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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1911
Page
9
Burglars entered Arthur B. Duncan’s jewelry shop at Market Square and Daniel street by cutting a transom. Seventeen watches, two fountain pens, stickpins and brooches were stolen. A power boat tied at Daniel street foot was also taken, believed to be by the same thieves.
Instructions specify all letters to Why Contest go to Why Editor, Boston Post. Sketches need not accompany ideas as the Post artist will draw. No conditions are set for the contest and correspondence cannot be entered regarding it.
Old Boston importer and wholesale fur dealer Wight Brothers traces to 1869 when Lewis and J Frank Lin Wight started at 151 Summer street. After fires and relocations the firm settled at 72 Chauncy street, was incorporated in 1904, and saw Almon Wight rise to president before 1909.
E B Fletcher of 49 Dix Street Dorchester suffered a broken leg after two Old Colony electric cars collided in Quincy square injuring about 100 passengers. Fletcher leaped from his car before impact and was sent to Quincy City Hospital. drivers braked and reversed but could not stop the outward and inward bound cars.
A recipe describes picking spinach leaves and washing them, cooking with minimal water and baking soda to preserve color, then squeezing dry and chopping. Season with salt pepper butter and cream, heat, then plate with poached eggs on top. Serves instantly as a creamy spinach dish from Mrs. Turtle of Milford Mass.
E L Capenright, a member of the Columbian Lodge A F and A M and its treasurer, began work as a boy in 1887 and, after a break of two years, has remained in continuous service. His home is in Derry, New Hampshire.
Dear Miss Champagne, an 18 year old asks about a suitor two years older whose family dislikes her. He wants seven years of waiting and a later marriage while he earns more. The adviser warns against a seven year engagement and suggests remaining friends and fair terms, postponing a formal engagement.
A collection of dated kitchen instructions from Mrs. Chisholm in East Rochester Mrs. Murphy in Chester and Mrs. Roberts in Woburn. Recipes cover custards batter doughnuts and toast toppings with steps including lemon juice egg yolks and whites sugar milk butter and spices.
A reader asks whether to reply to a cross sex postal request with another postal or a letter. The columnist criticizes using a postal card for such a request and says if a picture postal was sent, respond with a picture postal. In general, reply in the same format as the received communication.
The article surveys prevailing fashion trends with fancy coat and skirt effects, beads for hair and trimming, mannish top sleeves, kimono cuts, satin evening slippers with rhinestone buckles, pekine striped fabrics, octagon mesh veiling, sailor lace collars, white embroidery on black fabrics, mousseline de soie embroidered waists, and the rising summer muff. It notes veiled dresses entering Europe and the use of bold color accents or keeping colorless frocks with hat and parasol as focal points.
May 21 Lee. Mrs Ella Hicks 52 wife of Bion Hicks superintendent of Lee schools died from overdose of strychnine pills taken to produce sleep. She had insomnia for a year. A son and a daughter survive. Funeral services were held this evening and remains taken to Enterlaken New York for burial.
The Manufacturers' Shoe Syndicate at 08 Washington Street near Summer plans a major sale of its $75,000 stock as Filene department store moves in. Bloomberg aims to sell all stock, including new spring Oxfords pumps and slippers for all ages, with prices from $1 to $2.45 on select $6 and $7 items. Extra salesmen and evening hours enable mail orders and in-store shopping.
President Taft commuted J. R. Feney’s sentence from five years to four months due to grave health. The Fayettesville bank wrecker, aged 69, was allowed to train and recover, with incarceration postponed until September 1 to ensure physical readiness.
All druggists sell Adamson's Balsam, the never falling cure for coughs and colds. The old time remedy promises relief, with retailers urging readers to obtain the trusted solution from local chemists.
Madrid dispatch notes another royal stork visit expected at the palace. Since King Alfonso wed Princess Ena Victoria of Battenberg, such arrivals have marked the royal line. Princess Beatrice, loved yet spoiled, stars in family tales while young heirs Jaime and Alfonso are named in past arrivals.
Los Angeles May 21 court disapproves hasty marriage after two hours acquaintance. Pudge Monroe announced he would withhold the decree of annulment of W. T. Marten and Emma B. Marten for 90 days. Marten, a Pomona resident and former Board of Supervisors member, is noted as a wealthy figure.
Inspector Morris Wolf heads for Weathersfield Conn to arrest Howard L Miller 23 of Stoneham who will be released tomorrow to finish a four year sentence for passing a forged check Miller is wanted on two local checks after leaving the city
A reader urges the Post to amend laws governing the care of sea turtles during transport and market display. Citing authorities from Harvard and Professor Yerkes, the letter argues that turtles cannot survive out of water and suffer greatly when placed on their backs, requesting tanks of water and feeding where feasible.
Rev William J Ennis S J named to head Loyola College Baltimore to succeed the late Rev F X Brady. Ennis, formerly a poetry and rhetoric professor at Boston College, ordained by Cardinal Gibbons in 1894 and has since engaged in missionary work, with ties to the Archdiocese of Boston.
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