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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1913
Page
13
Chicago health committee hears recommendations for skirtless swimsuits and segregated sun baths for beach bathers. Norman C. B. Cox argues long skirts hinder swimming and propriety needs not requiring drapery when wet.
Miss Mary Ethel Lawlor daughter of Mrs Martha Lawlor of Linden street Needham and Francis Joseph Buckley son of the late J Francis Buckley of Needham were married yesterday morning at 1 o'clock in the rectory of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Rev Father Culhane officiated and many friends attended.
Mr. D. J. Lane of St Marys Kas offers a home asthma remedy. He testifies that sufferers of forty years are cured and will mail a $2 bottle for free with payment only if it works. Recipients must report effects within ten days. Send name and address on a postal card.
The Sewing Circle is a regular department in the Boston Post for New England homemakers to discuss domestic topics. Readers may write on household economy, family management, gardening, and related issues, using pen names and addressing the editor.
A reader rejects modesty as the sole path to a good husband. She condemns male double standards after noting her brother preaches virtue yet marries a smoker who wears immodest gowns and cannot cook. She predicts modest women will stay single while immodest ones wed.
A column offers do it yourself beauty and health cures. Spurmax lotion cleanses and tones skin, delatone removes hairs, quinine tonic aids hair growth, canthrox shampoo improves scalp, parnotis reducer trims fat, kardete blood purifier supports energy, almoe goin jelly fights wrinkles, and nihin crystal eye tonic brightens eyes.
A Dear Sewing Circle discussion on eugenics and marriage highlights women choosing morally flawed partners for love. Letters recount reform through marriage, nagging wives pushing men to drink, and arguments for personal happiness over societal judgment.
A columnist notes that social ambition harms families more than liquor. People strain budgets to live in a genteel neighborhood, spend half their income on rent, and wear shabby clothes. Husbands age early from overwork while wives chase status, often skimping on food and nourishment.
A poem in the voice of a restless traveler vows to chase the Wanderlust beyond deserts and polar cold. The speaker, a soldier or traveler, seeks dawns on distant poles, leaving home in search of far lands and inner resolve.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, arrived in Washington on October 22 to publicize a plan to defeat re election bids of officials who oppose adopting a constitutional amendment for nationwide woman suffrage.
Dr Shaw announced after a Washington conference with suffragists that she will launch her campaign in Lynchburg Virginia next Friday to rally the Virginia Suffrage League and press the movement nationwide. The meeting also considered urging the National American Woman Suffrage Association to convene in December with constitutional amendment action as the key agenda item.
A fragment notes someone has only a little money to start a business and mentions a long enduring mother-in-law as a notable element.
The Sunday Post showcases varied correspondence to the Sewing Circle with readers’ reflections, tips, and community chatter. Readers share sewing anecdotes, project ideas, and local crafting events, revealing the circle’s influence on home crafts and neighborhood conversation.
The season opens with Sibelius Fourth performed by the Symphony Orchestra tomorrow afternoon and Saturday evening. The concise work marks a departure from earlier Sibelius styles, followed by 8th century era pieces including Handel’s concerto for two wind choirs, Gluck dances, and Haydn’s Symphony in D major No. 2.
Miss Beulah H Colby daughter of Mrs Lucy W Colby of 13 Shailer Street Brookline married Reuben Kidner Hagerty of Dorchester last night. The ceremony occurred at the bride’s parents home with Rev Reuben Kidner officiating. Maid of honor was Miss Marion Morse of Dorchester and the best man was Edward Hagerty the groom’s brother.
Dr Shaw denounced the detention of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst at Ellis Island as ridiculous. She predicted Pankhurst's coming would only arouse sympathy for women's suffrage in the United States. Dr Shaw spoke this evening to the Just Government League at Unevy Chanc ed.
An advice column features patient questions on bedwetting, catarrh, hair loss, weight gain, rheumatism, obesity, and chronic constipation. It recommends tonics, tonics, and tonics from drugstores, with mixtures for nasal care, hair regrowth, digestion, and bowel health.
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