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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1915
Page
17
A reader advises living on twelve dollars a week with frugal meals and possible extra income such as babysitting or baking for neighbors, urging a raise from the employer. Letters from readers discuss hired help, status, and coping with domestic life under tight finances.
Dorothy describes Ruth wearing a plum color auto-wear coat that is simple yet stylish. The garment features a defined waist, leg o mutton sleeves, and minimal trimming with a cloth cord along the hem and yoke. Ruth’s restrained fashion reflects thrift after financial loss.
Cleaning tips advise against hot water on wood floors and suggest cold water with washing soda for a white floor. Lemon removes ink stains from hands, and cold water with ammonia and soap cleans machine grease where other methods fail. Mrs George Mottnebrey, 54 Central Street, Turners Falls.
A 1915 verse piece notes the contrast between daily life and the traveler who treads the path of a golden dawn. It contrasts workers and artists with enduring journeys under a sunlit, idealized fate.
Left over chicken combined with boiled rice butter salt egg and milk forms a croquette mix. Paprika seasons the blend stirred briefly then cooled shaped and breaded. Fry until brown in hot lard. Mary Fe Russell 39 Bertram Street Neponset provided the method in Sunday Post.
A home baking note presents a nut cake recipe listing ingredients: egg, sugar, milk, flour, chopped nuts, salt, baking powder. Instructions specify mixing dry ingredients, adding nuts, then milk and egg, resting 20 minutes, and baking one hour in a moderate oven. Miss Rose Flynn, 12 Linden Street, Manchester New Hampshire.
A recipe by Harriet Libby from 17 Harvard Street Auburn Maine outlines mixing cornstarch sugar salt cocoa with cold milk then adding to scalded milk. Cook in a double boiler ten minutes stirring constantly until thickened. Fold in vanilla.
The oldest resident notes the coldest December 8 on record at 4 below in 1902 and the warmest 58 degrees in 1883. He cites 10 year comparisons with 55 degrees in 186 and 1913 and notes storms on December 8 in 1906 1908 1914 and 1915.
Mayor Dan Morgan Smith told a Howe Hall audience that city candidates have not stated positions on licenses. He blamed liquor interests for dominating politics and influencing elections.
Major Smith argues candidates must oppose liquor to save families and ensure decency in Boston. He says total abstinence helps the drinker and the family, and that liquor should be eliminated for a better city. He warns license supports ruin and urges a no-license stance.
Half high fur collars finish chiffon corsages while the costliest gowns boast the highest collars. Peacock blue with green hues remains a top modish tint. Slightly draped overskirts resemble regulation streetcoats and white dresses with colored embroidery appear for children. Sheer crepe gowns with broad serge borders stay stylish. Sleeveless velvet coats worn over chiffon blouses prove most effective.
At its annual meeting the State Board of Agriculture voted to recommend to the Legislature creating a State chief of markets office to tackle the high cost of living. It also proposes $50,000 in prizes to promote practical drainage, an agricultural census, and state purchase of stallions for breeding.
The board recommends 13 measures including doubling prizes for gardening and domestic science excellence. A proposed State chief of markets would study marketing of farm products, promote public markets, aid farmer co operatives, set grading rules after hearings, with $5000 annual funding. Governor Walsh spoke at the session.
Sunday Post Magazine previews suburban lot sales as guidance for hopeful home builders.
A 23 year old suitor writes to Mildred Champagne seeking guidance on eloping with a house maid. The reply urges confronting parents, valuing character and love, and suggests asking parents to sponsor the match while considering their counsel before any rash steps.
Beatrice Elliott of Chelsea becomes Quincy’s first war bride after marrying John S. Campbell, a Roxbury native who served with the British army service corps in France. Campbell, born in Roxbury, spent years at sea and enlisted in 1914, later discharged for disability. The couple, who met in Plymouth, settled on South Street in Quincy after returning to the United States.
The will of Levi R. Reed of Holbrook, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court before Judge Pierce, is challenged. Dr. Ring of Taunton Insane Hospital testified Reed held delusions that the world began 10,000 years ago and was inhabited by Indians, and that there is a link between Murphy and morphia. Reed, who died November 2, 1914, made the will in October 1913 while at Taunton Asylum. executors seek allowance. Reed made a shoe string fortune. other doctors noted his vegetarianism and hospital diet objections.
A reader-friendly feature in the Sun Day Post Magazine explores a bold home concept dubbed the lion’s den. The piece highlights one man’s interest and the potential design implications for modern living.
Dr. Richard C. Maclaurin president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was elected director of the Equitable Life Insurance Society of New York. He fills the seat formerly held by the late Sir William Van Horn, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Silva W. Lagorio of Salem Street was arrested yesterday afternoon by Inspectors Wise and Cronin. He is charged with attempted larceny of a $45 watch from N Sallinger and allegedly tried to buy the watch from Sallinger under an assumed name.
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