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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1908
Page
9
Ellen Clancy a.k.a Mile. Corrinne, star performer at a cheap circus, endures brutal abuse from her ringmaster father. A fortune teller predicts a lawful marriage and lasting happiness within the month. As May ends, her lover arrives and she abandons the cruel life for a hopeful future.
Patrick McLaughlin, former Harvard chef and later Clarendon Hotel cook, recounts a 13 year tenure at Memorial Hall and other Boston resorts while sharing his Salad Nonpareil recipe. Debates on bread lines for the poor feature three Federated Jewish Charities figures weighing aid versus work programs and the risks of encouraging begging.
A column lists two recipe items from New England housewives. One details a lemon jelly mold with banana orange and fig, prepared with gelatin and cooling in a fancy mould. The other gives a rice dish method with boiled water, baking, and fluffy grains, attributed to Mrs Dema Cory and Mrs I P Atwood in Lebanon New Hampshire and Reading.
Reports on Rev. E F Snell not yet receiving a call from Mansfield Cong Church. Vermont conference superintendents favor Chapman meetings next month. Union service planned for First Methodist on Temple street with Bishop Hamilton. F W Lockwood to speak at Dorchester Temple Church. Mass meeting at Second Universalist Church to feature W E Tomlinson F A Moore and Y P C U president. Federal Council in Philadelphia includes 30 evangelical denominations working in accord.
A fashionably dressed woman wore a three foot diameter Merry Widow hat and fainted on a Munich street. She was carried into a shop and revived after the hat was removed. A doctor attributed the swoon to the hat’s enormous weight.
Denver on December 11 reports 25,000 signatures backing Judge Ben B. Lindsey for re election as nucleus of a new Women’s Independent party. Mrs Sarah Platt Decker is named as possible next mayoral candidate.
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