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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1909
Page
7
Gold Is Found on Young Farmer's Land Brings Betony Victory
Betty Carter defies her father by pledging to marry Richard Guilford, despite his opposition and wealth seeking fiancé David Thatcher. Richard returns with a plan to win over Betty by claiming gold riches on his farm, prompting Mr. Carter to soften and Mr. Thatcher to concede. Betty accepts not wealth but enduring love and protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Carter
Guilford
Betty
Richard
David Thatcher
Rascal Guilford
Mr. Thatcher
Richard Guilford
Freeville
Thatcher
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
The 21st annual convention of the Boston branch of the Christian and Mission ary Alliance opened at Clarendon Street Baptist Church with addresses by Ira K E. David W C Stevens William Franklin of India P W Philpot and Mrs EF R Berger. The convention runs through Friday. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union held its annual mass meeting at Ford Hall with Edith Smith Davis of Milwaukee presenting. The Boston Baptist City Mission donated 500 to the First Baptist Church of Dorchester for three years to aid building the new meeting house and urged relocation from Neponset to Dorchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
The
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Ira K E. David
W. C. Stevens
William Franklin
India
P. W. Philpot
EF. R. Berger
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Ford Hall
Edith Smith Davis
Milwaukee
Wis
IL. M. N. Stevens
Anna Gordon
Boston Baptist City Mission
First Baptist Church of
Dorchester
City Mission Society
Neponset
Lincoln Tales and Cabinet Skunk Storyshare
A Washington May parade scene brings Lincoln anecdotes on Daniel Webster and Father B. A Springfield clergyman asks about slavery with Lincolns cannier response. Senators push for seven new ministers triggers a farmer and skunk tale from Illinois.
Families Housed In Roxbury Facing City Aid Probe
Agent Critcherson of the Massachusetts SPCC investigated neglected children at 48 Cabot Street Roxbury Crossing. Two mothers Mary and Nora Cullen and Mrs Jeremiah Shea with eight children faced hunger cold and eviction. Children were placed with destitute homes and relatives while custody decisions await Roxbury court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Critcherson
Cabot Street
Roxbury Crossing
Mary Cullen
John
Jeremiah Shea
Horace Greeley Lodge K P Holds Installation
Horace Greeley Lodge K P held a public installation of officers yesterday at 724 Washington Street DC. G C Clifford B Jones and suite conducted the ceremonies. officers named for 1909 include C C Howard A Corey V C George G Hall M W Henry A Hebson M of W H W Vickerson M of A John L Hall M of W Malcolm A Knock M of F Charles C Perkins K of R and S Marston R Stubbs I G C F Weinhold C G Harvey McClearn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Greeley
K. P
Washington Street
D. C
G. C. Clifford B. Jones
C. C
Howard A. Corey
V. C
George G. Hall
Henry A. Hebson
H. W. Vickerson
John L
King Solomon Lodge
Brother Vickerson
Horace Greeley Lodge
Couple Walked All Night To Wed In Virginia Valley
Grace Hawes aged 27 and Thomas Mouch aged 21 walked fourteen miles through a mountainous area to catch a Norfolk & Western train at Riverton Virginia. They reached Hagerstown and were married at five o clock in the morning at the First Baptist parsonage by Rev. E. K. Thomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Norfolk & Western
Riverton
Grace Hawes
Thomas Mouch
First Baptist
E. K. Thomas
Chef Oscar Olson Shares Cheese Croquettes Recipe
Oscar Olson born 1882 in Sweden and now chef at Garrison Hall for four winters. He trained rapidly after arriving in 1900 and has worked at Rockingham Hotel Portsmouth Ampersand New York Hesperus Magnolia and Twin Mountain House. He offers a Sunday night tea cheese croquettes recipe using American cheese caper pan slow melt mustard cayenne Worcestershire beer and a double breading before frying and serving hot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Olson
Garrison Hall
Sweden
Rockingham Hotel
Portsmouth
N. H
Ampersand
New York
Hesperus
Magnolia
White Mountains
Olson
Gelatine Recipe with Lemon and Vanilla Notes
Detailed dessert making method describing gelatin mix with water lemon and vanilla, sugar syrup boiled to thread, combined and heated briefly, poured into powdered sugar lined pans, cooled and cut into squares, rolled in sugar. Attribution to MRS. J. D. WESTON at 44 Jaques street Somerville.
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J. D. Weston
Jaques Street
Somerville
Delicious Maple Sugar Cream Candy Formula
A kitchen note describes combining 11 4 cups pulverized maple sugar 11 2 cups white sugar with 1 cup sweet cream. Cook slowly, add cream of tartar moistened with cream, test in cold water, score on a platter, then wrap in paraffin paper. Signed Mrs Arthur W Dor r F D Presque Isle Me.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur W. Dorr
F. D
No. 1
Presque, Isle
Potage a la Reine Puree From Chicken Liquor
A colonial recipe describes removing fat from chicken water then boiling fish with salt pepper and celery salt. It mixes mashed egg yolk bread crumbs and milk then adds chopped chicken white and hot cream to form a puree with optional onion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie BE
Zackular
Baker’ Toad
Everett
Consular Appointments and Civil Service Exams
A reader asks if entering the U S consular service requires a civil service exam. Consuls are appointed by the President after examination and can be removed only on written charges to Congress. President Cleveland ordered exams for consular candidates before a three member board named by the Secretary of State, a rule still in force. For information contact the Civil Service Commission in Washington, D C.
