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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1914
Page
13
A bill introduced by Representative Gillette of Massachusetts would exclude any alien worker who in the year before admission earned 30 percent of U S wages for the same work. The measure targets cheap foreign labor.
Distinguished figures from politics business and literature endorse Sanatogen as a booster for digestion nerves and energy. Doctors authors editors and even a Nobel style prize winner commend its benefits and urge readers to try the tonic. A free Elbert Hubbard book Health in the Making is offered with requests. Sanatogen sold by druggists from $1.00 at Bauer Chemical Co New York.
Readers discuss marriage law debates in Wisconsin and effects of high rents on families. Contributors share experiences from arranged marriages to wage earning wives, outlining financial strain, childrearing worries, and the desire for legal limits on underage marriages. The column urges practical advice and mutual support.
An anecdotal piece narrates a dinner party where a socialite with keen conversational power faces a request to remove her as a guest. The guest refuses, preferring the lively talker stay, while a related tale imagines a woman who avoids polite interactions with strangers after repeated inappropriate advances. A Homely Sister notes and mentions Sewing Circle letters from the Sunday Post.
One sister wrote she was afraid to marry on 15 dollars a week. The author, earning 20 dollars weekly in Boston, shares how even economical living could not cover monthly rent of 3 dollars for a modest apartment. She notes rent strains the family and forces her to work to pay bills.
A mother recounts moving from New York to Boston and facing child rearing conflict as her children resist corporal punishment seen as old fashioned. She asks for guidance on changing a discipline system that has worked but now clashes with local norms.
A reader laments shifting attitudes as men in New England reportedly abandon chivalry toward women. The letter argues against blaming women and notes the author’s own identity as a working, middle aged woman.
E. E. Shuimway president and general manager of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company died from poisonous gas inhalation suffered during rescue work after the Vulcan mine explosion in Newcastle on December 17.
A poem by Francis Bret Harte presents a night wind as a unified harmony. A mother mourns a lost child while a child and others misread the wind as a witch and a fairy trumpet. The poet watches and declares the wind God’s own melody.
War Department recommended Congress widen upper New York Bay with a 200 foot channel to 40 feet depth at an estimated cost of 830000 dollars. An initial 20000 dollar appropriation and 60000 dollars annually for maintenance were requested. Army engineers say the channel is needed to improve navigation safety, especially in fog.
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