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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1916
Page
9
Readers seek financial prudence and marital support with letters about saving, fair treatment at home, and avoiding untrustworthy spouses. The column offers cautions on marriage to alcoholics, urges women to save, and shares experiences from multiple contributors and the editor.
A narrator notes that five years pass without changing social chatter at a summer dance. The piece recalls debutante era topics as Clara's younger sister attends in a pink tulle dance frock with yellow satin accents and rose bud details.
Officials schedule dedicatory exercises for the Boston Light on Sept 2 to unveil a commemorative tablet marking the light’s anniversary. The federal government sets Sept 2 while the Boston Chamber of Commerce, joining in, fixes Sept 14 for its ceremonies amid calendar changes over two centuries.
A historical cooking note describes Trisuw stew using neck of mutton or lamb with potatoes and onions, plus optional carrot, simmered in water and thickened gravy. Yorkshre pudding instructions follow with flour eggs milk batter poured under meat or baked atop, served hot. Mrs Norton of Auburn Massachusetts signs the fragment.
A reflective voice urges calm over anger and resilience through suffering. It exhorts kindness, enduring faith, and the return of light and romance as roses bloom in May despite cloudy days.
Grace Blanchat, 38 year old daughter of Harry Blanchat a Davis mill foreman, was fatally ground to death in a paper beating machine at the Davis paper mills in West Hopkinton New Hampshire. She followed her mother to the mill entrance and was pulled into a revolving belt and seized by a machine.
President Wilson reached Shadow Lawn Long Branch at 9 tonight to endure the ceremonies of notification tomorrow. Hotels nearby were filled with prominent Democrats from Washington New York and other cities for the event.
A crowd expected to exceed 25 000 will listen as Wilson calls for Democracy in the upcoming campaign. A reception at the summer White House will precede a luncheon with Wilson and Cabinet members. Delegates from Tammany Hall and Newark’s Democratic machine highlight a show of party unity.
Boston will have no delivery of mail on Monday September 4 the first time a holiday morning delivery has been eliminated. All general post office departments will be closed though special delivery service remains and regular holiday collections will be made.
Poem recalls a crowded cabin at midnight during a winter voyage. The crew faces a violent storm as the captain proclaims danger and the sea roars. The captain’s daughter asks if God is with them on the ocean, and by dawn they reach harbor in better cheer.
Two youths, John Robinson aged 19 and David Heffernan aged 17, were arrested after attempting to sell stolen jewelry. They faced charges of breaking into Mrs. John S Eliot's Dedham residence and stealing items valued at 150 dollars. The pair tried to sell the goods two hours later at a Hanover Street jewelry store as old gold. Mr Eliot identified the items as his family heirloom.
A California letter to the editor criticizes Hughes for ignoring key Republicans Hiram Johnson and Francis Heney. The writer, once undecided, says he will back the candidate these men support to uphold reform principles and graft prosecutions. The letter ends by opposing Hughes’s declared exclusive candidacy.
Letter from Alfred Davenport of Boston urges direct pledge from Mr Hughes on leading questions of the day to win Progressive vote support. Date cited August 31.
A certified copy from El Paso Texas dated August 8 1916 shows Private G C Murray and fellow soldiers of B Company 8th Massachusetts Infantry refuting a Boston Post story that soldiers blamed Everett officials for political issues. The letter thanks local Mayor and officials for support and lists signatories.
Fourteen year old Alice V McDermott seeks a guardian amid alleged home abuse. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children petitions Suffolk County Probate Court to place the girl with guardian Carl C Carstens. The judge grants temporary custody to Carstens pending further order.
Dr. Laura A. C. Hughes outlined infantile paralysis prevention and care after visiting New York hospitals. She urged thorough hand washing, cleaning foods, outdoor activity, and careful home hygiene including disinfection of bed linens, dishes, and patient clothing. She emphasized reporting suspected cases to the Board of Health and avoiding self treatment.
Winthrop selectmen face charges after Mr and Mrs Morris I Green owners of the Leighton House plead not guilty to operating an unlicensed boarding house in East Boston Court. The Greens allege refusals of licenses were based on their Jewish faith and kosher catering. Chief Burrill has summoned town leaders and health board members as witnesses as the case resumes on September 11.
The salaries of 26 mail collectors were raised from $1000 to $1100 and $1200. Postmaster Murray announced the restoration, achieved after the new appropriation bill passed, ending the prior budget cut.
Telegrams to Major Curley from Commander Palmer report Henry J. Duplissey an ordinary seaman aboard the Memphis drowned when the boat wrecked at Santo Domingo. Edward H. O'Shea now believed safe. status of James Harrington and Frederick Dona her unclear. E J Quinn of Malden dies aboard the Salute from injuries after the Memphis explosion.
The Republican State convention will assemble at Tremont Temple on October 7 at 10 30 in the morning. Congressman Frederick H. Hillett of Springfield was unanimously elected chairman of the convention by the state committee yesterday afternoon.
Excerpts describe Stephen Graham on a vivid travel trek in Through Russian Central Asia and Eden Phillpotts narrative about The Truman Boy and the War. The piece notes barber shop humor on the Chinese frontier, a photographer’s free portrait offer, travel lodging habits, and a prize poem contest at Merivale School with a guinea award and strict expectations.
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