Observant Citizen Reports Ice, Dickens, and Open Air Ideas
A Boston correspondent shares notes on high potato prices, crowded gate lines at the South Station, and humorous Harvard anecdotes. He also reports on antiseptic wallets in a New England bank, icy Boston harbor scenery, Squantum aviation field, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mills Moses recalling Dickens. Additional items cover courthouse etiquette, a pediatric hospital talk, and public transit annoyances.
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Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Mills Moses
Portsmouth
N. H
New York City
America
The Madeira lure and a pearl scam revealed
Ruth, an independent heiress, meets Maurice Kronberg in Madeira after receiving a plea to sell pearls. Kronberg manipulates Ruth and plans to steal her gems via a forged signature check. Kronberg’s trusted assistant Louis Rosen is exposed and arrested after the Boston purchase fails.
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Ruth
R. E. Meredith
New York City
Madeira
Maurice Kronberg
Italy
Egypt
Ocean Garden
Mr. Kronberg
Hotel Rodriguez
Funchal
Boston
New York
South Station
Louis
Louis Rosen
The Cynic and the Jovial Neighbor
A verse contrasts Uncle Walt the cynic with a lively upbeat youth who cherishes the simple, wholesome life. The cynical wit mocks religion marriage and home life while the cheerful youth embraces life and humanity, preferring kindness over clever derision.
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Jay
Dear Mise Advice for an insecure wife about jealousy and love
A reader asks how to keep a husband loving without conjecture and jealousy. The adviser urges accepting real love free of fear, notes that demonstrativeness fades, and reminds that men admire many types yet stay with their wife when love is wholehearted.
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Newton
Allston
Pape's Diapepsia Praised as Fast Stomach Aid
A remedial advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin for rapid relief of indigestion sour stomach and gas. It claims omnipresent effectiveness in dyspepsia gastritis and other stomach troubles with a single dose dissolving distress quickly.
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Pape
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Connolly
Captain Marryat
Park Square
Massachusetts Association of
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Bay State
Jane’ Addams
Sullivan Square
Old Colony Division
Dorchester Bay
Neponset River
Squantum
Pemberton Square
Quinn
Supreme Judicial Court
Abraham Jacobi
American Medical Association
New Hospital For Children
Boston Dispensary
New Hampshire
Ernest A. Jennings
New Bedford
Massachusetts
Putnam
United States District Court
North Station
Gloucester
William B. Boos
Franklin Park
Thomas F. Leen
United States
Medford
Somerville
Artington
Commodore Vanderbilt
Miss
Alberta Hope
Summer Street
Room
Chase & Sanborn
Orloff Formosa
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Sunday Post
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Jordan Marsh Company
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