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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1916
Page
11
A reader letters page discusses women’s rights, dress, and independence. Contributors urge women to buy their own clothing, critique male control, and share personal experiences with marriage, motherhood, and self reliance amid social norms.
Letters from readers discuss parenting and household challenges. A mother describes managing a drinking husband, another advises on infant weight gain and feeding routines, and a third shares experience with a bottle baby and growth milestones. Readers note the Sewing Circle prints many such letters in the Sunday Post.
In Clearfield Pennsylvania on July 9 Miss Mary Hainsey 19 set a cheerful record kissing 971 soldiers from a troop train as it paused for a station stop. The moment drew 971 smiles from the three train sections and left 60 soldiers in the rear car unkissed.
Poetic lines celebrate love as morning joy that dispels fear and melancholy. It envisions love lighting the world, guiding cheerful hearts, and sowing a golden path that makes life inviting and bright. The verse calls for awakening happiness and a garden gate whistle to banish gloom.
A collection of simple dessert formulations with names and authors. Chocolate pudding uses milk bread crumbs sugar eggs cocoa and vanilla with meringue finish. Spice Drop Cakes include molasses sugar egg spices walnuts and raisins. Lemon Tarts require lemon juice rind sugar egg and milk in rich pastry shells.
Letters discuss which presidents served in the military since Lincoln and Johnson. They note Johnson governed Tennessee in 1862, Cleveland was a lawyer during the Civil War, Taft and Wilson were too young to serve, and claim most presidents had military experience. They ask if the original Mayflower still exists, and how to properly address high officials.
Mary Pickford recalls meeting D W Griffith at the studio and demanding to speak to the manager. He tests her on a camera, calling for pantomime over lines, and she endures nerves as the cast watches. He later promises a real scene the next day with notable colleagues present.
A large group of Episcopal laymen attended a retreat at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge led by Rev. Edward S. Rousmaniere. The retreat concluded today with addresses brief services and quiet meditation. Earlier a large crowd gathered for an evening service at Maverick Church in East Boston led by Rev. Paul B. Blanchard.
The Rev. delivered an address to a men’s club on July 5 titled The Menace of Mormonism. Others noted include Rev. Charles L. Page injured by a fall, Rev. L. M. Roper preaching at the Dudley Street Baptist Church, and the resignation of Rev. Arthur S. Burrill from Georgetown’s First Congregational Church. Dean Hamilton S. Conant arranged transport for the Northfield Summer School contingent, with 1000 expected attendees. Groundbreakings and church construction progress in Worcester include the Zion Swedish Lutheran Church with a projected $12,000 cost and nine Swedish churches in the city.
A man about 40, six feet eleven inches tall, 150 pounds with light complexion and long hair, wearing a dark suit and striped shirt, was recovered from the water near Jeffrey's Point. A card reading No. 1658 HQ 25 Dunham Street South Boston was tied to him and he awaits claimant at North Mortuary.
More than 1000 members of the Holy Name Society at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross attended the quarterly communion at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Fr. William B. Finigan celebrated, with Fr. John W. Culhane as spiritual director. Fr. M. J. O'Connor thanks priests who visited Framingham camp and those who contributed prayer books and religious articles. Plymouth forms a Catholic Union with over 50 members from several parishes. Cathedral Young Men's Catholic Association to host a dancing party for field day tickets, with a season pass prize to top ticket seller. The secular diocesan calendar lists feasts this week, including the Seven Holy Brothers, St Pius I, St John Gualbert, St Anaclete, St Bonaventure, and St Henry.
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