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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1891
Page
5
The piece highlights holiday store labor with long hours for salesgirls, urging kindness to workers. It also reviews social reform writings and lectures, noting Mme Tel Sono's Emmanuel Church talk on raising funds for a Japanese girls school and female education.
A mass meeting at Park Street Church in Boston urged practical action to aid fallen women with a rescue home. Speakers including Dr. Lorimer Miner Ela Tobey and Major Brewer of the Salvation Army pressed for multiple homes, female-led efforts, and a city government commitment to moral reform. A committee of Gumbart Lorimer Tobey and Major Brewer was formed to plan a home and future gatherings, with the next session likely at Tremont Temple.
Miss Aimelia Glover admires dolls at a Tremont Street doll show and jokes about dressing a doll in her latest City Rectory costume, aiming to display it by Wednesday or Thursday.
Republicans of the Sixth Aldermanic District nominated Alfred Israel Woodbury for Alderman by acclamation at last night’s meeting.
The Countess of Aberdeen aims to fund a World Fair exhibit on Irish women’s work costing about 15000 dollars. She proposes two exhibit rooms with Irish made decor and a bridal party dressed in Irish materials. She seeks orders now to employ workers and notes support from Chicago and Boston committees. Her editorials reach working mothers and children in Scotland.
A New York horse show doubles as a fashion parade with society women donning new gowns by leading dressmakers. Details describe gowns in russet velvet, pale gray cordonniere, an open jacket with rat fur, and elaborate designs in old-blue cloth and sable hues. Mourning attire also noted as part of the display.
The Committee of Twenty five chosen by the Republican Mayoralty Convention met with barred doors and agreed on a ticket to be presented to the convention at Union Hall this evening. Rabbi Shindler will not be on the list.
A New York Sun report recounts a scene at Delmonicas where three stylish young women, supervised by an older man likely their uncle, are served bread and water while a costumed woman nearby eats little. The piece notes the prolonged lunch and a clerkly observation about bread and butter as a restaurant tactic.
A physician touts Johann Hoff's Malt Extract for stomach disorders and general debility including nursing mothers. The ad claims it aids starch conversion, purity, and palatability, calling it the standard worldwide. genuine bottles bear the Johann Hoff signature and are sold by Eisner & Mendelson Co. in New York.
Mrs. M H Bray lectured on sea mosses with a display of specimens at Shawmut Universalist Church. She traced sea weed lineages from sea anemone to fossil origins, described diverse growths, and noted uses from breakwaters to food, ink production, glassmaking, and livestock feed.
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