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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1914
Page
15
Paul Cohn, a Harvard law student, was placed on probation until April 11 after his Feb 27 arrest for rifling lockers at the university boat club. He spent nights in Brighton and Cambridge police stations following the arrest.
A home made cough remedy mixes one pint of granulated sugar with half a pint warm water then adds two and a half ounces of Pinex in a pint bottle. The mixture is claimed to ease ordinary coughs within 24 hours and is marketed with a money back guarantee via The Pinex Co. in Fort Wayne Indiana.
A note announces stanzas from Flos Revorum in a newly published volume The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems by John Lane Company New York. The brief item cites the press and location, highlighting the fresh release of poetry.
The Sewing Circle is a regular feature in the Boston Post offering a woman's forum for homemakers to discuss domestic topics. Readers may use noms de plume and address the editor with questions on home economics, family management, baby care, gardening, and related issues.
A reader thanks the Sewing Circle for guidance on marrying with a small income. Several letters praise frugal living, mortgage over rent, saving, and home amusements, while stressing planning before marriage and a happy family life.
A column of reader letters discusses marriage, fidelity, and the risks of an older woman loving a younger man. Misery warns to protect family, while another reader recounts a youthful infatuation and receives blunt guidance to forget it.
The piece surveys spring style trends including a headover spring coat, a white voile dress with scarlet cherries, new dress, suit, and coat bindings, and fur trimming in monkey fur. It notes gloves, tints, and narrow tulle ruffles returning in modern wardrobes.
A young 18 year old writes of a four month romance. She recalls a party with kissing games and a refused kiss afterward. The columnist argues kissing is not a game but language of love and warns against promiscuous kissing and kissing parties as unwholesome and immoral.
American Express Company in New York declares a quarterly dividend of 1 1/2 percent, down from 2 percent. The new dividend is paid from investments, replacing the prior dividend paid from transportation proceeds.
An advertisement extols Knowlton's Dandeline promising to halt dandruff and hair loss. It claims immediate shine and fullness, with new fine hair appearing after weeks of use. The copy urges purchase of a 25 cent bottle from drug stores or toilet counters.
Former Boston Fire Chief recounts his eight year tenure and early days on the force. He narrates perilous fires, heroic figures, and the personal toll, noting the need to forget family when flames threaten.
The piece notes chatter about Mme Cavaliere objecting to her husband performing with his former wife on the Boston Opera House stage. It asks how many marital pairs are involved in Boston grand opera and mentions a photo souvenir in the next Sunday Post.
Elizabeth Burt follows Boston girls who work in cigar shops to reveal their intimate life at home and at work. The feature offers vivid, human interest insights into the occupations of Boston’s female cigar makers for a Sunday Post story.
A vivid tale recounts a daring era as 15 Rangers battle 100 Indians and invade Mexico in the Mexican War under Colonel Hayes. The narrative highlights fearless feats and the fates of fallen comrades in a dramatic historical recount.
A Sunday Post magazine feature portrays a social promoter detailing sensational exploits that launched a chorus girl and her mother into New York society and brought the girl and her husband before two European sovereigns for a price deemed "consideration."
Eleanor Van Horne profiles Mrs. Woodrow Wilson detailing her creative approach to sewing and handiwork. The piece showcases her sewing bag needle book and work bag with illustrations of the handmade items and explains the ideas she uses to make pretty and useful articles for everyday use.
In a three-way panel, W A O Leary Democratic leader Samuel W McCall Republican ex congressman and Charles H Davis Progressive campaign head share views on Wilsons first year The Democratic leader says the era will be known as the Golden Age He lauds banking and currency legislation and the administration overall McCall highlights banking reform the income tax and tariff effects Davis judges the test of Wilsons policy pending with critique of big business and the income tax The Sunday Post previews the full discussion from these figures and so on.
A striking color feature will appear next Sunday showing peril of the deep. The painting depicts a derelict tossed in the trough of the sea menacing a mammoth ocean liner bearing down on the wreck.
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