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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1914
Page
15
A generous spread of two full pages highlights half tone art in the Sun Day Post feature section. The images invite framing and display, showcasing photographic variety and period styling.
An advertisement promotes Burrill's Tooth Powder and Savon Cadum medicated soap. It criticizes common soaps for impure fats and excess alkali salts, and touts Cadum Pomade as a soothing healing agent that purifies skin in harmony with nature. It notes Paris origin and availability at depots and druggists.
A Sewing Circle letter urges women to consider income when marrying, arguing that a $15 weekly wage constrains family life. A reader recalls raising a large family on modest means, highlighting health, sobriety, and gradual wage progress as keys to comfort at 73.
A reader argues against banning marriage for unfit individuals, praising love and maternal instincts. Another letter from an anxious mother warns daughters away from dissipated partners, urging financial prudence and self preservation amid high living costs.
A reflective poem about seekers wandering a road in search of a radiant city. It contrasts worldly bustle and burial bells with a longing for the Holy City beyond the horizon, depicting enduring travel from dawn to dusk in pursuit of elusive beauty.
A letter signed Unhappy Wife asks whether she may leave home to work since her husband never gives money but treats her well otherwise. Advisers urge obedience to the husband and his spending decisions, noting a wife should accompany him and follow his choices. The column touts dutiful advice from the Sewing Circle.
A 21 year old woman writes of loving a man three years older who she fears may be keeping a flirt habit. She asks how to know his true feelings and how to stop flirting if it harms their relationship. The columnist urges frank talk and mutual commitment to end jealousy.
Winfred H. Nettleton aged 88, long widower and Bristol manufacturer, married his secretary Mary Kelsey Baldwin aged 68 in Hartford today. The couple planned a visit to Florida after the ceremony.
The Boston Opera Company and Covent Garden Opera Company sign a five year lease of Theatre des Champs-Elysees Paris for a 10 week spring season. Henry Russell will lead the project with conducting by Nikisch and Wentgartner and a Paris-based orchestra. The Lapland will bring Boston artists from New York, docking briefly in East Boston.
The Red Star ner Lapland, largest vessel to enter Boston Harbor, is chartered to take 150 Boston Opera Company members and scenery to Paris. The syndicate owning the Paris theatre includes Otto H. Kahn Eben Jordan Sir Ernest Cassell Lord Rothschild Lord Grimthorpe Baron Erlanger and Henry Higgins among others.
The vessel provides accommodations for 600 saloon 40 cabin and 1500 steerage passengers. Her tonnage is 18,6¢ gross.
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