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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1910
Page
7
The Havana line steamer Rheingraf reached Havana at 3 PM Wednesday after a voyage from here that began last Monday. Weather off the Cuban coast likely forced the vessel to ride out the hurricane, carrying hay potatoes household goods cartridges and general freight. She will return here with a cargo of sugar.
A St Louis hardware representative vows Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets keep his stomach steady amid rough lodging and meals. He spends about fifty cents a day on the tablets, crediting heartburn relief and steady digestion to regular use and praising their advertised results.
A caregiver recounts feeding four delicate children using cow milk distilled with water and oatmeal broth. She describes adjusting ratios, using lime water and soda for stomach issues, feeding every two hours, and later easing to longer intervals. The letter requests French girl names, suggesting Blanche as a candidate.
A historic note suggests giving a tumbler of warm water with a spoonful of mustard as an emetic to a girl. The instruction says to adjust the amount of mustard if the initial dose is too weak, labeled by a nurse as guidance.
Chelsea seeks advice from the Sewing Circle to remove house and bed fleas in a newly moved into home. She requests practical, effective methods to eradicate the infestation.
A feisty letter from Anastasia defends a waiting bride who jokes that her fiancé’s trunk is the only flaw she notes. She urges readers to be glad he returned at all after such a long absence.
A reader requests crochet guidance for a silkateen cotton baby bonnet intended for a year old child. She hopes for directions in the Sunday Post Embroidery page and plans to make three bonnets as Christmas gifts.
A reader suggests converting an old woolen blanket into a three or four thickness baby bag. Shape it with an opening on the shoulder that slips over the head and secures with safety pins, creating a warm convenient cover, Pine Tree State.
A reader named Margaret reports using a hair tonic from a friend to combat hair loss. The recipe calls for 10 grains quinine sulfate, 1 ounce glycerine, and 1 pint rum, to be massaged into the scalp nightly until improvement, then twice weekly. Two bottles sufficed.
Supreme Court full bench orders a new trial for George F. Jackson of Whitman against Old Colony Street Railway Co to recover 3000 for an alleged assault by a conductor. Jury had ruled Jackson provoked the incident. Court says only provocation was Jacksons speech and the shuttle assault exceeded the offense.
Henry W. Driscoll, superintendent of the music store at the Conservatory of Music, testified in divorce court that his wife deserted him seven weeks after their April 14 1905 marriage. She supposedly returned to Tennessee and wrote that they would not live together, prompting the divorce bid.
A clerk who loved watching a wall clock by habit is fired after his boss complains he neglects stock duties. The tale, told in vintage prose, contrasts clockwork charm with work discipline.
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