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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1913
Page
13
A reader asks about wives earning wages for work in the home and a letter explains that busy wives deserve support from their husbands but contends that wages would encourage neglect of domestic duties. The exchange highlights home economy, budgeting, and the role of marriage in shared work.
Mrs. Bowman of Watertown writes of Renova in a testimonial urging others to obtain the remedy. She claims her husband’s sobriety improved after he unknowingly consumed Renova in tea, coffee, soups, and other items. She offers to send free samples and proofs of Renova’s effects from Renova No., 204 Broadway, New York.
A letter exchange in the sewing circle weighs in on whether husbands should choose or approve their wives clothing purchases. One writer argues against a spendthrift wife while another defends a husband who buys or controls expenditures, noting fairness and family finances.
Letters discuss gender roles in money for hats, choosing spouses wardrobes, and how couples can share decisions. A wife describes asserting control over her husband’s winter suit and hat choices, while readers debate propriety, romance, and respect in courtship and marriage.
The Deaconess Home for Aged Women in Concord, built by the New England Deaconess Association at $40,000, was formally presented to the association. C W Williams led the building committee, Rev William T Perrin accepted for the Deaconess Board, with dedicatory remarks by Rev George S Chadbourne. Attending clergy included Rev Howells, Rev C E Spaulding, and Rev Dillon Bronson. Miss Sadie A Hagen, superintendent, and Miss Annie Raynes hosted an informal reception with help from local King's Daughters.
Hamilton Fish Jr the former Crimson captain of 1911 donated 6000 toward Harvard's new 2 million gymnasium fund. He chairs the alumni solicitation effort but says graduate gifts have not yet begun. Undergraduate pledges total 25000, with the campaign reaching about 30000 so far.
At Asbury Park New Jersey on November 3 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union announced moving the national day of prayer from January 1 to January 5. National president Mrs Lillian M N Stevens issued a proclamation calling for a world temperance crusade to place prohibition in the organic law of all nations and the world. Tomorrow's election is expected to retain all current national officers.
Poem reflects on a relationship turning from June to November, with memory and emotion guiding life. The speaker contrasts warm recollections of June with November's gray, cold atmosphere, hinting at growth from boyhood to manhood and enduring affection amid changing skies.
Mrs Josephine Henning testified from her sick bed in Chicago denying any knowledge of Clarence Funk former general manager of International Harvester. In the defamation trial against Daniel Donahoe and Isaac Stiefel she denied telling anyone she rode with Funk or stayed at hotels with him. Her husband followed, claiming he was induced to sue for alienation of affection on Donahoe's promise of care.
Galesburg Illinois November 8 Roba Hallburg suffered serious injuries in a school football game with a broken right hip and a dislocated left thigh.
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