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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 18, 1913

Page

9

Huyler's Chocolate and Bonbons Sold Nationwide

Huyler's offers Cocoa packages and premium chocolates in various sizes and wrappers. The company markets yellow and pink wrapped cakes and sweetened and unsweetened varieties. Sales agents and company stores, including locations in Boston Providence New Haven and Newport, service 56 stores across the United States and Canada.

Huyyler's Huyler’s Tremont St Boylston St Court and Washington Sts Boston Westminster St Providence Chapel St New Haven Casino Newport United States Canada

The Sewing Circle in the Boston Post

The Sewing Circle offers a ladies forum for home life advice in New England. Readers submit queries on marriage, babies, budgeting, and errands, with casual tips and anonymous signatures.

The Study of Children and Elder Support Questions

A Sewing Circle letter discusses whether adult children can be compelled to aid aging parents. The writer critiques wasteful spending, argues for prudent saving, and asks for sisters to share views on a possible legal obligation to fund a parent's mortgage and old age care.

Husband Hunters Dear Sewing Circle

A letter urges women to guard their love from deceitful men and urges honest suitors to present proposals in writing, arguing that recording intentions protects women and deters villains as A. B. C.

Proposals in Writing to Prevent Marriage Blackmail

A Middlesex letter argues for laws requiring marriage proposals to be in writing to protect honest men and women. The writer cites a neighbor who allegedly used a lie to trap a young man into marriage, claiming a written proposal would have prevented the blackmail and similar tactics.

Middlesex

Mothers Teaching Children Life Truths Debate Continues

The article opens a continuation on whether mothers should instruct their children in life truths often hidden by false modesty. It frames the debate around parental roles and moral guidance.

Ignorance and Innocence in Child Moral Instruction

A symposium on educating children about life’s vital facts argues innocence differs from ignorance, urging parents to guide early understanding. It stresses teaching that such topics remain within family bounds and condemns public vulgar talk and oaths.

God

Mothers debate how to teach children life facts

A letter argues against exposing children to intimate topics through others. The writer prefers parental guidance, insisting a daughter should learn life laws around age twelve, with direct teaching from the parent rather than peers or outsiders.

Mothers pension debate widens to child welfare question

A discussion on mothers pensions has moved into a broader debate about whether the pos session of children alone provides security against poverty. The dispute centers on whether additional measures are needed to protect families from economic peril.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic Ad Urges Relief for Sick Children

An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a gentle laxative for half sick cross and feverish children. It claims the candy cleanses bowels sweetens the stomach and puts the liver in order with directions for children and grownups in each package.

Child labor and population debates spark religious and social critique

A reader argues against pensions for mothers, cites a higher postflood law favoring single life, and condemns unmarried women as heathen relics. The letter critiques overpopulation, wage pressures, and child labor, noting families pushing children to work while many parents already earn enough.

Sewing Circle China Herbert Johnson Mass

Miss B H Denounces Canines in Family Letter Debate

Mrs F A H responds to Miss B H and Bride of 21, defending dogs as faithful guardians and moral teachers. She criticizes anti dog sentiment, questions rabies claims, and condemns neglect of pets tied to human cruelty.

B. H Pasteur Institute

Letters to the Sewing Circle Featured in Sunday Post

The Sunday Post prints a selection of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, highlighting reader insights, tips, and community notes about fabric, patterns, and craft projects.

Sunday Post

Poem Strangers Yet by R M Milnes in Scrap Book

Poem reflects couplets on lifelong bonds turning into strangers. After years of life together and shared journeys, questions arise about why paths diverge while hearts still feel distant. Nature circles people but souls remain separate, yielding the ache of loneliness.

Advice Column Letter on Love and Choice

A college student asks Mildred Champagne whether to marry a college student or her hometown suitor after graduation. The adviser urges choosing happiness but notes doubt remains and suggests waiting to decide until after experiencing life with the partner.

When to bow to a sister's male friends on the street

A reader asks if he should bow to acquaintances of his sister whom he does not know. The answer: you cannot share her nods. no embarrassment. If she stops to talk, she should introduce you, then you can join the conversation naturally.

Miss Champagne

Mrs Chadwick and Mildred Howland Baking Recipes

Recipes from Mrs C E Chadwick and Mildred Howland give methods for cookies and wafers using butter sugar molasses sour milk and eggs with nuts raisins spices then a graham white flour mix with sugar and salt plus baking with instructions and home cooks names and addresses.

C. E. Chadwick Fenn Street Pittsfield C. EF. Chadwick Mildred Howland Pinckey St Boston Dietitian

Fashion Notes on Skirts Gowns and Hats for Spring

Matelasse remains a favored fabric for skirts gowns waists and evening wraps with pockets sized for hands. Hemp is set to be the spring hat material while milan horsehair and panama stay viable. Beaded tulle enriches evening wear and two color dress combos shine. A tall woman’s afternoon dress uses charmeuse with knife pleated charmeuse bodice and Medici collar.

Milan Panama

Driver Injured In Wagon Colliding With Trolley

William Vance age 49 of 34 Beach Street a Pocket Laundry driver suffered serious head injuries in a collision between his wagon and an inbound Boston Elevated Railway car at the Washington and Brookline streets corner yesterday afternoon.

William Vance Beach Street Pocket Laundry Company Boston Elevated Railroad Washington and Brookline Streets

There'll Come a Day We Regret Our Foolish Wasted Hours

A verse attributed to Walt Mason warns that fools today will face a day of reckoning. The poem reflects on wasted hours, harsh words, deceit in trade, and moral lessons from the past leading to sorrow and graves.

Walt Mason

Man Returns Found Airedale Terrier. police topic ends

A Jamaica Plain man asks Captain Goode to stop police from feeding and petting a found Airedale at Back Bay station. The dog followed uniformed officers. owner says petting keeps the dog from returning home. The article shifts to a lecture by Mr. Holmes touring the Panama Canal with films of St Thomas Caracas and Suez with India next. Panama will be repeated this afternoon.

Thomas Goode Back Bay Jamaica Plain Danish West Indies St. Thomas Venezuela Caracas Panama Canal Mr. Holmes Suez Canal India Holmes Panama

Tremont Temple Hosts Burton Holmes Panama Lecture

The second Burton Holmes lecture in Tremont Temple last evening explored Panama as a popular topic. The speaker framed the government project as an imminent, large undertaking engaging public interest and attention.

Burton Holmes Tremont Temple Panama

Red Cross Cough Drops Ad

An old advertisement touts Red Cross cough drops as best for sore throats with a price per box.

Red Cross

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