This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1913
Page
9
A collage of stray lines from the Boston Post discusses home economy advice the sewing circle and letters to the editor. A controversial note questions marriage norms and female authority while a reader inquires about cats babies and social scrutiny.
After losing her parents at a young age the narrator dropped into ruin, met a man who knew her past, and married him. Five years later they are happy in a strange town while sisters forgive her and aunts shun her. She belongs to three secret orders and a church and still judges others.
Describes a traditional remedy that helps with bilious fits headaches sour stomach sour breath and general malaise. Claims three generations and a wide world have found relief and invites readers to try it for similar benefits.
A columnist promotes the value of parental love and kissing for child development, citing Heaven’s test of love and criticizing outsider views from Wellesley. The piece asserts mothers instinctively know what is best for their children and defends touching with affection within family boundaries.
A letter discusses a mother's claim that she forgave her son for an offence which she would not have forgiven in her daughter. The piece reflects on gendered standards and sisterly concern over parental mercy.
A speaker attacks "bad women" and condemns forgiving them, arguing one bad woman harms many families while good women suffer. The passage contrasts men and women, condemning infidelity and its social impact, and closes with an exhortation to oppose harmful behavior.
A reader letter signed SACRIFICED refutes a correspondent’s claim that women respect abusive husbands. The writer recounts years of violent acts by her husband, including insults and beating, expressing lasting contempt and a plea for release.
A reader argues against pensioning aged mothers and against rewarding motherhood with money. They contend no credit is earned by having children and that true rewards come from love of husband and children, not cash pensions.
A reflective poem contemplates time as a wheel toward a Golden Year. It envisions wealth lightening and spreading, human progress, and universal peace. It contrasts worldly change with enduring aspirations, urging hopeful progress across seasons and seas.
Bertha Graham, a Gloucester teacher, is delighted by a new violet dress and plans a countryside drive with Dr Hastings. A prank by pupils soaks the dress in ink, wrecking it, and Bertha laments the ruin until Hastings comforts her and vows to provide a replacement.
A personal essay argues that single women hindered by social norms deserve state support in old age more than those who have married and had children. The piece reflects on motherhood, spinsterhood, and societal pressures affecting women's lives.
A reader argues against state pensions for mothers, claiming prohibition of saloons would remove the need for pensions. The letter reflects temperance and social welfare debates in the era.
A collection of old kitchen notes detailing liver hamburger mix with suet and onion, a walnut cake batter with cream frosting, a chocolate milk dessert, a butter sugar cake, and a sugared cocoa cake. Each recipe lists ingredients, ratios, and basic baking steps attributed to homemakers from White River Junction Worcester Pittsfield and Haverhill.
A letter recounts Ida Tarbell's view that working women who earn wages while supporting family are grafters. It tells of a young woman in a salary dispute who loses her job to a married rival, then amid poverty and a dying mother, ends her life after the mother’s burial. The tale appears in the Sewing Circle letters printed in the Sunday Post.
William B. Watts continues his "My Battles With Crime" in next Sunday's Post surveying the Blondin case as the series theme.
Citizens from Malden Medford and Everett criticized Boston Port Directors led by Chairman Hugh Bancroft at a hearing on a proposed Mystic River bridge between Charlestown and Malden. They claim the bridge worsens traffic and demand reopening of the permit despite legislative approval.
Five thousand taxi drivers in London vote to strike limiting New Year taxi service. The walkout stems from a fuel price surge by a combine of taxi companies to 18 pence a gallon. Board of Trade intervention failed to settle the dispute.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.