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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1917
Page
9
A series of readers reply to the question whether the best man is as good as the best woman. One matron argues that the worst man is better than the worst woman and reflects on gendered morality, sacrifice, and reform.
Marjory sailed for Cuba amid a shower wearing a bright green rubber satin rain coat and hat. The piece notes church installations and sermons with ministers from Worcester Dorchester Boston Somerville Montreal and Vermont including Rev. Peane Miller Parker Symonds Bliss Sperry and Masefield themed talks across multiple services this week.
Poem from Songs of Wedlock praising the flag as a sacred symbol. The speaker pledges loyalty to the flag above all, invoking devotion, duty, and national pride while imagining the banner’s absence in the last light. It ends with a plea for enduring reverence in hearts forever.
Carnegie fellow Sylvanus G. Morley will lecture at the Boston Public Library on January 28 1913 at 5 p.m. on the 1916 Central American expedition. The talk, illustrated and free, covers Morley’s Maya hieroglyphics research and readings from stelae in Guatemala and Yucatan with plans and frescoes.
Mrs Levins Ripley aged 76 daughter of Yankee Robinson and long time circus performer died last night on the old Circus farm eight miles east of Utica New York. She rode bareback for years with her father's circus, married a fellow performer, retired in 1879 and had performed in every state east of the Mississippi.
James V Brennan sues Helen E Quilty in Suffolk Superior Court claiming a $180 commission for introducing Boston Schoolhouse Commission to take land at 21 Eaton Street West End for a schoolhouse. Trial began yesterday before Judge Bell and a jury.
Devotion of the 40 hours begins in multiple Boston area chapels led by the Convent of the Sacred Heart and others. Former Governor Walsh to address Notre Dame Academy Guild in Roxbury about his Orient travels. Public mass meeting planned at Broadway Theatre with music and speakers including Father Butler. Various Catholic groups in Medford, Randolph, and Brockton hold meetings to discuss club activities and neighbor club efforts.
The Frances E. Willard Settlement fund campaign is extended one week to end Saturday with an expected $120,000 raised. Miss Caroline M. Caswell cited strained finances for the delay. Total yesterday reached $88,352 with a $3,335 gain. top team led by Mrs. Swan Hartwell raised $518 and Mrs. C. L. Younkin’s team had the most subscriptions. Rev. Austen K. De Blois praised church work with the poor and outcast.
Edward Heffernan a wholesale liquor dealer of 68 Market street Lynn filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the US District Court He shows total liabilities of 508782 with assets of 314526 and secured claims totaling 332906.
The Boston Elevated opens the Egleston square station a large enclosed surface car terminal on private land, connected to the Dudley street and Egleston square elevated stations by escalator and stairs. Mattapan cars will divert to Egleston square improving service and reducing congestion on Warren street and the Dudley east loop. The Public Service Commission oversees the project and the Elevated built the station.
John William Hunt of Cambridge a former clerk in the Postmaster General office and assistant at Democratic national headquarters has been named secretary to Postmaster Murray. He succeeds Herbert E. Mleischner who resigned to join Willett Sears & Co felt dealers of this city.
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