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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1913
Page
15
A reader asks if public “spooning” after a brief acquaintance is proper. The columnist notes taste varies, public affection invites ridicule, and decisions rest with the two involved given specific circumstances.
A historical piece praises the National Biscuit Company for a persistent aim to produce perfect biscuits. It notes the building of modern bakeries, invention of new machinery, ceaseless care, and selection of finest ingredients, delivering products in sealed packages, tins, and glass-front cans.
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Post features readers debating whether wives overdo cleaning, work hours, and household toil. Several letters share personal choices, including limiting work, balancing nerves, and spouses’ expectations, with advice seeking balance between cleanliness and personal well being.
A married woman recalls her 50 year marriage and shared finances with two children. She notes that after paying bills there is never any money left and questions the push for wives to be paid for housework, citing prior agreements and ongoing family needs.
Correspondents debate a tax on bachelors and on women who postpone marriage. Proponents argue taxes could force marriage or curb delayed decisions, while opponents warn it would coerce love and harm lives.
The Sunday Post features a selection of the most engaging letters to the Sewing Circle. Readers respond with tips, project ideas, and community notes reflecting sewing hobbyist life.
This season features trim accessories such as cut steel jet and enamel buttons and chenille bead tassels, plus a velvet headband hairstyle with ostrich plumes. Outing coats use woolen tweed and English homespun. sailor hats are black velvet with quills. redingotes in white or chalk cloth line with satin. children’s coats use white corded silk molre or worsted with fur trims.
The poem narrates a weary young musician found with wide bright eyes and a strained violoncello string breaking at dawn. In a silent room, the boy whispers a last prayer for space for a tired child, before he breathes his final rest.
Nathaniel Hawthorne muses on imagined spiritual bodies enabling thoughts to travel instantly between lovers. He praises Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's letters as uniquely beautiful and potent in rekindling life and loveliness.
Madge quarrels with Eric over money for a jewelry bag then learns his sister Sue will visit. Sue arrives to test their strained marriage as Madge struggles to mask the rift and appears the peacemaker. Eric and Madge retrace their affection while Sue observes and plans.
Washington Oct. 8. If House leaders, including Representative Underwood, secure consent, Congress will pass a joint resolution repealing the five percent tariff rebate on goods imported in American-owned ships. The move targets a provision of the new tariff law and aims for quick enactment.
Officials from the State and Treasury Departments plan to remove the objectionable tariff clause. President Wilson endorsed the plan after a conference. Senator Simmons signaled Senate support for repealing the clause, with House action anticipated pending consultation with Representative Underwood.
Twenty persons were injured, four seriously, when the Olympian passenger train of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line derailed 40 miles west of Forsyth Montana. The train was said to be at high speed, and every car left the tracks. Cause of the derailment was not yet known.
A verse urges readers to prepare for winter by oiling the furnace, stocking kindling, and winter provisions. The speaker describes a ready home versus the careless who face blizzards, coal shortages, and rising dealer opposition while phones buzz with townwide appeals. The piece is signed by Wealt Mason and copyright noted.
A review of Philip Gibbs new novel The Eighth Year arguing the eighth year marks a crisis in marriage. The piece also discusses Sir Almroth Wright and his anti suffrage works, Louis Untermeyer rising with poems on modern concerns, and a stanza from The Butterfly poetry section urging fighting spirit and social awareness.
A vintage ad promotes Sargol as a fat-building remedy for thin people. It claims digestion aids absorb fats and convert them into body tissue, promising rapid cheeks filling out and firm flesh. It warns only to take if willing to gain ten pounds.
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