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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1909
Page
7
A young woman Miriam Mansfield arrives as Quint Grimmer’s boarder and gains village suspicion for her unconventional dress and free spirit. She quietly writes a influential book that astonishes locals and erodes the rumor mill despite doubt about her prior fame.
Miss Nancy Graves of Buenos Ayres engages to Harvard graduate Samuel Cabot of Commonwealth Avenue. The debutante, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund P. Graves, was presented at a tea hosted by Mrs. Charles F. Perry. Cabot, class of 1906, is brother to Mrs. Henry Lyman and is associated with Commonwealth Avenue society.
New York dispatch details actress Helen Hale denying 15 engagement rumors in three years. She says six were unknown to her, and she never intends to marry, recounting past false notices linking her to George Ade, Charles Counselman Jr., William Jameson, and Walter S. Goodnow amid sensational gossip.
A reader asks if a man should write less when busy while courting a distant woman. The columnist counters that true love makes time for letters and that a man in love should not neglect his sweetheart despite workload.
A reader shares several home food tips and recipes including parboiling ham with green peas for a four hour dish, a hot day coffee beverage with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, a cold cocoa beverage strained for clarity, a tomato relish with spices boiled six hours and sealed in a jar, a layered potato bake with milk, and a bread crumb marmalade pudding with marmalade and sugared yolks.
A list shows 15 men reported engaged to Miss Helen Hale. Names include George Ade humorist Walter S. Goodnow Boston silverware maker Charles Counselman Jr Chicago stock broker James Durant Philadelphia society man Henry W. Savage theatrical manager and others across Cincinnati Philadelphia Chicago San Francisco New Orleans Pittsburgh Los Angeles and Cornell student.
A public row of engagement rumors surrounds the actress who says she is never to wed again. She names several reported fiances including Henry W. Savage and others, insists she will stay in the theatre and avoid matrimony for good.
The scout cruiser Salem arrived from Boston and will load 1200 tons of coal before sailing to Liberia to meet her sister ships Chester and Birmingham. American commissioners who have studied Liberia’s conditions will return home with them.
A claim that brown tail itching ends immediately when X Zalia liquid is applied. The advertisement-style notice promotes X Zalia as the only sure relief for this condition.
W P Conger of McMinnville has found a Cumberland Mountain top in Sequatchie county where prohibition cannot touch him and is building a saloon. He has leased land around to keep a school from being built within four miles. Ten or twelve barrels of whiskey and case goods await transport to the saloon. Regular back lines will supply liquor to nearby towns as the legislature does not meet until 1911.
The patrol wagon of Station 12 South Boston driven by Patrolman Emmons S Winslow struck an electric light pole at H and East Ninth streets and overturned. Winslow fractured two ribs and Patrolman Penohue sustained a slight strain of the left leg.
A 1909 verse commentary by Walt Mason laments that few readers buy or read serious books by authors like Meredith George while preferring sensational works such as Deadwood Dick and Laura Libbey. The poem contrasts highbrow literature with popular dime novels and mocks those who ignore deeper writings.
Beirut June 6 It is evident that conditions in Asia Minor are far from settled and will require a stronger government to ensure public safety. After the massacres and the pillage of Adana a new Vali and troops were sent from Constantinople but have done little to improve conditions.
William Hawkins aged 2, son of Fred Hawkins of 130 Washington Street Chelsea, fell through a window screen on the fourth floor yesterday noon. He dropped forty feet to the street and died shortly after at the Marine Hospital where he received treatment.
Miss Mary surveys trends in dress, detailing voile coats for dressy street wear, embroidered linen gowns, silk and crepe frocks, broadcloth facings, apron fronts, and trimmed sleeves. Millinery leans eccentric yet pretty with water lilies and coifs, while leather ottomans provide a luxe tailor-made suit option.
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