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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1910
Page
9
The writer advises Carrie to remove adenoid growth, notes a minor operation, and shares personal health experiences. She recounts family routines, church visits, and evenings at home with siblings and friends, mentioning embroidering, sewing clothes, and a love of home life. The letter closes with May 3.
Mrs H Hamblin of North Hollis Maine offers a swap to Princess Mazie. She proposes exchanging her Sweet pea seeds and Sweet William plants for dahlia bulbs and asks for prompt sending before she leaves for Lynn. If near Lynn, she can deliver the plants herself.
A teen writer from a comfortable home expresses enthusiasm for a Sewing Circle and notes shared interest with another young participant. The brief letter highlights a young girl’s eagerness to join and engage in the community activity.
A reader suggests eating a spoonful of chopped carrots every few days to clear the complexion. Another note answers a Fern lovers query advising bright light but not direct sun and a dusting shower. a raw oyster in the fern dish is proposed to boost growth. Molly of Vermont signs off inviting more plant and flower letters.
A mother of four reports a yearlong condition with small sores spreading across one side of her head. She says the sores are not sore or itchy and treatments have not helped. She asks if any sisters can advise remedies.
A, writing under the sign Man Hater, cautions a young woman to remain single. He claims married life brings fewer good times and asserts he has experienced both. He urges her to stay with her mother and brother and avoid marriage.
Practical household hints for sewing buttonholes to prevent fraying and a home remedy using quassia chips to treat a child’s scalp for lice. The advice covers edge outlining for scallops before buttonholing and applying a bitter, odorless quassia infusion to the scalp, with precautions about cold exposure and frequency.
A letter from Medford suggests sending JT to the Farm School on Thompson's Island in Boston Harbor. The writer notes boys are cared for until 21 and placed in jobs after graduation, with weekly visiting days in summer. The superintendent Mr Bradley at Thompson's Island would be the contact.
Thirteen winning children are named from Greater Boston in a daily snapshot contest by the Boston Post. Winners, ages from six to fifteen, attend various schools in Dedham, Dorchester, Brookline, Boston, Hyde Park, South Boston, Charlestown, Winthrop, Quincy, Roxbury, Chelsea, and Chelsea’s Bunker Hill School. The program offers a five dollar gold piece to each weekly winner who visits the Post office with a parent or guardian to claim the prize.
Maude 59 asks Miss Champagne for elopement options with an 18 year old suitor. The advisor warns against mismatched ages and changing laws, noting long odds and potential heartbreak. A second reader seeks to mend a friendship with a former crush, with guidance on candid communication and personal responsibility.
Paragraphs describe the arrival of a collarless gown and the smart Russian blouse for linen suits. The era favors thin materials satin faces embroidered dots and one piece indoor frocks with soft spring millinery large brim hats and wide braids. Men wear light tones two button coats scarves remain in use and Chantecler styles may fade after Easter.
Spurmax lotion promises a lightening complexion by dissolving four ounces in hot water with glycerine for face neck and arms and claims to outdo powder. Canthrox shampoo is recommended with hot water to cleanse scalp and prevent dandruff while hair tonic and face cream offer inexpensive home remedies for hair and skin care.
A vintage collection of home recipe notes includes steps for croquettes using minced scraps, with milk, Nour, butter, parsley, onion juice and cayenne. plus scalloped onions with crackers and milk, and a three eggs and white sauce round for toast. all attributed to cooks in East Boston Woodstock and Bowdoinham.
The Boston Opera Company plans to issue $200000 of additional stock to broaden subscriptions for next season. Each share costs $100 and grants access to any seat for one day each week, aiming to let the general public see operas while expanding scale for a bigger program.
Chicago reporters note that twenty thousand women entered a morning newspaper menu contest for the best 40 cent dinner for four. Mrs. Frank Leslie Hildridge won with a menu including Vermicelli soup bread and butter veal fricassee mashed potatoes Dutch slaw baked apple coffee.
King Edward arrives in Paris today in disguise as the Duke of Lancaster. He plans a visit to President Allieres, then to Biarritz where a royal engagement may be announced, before joining Queen Alexandra aboard the Victoria and Albert at Marseilles for Lisbon.
Mrs. Helen M. Walters of Chicago sues Theodore A. Ryerson, a broker, for 50 000 for breach of promise. She testifies she met him in Atlantic City in 1908 and he proposed. Ryerson admits the engagement but says his income then could not support her lifestyle.
William Ti. Adams, a locomotive engineer, was awarded 5000 in a suit to recover 190000 from the New York, New Haven Hartford Railway for the loss of the use of both legs.
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