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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1917
Page
11
A young wife asks if having many children is wise with seven thousand dollars on hand. One side argues children are a poor financial choice but rich in joy. the other defends large, simple homes and a large family as worthy aims. The column invites reader opinions.
A mother recounts turning away her son's proposal to a girl after dinner revealed poor etiquette and petty theft. She cites table manners and stealing toothpicks as evidence of unreliability and dishonesty. She warns such habits could harm the family’s standing if they wed.
Advertises 2½ ounce Pinex mixed with sugar syrup to make a pint of cough medicine costing about 64 cents. Claims quick relief for throat and airway inflammation and suitability for bronchitis croup whooping cough and asthma. Mentions Norway pine extract guaiacol and refund guarantee from The Pinex Co Ft Wayne Ind.
Monsignor Splaine announces the annual concert at St. Joseph's parochial school Roxbury to be held Tuesday evening January 16 in the school hall. Sisters of Charity from Convent Station New Jersey oversee the children and an operetta will be performed. Marie McKeon of South Boston has joined the Sisters of Charity at Convent Station after years as a teacher and church worker. The St Zita's Association monthly meeting occurs today 3 to 6 pm at the Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle Brighton with a conference by Rev Joseph C Walsh. A lecture on Foreign Missions by Rev Joseph F McGlinchey at St Rose Hall Worcester Street at 8:15 pm under Boston Council Knights of Columbus. Former Governor David I Walsh will guest of honor at Notre Dame Academy Alumnae Association tea in Back Bay Fens on Sunday.
Mr Walsh will discuss his recent journey to Japan and the Philippines during an afternoon talk at the academy building on January 14.
Hansam Men's Club elects Da vid Vance as president and officers in West Roxbury church. farewell address by Rev W C Hansam. Noonday sermons by Rev Walter Fr Greenman of Milwaukee and Rev Joseph Kennard Wilson. Worcester Covenant Church project to cost 20 dollars with 250 seat capacity. Church Periodical Club to meet at Cathedral Church of St Paul with bishops Tucker and Roots speaking on Books and the Far East.
This excerpt provides a meat stew method using neck of mutton with onion carrot butter flour and water simmered two hours followed by a pudding sauce. The sauce combines sugar butter flour egg white water and flavoring such as rose essence or nutmeg.
Poem describes a devoted friend who sacrificingly shares water and food, rescues in battle, endures peril, and dies happily to save his chum. It emphasizes eternal friendship and loyalty between two boys as a lasting bond.
Recipe fragment lists 2 3 cups fine bread crumbs with salt and slow baking. Frosting uses whites of 3 eggs beaten stiff with 3 level tablespoons sugar and browned in a hot oven. Source: Mrs Ernest T Loukes Middletown Conn.
Presidents of women's clubs and Boston newspaper women met at the New England Women's Press Association conference in the New England Women's Club rooms. Mrs. Mary I Wood discussed the bureau of information work for the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
Boston Mayor asserts the city’s fire department is efficient with strong leadership and motorization underway. He supports abolishing the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, creating a commissioner of the blind, and reorganizing the State Department for the Blind while rejecting a $150 yearly blind pension. He advocates an unpaid advisory council including a blind member to guide the new commissioner and urges studying blind education and employment needs.
New York January 10 The actor Arnold Daly who was operated on Monday for appendicitis is in critical condition tonight. His physicians have little hope for recovery.
Mayor Curley calls National Board of Fire Underwriters criticism a false alarm and accuses insurers of using danger signals to push high rates and profits. He argues the board aims to defend excessive insurance profits by inflating danger.
Wendell Phillips Thore of the social insurance committee invites President Wells of the Senate to join Dr. A. A. Berle or his son in a debate at Faneuil Hall about health insurance. Wells opposed the plan.
Berlin reports Monsignor Gerlach, chief private chamberlain to the pope, forced to depart Rome. He arrived in Lugano, Switzerland, amid entente pressure via the Italian government. The Austrian priest had been tied to investigations over the destruction of Italian battleships Benedetto Brin and Leonardo Da Vinci and alleged financial links to Ambrogetti.
A railroad section hand’s job shifts from the traditional hand car to a gasolene powered car carrying 10 men and reaching 25 mph on grades. New England lines including B M, B&A, N H & H, and Maine Central adopt the tech after Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania precedents. The car saves time, protects railroad property, aids in emergencies, and improves staff retention in summer.
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