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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1910
Page
11
A humorous slice of domestic chaos at dawn in Chicago. A paperhanger and plasterer arrive as men fret under blues and wives shuffle in oversized overshoes. The piece imagines a home in turmoil with stained floors, ruined statues, spilled paint, and odd kitchen mishaps.
A fragmented 19th century ad from Roxbury shows a teen girl, 16, seeking acquaintance with Miss BE B. The note mentions a dead mother, caring for a father and two sisters, and afternoons and evenings free for social activities. She signs as lonely and hopes for a reply.
A garbled letter page discusses helping a young child find a home and praises kindness to animals. It mentions New Hampshire, public figures, and references to Haz el and G M B. The writer defends suffrage and Marie Corelli while urging understanding and gentleness in society.
Mothers whose children are weak and run down, who do not gain flesh and strength, should remember that Father John’s Medicine is the safest tonic and body builder for healthy childhood. It is a pure wholesome food medicine free from alcohol or dangerous drugs. Many mothers give it to their children when they become enfeebled.
A brief, defiant note proclaims patriotic resolve as Edna May rejects insult toward American men and women. It asserts the flag’s enduring presence over a vast nation and shields against envy while reaffirming love for the country.
The Yankee Wife thanks readers including Aunt Annie Vermont Hills Lilac Quiet Smile and others for supportive letters and kind words. She praises her husband’s virtues, praises letters, and notes jealousy behind slaps while inviting more correspondence.
A reader asks about restoring moisture and circulation in a young woman’s hands. The plan involves warm water washing with perfumed soap, careful nail trimming and buffing, then a chamois rub, followed by oatmeal gruel application and vigorous rubbing for at least five minutes, then reporting results.
A Massachusetts girl shares a tested brown sugar fudge recipe. Ingredients include two cups brown sugar and milk or condensed milk with water. Boil five minutes, test in water, then add butter and vanilla, stir until thick, cool, and cut into squares.
A reader asks Dear Sisters if anyone has experience with removing facial hair using an electric needle and reports recurrence after recent treatment. She seeks anecdotes and reassurance, expressing worry.
A Boston woman named Molly discovers her husband Fred has returned home to face a stern counterproposal from his stern father about money and a past misdeed. Fred explains his hard work and marriage to Molly, while a veiled threat from his father looms. Molly resolves to flee to protect Fred from obligation and embrace a new future.
A Boston Post promotion asks readers to identify photographed Neponset schoolchildren. Each weekday features a new child with a $5 gold piece reward upon verification at the City Editor’s office, 275 Washington street, third floor, with a parent.
A reader asks how to win an attractive, talented woman met at socials. Mildred Champagne advises simple, steady courtship, emphasizing courage kindness and persistence over looks or status, noting many beautiful women respond to these enduring qualities.
The reader, a 23 year old stenographer, seeks guidance about a male coworker who addresses her by name and shows attention at dances and in private. The response urges caution, setting clear office boundaries, keeping public behavior appropriate, and not overreacting to perceived double dealing while avoiding private closeness that could trouble her.
Molly plans a trip to New York with help from friends as she faces a heartache and fear. Fred resists before revealing his love and willingness to stay. A sharp elder insists on the marriage, changing Molly and Fred's thoughts about duty and happiness.
Paragraph outlines trends in shoes and accessories with a chantecler pump featuring a high arched heel and narrow toe. It notes colors Cypress green pewter gray and fawn, King blue as a cold shade, hair ornaments like white and gold butterfly sequins, white serge suits with colored collars, draped princess dresses, novel veils, colored lace veils, foulards, and deep hems reaching the knees as solutions to contrasting silks.
A letter to the editor notes two solar and lunar eclipses in May 1910, May 8 for a total solar eclipse unseen in Boston, and a May 23–24 total lunar eclipse. It explains shadows, sizes, and distances of Earth, Moon, and Sun, signed by Charles Nevers Holmes of Brookline, Massachusetts.
Next Sunday's Post presents Max Pemberton's The Watch and the Scimitar as part of the Famous Jewel Mysteries series. The item promises an intriguing mystery story centered on a jewel, with period intrigue and literary flair.
A recipe describes boiling water with butter then whisking in flour to make a thick paste. Eggs are added with salt pepper paprika and nutmeg, then grated cheese. The batter is fried by spoonfuls in hot fat until golden served hot from Neponset street address noted.
A home kitchen tip shows how to mix cut biscuit dough and bake over a gas or coal burner without an oven. Heat a greased spider pan, cover midway, then uncover to finish. use baking powder for lighter biscuits and less shortening. Georgia B. Flinn of St Johnsbury Vermont signs the note.
Rice Puffs mix with cold rice and beaten yolks eggs and baking powder, flour to blend. Drop spoonfuls into hot fat like doughnuts. Sauce creamed butter sugar and mashed berries, served hot for pudding. East Bridgewater report by MRS. H J DREW.
Instructions describe washing peeling seeding removing, and boiling fruit with water overnight, then boiling 16 minutes, resting overnight, adding sugar, boiling about three hours, and pouring into jelly tumblers yields 12 jars. Paraffin coats top in 24 hours to keep dust away. Pioneer recipe credited to Minnie R. Bryant of Manchester New Hampshire.
A Sunday Post Magazine feature urged suffragists and opponents alike to read a remarkable article titled The Woman Handicapped written by A Reformed Anti-Suffragist. The piece promises insight into the suffrage debate and its social implications.
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