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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1914
Page
15
Readers discuss pensions for married women and male headship, thrift versus expense, and the duty to one’s parents. Letters critique single women workers, dances, and social norms, with cautions about wine, cigarettes, and keeping home life intact. Community voices urge practical homemaking and moral balance.
A speaker mourns a missed beloved beside a fire as others observe from the room. The burning flame consumes the bonds of passion, and the speaker resents rivals who claim affection. The poem questions love’s possessiveness and the bitterness of unreturned care.
The Sunday Post prints a selection of reader letters to the Sewing Circle. Readers share personal notes on needlework, crafts, and community life, revealing the era’s domestic hobbies and social values through brief submissions.
The Boston & Maine railroad is building a safety fence at Winchester station to separate the tracks. When finished, commuters cannot walk across the tracks and will use the new "safety first" bridge opened to the public upon completion.
In a childhood tale by Marion Fenwick Foster, Teddy, a lonely boy, constructs Tom Billy from imagination. The pretend friend accompanies Teddy in yard games, church plays, and rides, while a real boy briefly appears and activates the closet home. The story ends with Teddy sharing cookies and bananas from Tom Billy’s imagined world.
Paragraphs describe midsummer wear with lace frocks and upstanding linen collars, capes of silk or velvet, and taffeta dancing frocks. Gold tissue belts mirror broad kid belts while chiffon plush tops appear for street wraps. high hair and combs rise in style and white taffeta outfits with fitted basques trend strongly.
Four Spanish citizens including a viscountess are stranded in Boston after the White Star liner Canopic detoured to avoid German warships near the Azores. They planned to reach the Azores then Spain, but Captain Kelk announced the Canopic would sail from Boston to New York then directly to Italy, skipping the Azores.
In a kitchen note the recipe pairs for a tart jelly and spiced melon slices. Ingredients include eggs sugar butter salt mustard vinegar and cream for the jelly and a spiced melon method with cinnamon clove sugar and vinegar. Also a magazine tease cites a Sunday Post Magazine lead about The Coup in Madrid.
Maud McManama of Summer Street, Waltham, recounts 36 hours without food and 48 hours without sleep while fleeing a war zone. She arrived in London aboard the Finland after losing belongings in Paris and witnessing tearful partings as sons were called to military service.
The Boston Floating Hospital fund of 15000 received several donations yesterday as the vessel anchored in Dorchester Bay due to fog and rough weather. The ship had its busiest day of the season with over 230 mothers and children cared for, while Alice M. Matthews and Sarah Frances Hitch cock night events honored donors and families.
The engagement of Mrs. Ethel H. Rust widow of Dr. Frank Lee Drummond Rust to Dr. Theodore Chapin Beebe of Boston is announced. Dr Beebe sailed August 7 on the St Paul to meet Mrs Rust and Miss Welch in London where they arrived from Vienna. The marriage will occur almost immediately.
The Peruvian destroyer Teniente Rodriguez became the first warship to traverse the Panama Canal this morning. The steamship Admiral Dewey also completed the passage in the same session at Colon this day.
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