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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1912
Page
6
John McGraw reportedly offered Colonel Bob Hedges owner of the St. Louis Browns $8000 for Derrill Pratt of Alabama. Hedges believes the Southern leaguer is worth several times that amount to the Browns.
An advertisement touts Rexall 93 Hair Tonic as a powerful scalp treatment. It claims ingredients like Resorcin Beta Napthol and Pilocarpia combine to destroy germs, restore natural hair color, and promote growth with alcohol as a stimulant. A money back guarantee promises cure or refund, with Boston Rexall stores listed.
Advice column advises against living with either mother in law, urges clear boundaries and independence, warns of third party interference, and suggests leaving an alcoholic husband for a healthier partner with steady income.
A middle aged woman recalls her mother's sacrifice for luxuries like silk hose and gowns, revealing how her lavish spending bankrupted her husband despite a so-called good marriage. She asks if he is right to demand she work after never having held a job.
Warned by a confidant in a letter to abandon plans to marry a widower described as an alcoholic with a modest salary of 40 dollars a week. The warning insists the marriage would be a trap and warns the sweethearts against continuing the relationship.
Readers recall a letter from a girl signing Dorothy M proposing a chattel mortgage on her mother's sewing machine to raise funds for a gown for a dancing party hosted by a well to do young man. Responses commenting on the letter follow.
A reader writes of sympathy for Dorothy offering to lend a pretty evening dress to help with a sacrifice for her mother. The note includes the writer's height and a cordial invitation to respond through the column.
A letter urges a young woman to consider family welfare over vanity and monetary risk. The writer counsels honesty with a suitor about finances and the danger of mortgaging a mother’s sewing machine for fleeting pleasures.
A woman mentor advises a Boston society reader to dress within means and tells her to tell the friend the truth about finances. The letter writer Eleonora emphasizes value over extravagance and suggests that suitors respect honesty and practicality in attire.
A girl advises on affordable fashion and avoiding debt for a spring outfit. She shares personal experience of a widow’s costly mortgage, describes making a dress from mesa line for about seven dollars, plus a crepe de chine option with pan velvet accents, and suggests timing and help from a friend before April.
Governor Foss proposes that the New England delegation to the Democratic national convention travel from New York by boat. He plans to contact state Democratic chairmen to organize the trip. With limited Baltimore accommodations, he urges hiring a boat for the delegation to stay aboard during the convention.
Annie M. Sheehan received $1750 in the Superior Civil Court against the Boston Elevated Railway for injuries while alighting from a car on Atlantic Avenue on October 24, 1910. She had sued for $10,000.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge spoke against initiative referendum and recall at Princeton University. He called them obsolete and impracticable and subversive of representative government, citing Woodrow Wilson’s writings from his Princeton presidency during the Spencer Trask lecture series.
Louise M. Fay was awarded 5000 damages against the Boston Elevated Railway in the Superior Civil Court for injuries from a July 18 1910 derailment on a company car in Huron Avenue Cambridge. She sought 20000. Advertisement promotes Elmer Amend’s Rheumatism remedy with T Metcalf Co Boston as distributor.
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