Clergy Installations and Evangelistic Meetings In Boston Area
The Rev. Norman MacQueen’s installation at Union Square Presbyterian was postponed due to travel delays. he is expected to arrive this week and begin duties. Evangelistic services opened at Winter Hill Baptist Church led by Rev. Herbert Gale and Charles Collison with interdenominational participation. Progressing meetings continue at Dorchester Lower Mills led by E. E. Davidson and Frank M. Lamb at Blaney Memorial Church. The Rev. Austen K. de Blois of First Baptist Commonwealth Ave began a six sermon series on Life and Its Modern Meanings through March 10. Metropolitan Bible Class League plans a Tremont Street meeting with Dr. Minot Flagg on Unification and related legislative concerns.
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Norman MacQueen
Union Square
Presbyterian Church
Boston
MacQueen
Nova Scotia
Somerville
Herbert L. Gale
Charles L. Collison
Baptist Church
Dorchester Lower Mills
E. E. Davidson
Frank M. Lamb
Blaney Memorial Church
Austen K. de Blois
First Baptist Church
Commonwealth Avenue
Metropolitan Bible Class League
St. Paul's Church
Tremont Street
Minot Flagg
Mothers-in-law and family peace across borders
A reader shares thoughts on mother-in-law relationships and Southern Northern tensions, praising her Tennessee guest who lifts her home. She urges sisters to understand sons’ wives and mothers, hoping harmony would spread through households if everyone showed honest love. A second letter laments a breakup and asks whether moving to work would harm her children’s upbringing.
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Tennessee
University of Pennsylvania
Peggy Ec
Baby’s Eyes Cross Declared Normal By Nurse
A mother writes of her five month old baby girl who had crossed eyes since birth. The nurse reassures that eye crossing is common until control develops, typically by two months, with occasional longer. Baby Lillian is described as having beautiful blue eyes.
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Genenevieve
Lillian
Lover of America urging wife to visit dying mother
A reader argues that a newlywed wife should leave to see her ill mother, insisting the husband must support her trip even with strained finances. The writer, sharing a similar experience, urges prioritizing family and offers encouragement and luck.
Dear Equal Rights vent about husbands duties and equality
A Pine Tree Girl writes a humorous, pointed letter questioning domestic roles and fairness in marriage. She asks readers to reveal their husbands' jobs and daily routines to judge whether couples are truly treated as equals. The piece mirrors early 20th century gender debates.
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Pine Tree
Smoking and Gossiping Dear Sisters Letter
A reader from Maine writes that smoking with fellow women is preferable to gossiping about husbands. The anonymous author rebukes the idea that smoking is unladylike and defends open discussion among women about their spouses.
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Bunny
Maine
For Their Sakes Dear Sisters of the Circle
The writer laments a strained marriage after discovering her husband’s infidelity three years ago with another woman. She describes how trust shattered and sorrow grew through his secrecy and inappropriate meetings, affecting family life and personal faith.
Adopt a Child to Empty Arms
Letter reveals sympathy for adoptive hope and urges adoption of a baby. Barbara writes from the heart about a newborn, awaiting acceptance from her parents, and reflects on joy and longing in the child’s future. The exchange notes a $25 gift toward the baby, hinting at family reconciliation.
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Barbara
Janet
Second Jimp-Ups adventure to High Society described
The second Jimp-Ups adventure aims for High Society and will be described and illustrated in four colors in a full page feature next Sunday in the Post.
Gompers Testifies in Buck Stove Case Defense
Samuel Gompers, president of the AFL, denies intent to disobey a D C Supreme Court injunction as he testifies in his contempt case over the Buck Stove & Range Company boycott. He continues testimony tomorrow.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Buck Stove & Range Company
Gompers Campaigned Against Boycott Prompt Jail Time
Under oath Gompers denied aiding the boycott while editorials and labor officials’ utterances during 1908 campaign were cited. He, Mitchell, and Morrison were sentenced in Washington jail terms of one year nine months and six months respectively for alleged acts violating a court order. He argued free speech defense and denied each cited instance.
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Gompers
American Federationist
Organized Labor
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Washington
Buck
Malden Residents oppose dynamite storage on local land
Maplewood Malden residents near Taylor and Bowman streets oppose contractor Charles Loome seeking a license to store 100 pounds of dynamite on his property. They fear blasting rocks and debris will damage homes and threaten lives as ledge blasting continues.
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Malden
Maplewood
Taylor
Bowman Streets
Charles Loome
Taylor Street
Loome
Leap Year Letters Pour Into Post Editor Office
Readers debate leap year changes as letters arrive daily at the Post Leap Year Editor. Contributors urge various reform ideas and the newspaper plans to publish several opinions each day.
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the Post
Woman Proposes and Wins Love in Marriage Debate
A letter to the editor argues that men should do the proposing in marriage and that true women never seek proposals. It contends women value love and devotion, and that marriage is not a mere social gift but a bond won by the man who loves. The writer criticizes outdated views and defends noble women against conventional pressures.
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Serita
Walter S
Brookline
Pamby
Sissy
Harvard
Proposal and marriage as mutual trust in a modern view
A reader argues that a marriage should be a mutual pact not based on a dominant proposal. He challenges the idea that only men may initiate, rejects the notion of bashful knight myths, and asserts couples discuss and agree before vows.
Girls Too Modest To the Editor of the Post
A reader, AN OLD TIMBER from Boston, comments on the leap year column. He argues that today’s girls are less forward, notes suffrage influence, jokes about wives greeting husbands with rolling pins, and questions why married women chill their daughters from proposing. He advocates equal chances for all.
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Post
Walter S
Boston
Weaver, Former Populist Candidate, Dies at 80
General James B. Weaver, once a presidential hopeful in 1892, died at relatives’ home in Des Moines Iowa today at age 80 after a brief illness.
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Des Moines
Iowa
James B. Weaver
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