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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1916
Page
11
Readers debate a letter about a husband withholding money for his wife’s clothes over modesty. Anonymized voices defend the woman’s stance and condemn the husband’s censorship as unequal and unfair. A second contributor extols the value of maternal sacrifice and the social influence of women in shaping men.
A readers’ column cites women questioning marital obedience and mutual respect. Letters urge men to cherish protect and treat wives with decency while wives defend independence and share personal experiences of marriage and loneliness.
Polly visited to praise a new French dressmaker, who created a blue voile frock with a frilled selvedge hem, a kimono blouse, and a batik embroidered collar with brown velvet streamers. The observer calls the designer truly Parisian.
A Dorchester reader shares tips to deter pests. Leave pennyroyal uncorked overnight to repel mosquitoes. To banish rats and mice, sprinkle cayenne in holes and place chloride of lime around entry points.
A lyrical meditation on being among children at play. The speaker imagines joyous scenes of laughter, dancing, and spring, contrasting rulers and war with the purity of children's happiness and gratitude for life in the land. The piece shifts between playful imagery and a prayerful appreciation of beauty.
Three children in the crowded First street tenement area were bitten by a dog believed heated and exhausted, prompting an exciting chase. The animal was captured and brought to the police station for rabies tests.
Mayor Curley reinstated four more recently discharged public works department workers, bringing total reinstatements to ten. The four rein stated are Alfred K. Haskell Fred P. Winslow Clarence G Norris assistant engineers and Frank O Holmes instrument man, all high salaried.
George F. Williams, wanted in New Orleans on a mail fraud charge, was ordered removed to the United States District Court at New Orleans yesterday by Judge Morton.
Two vintage recipes from Mrs. F. M. Haskell yield a rich fruit loaf and a chocolate cake. The fruit loaf blends butter sugar eggs raisins sour milk and spice with walnut and lemon flavor, baked medium hot and stored in a box. The chocolate cake uses yolk eggs milk butter sugar flour and baking powder with a chocolate ganache-like frosting and vanilla glaze.
A hungry stray dog with no collar or license is rescued from the gutter. The narrator coats the canine with warmth and later adopts it, noting the dog’s grateful wag and the new life with a collar and license.
A narrator recalls meeting Sarah Bernhardt in her dressing room before a San Francisco performance of Sister Beatrice. The diva speaks of youth, aging, and the triangle of life love youth and contentment, and the encounter ends with a signed photograph and the curtain call.
Ida M. urges parents to educate a girl and train her talent for the stage. She notes Mary Pickford's talks will appear five days a week in the Daily Post and every Sunday in the Sunday Post.
The Rev. Henry S Bradley of Piedmont Congregational Worcester spends two months on the California coast. During his absence congregation members will unite with Pilgrim Congregational Worcester. Rev. Paul B Blanchard of Maverick Church East Boston plans to answer Mormon elders at a Sunday night meeting on The Menace of Mormonism. Harold W Curtis, recently graduated from Newton Theological Institution, is ordained to Baptist ministry at Pittsfield and assumes joint pastorates there and in Lanesboro. Union services continue at South Boston churches with St. John's and Phillips starting in St. John's and moving to Phillips for five weeks. Beginning Sunday Rev Edward T Sullivan will preach morning and evening services at Cathedral Church of St Paul Newton Centre until Sept 10.
New York reports Lieutenant A Goodwill Spalding of the Inniskillen Fusiliers was killed in action on July 1. Aged 25, he was adopted son of the late A G Spalding and had joined the English army in 1914, serving with the Coldstream Guards before transferring to the Inniskillen Fusiliers.
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