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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1909
Page
5
A whimsical scene describes Venus emerging from the sea while a mermaid questions loss of sins. Venus blames furious motor boats for her wardrobe trouble and inability to fasten a back button, adding a comic mythic note to a nautical collision vignette.
A playful exchange unfolds as a pretty girl calls a man a clothes-rail fashion lookalike from Paris. A cynical companion counters, saying if he resembles Paris advertising he must be impossible. The banter highlights his fashionably odd aura.
Ostend wonders why gossip seems to gain currency, while Pa argues the opposite and calls gossip a poor thing at all times. The exchange features a father and son discussing social rumor and value.
A quirky exchange places a joke about wooing women alongside a historical line that efforts to use the spider's web for practical purposes began in 1710 in France. The two facts are presented as disconnected curiosities from different domains.
President Taft, undeterred by rain, rode to the Unitarian Church in Beverly as his Labor Day plans unfold. He will spend the week at Myopia Hunt Club golfing daily and attending the North Shore horse show, with visits from Ballinger, Durand, and Japanese royal guests, plus a Grand Army post parade and a yacht luncheon aboard the Mayflower. Mrs Taft likely stays through October 16.
Sir Aaroh Williams arrives in St John’s as the new Governor of Newfoundland succeeding Sir William MacGregor aboard the Allan line steamship Carthaginian. The arrival marks the official start of his tenure amid ceremonial welcomes and local expectations.
The new St Stanislaus Catholic Church in Chelsea opened with a sacred concert last evening attended by about 1500 people. Proceeds support the church under Pastor Rev George Jaskolski O M C. The program featured choir, violin and soprano solos by members from St Rose Assumption and St Stanislaus, directed by Gilbert G Dolliver who also played the organ.
In a sermon on Education Rev L P McCarthy of Holy Redeemer Church Boston attacked Charles W Eliot former Harvard president for advocating a new religion without divine authority. He compared Eliot to Mrs Eddy John Knox and John Calvin, asserting the scholar lacks proper religious grounding.
Rev. Joseph A. Gorman S. J., rector of St Marys Church North End for seven years, is named treasurer at Boston College. He will remain at St Marys until Tuesday graduation exercises then oversee the new University Heights Boston College building. His successor at St Marys is Rev Thomas I White S J from St Francis Xavier New York, a Charlestown native who has not held a Boston post before. Father Keating S J transfers to St Andrew on the Hudson Poughkeepsie N Y for one year.
James Duncan of Quincy, secretary treasurer of the Granite Cutters International Association and first vice-president of the AFL, spoke before the Worcester Central Labor Union in Worcester on September 5. He discussed strikes, postal savings banks and related labor issues, receiving a hearty reception from the audience.
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