Obedience to church speaks of labor era shifts
Henry Abrahams of the Boston Central Labor Union notes he was invited to speak at Worcester First Baptist Church illustrating changes over generations. He argues five hours’ labor a day and five days a week as a subject. The column also recalls Charles H. Jackson, famed as Boston’s fattest man, weighing 625 pounds on his 65th birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Abrahams
Boston Central Labor Union
First Baptist Church
Worcester
Abrahams
Charles H. Jackson
Boston
Jackson
Odd Fellows and
Free Masons
Uncle Walt Riffs on Modern Comic Songs and Mooning
Poet Walt Mason denounces modern comic songs as tasteless and loud urging writers Ada Jones and Billy Murray to abandon spoons and moons. He calls for dulcet tones and heartfelt songs instead, criticizing the era’s phono grammer and graphophones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam
Ada Jones
Billy Murray
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Love and Sense in a Gate Waiting Dilemma
A nineteen year old questions a thirty year old actor suitor who promises love yet never acts. Mildred Champagne advises the young woman to move on and seek a straightforward younger suitor who will openly declare his feelings instead of waiting at the gate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Champagne
Come Home Father Guides Me Through the Day
Poem recalls a boy walking home from farm labor with his dad during childhood. Now aged and frail, the speaker still feels weariness at eventide and hears his father figure guiding him, bringing comfort and the sense of reunion as he follows home. The piece contrasts past and present with a spiritual undertone.
Sewing Circle readers debate living on fifteen dollars weekly
In The Sewing Circle column of the Boston Post readers share experiences managing households on low wages. Letters describe salaries from thirteen to eighteen dollars weekly, rent costs, savings, and how families stretch funds with frugality, work, and careful budgeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Sewing Circle Sisters
Co-Operative Bank
Let Your Daily Bath Reduce Your Weight
An article promoting baths to slim the figure warns against internal drugs and extreme dieting. It touts Clarks Thinning Salts as a dissolving remedy for fat, advocating fifteen or more baths with the product and offers a booklet from Clarks Corporation at 149 Broadway New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BAUER
Thos. B. Stillman
M. S
New York
Clarks
Hiker Jaynes
Vox
Sel
Amaigrissant Clarks Corporation
Broadway
New York City
Eastern Drug Co. Wholesale Distriputers
Living on $12 to $15 a Week A Farmer’s Retort
A farmer voices that a family can live well on farm produce and savings, contrasting city life. He argues city budgets fail on $12 or $15 weekly salaries, citing farm abundance from own crops and meat, and warns against romanticizing scarce urban wages.
Beauty tips and home remedies for skin and hair care
Readers share inexpensive remedies for skin aging pimples and red noses. Spurmax, almoroin, canthax, quinzain and a homemade facial tonic are proposed with instructions on preparation and usage. The column promises a fresh complexion and invites further reader feedback.
Berkshire Hill Woman Found Dead in Roxbury Home
Margaret Ahearn 63 of 4 Kendall Street Roxbury was found dead in bed by sister Lowise. Death attributed to natural causes in a case noted for its terse phrasing and lack of foul play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubby
Berkshire Hill
Margaret Ahearn
Kendall Street
Roxbury
Lowise
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Ted
Fitzgerald
Walsh
City Club
Massachusetts
Charles Doucet
Hotel
Brunswick
France
America
Doucot
Post
Chef Doucot
United States
J. E. Lodge
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Marsha A. Gleason
Belgrade Lakes
Belgrade
George M. Wright
City Hall
Benjamin Childs
Centreville
Orleans
John Hopkins
Greater
High School of Practical Arts
Malden Public Library
Peremian Page Lord
Elizabeth Lord
Robert C. Harris
Albert Barker
Plymouth County
Barker
Harris
Vain Loon
Mae Tee
Lee
The
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Walt
Mildred Champagne
Irving Place
International Congress of Medicine
London
Arnold Bennett
Sicis
Elbert Hubbard
Bour
Dad
Allers
Father
Dear Sisters of the Sewing Circle
la Touraine
Westfield
WS. Quinby Co
Chicago
FY the Tone Beauty Parlor
Janet
Valaze
Maggie O
Sue L
Misa L. Smith
Lotion
Betty Dean
Erriyesnea
Grand Canyon
California
Santa Fe
Ina Pullman
el Tovar
Fred Harvey
Canyon
Titan of Chasms
W. Sinancas
Boston, Mass
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