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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 05, 1909

Page

7

Local Market Listing On Unclear Receipt Price

Fragmentary OCR notes show a price near five dollars for an item described as cheese or cheese related. The readable text hints at sale terms but lacks complete product name and vendor.

Lincoln Tales From His Early Years And Civil War Wit

A compact recounting of Abraham Lincoln's youthful courage in New Salem and his famed wit during the Civil War. Anecdotes cover his fight with a profane bully, a drill mishap, a joke about Jacob Thompson and a quip about General Grant's whiskey using officers.

Grant Lincoln

Decree of Destiny Brings Malcolm Home to Love

After two years in search of a phantasmal fate, Malcolm Pratt returns to Boston to find his parents dead and a mansion awaiting him. A night train wreck becomes the stage for a dramatic rescue as he saves a wounded stranger, his astral mate, uniting them in marriage as healing comes at last.

Ollie Hurd Bragdon Upton Street Boston Malcolm Pratt Utopia Thomas Malcolm Webris Heaven

Letters on the Gettysburg Oration centennial request

A reader urges Boston teachers to have students study the Gettysburg Address to memorize its 266 words, so thousands can recite it on patriotic anniversaries and keep the noble lines in mind. Another letter questions liquor licensing costs for druggists, computing profits and license fees. Dorchester. SAPONIS MOLUIS.

Post Lincoln Boston Emily W. Peakes

Letter to the Editor on Dorchester Liquor Sales

A Manchester reader disputes a Friday column and a Dorchester liquor sales figure. He calculates 38 druggists selling 826 gallons in five months equating to about 9 gallons per druggist, notes potential profits, questions license figures, and outlines state federal and city fees plus bonding cost. He argues daily sales imply small per-drug- gist figures.

Sir Excise Board State of Massachusetts United States Dorchester Saponis Moluis Manchester N. H

Post letter proposes redirecting flood relief funds

A reader asks the editor to send over $50,000 in unused Johnstown flood relief contributions to help sufferers in Southern Italy and Sicily, dated January 4. The letter suggests reallocating idle surplus to aid other disaster victims.

Johnstown Italy Sicily

Love and sentiment advice from Mildred Champagne

Dear Solita ire counsels a man to cut weekly visits with a young woman to rekindle affection. The columnist urges abrupt, complete resignation to provoke longing and prompt reconsideration, noting girls’ whimsy and desire for what they cannot have.

Miss Champagne Solitaire

Right Foundation for Dear Miss Champagne Advice

A reader asks about meeting a respectable stranger and seeking proper introduction. The adviser warns against proceeding without learning the man’s reputation and background and urges using a trusted intermediary to ensure a solid, respectful foundation for any friendship.

Miss Champagne

Cambridge letter objects to naming Charles River Basin Back Bay

A Cambridge correspondent disputes the title Charles River Basin and urges restoring the historical name Back Bay for that river section. The writer argues the original name better reflects the area and calls for a change.

Howells Charles River Basin Charles River Back Bay Cambridge

Oldest Living Graduate Sought by English High School

E H S Association thanks supporters for helping locate the oldest living graduate of English High School. Morgan, who graduated in 1854, may attend the reunion next week. Rev William G Babcock born 1820, graduated 1885, is currently the oldest respondent.

English High School Association J. Pierpont Morgan Morgan William G. Babcock Dorchester Warren Street Chapel Charles H. Brigham E. H. S. Association Tremont Street Jan

Boston Baptist Union honors Ford benefactor and plans union

The Boston Baptist Social Union held a memorial service in Ford Hall for Daniel Sharp Ford whose will funded the Ford building. A committee was formed to consider allying with the Young Men's Baptist Social Union. Leaders from Baptist, Cambridge, and Catholic circles spoke at recent meetings in Tremont Temple and Wesleyan Hall. The Ruggles Street Brotherhood grows as a major social group with a planned January banquet expecting 500 attendees.

Boston Baptist Social Union Ford Hall Daniel Sharp Ford Ford Building Young Men’s Baptist Social Union Edward N. Haskell New England Baptist Hospital George W. Clapp Baptist Home Cambridge Charles C. Earle Ruggles Street Baptist Church Arthur B. Hitchcock Dennis A. McCarthy Sacred Heart Review Boston Baptist Ministers’ Conference Tremont Temple Ruggles Street Brotherhood New England

Fiancee jilts blind groom after license issued in Dover

In Dover two marriage licenses were issued for the same woman. James A. Reynolds, 40, a blind man, held the first license and waited at Miss Clara Evelyn Russell’s home to wed her when she canceled the ceremony saying she would marry another man.

Wilmington Del Dover James A. Reynolds Clara Evelyn Russell

Wife Too Costly He Said Divorce Recommendation

Trenton New Jersey January 4 Wood Mc Kee will recommend to the Chancery Court that a decree of divorce be granted to Mrs Marie Wilkie from John J Wilkie of Paterson New Jersey. They married in 1906 both under twenty and lived together six weeks before Wilkie returned to his mother. A wife is too costly was his explanation.

Trenton N. J

Boston Chef Maley’s Career and Favorite Dessert Dish

Boston chef Maley rose through local hotels and clubs including the Vendome and New Algonquin Club, led Beaconsfield Hotel in Brookline, and Isle of Shoals Hotel. His noted sweet is Small Omelet Celestine with marmalades fruits and apricot rum sauce.

Henry Maley Beaconsfield Brookline Hessen Germany Zur Alten Post Darmstadt America Metropolitan New York Broad Street George Washington Maley White Sulphur Springs West Virginia Hot Springs Fred Sterry the Plaza Magnolia Springs Fla Hiram Walker Walkerville Ont

Recipes from New England Housewives in Sunday Post

A compilation of home cooking notes with multiple recipes. Mrs Rose P Kelley of Oakland Maine shares a cookies recipe using flour sugar butter eggs raisins lemon and yeast. Mrs M J T of Salem provides a peanut cookie method with lemon juice and baking powder. Mrs L S Wood of Manomet Maine gives a beef a la mode dressing and stewing method. ABBIE M Harmon of North Windham Maine notes a cream beverage using egg whites and milk.

Rose P. Kelley Oakland Upham Street Salem Abbie M. Harmon North Windham

Gifts for Cortelyou’s Newborn From Roosevelt Pair

A large silver porringer of unique design presented by the President and Mrs Roosevelt joins the list of gifts to the son of Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs Cortelyou after his birth.

Washington Roosevelt

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