Observant Citizen Notes Arlington Hospital Plans
The column reports Arlington’s Symmes Hospital opening on Turkey Hill to serve locals and reduce costs, with praise for its expected first class management. It also mentions Henry W. Ward acquiring the guinea pig that survived the Equitable fire, and various local anecdotes about ships, hotels, and notable figures.
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Symmes Hospital
Turkey Hill
Henry W. Ward
Newport
Washington
Equitable
New York
Mr. Ward
The Owner of Qui-Si-Sana Falls to Truth
Rose Clarke travels under the Ostend alias to Qui-Si-Sana and claims ownership of the famed spring. Trent Casona seeks control through a grant she reveals, but Herbert Clarke’s estate exposes the illegality and Rose demands upright stewardship, ending the schemer’s ruse.
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Rose Clarke
Capri
Solarium
Rose
Wilfred Ostend
Clarke
Casona
Charles Clarke
Herbert C. Clarke
Mr. Casona
Miss Rose Clarke
Ostend
Miss Clarke
Qui-Si-Sana
Trent Casona
Mr. Clarke
Trent Carsona
Eskimos and Comforts: Walt Mason Reflects on Snow Life
In a 1912 verse, Walt Mason questions Eskimo life in the snow, noting their lack of coal, books, and comforts while contrasting sunny climes. He laments their cold hardships and imagines a world without warmth or novels.
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Walt Mason
Mothers and Children Treated for Skin Troubles
Testimonial from Mrs. M. Guggenheim in Bridgeport Connecticut describes rapid healing of several skin conditions in her family using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. She notes relief for eczema teething boils and salt rheum and credits soap and ointment with enabling hand use and complete cures. The advertisement promotes sales worldwide with free samples and a mailing address in Boston.
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Logan St
Bridgeport
Conn
M. Guggenheim
Dept. T
Boston
Maine pastor resigns from Brunswick church
The Rev. Louis A. Parsons announced his resignation as rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brunswick Maine. He arrived five years ago from Philadelphia and is considering a call to Amesbury Massachusetts.
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Brunswick
Louis A. Parsons
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Amesbury
Mass
St. Paul's Church
Philadelphia
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement claims a 25 cent dose of Pape's Cold Compound will break the worst cold and end grippe within hours. It asserts three yearly research costing over fifty thousand dollars and states the formula contains no quinine and cures without after-effects.
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Grippe
Pape
Sewing Circle Opens Homemaker Forum in Boston Post
The Sewing Circle offers a woman’s own forum for New England homemakers to discuss home and family topics. Advice topics include domestic problems, baby care, budgeting, gardening, and managing husbands and children. Correspondents may use pen names and write on one side only.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Secret Meetings Dear Miss Champagne
A reader asks about a young man who sneaks to meet a girl off site while the father objects. Advice reasons he should call at the home and meet under proper circumstances or be avoided as unsafe for courting.
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Miss Champagne
Dear Bunnie Stuttering Linked to Run Down Health
A parent recalls a four year old daughter who began to stutter and then contracted typhoid fever. The doctor linked the stuttering to a run down physical condition, prompting concern and advice.
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Bunnie
Cleaning Advice for White Felt Hats from Silver Threads
Dear Amateur Please join the Y W Co A to meet nice people. For your white felt hat rub cornstarch in, stand an hour, then shake and brush out. Mrs St Johns Janie and many others urged you to write again. Silver Threads.
Hair Loss After Fever Prompted Advice to Cut and Switch
An experienced sister advises a young woman that after a severe fever the hair cannot be saved. The hair is dead and should be cut close so it can be made into a switch, allowing the new growth to come in finer and improved.
Post Office Pamphlet on 1912 Civil Service Exams
Apply at Milk Street Room 141 for a pamphlet about 1912 civil service examinations. SAUCHIA.
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Milk Street
Sauchia
A COSEY HOME My Dear Barbara
A 19 year old writer seeks guidance on marriage timing and home furnishings. She asks Barbara what she made before marriage and what furniture she bought to plan a cosy home. The note emphasizes domestic planning and shared tips for starting married life.
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Barbara
Dear Sisters I Seek Help for Alcohol Addiction
A woman describes a three year struggle with drink started after abuse by her husband. She works daily away from home but returns to drink, harming herself and her three children. She asks the Sewing Circle sisters for aid or remedies to overcome the habit and pledges willingness to take any help.
Home wine making recipe from old manuscript
Instructions describe grape selection and sugar measurements to ferment into wine. Start with 4 quarts grapes, 8 pounds brown sugar, ferment in jug until next March, then draw off and bottle. Add water and sugar per gallon for subsequent draws, with repeated fermentations in fall and March, urging long aging.
Poor Lonely One Sends Circle Letter for Advice
A Poor Lonely One writes a first letter to the Circle seeking valuable guidance and signs with a somber self description, signaling a personal appeal for support.
FOR LOVELY HANDS Dear Sisters To the girls who want to whiten
A 19th century instruction advises washing hands in warm water soaked with raw potato skins or whole potatoes for an hour to achieve a pearly whiteness. It suggests adding a tablespoon of cinnamon for aroma and rubbing it into the skin, especially around the nails.
How to Make Plaster Plaques By Oscar
A reader explains a simple method for crafting plaster plaques. Choose a dish shape, use an old deep dish, mix plaster not too wet, wet the picture, place it in the dish, cover with plaster, weight it, and let dry before removal. Tin plates are advised against due to rust.
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Tad
Daddie
Paris
Oscar
Beauty Cares Dear Sisters I Offer Hair Remedies
In a beauty parlor column a worker advises permanent removal of facial and arm hair only by the electric needle. Depilatories give temporary relief but worsen regrowth. For warts, apply nitric acid carefully with a toothpick to burn them away. Sage tea is a good hair tonic, hot olive oil suits typhoid cases, and peroxide of hydrogen is the recommended bleach for neck and arms.
Letter on Women Smoking Cigarettes Sparks Debate
A reader asks about women smoking cigarettes, noting friends call it unladylike and questions the harm of smoking. The letter invites opinions from sisters, seeking viewpoints on propriety and health implications.
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Bunny
Local Recipe Fragments From Boston Household Pages
A fragmentary item lists a dessert method using dates lemon juice and meringue with eggs and sugar. It reads as a domestic recipe attributed to Mrs James Dicks and Mrs G O Whdell, including quantities for dates cake and lemon custard served with coal? and notes about positions on Hudson Street in Boston.
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DELL
Hudson Street
Boston
Dear Miss Champagne Advice on a young love and initiative
A 25 year old woman asks if a modest suitor will declare his love. The columnist urges starting gentle pursuit, inviting more visits, and using signals to reveal affection. She should take initiative without overdoing it and let the language of action convey feelings.
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Miss Champagne
Daisy
Boston's Top Tax List Loses to Trustees' Wealth
The table lists real estate and personal estate valuations and taxes for the seven largest Boston trustees. Charles E. Cotting leads with vast totals of real and personal property and tax contribution, followed by Francis C. Welch and Moses Williams among others.
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City of
Boston
Charles E. Cotting
Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy Restores Color
A simple garden sage based treatment promises to restore gray hair to its natural color. Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy, costing fifty cents a bottle, claims to reduce dandruff lessen itching and prevent hair loss with a few applications.
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Wyeth
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