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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1909
Page
7
Lady Arthur Paget, in New York, argued that a woman’s primary role is as a mother and homekeeper, not an intellectual equal to men. She said women gain power by being inspired to support men, not by competing with them, and questioned the value of suffrage and divorce debates.
Two recipes for chocolate cake with frosting from Edith B Sherman Holliston and Mrs Linwood Straight Attleboro. Instructions include butter sugar egg milk flour with baking powder, and a separate orange lemon cream glaze filling.
A 23 year old man asks Miss Champagne if he should end four years of correspondence with a woman three years his senior. The adviser warns four years is long and suggests asking for release to avoid unhappy marriage, noting obligation but denying lasting happiness without love.
Agnes Irwin, Radcliffe College's first dean, announces retirement effective Sept 1 after 15 years at the helm. The board seeks a successor, with Miss Mary Coes named as a probable choice. Irwin's career spans transforming the school from Harvard Annex to a leading women's college.
Pickett faces a life of crime and the captain of his gang, moved by a hymn, offers a last chance to leave the criminal world. He accepts, departs West, and vows to become the honest man his mother hoped he would be.
Dr. W A N Dorland voiced strong opposition to a proposed nurses registration bill at Williams Hall in Philadelphia. He argued modern nurses lack the humane spirit of Nightingale and Dix and warned the bill would create a red tape bound board prioritizing commercial aims over patient life.
Millbury report states four year old William Taft son of J. Frank Taft on Martin street was scalded in the face and neck when he collided with Miss Vina Trantor who carried a pail of hot water spilling it on him as he opened a kitchen door.
Nellie Hunter, living at 4 Scotland Street, Orange New Jersey, drank a medicine with poison after a quarrel with her sweetheart. She was rebuked and decided life was done, but prompt remedies saved her. The piece ends with a moral about saving money before marriage.
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