Two White Horses Strain on Hanover Street and a Day’s Small Tales
A noon scene on Hanover Street shows two white horses pulling a heavy lumber load to Court Street. A wagon rescue by an express wagon and a bigger two horse wagon finally get the lumber to the hilltop amid pushing by a dozen men. Nearby, former Assistant District Attorney Felix W. McGettrick and wife ride a Gloucester boat with lawyer friends, sharing political memories and jokes. A Malden street scene ends with two children sharing a candy stick. A Winthrop station sign hints a boat named Affinity and banana tales float as boys bob for fruit. A Haverhill fishing party nets flounders and sculpins with corks used to “fix” the fish, a prank that proves ineffective.
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Hanover Street
Court Street
Gloucester
Felix W. McGettrick
Green Mountain
John B. Moran
Haverhill
Rufus Choate and early U S Senate tenure in 1841
Rufus Choate from Ipswich born 1799 rose to U S Senator in 1841 upon Webster's retirement and served until 1845. He became Massachusetts bar leader, Yale LL D, and a Cambridge trained lawyer. His life covered politics, literature, and public service with noted scholarly pursuits.
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Rufus Choate
Daniel Webster
United States Senate
John’ Davis
Isaac Chapman Bates
Mr. Davis
Boston Post
Senate
Ipswich
Pilgrim’s Progress
Choate
Dartmouth College
Cambridge Law School
Washington
William Wirt
United States
Danvers
Massachusetts Senate
Congress
Boston
Massachusetts
Baltimore
Buchanan
Breckinridge
Smithsonian Institution
Yale College
S.S. Brown
Mr. Choate
Halifax
N. S
Europe
Boston Fragments Show Casual Tales and City Scenes
Paragraphs describe a cork episode near the scene and a Haverhill man Dudley, along with Beachmont tents near Winthrop Endicott avenues in Spotless Town. It notes youths at Huntington avenue watching scoreboards, Browns gate open day, and a port surveyor’s Republican stance, followed by fashion trends featuring scarfs, false curls in caps, rose tulle blouses, scarabee green, bandanna caps, embroidered gloves, shoulderless shirtwaists, Dutch collars, and feather embroidery on stockings.
Million Dollar Question on Vacation Time
A survey argues that every man should take 60 days of vacation annually. It is fine for the well paid, but those earning modest salaries should limit to two weeks and resume work to save for hard times rather than overspending on travel.
Temple of Fame Opens With Poe Ban and Moral Guard
A quirked tale from 1910 recounts Uncle Walt debating Poe’s absence from the Temple of Fame. A highbrow explains Poe is barred for drunkenness, while an engraving of Julius Terwilliger Sneed adorns the wall and Mason’s verse on shaving is praised for its chastity.
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Temple of Fame
Poe
Julius Terwilliger Sneed
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Violinist's Dream Reunites Lovers Amid Broadway Lights
A penniless violinist Franconi plays longing love songs on a New York street. A former beloved, Countess Winsleigh, recognizes him and awakens memories of Paris. She invites him into a car, hinting at a renewed life together after years apart.
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New York
Broadway
Dresden
Vienna
Rome
Paris
Mlle. Winsleigh
Count Renaud
Franconi
Couttess
America
Sunburn Record Threatens Life At Atlantic City
Lawrence Brannigan, a young Philadelphian, lies in City Hospital nursing what may be the worst sunburn ever recorded at the resort. Surgeons expect to save him but fear skin grafting would have been needed if he stayed in the sun and wind for longer.
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Atlantic
Werence Brannigan
Whose Team Is This A Post photo identification plea
A Post photographer captured a team in the retail district. The editor offers five dollars in gold to the driver who identifies the picture within five days at the City Editor’s office. Previous captions name the four horse team from American Sugar Refining Co. of South Boston driven by William E. Withrow. Other Sunday photos ID the Interstate Oil Co. team driven by Daniel Sullivan with horse Trix.
