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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
5
The cartoonish dialogue touts Fels-Naptha as a superior laundry aid for cold weather. It claims broad U S and Canadian use, benefits of lukewarm water, faster washing, hand protection, and effectiveness for fabrics from whites to woolens with wrapper directions.
A long recipe passage describes a preserved fruit cake using butter molasses sugar soda milk raisins currants eggs spices and extracts with instructions to bake slowly and wrap for storage. It also includes a Sandwich muffin recipe with soda sour milk yellow meal flour sugar egg butter and salt and a coffee syrup for hot griddle cakes from Mrs Schwarz Mrs Flinn and Mrs Bond with regional attributions.
The Massachusetts State Board of Trade executive council met at the Hotel Vendome to press national and especially Massachusetts industrial legislation. A special committee urged a seven member group to invite Boston business leaders for a conference, while committees recommended opposing railroad control of street railways and studying a Boston Harbor drydock project.
Frank B Colby head of the Empire Hotel culinary department, born Eastport Missouri, started on sailing ships then steamers. He trained at Crawford House in Boston and later cooked at Oceanside Magnolia and for Harvey Woods at several Southern hotels. Recently chef at Essex County Club Manchester by the Sea. He shares a recipe for Egg Lafayette.
Three of nine Boston school teachers who traveled to England and Europe last summer to study school systems have returned. Cora E Wood head of Rice Primary School for Backward Children led the group, with Elizabeth I Strongman of the Girls High School and Roberta M Cummings of the Hancock district cooking department also returning. They were hosted by Mr and Mrs Whitelaw Reid during their London visit.
Seven young women from South Norwalk Baptist Church have formed a Mum Society after being reprimanded for whispering in church. They meet to sew, dance, and play games, but each time someone speaks she is fined.
Newbury residents Mr and Mrs Ira Rogers marked their golden wedding with church attendance at Oldtown Church and an at home gathering yesterday attended by hundreds of friends. Their eight living children from Fort Gibson Oklahoma. East Allston New Hampshire. Haverhill and Lynn Massachusetts joined in the celebration. Married in Hampton New Hampshire in 1858 they moved sixteen years ago to the Toppan house and then to the old manse. Mr Rogers bears a Civil War record.
Carrie Nation arrived in Glasgow to continue her anti intemperance campaign. She was greeted by 98,000 people, most hostile, whose hooting drowned out her supporters' cheers. Her first act targeted a hotel adjacent to the railway station where she confronted a barmaid.
Pittsburg in December 15 report says Mrs. Henry Nichols wife of Liberty Brewing Company president was told by her daughter Sarah who had vanished Friday that she has a new son-in-law named Albert Schwartzkopf and plans to bring him home. The clerk is described as poor.
Lewes Roach swallows a bolt hidden in tobacco and loses two front teeth after a single chew in Gumboro. The incident could mean a $20 dentist bill for Roach. Police caution about inspecting tobacco shipments.
In Kansas City on December 15 Miss Gertrude Brown rode out when a car struck her horse. She was knocked down and her head hit the pavement with force. A wire hair accessory described as a rat saved her skull from fracture.
Twenty chorus girls from a Columbia Theatre musical comedy will meet the President at noon tomorrow at the White House. Rivalry among the cast of fifty backstage performers may intensify as twenty are chosen to appear. Roosevelt has shown interest in stage people recently hosting Israel Zangwill and actresses Mabel Taliaferro and Hattie Williams.
Carro Frances Warren publishes a children s book by C. M. Clark Publishing Company of this city. Polly Primrose of Flower land and friends Billy Bullfrog Topsy Thistle Benny Bunny Goldie Goldenrod and the Gardener appear in color illustrations as stores stock the title for young readers.
An order for photographs at Elmer Chickering's studio 21 West Street Boston offers half dozen or dozen prints available for purchase and usable at any time.
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