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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1919
Page
13
About two dozen girls from Boston tenement districts will arrive at Winning Farm off Lowell street Lexington for a 12 day country vacation. The South End House of Boston runs the farm each summer to provide city children with rural leisure. Miss Elizabeth Bunker of Auburn Maine is matron.
Mrs C WesTMoreland of Harrison New York shares how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eased childbirth and postnatal weakness. She states she remains healthy while nursing and recommends the remedy for displacements irregularities inflammation and headaches.
Miss Sara Ware Bassett adapts Eugene Sue's La Comtesse de Mondeverd to a Boston Post condensed tale. The plot tracks Rudolph’s quest through Paris to redeem and reunite Fleur-de-Marie and Germain, amid crime, punishment, and moral reform, ending in virtue and royal daughterhood. The piece notes Sue's social critique, medical detail, and legal flaws.
Paris July 13. Francisco Leon de la Barra, former provisional president of Mexico, says US intervention would worsen the situation, delay organic peace, offend national sentiment, and hinder reconstruction. He urges peaceful settlement to enable progress in law and order and foreign relations.
Eugene Sue born Paris January 20 1804 son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army served at Navarino 1826. Inheriting his father fortune 1829 he followed Cooper in sea tale fiction. He joined the romantic movement won readers with social themes and opposed Napoleon III exile. Died Annecy August 3 1857. His Mysteries of Paris and The Wandering Jew reached vast audiences in print and on stage.
The essay places Eugene Sue in context of 19th century literature noting the rise of the novel as accessible entertainment for a broad public. It praises Sue for creating enduring drama in Mysteries of Paris (1842) and compares him to Robert Louis Stevenson as a teller of tales. It describes the opening scene with Fleur-de-Marie and the disguising Grand Duke, highlighting themes of good versus evil and vivid urban intrigue.
Rev Nathan R Wood president of Gordon Bible College spoke at Park Street Congregational Church saying the world grows worse with no victory until Christ comes on earth again. He warned against hoping to erase human nature and urged reliance on biblical restoration.
The Rev. Mr. Wood notes life shows progress and decline in balance. Optimists see gains in science and education while profiteering, waste, and new diseases rise. He argues war persists, despite heroism, and Christ’s return will end conflicts only then.
The Kesco Bathing Girl Harriet Brady models buckled bathing shoes as essential to the complete summer costume. The shoe style show opens tomorrow for four days under William H. Walsh with aviation, golfing, tennis boots and other sport footwear on display.
Joseph Rowan, three, son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Rowan of Dorchester, was saved from drowning yesterday at Savin Hill beach by two youths, Fred Rivard of Eustis Street Roxbury and David Landry of Somerville. The boy slipped while wading and was rescued semiconscious and taken to the hospital.
Robert Lansing American Secretary of State arrives Brest from Paris at 11 this morning and boards the Rotterdam for the voyage to Washington, scheduled to sail in the afternoon.
The novena at Carmelite Monastery 61 Mt Pleasant Avenue Roxbury will end Wednesday with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 5 p m In addition a plenary indulgence may be earned for each visit to the chapel by those who joined the novena from tomorrow afternoon until Wednesday at 8 p m The chapel remains open today tomorrow and Wednesday until 8 p m.
Favor Wodhka a 20 year old from Ipswich drowned at Salisbury Beach after being swept to sea in deep water. Doctors and artificial methods failed to revive him as rescuers pulled him to shore following a frantic effort by nearby bystanders.
An ad touts McKesson Stearate of Zinc as a waterproof soothing powder for chafed skin and diaper rash. It claims rapid healing within days, a water-repellent layer, and superiority over talcum, urging readers to trust the original from McKesson & Robbins.
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