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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1911
Page
7
A father and daughter in a playful exchange tease about hidden plans and distant places. The girl prods the man with questions about Japan Mars and human distance as he masks his ideas with a smiling, mocking expression.
A vintage style advertisement touts Velvet candy as superior to home made molasses taffy. It contrasts burnt or sticky textures from homemade pulling with Velvet as smooth, velvety, non greasy, and perfectly pulled.
A reader collection presents dessert and batter recipes with measurements and steps. Entries by Miss Alice Burns and Mrs M A Greenwood include gelatin desserts with chocolate and vanilla, custard like fillings, and apple filled breads. Additional recipe for light gem pan cakes by Mrs A C Jennings accompanies the notes.
A fragment from a personal letter section features a young woman writing to two correspondents. She muses on romance, age, home life, and personal anecdotes while noting she is a 24 year old demonstrator who teaches music on Sundays and prefers an old fashioned home.
A note from Dahlia recalls pleasant days by the lake and hopes to return. She urges Mother to write again, praising letters that elevate and inspire, and celebrates the Sewing Circle exchange of views and helpful suggestions.
A child and her father discuss a looming mortgage threat to their neighbor Bessie Bryan's home. The little girl clings to hope that her father can repay or stop the mortgagee, while the man wrestles with fear, love, and a vow to protect, ending with an awakening resolve to face the mortgage over the stars.
Della Carson Chicago beauty expert and $10,000 prize winner offers a harmless home method to remove wrinkles enlarge bust reduce fat and beautify skin and lashes. Readers urged to mail a coupon for free details and a copy of her beauty book with testimonials from various women.
Reggie recalls a remark about becoming brothers in law as Tommy agrees. A quip about a sister being sweet tempered prompts a playful exchange.
To provide a stand up wedding supper for many guests and seating plans with the bride and groom at the head table. Guidance offered on caterers versus self service, decorations, favors, and inexpensive supper ideas.
A reader writes warm tributes to the people of New Hampshire praising N. H. Hills and his wife for their kindness. The note mentions Lake Sunapee and expresses admiration for the "splendid whole souled people" met in the state.
A 25 cent package of Pape's Cold Compound is advertised to end grippe misery and severe colds within a few hours. The ad claims rapid relief from neuralgia pains headache stuffed nose feverishness sneezing sore throat and rheumatic twinges with doses every two hours for three consecutive doses. It emphasizes no quinine and cites three years of research and fifty thousand dollar cost.
A reader from Nova Scotia praises farm living and asks for letters from Yarmouth sisters. She notes wives often work outside and stay healthier and stronger, and she hopes for a future farm of their own. She invites more letters from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
A reader signs as BLONDE, BUT NOT BLEACHED, arguing against the idea that women over 60 must dye hair. She cites elderly grandmothers with natural hair colors to challenge claims of concealment and urges Circle Sisters to reconsider notions of aging and hair color.
A letter asks whether Massachusetts law can compel sons to aid their elderly father, a 84 year old foreigner who has lived in the U.S. over four decades but never naturalized. The father has two Massachusetts native, well-to-do sons who refuse support. The writer seeks justice for the aged and laments parental neglect by heartless children.
A reader praises a wife for balancing family life with piano playing for her husband. The letter commends her as a jewel and notes the husband’s appreciation. The column includes a playful note about a previous smoker rising in the household and a wife who reads the Sewing Circle.
Miss Grace Mackenzie youngest daughter of Sir William Mackenzie and Count Jacques de Lesseps French aviator wed at St James Church Spanish Place. De Lesseps grandson of Ferdinand de Lesseps, 27. He took up aviation a year ago with notable flights including the English channel crossing. Grace joined him on aerial trips in New York and Toronto but their engagement led them to abandon the sport.
A reader asks how to handle a jealous young girlfriend who calls his attention to other female friends. The columnist cautions that mutual understandings must be reciprocal and urges stopping flirtations with other women to respect her status as queen and avoid double standards.
Attraction to astrology offered as a science to reveal past present and future life. Reader asked to mail birth date and six cents postage to Dr A Zerola Dept 450 Havana Cuba for answers on love health wealth and marriage.
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