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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1915
Page
9
Alice and her mother navigate an engagement with Ralph. Financial pressure tests the relationship as Alice learns prudence from their planning. A visit from a dissipated cousin shows the risks of marrying too soon. The engagement ends with Ralph free to pursue a stable future.
Readers discuss living on six dollars a week, rent burdens, and how income affects family welfare. Correspondents share anecdotes about love, marriage, and choosing partners with financial prospects. A letter writer reflects on regret and independence, while others offer parenting guidance and moral views.
A lyrical meditation on love’s song through valley sea and hill. It envisions love’s voice lifting spirits bright in June earth and in dawn shadows. The poem ends with a vow that the singing of love endures through conflict and gloom toward a home with red blooms.
Flour may rise to ten dollars a barrel and bread to six cents a loaf as wheat soars to a 17 year high on the Chicago exchange. Boston dealers warn of further price hikes while millers say supply is ample to meet export demand and bakers consider loaf size cuts or price increases.
Department of Justice officials monitored reports that a loaf of bread might rise from five to six cents in New York and Chicago and possibly other large cities. No complaints or immediate action. Attorney General Gregory is watching for any producer conspiracies to raise bread prices, with anti trust action possible if nationwide coordination is found.
Postmaster Murray and congressman elect Tague attended the installation of officers for Branch 4 of the National Association of Letter Carriers at the American House. Murray told about his Washington effort to secure a pension list for all Boston letter carriers.
The Massachusetts Senate voted to take up last year’s constitutional amendment removing the word male as a voting qualification. It moves to the committee on constitutional amendments, with a potential ballot question for the next state election if passed again. Both sides prepare for renewed battles at Beacon Hill.
The Jewish Relief Fund outlines a major effort to collect for European war victims. The New England branch office at 161 Devonshire Street Room 1009 will coordinate daily operations from 9 am to 5 pm with Tina Frankenstein and Hattie Kopf in charge. Louis Brandeis and Louis Kirstein lead the effort, enlisting prominent Jews to raise funds. yesterday’s contributions totaled many amounts from numerous donors.
A poem of longing where the speaker’s body rests in Segovia while the soul remains in Madrid. The verses weave sea imagery with distant lovers and a dreamlike link between places. Recurrent lines repeat the pairing of Segovia and Madrid as a motif of memory and yearning.
The Polish Relief Fund committee reports additional donations from various supporters including Miss Susanna L. Stephentson 3.00 and Mrs. H. A. Wilder 50.06 plus 150.00 from Bird & Ben and 100.00 from B. H. B. Trust. names and amounts appear in the receipt list with remarks on a city stage show raffle proceeds and a chain-letter collection. The text also includes unrelated dialogue about a chaperon warning and a Bayswater girl testing an engagement ring with acid.
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