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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1913
Page
3
The Rev Edwin H Van Etten assistant rector of Trinity Church preached against sex hygiene teaching in schools or outside the home. He urged that parents alone bear the duty and have a right to control such knowledge for their children.
Mr Van Etten arraigned city parents for letting schools and churches and clubs such as the Y M C A take over childrearing. He warned these bodies, while efficient, pull children from home and weaken parental responsibility.
A speaker argues parents must meet their responsibilities in shaping a home life and delivering sex education. They criticize overreliance on schools or organizations and urge frank, age appropriate guidance from parents to prevent harmful outside influences and cultivate moral willpower.
The revenue cutter Androscoggin continues towing the burned and abandoned steamer Templemore toward Boston harbor after five days at sea. As of noon today the pair remain 40 miles from Boston, making the recovery a long and difficult operation off Highland Light.
Harvard seniors increasingly choose yard living as 75 percent of the class relocates from luxury Gold Coast housing to Holworthy Hollis Stoughton Matthews and Thayer Halls. The shift aims to foster class unity and echoes President Lowell's yard promotion.
The Brockton family of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Mackedon discusses their 21 day twin sons James and Thomas entered in an international children's contest. The four siblings including a four year old, Jack, provide comic family details as the reporter notes the twins’ likeness and appetite.
In New York on October 19, a diner at the Waldorf saloon orders a novel mix called a Sarah Bernhardt, combining anisette benedictine and a touch of absinthe. He drinks it as onlookers watch, then pays and leaves, noting the fashion in Paris.
Police logged four Norwood burglary reports last night all tied to a single suspect. A safety razor was stolen from Parker Brothers with two dollars missing. Harris notes $3 gone from his till but hats remained. Sullivan reports $2 cash missing. Chisalenie says cigars and $2 vanished.
The Methodist Social Union opens its season at the People's Temple with Rev. Dr. William H. Morgan of Calvary Church New York as speaker. Morgan also speaks at a clinic on evangelism at First Church Temple Street this week. Dr. J Wynne Jones of Abbott Memorial Presbyterian Baltimore conducted a Welsh language service at First Presbyterian Columbus Ave Berkeley St yesterday. The First Baptist Commonwealth Ave held a collection for Boston Baptist Bethel and city missions with Rev Austin K De Blois noting city work. Chelsea Universalist parsonage undergoes extensive repairs and will open for inspection at the next monthly supper on Nov 5. Boston Methodist preachers meet at Trinity Episcopal Church chapel with Rev Dr William H Morgan of New York as speaker.
Gloucester October 19 Six more breaks were found today at the Wolf Hill summer cottage colony bringing total breaks to 24 in four days. Intruders took little valuable goods but smashed glass and crockery, littered floors and smeared walls with jams paint and eggs to create chaos inside each cottage.
James R. Wilson, a 37 year old boilermaker from Richmond, faces a charge of conspiring to kill his wife after two failed poison purchases. Police say he sought a drug guaranteed to kill in 24 hours and asked for the medicine used in the Richeson case. He is held without bail and will have a police court hearing tomorrow.
Bassett of Princeton 1911 battles typhoid fever and relies on his father’s blood for survival. He lies critically ill at Stern's Sanitarium on West End Avenue as doctors perform two transfusions, 2 quarts taken Thursday and returned Friday night.
Isaac Sawyer age 75 of the Togas Soldiers Home on vacation in Boston died from gas poisoning. He reportedly turned on illuminating gas while retiring at 10 30 Saturday night and was found dead at 8 30 Sunday morning at 253 Columbus avenue, investigators said.
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