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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1908
Page
7
In the men’s dining room at Young’s yesterday afternoon guests noted a distinguished stranger, massive in build with white hair and beard. The register listed “Joseph A. Springer, Havana,” a man known in Washington and Havana as vice-consul general.
Vice-Consul-General Springer discusses Cuba history from the 1860s through 1900s. He recalls witnessing student executions, the Virginius affair, the Maine tragedy, and the Sigsbee report. He notes American interest in Havana business and doubts Taft will visit. He refuses to comment on sugar duties provoking revolution fears.
Mrs J A Jameson of Twin Lakes advertised for a woman to do general house work in Winsted Connecticut. Frances Lamson of Canaan replied saying men have bothered her at nearly every place she worked and she wants a job away from a village where men will not chase her.
Miss Bessie Thomas of Monmouthshire arranged her wedding in Boston after her fiancé A. J. Amos, first officer of the British freighter Kasenga, docked ahead of the rival ship. The bet winner organized every detail including cards and the British consulate ceremony with John Gladden as best man.
Miss Mary Donts surveys season trends with go ats kin and opossum coats lined with cloth. Velvet returns in directoire styles, ermine trim popular, and blue predicted to lead color schemes. Sleeves slashed with silk edges and ivory toilette items replace silver sets.
Dear reader asks how to regain the forgiveness of a young lady's mother who seems cold after a minor quarrel. Champagne urges restraint and patience, suggesting the suitor stay away for a while so distance may stir renewed goodwill and perhaps the girl's own interest.
New York November 27. Actress and playwright Mrs Eleanor Merron Cowper shot herself in the head in her St. Regis Hotel apartment using a pillow to muffle the report. The cartridge exploded without a sound and she was found unconscious and dying.
The article recounts Eleanor Merron Cowper planning her death by suicide. She wrote four letters—to her lawyer, the coroner, an undertaker, and John Hood—delivering Hood's letter just as she fired. She lay dying, with doctors and police summoned, after a life in stage work under Frohman and Davenport and authoring four Broadway plays.
Mrs. Cowper known as Eleanor Morrow, who grew up in Portland and acted in local theaters, shot herself in a New York hotel today. She left Portland about 25 years ago and later visited her mother and sister, Mrs. Moses S. Burbank, here.
Harmony at the Second Baptist Church dissolves after John W. Smith leading tenor is arrested following Ada Holland soprano soloist’s accusation that he trod on her feet during a rehearsal. Witnesses confirm the incident.
In St Petersburg on November 27 an alarming cholera surge reported 27 new cases in the last 24 hours, reviving fears that the disease had been nearly eradicated.
Chef Robert Pflegnaar of the Carlton Hotel traces his training from Swiss and French hotels to Boston and New York. He shares a lobster a la Newburg recipe for an after theatre chafing dish party, detailing steps from preparing lobster to finishing with butter cream and nutmeg.
Mrs S L Olmstead of near Princeton Indiana gave a ride to James Voyles. A horse balked and tripped her, wedging her head. Voyles restrained the horse until he could free her, likely saving her life.
In a June visit, the narrator recalls a forgotten child named Montmorenci Featherstone. Mrs. Featherstone recounts the sudden death of Montmorenci, crushed by a heavy drag near their home, revealing themes of memory, loss, and parental sorrow. The moment also exposes a misremembered family tie and evolving emotions between friends.
The instruction describes cutting meat into quarter inch slices, pouring boiling water over to seal pores, then coating in flour or bread crumbs, dipping in egg, and frying in hot fat with one third butter. Originates with Mrs Dema Cory of 21 School Street Lebanon New Hampshire.
A straightforward recipe for a 5 gallon cool drink. Combine five gallons lukewarm water two yeast cakes one ounce wintergreen one to two ounces sassafras and pounds of granulated sugar in a stone jar and let it set overnight. Mrs F E Banks 84 West Cutts Street Biddeford Maine.
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