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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1912
Page
11
The Observant Citizen notes Miss Lizzie Kimball's large chick batch and a reader, Melvin Hardy of Nantucket, reports 44 White Leghorn eggs incubated by three hens hatched 43 chicks. Patrolman M J Greeley helps locate lost children by guiding them to candy stores for clues.
George Elecock, hunting on his West Quincy farm, reports killing a four foot two inch rattler with fourteen rattles after a tense encounter. He is known for handling Blue Hill rattlers at his hunting lodge. The report also mentions Roger Wolcott and his wife heading to their Fal mouth summer home and notes Boston and Maine supplying paper cups on trains.
An odd sight in Boston Harbor showed the schooner Two Sisters of St. John New Brunswick advancing with no canvas in a dead calm. The vessel is described as the only lumber schooner of its kind in the foreign trade.
The speaker recalls Highland Mary with affection and grief. He describes their parting, her beauty, and the death that claimed her, noting the enduring memory within his heart as green sod and cold clay bury her.
Letters and notes discuss a claimed treasure chest once said to hold Captain Kidd’s gold doubloons found on a Spanish island. The piece also covers Boston College’s new campus start, seaside biology work at Woods Hole, and local observations on trees, trains, and notable visitors.
A frail girl stands on a high shore watching the sea and sky as she contemplates suicide. She calls to the sea for rest and sleep, believing death will grant peace. A seagull witnesses her leap and a ship appears, offering a glimmer of rescue amid the night.
In a Boston Post narrative Louise, cured after a dangerous brain operation, reunites with John who has cared for her through illness and doubts. He reassures her as she awakens to life and love, while the Sewing Circle section invites readers to share home and family concerns.
Boston Lodge No 10 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks sues the city of Boston claiming 3280 paid under protest as taxes for 1911. The lodge argues it is a charitable benevolent association and exempt from taxation by law.
Judge Loring of the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Frank E. Goodhue ineligible for the Ipswich Board of Health because he is not a physician, leaving the board without a third member.
A reader uses the nom de plume Wife Who Cannot Be Bullied to defend a husband in a divorce context. The letter condemns a wife who stays in the city with a “friend” while receiving half her husband’s pay after he moves to a suburban home. It chides such women and argues husbands may lawfully demand support only if living in a home provided by the husband.
A reader signs as LOTTIE sending a critical letter to the Sewing Circle about a wife who resists obedience and questions a husband’s move to the suburbs. The writer argues the wife follows a meddling friend rather than family welfare, urging adherence to domestic economy and lawful assistance from a husband.
A reader signs off with a playful note about Aunt Molly becoming furious while reading a letter in the sewing circle. The tone is light hearted and domestic.
A letter writer urges a woman to end her 12 year engagement rather than wait on a fiancé pressured by his mother. The adviser criticizes the man as lacking backbone and advises clear insistence on his choice between partner and mother. The note signs off as HAPPY B.
A columnist ridicules a wife who proclaims she cannot be bullied. The proposed punishment is to cut a copy of her own words from the Sewing Circle columns, preserve it for ten years, then revisit the issue to see if attitudes have shifted.
A young woman recalls starting as a secretary in a big city at three dollars a week. She resigns after a tirade from her boss's wife, noting it as her first major rebuff in fifteen years in office work.
Some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle will appear in next Sunday's Post, promising reader engagement and community reflections in the upcoming issue.
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