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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1910
Page
9
A sick mother, widowed after illnesses and hospital stays, asks Sewing Circle Sisters to place her seven year old daughter for the summer to regain health and secure a permanent home. She offers light work for meals in exchange for shelter and invites interested parties to contact Hopeful Mother.
A reader questions the notion that women owe their lives to brave martyrs and suggests men share blame for existence. The letter argues marriage should be voluntary, challenges the idea of female martyrdom, and notes that bread supports all families. It contrasts opinions on gender roles and ends with personal reflection on contentment.
A column asks readers to aid in locating Mrs Gibbons formerly Miss Jessie Leslie and her daughter, long unseen. It notes Dorchester as a former residence and asks for any information on the Gibbons family or other relatives.
A reader, about 40, requests information about Mrs. Gib bons, daughter of Dr. Robert Hugh Leslie and Ann Leslie, and sister of Captain Lawrence Lneaden Leslie of Annapolis Nova Scotia. She pleads for any information and notes the editor has her address.
A sister laments a missing child using simple verse about an empty cot a coral ring and a coral chain. The poem recalls a sunny past and the child’s laughter while expressing grief and hope for faith and the darling’s safe return beyond sin to the crystal sea.
A reader known as BLOSSOM urges mothers to avoid giving medicines to babies unless prescribed by a physician. She advocates letting nature and regular feeding heal minor illnesses, suggests supplying cool boiled water between feeds, and warns against experiments or varied baby tastes, especially in hot weather.
Grahame discovers a letter mixup reveals Ellis Walker's sacrifice for an old aunt and a young woman. The mislaid envelopes show he loves Miss Marshall while the aunt seeks a home. all resolve as the aunt plans to join Ellis and boost the firm Grahame & Walker. The master workman Fate ties their fates together.
The piece surveys current dress trends with collarless gowns featuring silk fabrics and floral trims, Paisley silks, foulards, chiffons, velvets, and new paisley shirting. It notes bold material mixes, cool summer silks in white with pink green or blue stripes, collapsible motor bonnets becoming neck bows, Persian chiffon scarfs, and a striking white pale gold and black scarf with a white border.
Marblehead plans a half mile long causeway connecting the town and Marblehead Neck with a new 40 foot wide road. The project includes a breakwater, riprap protection, harbor wall rebuilding and strengthening along the sea side. Bids will be sought after highway specifications are published by the Highway Commission.
Friends of Miss Beatrice Shields of Jamaica Plain urge a Carnegie medal for bravery after she rescued Mrs. J. C. Cook from drowning near Boylston terrace. The 14 year old seized the other by the collar as their canoe upset on the Charles River, swam her to shore, and asked Mrs. Cook to say nothing. Shields is the daughter of John Shields and is noted as an excellent swimmer with prizes in local contests.
The first raft of pulp wood to be towed from a Canadian port across Lake Superior arrived in Ashland Wis on July 19. The 3000 cords of spruce pulp wood were cut on Pie Island and near Thunder and Black Bays about 50 miles east of Port Arthur. American capital backs the project and there is no duty on pulp wood. The raft valued around $20,000.
In Lincoln Rhode Island on July 19, the body of James O Rourke age 55 a laborer at Lonsdale Bleachery was found early today on Lonsdale avenue while across the road James Larkin 35 another laborer was found probably fatally injured both men appearing to have been struck by an auto whose occupants stopped and left them by the roadside.
A 1910 verse by Walt Mason rails against city life and crowds. The speaker cherishes his pea-green cottage and simple home life with Jane Elizer, preferring local comfort over roaming and loud entertainments.
A collage of handed down baking and cooking instructions. Recipes include sugar angel icing and raisins, chocolate cake mixture, lemon mint punch with ginger ale, beef hamburger steak with onions, all attributed to MRS. ELSIE BELIL, MRS. MINNIE BE TRIPP, and MRS. W. H. GLEASON among others, with addresses in Everett New Bedford Concord and Brockton.
The Rev. Thomas Van Ness of Second Church Copley Square spent the week at the Isles of Shoals attending the Unitarian Sunday School Institute. Rev. J E Lillpack of Winnish Congregational Quincy is on a lecture tour of New England on Finnish church literature. A public library opened at Asbury Grove in memory of Rev. L B Bates of East Boston, dedicated by Bishop Mallalieu. Rev. Howard Abbott Lincoln of Portland Maine married Miss Blanche Winnefred Wadleigh of Newtonville. Free Baptists’ Ocean Park conference ends with many Boston delegates remaining.
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