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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1908
Page
7
A 28 year old salesman asks Mildred Champagne for advice about proposing to a 21 year old woman who refuses invitations and will not allow calls. The advisor suggests writing a letter, addressing questions to the office, and argues absence could spark renewed interest. Encouragement to stay persistent and hopeful is offered.
Christmas services were held across Boston churches with special music and sermons on the Nativity. Shawmut Congregational featured a pined decor and Rev. A A Berle preached The Pilgrim of Today. Columbus Avenue Universalist gave The Messiah and Pastoral Symphony by a String quartet.
The piece surveys current fashion trends with two material sleeves out of style, plaid schoolgirl wear, waning fur hats, gilt ribbons as bag accessories, Empire green rising in popularity, lace yokes, pompadours falling to new hats, and bangs returning. It highlights jumper frocks with raised back waist, new heavy linen crepe waists, marabout for turbans, the Turkish turban, Madeira embroidery on linens and lingerie, and praises fancy work as calming nervousness per physicians.
Clarkson in a dim library recalls six years of estrangement from Floy as their baby’s shoe, found by Floy’s spaniel, prompts a reconciliation. He enters Floy’s room seeing tears and forgiveness, reaffirming their love and belief their daughter senses it.
Fiorenzo Cornelli, genial Lombardy Inn chef, born in Fiorenza zuola north of Italy, left home at fourteen to apprentice with leading Genoa hotels. After finishing his apprenticeship he served two years at the Grand Hotel Isotta and two more years at the Grand.
Italian chef Cornelli worked as second cook at the Grand Hotel da Quirinal in Rome for four years and at the Lombardy Inn after 1906. He later served at the Hotel Thorndike in Boston until 1906. His croquettes of chicken a la Signora use bread crumbs, mushrooms, cream, and a fried crust, served hot with parsley garnish.
In Winsted Connecticut a party led by Rev H B Clown of the Falls Village Methodist Church rescued a doe weighing about 150 pounds that broke through the ice on the Hou Satonic River. They spent an hour on the treacherous ice to pull the animal to safety.
H. J. Sconce raised a crop of cobless corn last summer and the peculiar product is on exhibition here in Lake City Iowa.
Major Orlando Jay Smith, president and general manager of the American Press Association since 1882, died at his Dobbs Ferry home after a cancer operation in September. He had remained keen on daily events throughout his illness.
W S Ament III arrives in Honolulu en route from China to New York where a brain blood clot from an accident will be treated by a specialist. The veteran missionary travels under medical care and awaits further instructions.
Rear Admiral Charles L. Sperry reports the Atlantic battleship fleet departed Colombo Ceylon for Suez. The cipher message notes the fleet begins the long Indian Ocean and Red Sea leg of its world cruise.
The Hibernian Total Abstinence Association held its annual officer installation in Rathbone Hall, 694 Washington Street, yesterday afternoon. John T. Shea assisted by Lawrence E. Murphy and Mrs. Catherine A. Tillson presided as officers were named: Maurice Dinneen president, Mary E Owens first vice president, Patrick J. Monahan financial secretary, Annie M. Cunniff recording secretary, Tillie Murphy treasurer, Mary A. Mullen second vice president. David A. Ryan and other division representatives attendedas guests.
St Louis December decision holds a divorced wife may seize former husband earnings and property to enforce alimony even after he remarries. The ruling clarifies enforcement power remains despite subsequent marriage by the husband.
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