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Post
The
Washington Street
American Sugar Refining Company of
South Boston
William E. Withrow
Third Street
Kitty
Flossie
Bessie
Brownie
Interstate Oil Company of
Cambridge
Daniel Sullivan
Summer Street
Somerville
Trix
Sewing Circle Column Details for Boston Post Readers
The Sewing Circle is a regular Boston Post feature offering a woman’s own forum for New England home makers. It invites discussions on home affairs, family management, health hints, remedies, baby care, gardening, and household economy with confidential noms de plume. Correspondents share advice to be helpful and write on one side of the paper to the Sewing Circle Editor.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
A Business Woman Answers: Home First in Marriage Life
A reader signing as A Business Woman criticizes advice to single women to prioritize career over home. She argues harmony in marriage rests on shared earnings and a stable, cheerful home. She says after 16 years as a businesswoman, money cannot replace motherhood and a loving home.
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C. S
Navy Reflections From a Friend in Service
A fragment quotes someone mentioning a friend in the United States Navy and a sense of shared patriotism. The brief note highlights personal connection to military service and regional sentiment during national moments.
Shirley's Child Help From Grandma Card Issue
A reader signing as Grandma offers practical advice for a child with leg issues. She describes boots with side stiffening and strips of stiff paper to support the legs, and urges using judgment for length and width.
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Shirley
Grandma
Liberty Lost in Mismated Union Warns of Finances
A letter from a financially constrained woman recounts giving up independence for love, then facing control by her husband who handles all money. She urges premarital financial settlement and laments the degradation of being kept from earning. Mismated.
Timar of Two Worlds and Timar’s Global Conquests
The note discusses Timar also known as Timier and Tamerlane, a 14th century conqueror who expanded his realm from the Great Wall to Moscow and India after capturing Persia and Central Asia. It cites legends of ferocity, including a reputed slaughter of 100,000 prisoners and skull walls, dying in camp around 1405 while plotting an invasion of China, and mentions Jokai and the book titled Ivy or A Modern Midas available at the public library.
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Ivy
Timar
Jokai
Timier
Tamerlane
Tyy
Persia
Central Asia
China
Moscow
India
Indus
Ganges
Theoria Thalia
Lawn Party Plans for a Treeed Yard Evening Event
A reader seeks sisterly advice for hosting a lawn party at an ample yard with trees to hang lanterns. The plan favors an evening gathering and mentions support for Navy Girl and others bravely.
Vintage Home Recipes and Preservation Tips from Women Executors
A collection of old fashioned kitchen tips with fruit cake and frosting instructions by Mrs Martha Mally and Mrs W P Smith, plus pickling cantaloupes, peach pudding, artichoke toast, and calf liver with egg and wine. Includes names and addresses such as Mrs Martha Mally, Hinsdale, Mrs George O Mendell, 107 Hudson Street Boston, Mrs Kena M Murray Shiela Street Mansfield, Mrs A Richmond Roxbury, Dorothy Lovell Dorchester.
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Causia
Martha Mally
Hopedate
George O. Mendell
Hudson Street
Boston
Dorothy Lovell
Bradlee Street
Dorchester
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Malden
Winthrop Stations
Jamaica
Driscoll’s Landing
Ett
Winter Street
Bay State
Senator Lodge
John Davis
Miles
South Street
Dudley
Ted
Beachmont
Winthrop and
Endicott Avenues
Huntington Avenue
Browns
Jeremiah J. McCarthy
Hall OF Fame
Walt
D. Order
the Post
Marie Dresler
Meridian Street
Malden, Mass
Navy
Winneganda
W. P. Smith
Hinsdale
Tuieck
Kena M. Murray
Shiela Street
Mansfield
Maryland
Artichokes
A. Richmond
Woodcliff Street
Roxbury
Fritz Kreisler
Kreisler
Conservatoire
Germany
George Falkenstein
Brahms-Joachim
Bach
Swanee River
Foster
Smetana
Victor Records
Victor
Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden
N. J
Ite Etta
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