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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1909
Page
7
A woman invaded the Women's Suit Department prompting disruption and unspecified losses for the store. Security was alerted and staff responded to stabilize the area. Further details about motive and outcomes were not disclosed.
Ezra Barclay and his wife Lucy face a cascade of misfortune after a string of hard years. A $400 timber deal promises relief for Lucy’s visit plans but a TB verdict on the cattle and a forest fire ruin the pulp lot. Lucy offers a blue slip and crumpled bills as a last resort, then quietly urges supper.
An advertisement claims X Zalia liquid will positively stop the itching from brown tail poison ivy. It promises relief from inflammation and rapid healing of the rash.
Memorial services were held at King's Chapel for Unitarian Fellowship ministers who died this year. The Rev Samuel M Crothers of Cambridge led the service and praised each deceased clergyman including Samuel June Barrows Francis Tiffany George Stetson Shaw Jabez Nelson Trask William Augustine Cram and Miss Mary Hannah Graves. Crothers praised Cram as a quiet church worker and Graves as an early Unitarian woman preacher admired by Julia Ward Howe. He called Barrows a great loss as preacher editor reformer and helper of men.
Ray Williams of Huntington Avenue and Peter A Doyle of Blue Hill Avenue win the High School of Commerce scholarships entitling a trip to the east coast of South America. They depart after term end. Last year’s honorees John C Rock and Paul H Tardiver are noted in the Tradesman. A farewell reception for Dr Johannes Aaler of Dantzig was given by about 20 Boston City Club faculty members.
City Hall whispers of a planned board of theatrical censors to judge shows billed for Boston. License clerk John Casey, the mayoral censor, returned from New York where he reviewed productions, a development described as a state secret.
A reader asks about balancing love and a mother’s disapproval in an arranged engagement. Mildred Champagne advises postponing marriage, winning the mother’s consent, and warns that declaring greater love for the mother than the fiancée undermines the future union.
Twin sisters Irene Sterling and Athene Sterling wed Merrill Allen of Portland and N Ward Thompson of Boston at State Street Congregational Church in Portland. They are New England Conservatory of Music graduates and Rossini Club members. Bridesmaids included Mabel and Mildred Grander and Agnes McDonald with out of town guests listed.
Mrs Samuel Thompson of Boston Mr and Mrs Quincy A Atwood of Newton and Mr and Mrs A L Winship of Melrose cut in rounds and form round raisin filled cakes. They boil in lard until light brown, drain, and roll in powdered sugar while warm.
Warm lard with milk then flour and yeast to form batter. Add sugar and stiff egg whites, soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg. Fold in flour, let rise, roll to one inch thick sheet.
Frail biscuit dough with fig filling recipe yields thin cookies. Soak figs chop and simmer with sugar flour and water then place filling between two cookies and bake in a hot oven. Recipe credited to Mrs Elizabeth C Voo.Lj Ward Princeton.
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