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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1909
Page
7
An advertisement argues that home baked beans waste energy and money, while Van Camp's beans are baked with live steam at 245 degrees for quick, digestible serving. It claims home-baked beans cost twice as much and produce gas, urging readers to switch for value and taste.
Home baked beans once a week. Van Camp's beans now a daily dish in many homes. Breakfast croquettes with ham, noon lunch main dish, and dinner salad. Beans nutritionally replace meat and cut meat bills. Van Camp's Pork and Beans are convenient and cheapest food. The more you serve the more you save.
A tensioned couple confronts a broken engagement at a formal dining room. He reflects on misread signals and a past romance while she pairs admiration with restrained emotion as they try to salvage their relationship. They toast to mutual acquaintances Edith Blake and Rutledge Morton.
In Cincinnati on February 12, Archie and Callie Downard, once partners in a Norwood pie plant, split their business and personal ties last November over space in a cruiser. Both opened rival bakeries and slashed doughnut prices to win customers, cutting into profits and amusing the public.
Rich puff paste baked into squares and filled with a vanilla cream and raisin walnut mix. A coconut or plain cream option with a delicate cream frosting tops the treat. Mary Bunney and Jennie E M Corwin share the recipe notes and addresses.
A pre Lent social event for youths in Roxbury will be a dancing party at Intercolonial Hall Dudley Street Monday February 22 from 2 to 6 pm under St Patrick's Total Abstinence and Literary Society. Proceeds support temperance work in the district.
The columnist advises a 20 year old letter writer to choose the unattached suitor over the one with a steady girlfriend. He condemns the steady suitor for disloyalty and suggests the writer avoid encouraging him while considering the hurt to the other woman.
A young woman asks if she should continue meeting a man despite parental disapproval. The columnist cautions against clandestine meetings, emphasizing parents’ welfare concern and warning that secrecy often leads to misery.
The will, dated September 17, 1906, of Isabel M Fowler of 35 Burroughs Street Jamaica Plain, leaves 15000 to Pillsbury Memorial Hospital Concord NH as a trust for aiding women and girls with hospital costs. It also bequeaths 2000 to Dartmouth College for a Josiah Minot scholarship. Fowler gives a life interest in a gold ring to her son Josiah Minot Fowler, with remainder to the New Hampshire state and a Franklin Pierce portrait to be kept in the Concord state library after the son’s death. Executor is William P Fowler.
EAST ORANGE N J Feb 12 Married more than 62 years Mr and Mrs George A Hull of 12 North Park street East Orange were legally separated yesterday by a decree of divorce granted by Chancellor Pitney to the husband. Mr Hull is 72 and his divorced wife The Hulls separated in September 1904. Previous to that time Mrs Hull in spite of her advanced years had struck up a flirtation with another man.
In Rome on February 12 King Victor Emmanuel toured Elliott Studio to inspect the painting Diana of the Tides by Boston artist Elliott that is slated for the National Museum in Washington.
Vincent T. Featherston runs the Hollis Street Theatre box office after seventeen years in the job. He speaks on honesty with patrons and the value of pairing tickets with customer needs, recounting a rural patron who used a chart to choose seats for his bashful sweetheart.
Kalamazoo College professor G. A. Williams compares Greek life to contemporary millinery in a lecture. He claims modern women's head dress is a large felt hat with excessive ribbon, flowers, ostrich feathers, and bright color, worn to produce loud unartistic ugliness amid city noise.
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