This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1909
Page
7
A romantic dispute ends when a March wind carries a reconciliatory letter to the lover. The misled fiancé discovers the truth, forgives, and reunites, the couple walking home with the ring restored as the wind finally settles.
The article notes appointments and activities across Boston churches including the Malden Centre Methodist Church accepting Everett R. Naftzger as assistant pastor to start April 1. It highlights sermons by Dr. C. C. Earle and Edward Cummings, anti alcohol league pulpit visits, confirmations by Bishop Lawrence, lectures on social topics, and a busy schedule of daily noon services and musical events across Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Cambridge, and other parishes.
The article outlines trends such as trimmed straw hats, ruchings, soutache on gowns and coats, color prominence, metal buttons and jewels, silk and crepe shawls, satin petticoats, and minimal rough-faced fabrics. Sleeves with buttoning to the wrist persist, new chain bracelets with pendants appear, and rosettes on hats with leaf sprays, plus skeleton waists in new costumes.
Arthur Fortesque, nephew of the Duke of Portland, abandons his English prospects to join the Doukhobor colony on the Saskatchewan and marries Olga Varinhoff, a young village girl. He adopts the lifestyle and helps build a home with the community.
A Washington street theatre ticket booth clerk recalls rude customers and odd rules in ten years selling tickets at Keith's Theatre. He recounts a man demanding a specific seat, a collarless patron refused service, and a couple seeking adjacent seats, with tension at the window.
A 23 year old writes to Miss Champagne about courting a 20 year old woman who has fallen out with a friend. The reply urges the man to pursue the relationship, noting the friend’s unreliable work record and the woman's happiness with a more diligent suitor.
A reader laments an unhappy arranged marriage and confesses love for a newer suitor ten years her senior. The adviser urges patience, character work to improve her husband, and to banish the other man from her life as a threat to stability.
Recipes from New England housewives compiled for a Sunday Post feature. Readers will find a full page of tested dishes with notes from Miss Jeannette Pannettom Mrs Elijah H Russell Annie M Brissetti E M Bakeman and Mrs N E Curtis including batters molasses apples and savory cheese tomato dishes plus pastry shells and prune filling ideas.
Adelina Patti received the medal of the Red Cross Society of Russia for her concert in St Petersburg about five years ago. The event aided Russian officers soldiers wounded in the war with Japan and their families.
Mrs. Robert A. Woods of Boston told the Women's Trade Union League in Chicago that housewives should strike if husbands’ incomes fall when women work for less money. She argued housewives set the economic standard, praised the housewife trade, and warned against low paying jobs that lower male wages. She cited domestic service and housewifery as unprotected trades and stressed the wife’s role in purchasing, hygiene, and social life.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.