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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1909
Page
7
The Observant Citizen from Brookline reports on travel notes from Tunis to Cairo and Boston headlines. A Humidifying engineer, George V. S. Michaelis, revisits Boston while others describe subway blockades, a baseball game at D Street grounds, a streetcar incident with a pug and skaters, and a motorcycle crash on Huntington Avenue ending with an apologetic reply.
In a hospital ward a pompous doctor jokes he can tell a man’s occupation from his illness. He asks a patient about his instrument and learns the man plays a concertina, quipping that wind instruments harm the lungs.
Miss Phyllis Robbins stars as the bachelor girl in the Vincent Club theatricals though she is a real bachelor girl with a New Boston farm. She spends much of the year cultivating produce and flowers and will soon close her Commonwealth avenue home to return to her farm.
A poem depicts a spinner weaving sunbeams and May breath into a web. She declares ownership of earth and sky while watching a new rose born today. Her noon song laments fleeting morning and swells with hopeful, tearful longing for love.
Anxious inquirer asks about Cambridgeshire Agassiz Museum Sunday hours, replying 10 to 5. Readers request book charts of New England coast with rivers lighthouses and signals. advised to contact the Treasury Department in Washington.
A collection of home recipes including asparagus fried cakes with yolk centers by Mrs George Ayres and Jenny S Merrick, a tomato ham toast with poached eggs by Mrs George Wright, and a strawberry sugar whip by H M Crosby. The notes include addresses in Boston and Worcester.
Augustus Thomas recounts Nat Goodwin wedding tale told to Willie Collier after Goodwin's marriage to Miss Goodrich. The anecdote recalls an invitation to attend a future Goodwin wedding, sharing the Lambs clubhouse moment.
Mysie Woodford clings to hope after a tramp steals her Aunt Jane ring as a wireless phone mystery unfolds on the piazza. A nice young inventor explains the device at the gate and the couple race toward a hopeful future with the ring found near the old apple tree.
Albert F. Ballou of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad has thirty years in the business starting as a brakeman on the Providence and Springfield line in 1879. He rose to conductor on passenger trains and has twenty two years of service in that role.
In conversation with the Post reporter Mr Ballou described several mishaps including a head on collision. He recalled leaving Providence at 11 15 on a Saturday night with three carloads of passengers and a combination car used as a smoker and baggage car.
Jet neck chains add chic to black gowns and monogrammed medallions appear on silk hosiery. Pongee and rough silks dominate colors while cutaways persist into summer. Taffeta silk returns after a long absence and high throat bodices feature in hotel wear. Vandyke collars and cuffs adorn ornate afternoon gowns. Coats show straight panel backs, long button rows, and three quarter length. shorter coats may suit, not disturbing line. Normandy cape enhances summer hats in net and embroidery. A new men’s silk hat features a small bell and minimal top, with a wide cloth band and no bow.
An American guest at a Stirling inn complains the bed is hard like sleeping on a board. The innkeeper retorts that the bed was slept in by the Duke of Wellington, prompting the guest to remark that they call him the Tron Duke.
Uncle Walt mocks tariff talk while praising a baseball team. Watt Mason notes the park game as the real focus, claiming a pitcher who dazzles batters and serves up lemon ice cream on the field as the team aims for the pennant this year.
A reader writes about a yearlong relationship facing a cooling in June wedding plans. The adviser suggests alternating attention to regain interest, notes nerves and whims in women, and urges gentle pursuit and eventual restraint before marriage to sustain a happy home.
A letter from a 23 year old man asks if his partner is faithful after hearing she rode with another man. The columnist urges giving her the benefit of doubt, seeking an open talk, and having an understanding, stressing the deceit harms trust more than the ride.
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