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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1916
Page
13
Readers discuss a Boston Post column on women earning money and sharing finances within marriage. Advocates argue wives deserve control of earnings and equal partnership, while others defend traditional sharing duties and law’s limits. The letters also share personal stories of widowhood and parenting challenges.
Small, bold ad promoting the Workingmen Co operative Bank at 101 Tremont Street. It touts over 5 million in assets as New England’s largest cooperative bank and urges homeowners to refinance mortgages with easy monthly payments. It highlights no commission, no fee, and June shares.
Cream half cup sugar with half cup butter. Beat in molasses ginger and spices. Add boiling water with dissolved soda and flour with baking powder. Bake 45 minutes. Egg rolls mix flour salt baking powder shortening egg milk form sheets, cut pockets, bake 20 minutes. Mrs M L Hogan Cambridge.
A 20 year old student and aspiring high school teacher asks if he should give up teaching to please a girlfriend who says she cannot marry a teacher. The advisor argues teaching is a noble, equal profession and urges him to persevere, suggesting the couple share aims and grow together.
The piece honors soldiers who return from hardship and reinstate their strength. It praises those who endure, recover, and rejoin the fight with renewed vigor, asserting they remain as worthy as before their trials.
Household hints explain how to make a bayberry ironing wax. Gather berries, melt slowly in a 10 quart kettle, strain, pour into moulds, insert a stick for handling, set until hard, then store in a dust free drawer. The wax preserves fragrance indefinitely and costs nothing. Mrs James Pratt Smith Weilfleet Mass.
Priscilla Perry faces dismissal for poor output at a job she hates yet discovers empathy when she helps a starving coworker. After a night of reflection at the station, she resolves to improve and hopes her mother’s letter confirms support as she plans to stay and strive.
Janice described making a striking hat for a garden party. She started with last year’s Leghorn crown, faced the brim in shell-pink Georgette crepe, added black horse-hair lace to form a crown and edge, then finished with pale pink ribbon. She looked adorable in the completed hat.
Judge Albert D. Bosson fined Joseph Letofski two dollars for stealing a loaf of bread from a bakery wagon. Letofski valued the loaf at 10 cents and claimed poverty, asking for time to raise the money. The court gave him a few days to pay, noting the high cost of living.
Poem by Thomas Hood reflecting on birthplace and childhood joys. The speaker recalls sunlight on the window, flowers, swings, and the wish that night had kept him from breath. He notes how adulthood brings distance from heaven and lighter pleasures fade.
On a Bear Valley to San Bernardino ride, a masked man roped the stage to pretend a robbery. Passengers played along while a real posse hunted a notorious outlaw nearby. Jewelry vanished, but the tale made a corking story for city folk after the shoot.
Answer to Helen M explains the photos are interesting and well done and earned praise from friends. The writer cautions against leaving school to pursue film work without consulting one's mother, insisting mothers know best.
Mary Pickford will appear in the Daily Post five days each week and every Sunday in the Sunday Post.
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