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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1909
Page
7
A reader seeks Miss Champagne’s view on married women skating without their husbands when the husband cannot attend. The reply warns that excessive pleasure harms, appearances matter, and a wife should act and appear proper even if consent is given for occasional skating with gentleman friends.
A reader asks if a flirtatious online exchange signals love. The adviser calls the sender impertinent and advises against replying, urging the reader to ignore him to show disapproval and respect.
Mrs. Elihu Root arrives from Washington to stay with Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant in Brookline for a week. The social scene centers on modest gatherings at the Grant household as Mrs. Root enjoys time with her daughter and her granddaughter Helen Edith Grant born five months ago.
Antony Bantli a pastry chef at Maddalina's traces his career from Switz erland to Normandy Paris London and New York. He recalls working for Queen Victoria and later Boston’s Maddalina's offering his Ye Olde Fashioned Plum Pudding with a detailed steam cake method and a brandy Sabayon sauce.
Daniel T. Dineen of Ladder Company 17 died at his Roxbury home at 96 Zeigler Street after a brief illness from pneumonia. He had served nearly 14 years with the fire department and was 41. He leaves a widow and family.
A home bread and biscuit recipe from Miss M. W. Church of Hampton Connecticut. It instructs a quarter of flour with salt sugar water yeast mixed in a granite bowl, rise by heat, form biscuits and a loaf, and bake for supper and next day. The tone is practical household guidance with time estimates.
Beat together brown sugar egg and butter then mix in buttermilk boiling water melted chocolate and flour with soda salt and vanilla. Bake in layers and frost with chocolate frosting. Care of Mrs J Box 162 Webster.
A Newport Rhode Island household dessert recipe lists eight eggs two cups sugar two cups flour and one lemon. Steps include beating yolks with sugar adding lemon juice and rind then stiffened whites, folding in flour and salt, baking in a moderate oven.
The will of Herbert F. Hanson filed for probate awards $2000 each to the New England Home for Little Wanderers on West Newton Street the Home for Aged Men on Springfield Street the Home for Aged Couples in Roxbury the Home for Aged Women on Revere Street and the Home for Incurables on Dorchester Avenue. Six former Hanson& Parker staff members receive $500 each.
An amateur night at the Gaiety draws a packed Latin Quarter crowd as Lorenzo, a swarthy Sicilian peasant in costume, performs a piano piece that tells an Italian homeland tale. The audience reacts with rapture and awe, ending with Lorenzo vanishing before the press can interview him. He muses that appreciation mattered more than prize money.
Lowell reports tragedy as 19 year old Leon S Donovan dies after his sled collides with a milk wagon at Whipple and Center. EB Donovans of 47 Walnut Street are named as the boy's parents.
Alice McDonald the 16 year old daughter of John F McDonald testified in the divorce suit his wife filed on grounds of cruelty and abuse. She cried on the stand and said he was often brought home intoxicated and once dressed in street clothes while in the parlor with another couple present. She said she did not love him. She had written him letters urging moderation and praised careful behavior. Her brother Donald, 18, followed on the stand.
Chicago leaders in the restaurant trade consider removing turkey from menus due to high prices with a possible nationwide effort to follow in other major cities.
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