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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1912
Page
5
London July 14 reports a hair market slump did not occur after the Chinese pigtail ban. Prices climbed at the last French hair market with blond hair especially scarce. The reason given is that blond French peasant girls are now too proud to sell their hair.
A London hair expert reports dramatic rises in false and white hair costs. Bleached darker hair dominates supply while long switches and plaits push prices above $50 for 20 to 30 inch lengths. White hair fetches up to $37 an ounce wholesale, with some transformed pieces worth $125 each.
The old British convict ship Success, 100 days from Liverpool, is due in Boston late tomorrow amid superstition among its crew over a string of accidents blamed on ghosts of tortured prisoners. The Bohemian, which arrived yesterday, passed the vessel Friday night about 300 miles from Boston. Captain Scott sent a wireless urging the Bohemian to warn its passengers they were passing the oldest ship afloat.
Night watchman John M Spear of the Heywood Brothers furniture factory at 174 Portland Street Somerville was found dead at the bottom of the elevator well yesterday morning. He resided at 78 Marshall Street Somerville and had been dead some time. Authorities believe he fell or stepped into the dark well while looking down.
The new "T" wharf at South Boston is nearly finished and poised to become the second largest fish wharf in the world. It is expected to double Boston fish dealers’ business as granite masonry is completed and dredging fills the wharf with material from two basins.
The Boston Fish Market Corporation plans a long dock addition and a combined store and storage building to serve 50 firms and 300 vessels. Construction begins after land settling and pile packing, with completion set for October. The $1 million facility, tax generating, will relocate dealers by 1914 under a 11 year lease with a 15 year renewal option.
A sister writes from the viewpoint of a bankrupt wife describing a man praised as a prince of good fellows. He earned high pay yet ran deep debts, spent lavishly on book agents, and avoided bill collectors. The narrator contrasts her modest income with his squandered fortune and households.
A wife, two years married, seeks guidance about her spouse who spends evenings away and avoids the child crying. She notes poker chips in his pockets and fears gambling will deplete their savings. She asks what to do to keep him at home.
A Sewing Circle letter titled Happy But Disobedient criticizes wives who claim control at home. The writer argues such wives fuel divorce courts and sympathizes with men lacking backbone who are kept subordinate, urging license refusals to curb marriages.
An old maid writes she will likely marry again only if the suitor has money, preferring single life for prosperity and wide social contact. She notes happiness as a single woman and rejects hasty marriage, hoping to remain unattached while enjoying independence.
A fragment from a frontier column notes that independence before marriage offers a prosperous future if self chosen. The author suggests old maids are not as unfortunate as married people suppose, ending with a hopeful remark about happy prospects.
A reader from the Sewing Circle argues that domestic work requires training and intelligence equal to stenography. The writer contends a well-kept home reflects worthy, capable labor, while demeaning domestics harms women’s status and marriage readiness.
A woman recalls three years in a city office, living in a lodging house, and the loneliness she felt away from her happy home. She found companionship lacking among colleagues, confided in no one, and ultimately married a hometown suitor two years ago, reflecting on why she left the city.
A collection of vintage kitchen instructions includes a chocolate custard dessert with a meringue topping, a stuffed Hamburg roast with onion and stale bread, and a baked egg cream batter to fill cups. Recipes credited to Mrs Dunning of Bangor, Mrs C P Buckley of Dorchester, and Mrs Adelaide H McCush of Manomet.
Miss Anna Cleveland ends her aviation phase with flights alongside Harry Atwood and announces a return to theater. She will open at B F Keith's Theatre next week in Ed Payne's new sketch The Edge of the Whirlpool and support Donald Meek, despite earlier enthusiasm for becoming an aviatrix. She cited air dangers and a belief the era of women pilots risks a terrible death, urging women to stay on the ground.
In Hutchinson Kansas farmers tempt a crowd of harvest hands with pay offers and free pleasures including meals, car rides, and access to cars, promising good wives from Pawnee county while discussing a plan connected to the harvest period. The men discuss wages of 2.50 and 6 dollars a day, extra meals, and free use of motor cars for evenings.
Mount Carmel Illinois July 14 William Bardhart a Billet area farmer shows superstition defied by 13. He buys two chicken coops 13 roosters in one coop 13 hens in the other. They sell at 13 cents a pound totaling 9.13. He served in the Civil War with the Thirteenth Indiana and never was scratched has 13 horses and a mail box numbered 18.
C P Weller of Omaha and his bride formerly Mrs Jennie L Whiteley of Hartford Conn split their honeymoon into two parts after marrying at Council Bluffs Iowa They are in Colorado Springs with 22 descendants eight children and 14 grandchildren all participants in the ownership of the orb.
Mil ford New Jersey teacher Mrs Dan iel S Hornbeck learned a sewing needle had rested in her toe bone for three decades. A chiropodist in Newton retrieved the needle during treatment for years of toe pain, tracing its origin to an accident at Dingmans Ferry when she was ten.
Readable catalog advertises cambric gowns with V necks and lace trims now 75 cents, square and round neck gowns now 1.00, previously 1.50. Other gowns priced 3.00 to 12.50, combinations in skirt and drawers 0.70, down from 1.50, with hamburg insertion and lace details.
514 inch satin ribbons offered in black with many colors, now 25 cents a yard. Dorothy Dainty ribbons in black white and colors, both moire and satin, now 21 cents a yard. Taffeta ribbons in various colors, formerly 19 cents, now 15 cents. Warp prints with floral edges, formerly 35 cents, now 19 cents.
France made Toilet Soap 25c a cake sale price 20c each. Bathing Violette Ammonia Cologne bottles 1 3/5c and 81 2 5? per bottle 16-60z. Superior Shoe Polish 10c per bottle or 81 65 per dozen. Whisk Brooms nickel top 25c usual price sale 20c.
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