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Consular Service
United States
Congress
Cleveland
Secretary of State
Navy vessel counts in the United States fleet
The note lists naval units: twenty five modern battleships four older battleships eight armored cruisers five first class cruisers seven second class cruisers sixteen third class cruisers three scout ships forty torpedo gunboats sixteen torpedo boat destroyers thirty six torpedo boats nineteen submarines ten monitors and ten unprotected cruisers.
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R. C
United States Navy
Post Office Mail Delivery Rule Question
A reader asks if law prevents the postmaster from delivering mail to a box renter who forgot his key. The editor notes no law found. proper identification may allow mail delivery to the renter under these circumstances.
Fiske O’Hara at Globe Theatre in Boston
Andrew Mack acted in Arrah Na Pogue at the Park Theatre in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiske O'Hara
Dion O’dare
Boston
Andrew Mack
Dion O'Dare
Globe Theatre
Park Theatre
Question on Citizenship for Child of Naturalized Parent
A writer asks if a child born abroad in 1885 to a father who was already a naturalized citizen qualifies as a citizen. The parent’s naturalization is said to include all minor children.
Steamer Portland Foundered Off Cape Cod in 1898 Disaster
Inquiries note the Portland bound from Boston to Portland foundered in a gale off Cape Cod with 118 lives lost on November 26 27 1898. Editor invites details for the column.
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C. G
Portland
Boston
Cape Cod
Where to Learn Electrician Trade Training Cited
A reader asks where a boy can learn to be an electrician and is steered toward the Institute of Technology or the YMCA as education sources.
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A. H
Institute of Technology
Salvation Army Fed Most Poor During Holidays
The Salvation Army fed the greatest number of poor on Thanksgiving and Christmas, while President Cleveland issued government bonds during his second term according to the article.
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Cleveland
Salvation Army
European-born man awaiting naturalization to vote on paternal papers
Ed notes question of whether a man born in Europe can vote using his father's papers or must be naturalized if he was a minor when the father became a citizen. Also asks value of a 1863 Our Little Monitor penny with coat of arms, noting its value is its face value though collectors may pay a premium to complete a collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Odell
City of
Washington
Mr. Lincoln
Daniel Webster
Daniel
Springfield
Ill
Father B
Fox River
High Seas
J. R. H.—Tis
Europe
E. K
Notices and Inquiries From Readers in Boston
Letters to Augustus J. Hoitt, U S pension agent in Boston, request information. Editorials cite profits of 100 percent and 33 1 3 percent. Ed and FE K seek details about an organization named the Regular Army and Navy Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. FE. K
Regular Army and Navy Union
Winchester Girl Eloped
Harold M. Tewkesbury of Boston and Edith Louise Nason of Winchester obtained a marriage license at City Hall Winchester at 3 30 pm on January 19 and planned to wed with a minister. Tewkesbury, a clerk living at 15 Milwood Street Boston, and Miss Nason of 18 Orient Street Winchester are engaged since January 1. He studied at Brown University for three years and is known in Providence as a popular Brown class member and a lithograph worker in Boston. He rose to fame as a Brown composer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pawtucket
Harold M. Tewkesbury
Boston
Edith Louise Nason
Winchester
Tewkesbury
Milwood Street
Orient Street
H. A. Nason
Brown University
Providence
Brown
Pittsburg Man Arrested As Suspicious Visitor
William Lewis claiming New York ties was arrested in Pittsburg for posing as a theatrical rep of Andrew Carnegie and H C Frick. Police list aliases White Acklin Byers and Jay and say he told young women the two millionaires were assembling a Pittsburg chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
William Lewis
New York
White
Acklin
Joker is badly beaten in New Jersey prank
Newman Drake visited a friend's home for an entertainment and shouted Hands up causing a struggle that left him badly beaten before he could explain he was only a pretend highwayman in Newton New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton, N. J
Newman Drake
Drake
Mother and daughter ride to Arkansas on horses for education
Mrs. Jane Wellman and her 16 year old daughter Moling arrived from Mexico at the University of Arkansas after a 1500 mile ride in men’s saddles. They had no money for trains and began on their own horses. Moling will enroll today and the mother plans to earn their keep by keeping hoarders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
Ark
Jane Wellman
Moling
Mexico
University of Arkansas
Fashionable neckwear and fabrics in current styles
Lace remains favored for neckwear while little string ties charm as novelties. Coral touches rise in popularity, waistcoats gain men’s fashion status, and spring fabrics stay supple yet thick. Serge remains a top season fabric with sash colors matching gowns and gold or silver clasps common.
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Grace Kid
Leavitt Finishes Paris Lord's Supper Canvas
William Homer Leavitt of this city finishes his Paris studio painting the Lord's Supper and ships the canvas to Newport. He is described as the son in law of William Jennings Bryan and his wife is reported to have separated from him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
William Homer Leavitt
William Jennings Bryan
Paris
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