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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1911
Page
7
A Boston area citizen who once bewailed drought now laments soggy lawns after heavy rains. Light notes cover stray incidents from a dog soaked by a carriage splash to aviators attracting admirers and harbor excursions showcasing fort Warren artillery.
Ross Barnes quarrels with his father over marrying actress Mary Devay. His mother and sister defend him, while sister hopes his planned meeting with Molly Mifflin at their country home may ease tensions. Ross leaves in anger for the city in a new motor car.
Readers are urged to send birth dates and six cents to Dr A Zerola of Havana Cuba for psychic readings promising insights into love health wealth and marriage. The appeal claims past present and future revelations and offers guidance on career changes and relationship outcomes.
In a shopper warning, readers are advised to beware fake watches flooding the market and to buy genuine Waltham from Wilson Bros in Scooling Square. The ad urges care to avoid decoys and emphasizes trusted agents for authentic timepieces.
Charles L. Ridgeway proprietor of the Nautical Gardens at Revere Beach is chosen king of the upcoming Mardi Gras carnival and may select a queen. The beach amusements committee plans nightly features during Mardi Gras week with Chief Marshal William A. Oakes directing plans and receiving support from militia, veterans, and firemen groups.
A humorous 1911 verse by Walt Mason laments national woes from tariffs to wars, contrasting a peaceful home life with a restless world. The speaker imagines abundance at home while railing against outside ills and political strife.
Lea the Sewing Circle in the Boston Daily and Sunday Post serves as a woman’s own forum for New England home makers. Topics include household management, health hints, baby care, gardening, and domestic puzzles with anonymous questions and supportive advice.
A speaker notes used drum sets cost about twenty dollars and include bass and tenor drums and cymbals. A Boston second-hand store sold a fine set. With six months practice a girl can join an orchestra, though practicing alone is difficult. First violin.
A colonial style recipe lists ingredients for a fruit loaf including butter sugar molasses eggs milk flour soda and various spices. Proportions include raisins currants citron cloves cinnamon allspice and nutmeg with a four hour bake. Mrs E W Lord 29 School Street Mansfield supplied this card.
A soaked traveler named Andy writes from Lemonhurst-on-the-pike about three days of heavy rain keeping him in a rural farmhouse 64 miles from a pool hall and 300 from a vaudeville show. He mocks routine diversions, catalogs landscape oddities, and longs to return to moving pictures and a ticket-taker.
A reader asks how to clean a white beaver hat at home and whether any Boston schools offer an evening weekly cooking class. The query seeks safe home care tips and a local educational option for evening cooking instruction.
Mrs Haydn jokes about their car tires being Swiss, prompting Mrs Wilkshire to remark on air in autos as a haughty matter. The dialogue scene reflects social banter and fashion of the time around mobility.
A Baltimore reader praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after her fifteen year old daughter Alice recovered from illness. The letter touts the remedy for female troubles and urges others with painful or irregular periods to seek restoration through the product.
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