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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1911
Page
11
A humorous verse extols roastin ears as a joyful summer staple. Walt Mason humorously celebrates corn on the cob with butter, praising its simple goodness and festive, meal time cheer. The piece ends noting copyright from 1911.
A reader writes of two loves and a marriage impossible. He seeks guidance on choosing between the childhood sweetheart and a newer partner, asking if he should marry the second woman or wait to forget both. The columnist urges announcing the engagement and moving on.
Ellen Shanahan mother of the Very Rev Edmund Shanahan of the Catholic University of America will be buried from 42 West Street Jamaica Plain tomorrow. A solemn high requiem mass will be held at St Thomas Church at 9 am and burial will follow in Holyhood Cemetery. She was a prominent Jamaica Plain resident active in church affairs and charitable works.
The magazine section photo features the well known tune Old Folks at Home illustrated by a Walter Biggs painting for the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine.
Dorothy begs for a story of princes and princesses and hears a fable about a rich woman who must choose among a rich man a titled beggar and a poor young man. The girl marries the young man after testing each suitor, using buttons on coats to reveal true worth. The tale ends with a light joke about counting buttons.
Wilford Roux a 16 year old boy drowned after wading beyond his depth in the Mousam River at Sanford Maine His companions rescued the body and attempted resuscitation but failed.
The Sunday Post Magazine next Sunday features opening chapters of a new serial by George Gibbs author of The Bolted Door. It includes a "Shorty McCabe" story another instalment of Who Was Belle Carillon and two entries from the $10 000 short story competition.
A Roxbury columnist decries the rising cost and unreliability of housemaids, arguing many households could rely on cheaper labor such as schoolgirls. The piece cites a Nova Scotia worker demanding $5 weekly plus board and hints at alternative domestic help like a middle‑aged man performing multiple chores.
A Brookline reader denounces corporal punishment as barbaric and harmful. The letter argues punishment damages a child’s disposition, breeds fear or brutality, and offers nonphysical methods to discipline without eroding parental respect.
A widow warns against engaging with an ardent correspondent and urges ignoring threatening or entreating letters. She shares a personal view on marriages across age gaps, citing her own happiness with a husband 30 years older and referencing Whittier on love beyond age.
A reader notes a home wart remedy using daisy caustic pencils sold in drug stores for ten cents each and advises painting on the wart then soaking in warm water. The letter asks sisters of the Circle if a bound 1762 London Chronicle has value.
A request asks the Circle to submit ideas for a private fair to raise funds and to provide a free side show. The note seeks engaging, money-raising concepts and entertainment options for community participation.
The writer urges persistent patient effort to engage a teen daughter by discovering her interests and joining in activities like reading, fashion, music, or theater. Emphasizes cheerful influence, self restraint, and the aim of nurturing a good future person, comparing growth to seeds in a garden. A WATCHER.
A woman advises a scared widow to return letters unopened and place them in another envelope. She recalls doing the same and eventually cutting off contact, while noting a friend’s eight week correspondence led to marriage after a brief 10 day meeting. The anecdote ends with a hopeful, happy tone.
A reader asks the Circle for guidance on whether to join widowed mother for a month long vacation or stay with her husband. The mother pays all bills and the plan includes reading sermons aloud while the husband jokes about a separate trip. Pilgrim seeks timely advice.
A young office cashier and stenographer asks the Sewing Circle if it is proper to accept occasional candy from a married male colleague. She notes she is friendly with his wife and treats both couples equally, seeking guidance on propriety.
The 1065 Federal Street binder is among Boston's oldest shops known as the Library Book Bindery. Founded in 1821 by John G. Roberts, it moved from Water and Devonshire to 17 Province and then to Federal Street, serving over 200 libraries and repairing 200000 school books each summer. Frank M. Barnard and SK. J. Barnard now lead the firm, with roots traced to Bridgewater and Everett.
A Boston letter to the editor denies Pinkerton's National Detective Agency was engaged in the alleged Love girl child hunt. Signed by Geo. F. Leith, General Superintendent.
In Greenfield on July 11 a petition for a rehearing in Silas N. Phelps’s murder case was filed with the clerk. The plea claims the full bench erred. Judge Loring is abroad, and the petition will stay proceedings until fall awaiting possible sentencing anticipated for Monday.
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