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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
7
A column urges readers to tip newsboys and women sellers of papers, while recounting local incidents, Christmas spirit observations, and updates on residents, inspectors, travelers, and Boston civic groups. Includes a fire department incident, Irish Dublin scholar Mahaffy remarks, and Salvation Army charity efforts.
The poem envisions a charitable Santa Claus replacing the lacking gifts for children in Poverty Place. It contrasts the abundant toys elsewhere with the stark need of the area, urging good folks to bring gifts to ensure every child experiences Christmastide joy and relief.
Boston’s F Ferdinand Wenz, one of the oldest active chefs, recalls a 35-year career catering to illustrious guests and helping shape city hotels and clubs. He lists venues including Vendome, Algonquin Club, and Brown Palace, and shares a detailed English plum pudding recipe plus free recipe offerings to home cooks.
A seven year old girl Mary dreams of a Christmas tree she must earn. She rescues a guttered pine, decorates it with corn garlands and three five cent ornaments, and awaits Christmas. A quarrel with a friend ends in violence as Mary harms her rival and faces her mother’s discipline.
A 22 year old Boston department store clerk asks Mildred Champagne how to handle a love triangle. He is engaged to one young woman while still seeing another and must tell the first that he does not care for her, preserving fairness to his fiancée and explaining to the second.
Instructions describe slicing and paring pineapple, layering on dishes, and covering with powdered sugar. Dishes stay in a slow oven for 10 days with daily turning, then a quick 10 minute bake, cool, and layer between paper with sugar sifted over fruit. Mrs. C. E. Taylor Worcester address listed.
Combine a pint of sugar and a pint of water in a deep saucepan. When boiling add a quart of well washed cranberries. Shake covered over the fire ten minutes. Pour into a porcelain dish or glasses. They will be just right sweet juicy and well cooked. Long cooking makes them bitter and dark colored. Mrs E M Bell 12 Guernsey Street Marblehead.
A home recipe note lists syrup for cornballs with water brown sugar vinegar butter and cream of tartar plus warm corn. Also a Neufchatel and English walnut sandwich recipe with buttered bread chopped nuts salt and olives. Names MRS. F. E. RICE and MRS. H. B. CROSBY with addresses in Spencer and East Boston.
A recipe instruction lists ingredients butter vanilla sugar egg milk flour baking powder and salt for vanilla wafers. It includes instruction to cream butter add sugar egg milk and vanilla then sift dry ingredients. The note names Corinne Cusson of 68 East Elm Street Marlboro.
Worcester woman Miss Martha Lillian Harthan married about a month ago in Trenton New Jersey to E Richard Rogers of El Tigre Sonora Mexico a wealthy young man word reached Worcester relatives and friends today
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Hudson Conklin, pastor of the Clinton Avenue Baptist Church in Trenton. Mrs. Rogers has been prominent in Worcester and Sterling social affairs. Mr. Rogers is the son of a Kansas City manufacturer and is now involved in his father’s Mexico interests. The marriage is the culmination of a summer vacation meeting.
Max Henry Newman distributed souvenir plates featuring an likeness of Abraham Lincoln to each boy at the Chickatawbut Club meeting last evening to mark the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. A three member committee Edward Fleming Philip Schriftgresser and Philip Feldman was appointed to plan a Christmas Day party.
The article surveys 1920s style with gray gowns for day and evening wear, fur and feather emphasis in millinery, and men's fashionable walking sticks. Medici rubes appear on many necks, necklines stay fussy, sable is scarce due to price, fish net blouses appear over chiffon or mousseline lining, and tall slender silhouettes with deep narrow yoked lines dominate this season.
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