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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1904
Page
10
Shuman & Co offers Misses and Girls apparel including walking suits, tailored suits, and coats at sale prices. Items span Cheviots and English mixtures with satin linings, featuring ages 4 to 16 dresses and assorted reefers, jackets, and covert coats in multiple sizes and finishes.
Boston civil engineer J Emery Harriman Jr told MIT Society of Arts that aerial navigation is a viable investment for business. He showcased an aeromobile with valvular wings, praised the Wrights, and cited a St Louis fair contest with a 100000 prize. He argued a successful flying machine could cost about 2500 and urged greater business interest.
Letters to the Post editor discuss marriage views sparked by Father Walsh. A 24 year old woman from Roxbury, plus friends in Dorchester and elsewhere, describe failed engagements, excuses, and hopes for a union built on love and mutual respect, noting money concerns and readiness before marriage.
A reader from Boston voices concern over limited job prospects for educated young men 35 and under. He cites bank clerks, bookkeepers, salesmen, and operators as options while noting high wages in trades and civil service crowding. He argues employers should consider family needs and domestic responsibilities in hiring.
A married mother of two describes frugal life on eight dollars a week, noting how a paycheck once planned for emergencies stretched to cover a growing family. She recalls leaving a good job for marriage and the belief in a better future, while acknowledging hardship yet maintaining happiness.
Miss Sawtelle, Hancock School principal, set aside yesterday as visitors day in the North End. The girls displayed a year of work including a notable cooking class exhibit with delicacies from their native lands and sewing class outfits each student made herself. A watercolor by Miss Mary Borrrciso drew attention alongside flower, mineral, sketching, and carpentry displays. Today at 2 pm the Thomas N. Hart School for Boys in South Boston will hold visitation day.
President Clowry of Western Union ordered removal of all wires to poolrooms used for horse racing news. Wires supplying private subscribers must be withdrawn and instruments returned. Police join with New York Telephone in cutting poolrooms from wire service. Poolroom operators reportedly plan to form a company to obtain their own news.
A woolen examiner stands between the woolen mills and the manufacturing department ensuring strict quality control for every yard of Morse made Superior Clothing. No cloth is used until approved with an O K. The ad notes a $1.50 necktie sale priced at 65 cents this week.
Acting Secretary of War Oliver today approved general plans for a dam, lock and draw, plus dredging canals to improve the Charles River basin and Boston Harbor. The $3,000,000 project, with state authority, aims to create a 1000 acre water area and keep the river bed perpetually flooded near the West Boston Bridge between Boston and Cambridge.
Boston endured its second major thunder storm of the year last evening with quick lightning flashes and steady thunder. The weather caused minor inconveniences to telephone users as services were briefly affected.
Cambridge resident Lewis Clauss inherited a substantial fortune from his late New York aunt Miss Elizabeth Dreyfus. He remains modest and reticent about the exact amount, though acknowledges the legacy is considerable.
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