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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
8
The Boston Post presents a sewing circle letter continuation about starting married life with $150 saved during courtship and engagement. The writer recounts her husband earning $10 a week at marriage, later raising by a dollar, emphasizing frugality and prudent budgeting.
A Malden letter traces a family’s earnings of a daughter at 15 earning 19 weekly, a son 17 earning 12 weekly plus violin lessons, and a parent’s view on helping children through work. It includes advice on marriage, schooling, and long term care, ending with concerns over parental discipline of youths and a plea for sisterly guidance.
Advertises GETS-IT the corn cure as painless and safe to use on corns bunions callouses and warts. Claims immediate shrinking of the corn until it drops off leaving healthy flesh. Sold by E Lawrence and Co Chicago and at Riker-Jaynes stores Boston for 25 cents a bottle.
A correspondent reports responses from New England women explaining the high rate of single status and their feelings about being unmarried. The letters reflect personal choices, economic factors, and regional social norms influencing marriage prospects and happiness.
Advice to spinsters urging self improvement and resilience. The plea encourages forming friendships, taking chances, and embracing a positive path despite dissatisfaction. The tone is exhortative and aimed at women reflecting on unmarried life.
A Somerville sister recounts rejecting a suitor who paid more attention to prettier faces than to her. She notes his pre marriage behavior would likely worsen after marriage, so she declined the proposal and never remarried.
A reader from Medford argues that love is driven by time place and the girl rather than lasting happiness. He claims he never married due to lack of opportunity, age thirty nine, and skeptical of romantic notions, urging practical tolerance and common sense in marriage.
A reader recounts how saving one dollar from a $13 weekly income transformed finances. By sharing $1 saved weekly with her sister, then later directing extra money from a border and a higher wage, the family builds a savings of $52 in a year, overcoming debt and unemployment before a new job stabilizes finances. The piece illustrates frugal budgeting and collective effort.
A reader asks for guidance about an adopted daughter in their family. She notes secrecy within the family about adoption and contrasts the situation with a biological child, seeking counsel on how to handle the matter.
Graduation exercises at Sanders Theatre honored 62 senior members of the Rindge Technical School class. Diplomas were presented by Mayor Barry, with the school listed as the Rindge Manual Training School. 36 earned general course diplomas led by J Edward Riley. 26 completed college course with Samuel Levine highest honors.
A Boston reader urges mothers to oppose a law adding three weeks to the school year and extending summer by two weeks, arguing it strains families and loses students’ interest. She cites Dorchester mothers and questions the need to lengthen the term beyond current limits. Elizabeth H. Clay, Dorchester Centre.
A speaker declares pursuing a new mistress and facing the first foe in the field with a strengthened faith. He vows to arm with sword, horse, and shield as the conflict begins.
A young 18 year old writes seeking advice on a three year romance after her beau failed to visit and stopped to speak without explaining. She contemplates returning gifts, including a ring, but the adviser urges reconciliation with a note to call, warning against stubbornness and breaking the friendship.
Instructions describe boiling fresh incent or salt pork, cooking black beans two hours, straining through a cloth, adding spices, then serving with sliced lemon and hard boiled eggs. Includes two baking recipes from Mrs Plaisance Manville Rhode Island and Mrs Wilkie Lisbon Centre Maine and Mrs Herbert E Dean South Portland Maine with flour butter sugar pastry and breakfast squares.
A reader asks why a young woman suddenly ends contact. The advisor urges silence and dignity, arguing that ceasing calls shocks her into chasing the man, and that a woman respects a man who stands firm in his views and lets her come to him. If she loves him, he will govern with resolve. if not, there is nothing gained.
The will of David S. Farnham of Newton leaves $500 bequests to Berea College Kentucky and Northland College Wisconsin. The will was filed yesterday in the Probate Court at East Cambridge.
A Burlington Route Through Tourist Car Excursion to California offers a conductor guided trip. A solo traveler praised the safe, comfortable experience and friendly staff. Readers can request maps and booklets from Alex Stocks, New England Passenger Agent, Boston.
Mayor Fitzgerald said he will veto a council approved ordinance setting permit fees at 1 dollar for coal holes marquees sidewalk vaults and bay windows except bay windows He noted Finance Commissioner Sullivan backed the low fee and called at the mayor’s office to report.
In South Hadley on June 12 Mount Holyoke College awarded bachelor of arts to 164 women and master of arts to three. No honorary degrees were given. Rev Edward Reynolds Brown of Yale Divinity School spoke on The Scholar in the Community as President Mary E Woolley conferred degrees. A luncheon and organ recital followed and the president’s reception closed the week.
Three people were killed and more than 50 injured when a Western and Atlantic excursion train from Calhoun to Chattanooga wrecked near Dalton Georgia this morning. The crash occurred early and disrupted service as rescue crews worked at the scene.
Franklin L. Almy, 75, longtime member of the firm publishing the Fall River Evening News, died suddenly of heart disease at his Rock Street home. He leaves a widow and several children and served as an officer and director in multiple corporations.
Sailors from the Red Star liner Marquette saved two boys drifting on a flimsy raft off the Hoosac docks during a life saving drill after the lifeboats were sent out. The steamer, recently from Antwerp, had delayed 36 hours to Boston but faced no ice on the Atlantic.
Mrs Frederic E Kendall of Somerville visited her brother Chester S Jordan at the East Cambridge jail. She spent about an hour in the reception room and reported he was in good health and spirits.
The Boston School Committee announced closing exercises for public schools on June 20 and 21. June 20 is for high schools and June 21 for elementary schools.
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