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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1908
Page
5
The piece argues whole wheat is best for hot weather and explains a 96 hour preparation process. It details steaming six hours, curing days, flaking thin berry-like pieces, and 30 minutes of toasting at 400 degrees to create digestible flakes. It contrasts with faster methods that reduce nutrition and digestibility.
A persuasive advertisement touts Mapi Flake as a premium breakfast option cooked in pure maple syrup. It asserts broad appeal to children and urges customers to order a package for tomorrow morning. Mixing with fruit is suggested but not required.
Professor Herrick of the University of Chicago criticizes modern American wives as overfed and overdressed. he notes they seek wealth and status, fail to bear children, and become custodians of men while neglecting traditional roles. He portrays a material age eroding manhood and family, predicting a bleak future for a civilization driven by pleasure.
Debs and Socialist organizers plan to bring Eugene V. Debs to Boston for a speak fest but Tremont Temple and People's Temple refuse venue use. They may hold a mass meeting on Boston Common if blocked, with Faneuil Hall deemed too small for expected overflow. Debs travels on the Socialist special with Ben Hanford aboard a brassy tour.
Five year old Little Carmela Chamba of East Boston was playing with matches on her doorstep when a neighbor’s child tossed him a bundle. She caught them, ignited, and burst into flames. A neighbor pulled off the burning clothes and she was taken to the Relief Hospital, where doctors say her prospects are cautiously hopeful.
Paris August 9 Miss Mary Garden snubbed a wealthy admirer Robert Williams of Kimberley diamonds fame who visited the opera in Paris. Williams sent his card to her dressing room claiming he was in the house and awaited a meeting but Garden returned it with the note Miss Garden is glad that Mr Williams is in the house.
Chicago society leaders largely back Professor Robert Herrick’s depiction of the modern American woman as overfed and overdressed in his novel Together. Outside society circles, critics call the portrayal libelous and harsh, with Mrs Bowles and others condemning Herrick’s methods as outrageous.
The bodies of two men lie in the city morgue awaiting identification. One is Edmundo Gutman, a confessed murderer and robber, shot in Jamaica Plain. The other is a young man who died by suicide in the Public Garden after a note to Clara about unrequited love. If unclaimed, both will be buried in Potter's Field tomorrow.
The War Office refused permission for the fusilier regiment band of Prince Albrecht of Prussia to take a two months engagement in the United States, blocking the proposed tour.
A 20 year old asks if he should be engaged to a young woman after letters from an old love and her refusal of kissing before engagement. The expert cautions that seeking kisses over the person signals misaligned motives and warns that engagement usually implies a future home and ring.
The correspondent asks if a 19 year old should visit a 17 year old from church in Connecticut. The advisor says visiting is fine if not misinterpreted as more than friendship, praises his ambitions and lack of bad habits, and cautions that a future wife may uncover hidden faults.
Tilton S. Bell of the Schoolhouse Commission pledges all city schools will be fireproofed and sanitary when they open in September. Inspections are thorough with external fire escapes, fireproof boiler rooms, repaired roofs, and re varnished desks to improve safety and cleanliness for pupils.
William H. Staples, 26, was arrested in Everett for breaking and entering at the Pope Optical Company store in Worcester. Police say a safe yielded over 400 dollars in gold spectacles and about 200 dollars more. burglary occurred between Thursday evening and Friday morning, with doors locked and keys used.
Chicago reports 18 year old Lee Haseman, messenger at First Trust and Savings Bank, arrested on charges of stealing 3400 from the bank and 1300 from his aunt. The aunt had entrusted the funds to him for deposit.
Work has begun on a new temporary art school linked to the Museum of Fine Arts. The design features a ring of rooms around two courts with instructors shaping each space, a design department front suite, and life class rooms for men and women under Mr. Hale, plus a modelling room.
Senators contacted for comment on James H. Vahey's claims at the Red Devil Democracy gathering in Squantum offered varied replies. Dr. William O. Faxon declined to discuss, Tilton Bell said Vahey repeating Senate statements, and Gideon Abbott noted Republicans supported Democratic measures and defended the 54 hour bill controversy.
At Belmar New Jersey Mrs. Fred Davison wife of a bank official and her four year old son Chester were nearly run down by a fast express as their car approached the Tenth avenue crossing. She leaped with the boy but landed on the tracks yet escaped as the train roared by.
The Navy Department plans a wireless station in Prince William Sound Alaska with site selection to follow soon. The project aims to enhance maritime communications and naval readiness in the region.
In Trenton New Jersey on August 9 Thomas Crawford Jr an undertaker died of heart disease while riding in a cab to the funeral of Mrs William Dedrick. The cab stopped at the house and Crawford did not respond after reaching the destination.
A set of plans said to detail the ammunition compartments and hoisting gear of the battleship Indiana was found hidden under brush and stone in Philadelphia. Police and navy yard officials investigate the mystery surrounding the recovery.
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