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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1904
Page
2
A vintage advertisement lists dramatic markdowns on boys suits long trousers and overcoats with multiple price drops from 35 down to 2.50 and notes contributions from furnishing hat and shoe departments to boost sale value.
Twenty one members of Clinton High School’s graduating class will substitute the usual graduation observances with a visit to Washington. The trip aims to give practical contact with the seat of government and department buildings to enhance four years of study.
Readers respond to President Roosevelt's annual message praising large families and opposing women working outside the home while endorsing corporal punishment for wife-beaters. Mrs. Virginia Fairfield derides the idea, others defend women's equal rights and childcare, and several women support punishment for domestic violence.
Jacob Derkes told his wife five cents a day is all he will pay to keep house. On June 17 she left him and later testified he gave powders in her tea to render her unconscious. Judge Sale granted a decree ending their marriage in the Divorce Court.
Friends of Dr. Borden P. Bowne of Boston University will hear him at Wesleyan Hall next Monday at 10 45 AM. He will deliver an address titled A Report From the Philosophical Field.
A vintage advertisement touts a cold remedy using laxative bromine quinine and urges readers to call for the full name and look for E. W. Grove's signature. The price is listed as 25 cents.
The last Proverb Problem in the contest will be No. 82 in the Sunday Post of Dec. 18. Contestants will be allowed until 6 p m Saturday Dec 31 to complete and get in their lists. No list received after that hour will be considered. Send by mails the condition: state. Be careful to fully prepay postage.
Post coupons printed with each Proverb Picture allow one answer per coupon. Entries must arrive after Coupon No 82 is published Sunday Dec 18 and before 6 p m Saturday Dec 31. Send only coupons to Proverb Editor P O Box 5276 Boston Mass.
Miss Mabel Everett, a Dedham girl and niece of Miss Sarah Everett, elopes with Thomas E. Walton after a courtship in Colorado Springs. They wed after a family plan to veto the union, while her Boston uncle F F Jacques returns East. Dedham friends note the West Coast elopement as a surprise and await further word.
In Part II of a New York Supreme Court divorce suit Colonel James A. Jewell against Caroline L. Jewell, maid Alice Ferguson testified about visits by corespondents to the Jewell home. The maid described accompanying Mrs. Jewell to Judge Beckford in Laconia and a 1894 trip where a man named Caldin brought drinks and made advances.
Bertha Krupp, owner of nearly all the Krupp company’s $40 million capital, receives a $2.4 million income as the firm proclaims a 6 percent dividend.
In Rochester New Hampshire on December 8 two Chisholm brothers aged 12 and 14 drowned after their ice broke. Another boy, Andrew Redlow, 14, was saved by Edward Tibbetts who arrived with a long pole. Redlow was pulled from the water but remained unconscious tonight.
Judge Burke released six soldiers from Fort Banks after a fist fight at Rowe's wharf the prior night. An Fort Banks officer said the men would be severely punished by military authorities and possibly confined in the guardhouse with fines. The judge warned that repetition would shift punishment to the city rather than the military.
The Zion colored Baptist Church in Lynn faces a pastor crisis as a majority faction protests his leadership. Deacons host secret meetings where the minister is denounced, while neighbors and parishioners gossip and exchange views across streets and via wireless announcements during a snow morning. The pastor has not commented.
Readers are told that writing answers in ink pencil or type offers no advantage if legible. Duplicates mean multiple answers to the same proverb on one coupon set, which should be avoided. Submit answers in numerical order in one envelope, with consistent numbering and proper name and address.
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