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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
11
Observers report women with small poodle dogs in fur muffs riding in the new Washington street tunnel. Darius Cobb recalls his pocketbook theft as a curious Boston sensation. Local updates include politics, library chatter, ice on Charles River, and community events across Dorchester Chelsea and South Boston.
The piece highlights fur trends with sable chinchilla fox and ermine, satin weaves and velvet ribbons. It notes winter brides favor Empire gowns and long trailing styles for evenings. It profiles Richard Devlin, born in 1876 in the Hub, as Quincy House chef, detailing his career across Boston hotels and a sample recipe for parboiled chicken with mushrooms and truffles.
A column offers several recipes from New England housewives including Mrs Ethel Hanscombe of Portland Me and Nellie Zackular of Everett. Directions cover egg custards with vinegar, curdling milk with wine and rennet, walnut cookies, brown sugar butter cookies, and spiced date pound cake with vanilla frosting.
The Boston store Jordan Marsh introduces Store Topics to boost worker morale. It highlights abundant openings for young men in sales departments, rapid advancement, and paths to becoming buyers sent abroad with high pay and status.
An older narrator recalls a tale from her youth about seven young women competing for the attention of the dashing Clarence Blakeslee. Plain Alice is finally chosen, while the others’ hopes crumble. The speaker later falls for Rob Morse after an accident leads to his care and eventual engagement, proving plainness can yield lasting love.
A 20 year old girl asks Mildred Champagne how to handle a young man who drifted from interest after dating. The adviser suggests not overreacting, invites him to the home if courting resumes, and notes a man’s duty to both mother and potential wife while stressing careful judgment and clear signals in relationships.
Nine year old Helen Kelley daughter of Walter N Kelley starts a year long bed rest in Traverse City. She will wear a heavy brace during the entire period as doctors call it the only cure for her tubercular condition seen as a threat to lifelong lameness.
In Cincinnati on December 9 Louis Carraro offers $10,000 if his wife can prove she did not elope with Jack Martin. The former Mrs Carraro retorts she would not remarry him even for a million dollars.
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