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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1910
Page
9
A Boston Post department invites women to share household tips, child care, health hints, and remedies. Readers may write under pen names and ask each other questions. Submissions should be single-sided and addressed to the Sewing Circle Editor.
Cryptic note from a person signing as Broken-Hearted Girl offers to obtain an address for a caller at 265 Washington Street through the editor. The item reads like a personal plea published in a local notice column.
A personal handwritten letter shares flower varieties and seeds for bouquets and summer plants. West Roxbury district correspondence mentions sending roots, garden items, hens, cats, and a veranda view. The writer notes Angora care, family greetings, and a Sewing Circle wish for tolerance and neighborly love in Hyde Park.
Emily of Chelsea asks for help with a leopard plant that wanes after a brief growth. She reports tiny black flies resembling fleas on the plant and seeks identification and remedies to restore health.
A letter from Roxbury promotes a home bedbug remedy using blue butter carbolic acid and kerosene. Five cents worth of each ingredient combined in cracks is claimed to be safe for walls and fabrics. The note emphasizes the remedy never stains wallpaper or bed clothes and urges readers to try it.
Readers are asked to send the words to the song sung in memory of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth at the time of his shooting. The request appears in June No. 2 of the Sewing Circle reader page.
A reader offers two white kittens, male and female, to anyone who sends a stamped reply to Box 295 Wellfleet Massachusetts. The message notes the writer does not want to bother the editor and invites interested parties to respond by mail.
A letter from Rose describes a home remedy for water bugs using Paris green around pipes and cracks. After two months of repeated application and cleaning, the writer reports no further bugs, noting food should be tightly covered to avoid danger.
A reader advises sending Bulletin No. 187 The Angora Goat to the Secretary of Agriculture in Washington DC. The note touts Angora goats as best for milking with richer milk suitable for a one year old baby. Miss Marianna Wheeler signs the fragment.
A seeking notice asks Sewing Circle readers to take a nine month old boy of refined parentage. The child is described as pretty with eight teeth and easy to care for, in need of a loving home with refined surroundings. Further particulars offered by the editor. LYNN
A reader shares home remedies for bedbugs using gasoline and blue ointment with a spray approach based on a can and wood stick. Other letters reflect on sightseeing around Boston, honeymoon travels, and encouraging women readers to write back to DON’T WORRY.
A young woman asks Mildred Champagne for guidance after three years of courting with a man who avoids marriage. The columnist suggests a candid heart to heart to learn his intentions and warns that remaining passive is worse than a difficult talk.
The advice suggests your parents funded your schooling as a duty and would be glad to see your happiness. If your fiancé is worthy he will support you and accept helping your parents if they are in need, otherwise share your last cent and marry the man you love.
The note surveys Summer styles with few Russian blouse costumes and frequent use of rep fabric for skirts. Black satin handbags with monograms and gold mountings appear, braiding on gowns remains limitless, short cotton fringe trims coats, zephyr ginghams in dimity checks or stripes, brodie Persian scarfs on turbans, and coordinated hats parasols pumps and fans with embroidery.
Jerry Shackleford, head smelter at Cherry Valley rolling mills, hates new superintendent Donald Armitage. Tensions rise as Armitage enforces new methods and plans a trip, prompting Shackleford to vow vengeance after a heated exchange over ore waste and smelting know‑how.
Donald Armitage survives a dam failure caused by Jerry Shackleford's revenge plot. After a tense rescue, Armitage forgives the would be killer and urges him to reform, pledging to conceal the near murder while asking him to become a worthy husband and father.
Schooner Lorna Doone, part of the Grenfell expedition package, arrived yesterday from Halifax with merchandise for Dr Wilfred T Grenfell. It will depart soon for St Anthony Newfoundland where he has established a settlement to supply.
Colonel Roosevelt will deliver a lecture in Washington for the National Geographic Society in November. The exact date has not yet been fixed.
A collection of kitchen recipes and methods from local correspondents Mrs Annie H. Littlefield Mrs G E Thompson and Mrs John White. Includes leaf cake and cream sauce with eggs and sugar, chocolate iced squares, rabbit stews with herbs and forcemeat balls, plus serving ideas and addresses.
Mr and Mrs William Hill of New York announce the engagement of their daughter Marjorie to John Archibald Paton of Newtonville.
Aboard the Zeeland White Star Line ship sailing from Hoosac Charlestown at 3 PM are many prominent passengers including 208 saloonists. Among them are Mrs Longfellow and Henry W Longfellow Dana, Edgar W. Anthony, G B Tan banker, several college figures, and Mrs F Mabel Baker. The ship also carries a sizable cargo of 17,000 bushels wheat 3600 tons provisions 100 tons lumber 100 tons flour and 200 bales cotton.
South Boston couple Mr. and Mrs. George F. Frazier Jr have returned from a honeymoon spent in New York and Washington. Mr. Frazier serves in the Boston Fire Department and the pair plan to reside in South Boston where they are well known among the younger set.
A new typhoid case among the U S Naval Academy practice squadron is reported in Plymouth England. Midshipman Richard Evelyn Byrd, second class on the Massachusetts, has been moved to the Royal Naval Hospital with typhoid fever and no other cases are cited.
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