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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1918
Page
8
The letter from Brattleboro Vermont recounts infant Miriam whose father is a lawyer turned banker. She hoards dimes hidden in hats and boxes. When buying 10 cent peanuts, she reveals another dime, prompting a proud but puzzled mother to refrain from reclaiming it.
Three year old Mary Dodds, known for climbing walls and shouting for help, proved her playful mischief nightly in the yard near 25 Chaucer Street, East Boston. Irene Dodds notes the infant’s pattern of wandering and occasional rescues by passersby.
A Boston trip memory details a young lady giving peanuts to a child and a later sighting on a subway. It includes a playful sketch of Helen Elizabeth's habits in a Winthrop grocery and grandma anecdotes about bottles and weaning, shared by Mrs. C. M. Wardwell.
A two year old girl, Mae Dean, is described as singing only a few phrases from songs like America Here’s My Boy and Over There and performing them to perfection. She weighs 35 pounds and lives with Florence I. Dean at 76 Cambridge Street in Lowell.
A trio of short anecdotes from mothers and reporters recount children mimicking adults with phones, taking medicine, and peering into a well. A three year old misuses a telephone after a sister’s surprise call ends in a fearsome moment. A two year old tricks her mother by calling prune juice medicine “not medicine” and then demands more. A wary girl recalls a close rescue from a deep well when her grandmother’s sister silently saved her.
London January 10 The Bolshevik government plans a decree within days to repudiate Russian debt. Foreign owned loans abroad and Russia. Russian subjects with over 10 000 rubles lose their holdings. small holders to receive interest or option to sell to the state at reduced values.
Wentworth Institute joins Greater Boston schools in offering instruction in mechanical trades and industrial arts to enlisted men. Today 40 sailors from Commonwealth Pier and 12 navy apprentices attend the program.
A group will begin a six month study course with each participant paying $1 for the course. The effort aims to establish a sustained program and set foundational lessons for attendees.
Three hundred tons of coal were received at the State prison at Charestown yesterday to carry the institution until April. The facility had only a few days of supply remaining when the delivery arrived.
An old advertisement touts LaxaTive BromO Quinine as the genuine remedy. It urges calling for the full product name and features a signature line attributed to ER W Grove. The claim is a cure for a cold in one day with a strong emphasis on authenticity and efficacy.
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