street
E. A. Alden
Boardman Street
Westboro
Rose Scully
Uxbridge
Charles H. Breed
North Weare
W. S. Bennie
Aberdeen Street
Philadelphia
Mary I. Lloyd
Dudley Street
Roxbury
Annie Flanagan
Denton Street
Brockton
E. C. Parsons
Sears Street
Bedford
Ethel M. Tayte
Meservy Street
Fathers OF Big Families Reply
Challenge
Greater Boston
Katherine Crosby
North Harpswell
Ted
Jossleyn
Alicia
Pair, Tor
Rug Bargains
Axminster
Wg. DL Hutt
Morris
Albion
Harvard
Washington Street
Sargent
Travel School
Porter E. Sargens Box
Cambridge
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