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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1914
Page
5
Dr Winfield Smith of Boston Medical School and New York physicians condemn the debutante slouch. The flat chest and hips-forward slump strains organs and disrupts normal posture, posing harm especially to women.
The excerpt links chest posture to mood, noting that slumping worsens spirits while standing tall can lift them. It compares bad posture to mental low mood and suggests that straightening the spine and lifting the head can counteract this effect.
Los Angeles May 10. After a life confined to schooling Miss Ester Richards, aged 28, is under police guard awaiting a mental examination. Authorities believe she is suffering from mental decay.
Atchison Kansas May 10 George W Thompson says he will not vote in any Presidential election again after voting since 1848. He notes the only time his vote aligned with a winner was for Franklin Pierce and quips that his judgment may be rotten or he is a hoodoo.
Harvard lunchroom owner John Morse got a piece of the wedding cake carved by Mrs Astor after Vincents remark when he was a Harvard freshman two years ago. The cake was sent following the Staatsburg New York ceremony a fortnight earlier.
In 1912 Vincent Astor, then a Harvard student, befriended John a basement lunchroom operator in the Lampoon building and Harvard Square. Astor confided in John about reporters and a fake engagement, later sending John a piece of his wedding cake after marrying Helen Huntington, following his Titanic loss.
Numerous Catholic events fill the week in Boston parishes. Holy Name Society of Gate of Heaven hosts Ladies Night in South Boston. Mount Benedict Council receives Holy Communion at St. Ann's Somerville then breakfast at their new Highland Central site. Fr. John M. Fox of St. Leo's Dorchester leaves town after mass. St Thomas Jamaica Plain confirms many children and adults. Lectures and missions continue at Medford Women's Catholic Club and St Peter's Dorchester with Jesuits conducting a four week mission focusing on married women. St Eulalia Nazareth Hall Lawn party and Whist for Rev Driscoll’s table at Nazareth Hall. Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Association holds its third assembly at Paul Revere and Talbot Halls.
Mr. and Mrs. John King and their 10 year old son Orrin died of suffocation after a fire damaged their tenement in Bath Maine early today.
King, proprietor of a Centre street second hand store, perished in a fire started by spontaneous combustion. The smoke filled the sleeping rooms on the building's second floor where a child was found under a burned bed. The couple appeared to have struggled toward a window, but both bodies were not badly burned. The King family had recently moved here from Scranton and Old Town.
King's Chapel hosted New England Association of Railroad Veterans memorial exercises honoring 16 departed members. Rev. Sidney B. Snow delivered the memorial address. Amos H. Brown and Albert Standish provided biographies of the deceased veterans.
Debates at Maverick Church socialists versus anti socialists next Wednesday evening. Rev D D Hoagland presides on Trinity Sunday June 7 as Bishop Lawrence ordains priests and deacons at St Pauls Cathedral. Rev F W Hamilton speaks at Ballou Hall on worker education today. General Theological Library holds annual meeting in Library building 53 Mt Vernon. Pastor Perley C Grant receives 100 gold and mahogany clock on fifth anniversary. Ipworth League elects officers at Winchester Church. Union Congregational Women plan Nottingham Hotel banquet tomorrow. Rev Edwin H Van Etten receives call to Christ Church New York rectorship formerly held by Rev George A Strong.
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