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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1911
Page
9
A Sunday Post feature highlights home cooking as New England housewives share practical recipes. The page showcases simple, everyday dishes aimed at busy families with emphasis on traditional flavors and economical ingredients.
A collection of kitchen directions from Boston housewives detailing layered peach dessert with almonds and whipped cream, a buttered walnut bread cake, and veal or lamb meat with onions and lemon juice. Includes the authors’ names and addresses in East and South Boston.
Kermit Roosevelt son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrives in St. John New Brunswick with companions William Jameson William A Thompson and George A Clark of Boston. He travels to Bathurst to hunt moose along the Nepissiquit river this trip.
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Daily and Sunday Post invites women from New England to discuss home and family topics. Submissions may use pen names and should cover health, child care, remedies, budgeting, gardening, and domestic concerns. Correspondents are asked to write on one side of the paper.
A reader rebukes a woman who harmed a motherless boy and links such cruelty to reform schools. The letter urges kindness to stepchildren, notes adopted kids, and argues love for children wins the father’s affection. The writer cites a Boston Post letter by Goddess, Georgia.
Advertising prose extols Knowlton's Danderine as the cure for dandruff and thinning hair. It claims a single bottle doubles hair beauty in ten minutes and prevents itching, scalp fever, and hair loss, urging readers to buy a 25 cent bottle at any drug store.
A reader questions the acceptability of a boss patting or caressing an employee and compares it to harsher treatment. The writer mocks abusive methods and adds a sharp remark about reform institutions, signing as DEACONESS.
A reader letter branded as hopelessly ridiculous attacks a worker who says she was whipped by her employer. The author urges returning to farm life or to a kinder garden and warns not to imply deserving mistreatment. Signed SPUNKY.
A reader signs as PATIENT LUO asks how to pickle red cabbage for winter storage. She notes daily Post reading, seeks preserv ing guidance from the Sewing Circle, and promises to return the favor once she learns.
A 21 year old married woman 10 miles outside Boston writes seeking information on women’s clubs to join for companionship as her traveling salesman husband is home only once a week. She asks for suggestions and contact details.
An advertisement from Claribel Brunette offers a method to clean a white beaver hat. Sprinkle French chalk from any drug store on the hat, place it in a dark box for several days, then brush away chalk and repeat if spots persist.
A crowded Woodlawn streetcar bound for Sullivan Square jumped the track at Broadway and School street Everett around 1 PM yesterday. The car plowed along the street and sidewalk while passengers were shaken. several narrowly escaped cuts from shattered glass.
Delight Carson struggles with a guilty love as she discovers her fiancé Philip Jordan and her new suitor Robert Maxwell scheme around a shore. She overhears Maxwell planning to take her inheritance while Maxwell is revealed as Hugh Carson’s hand in the plot. She escapes to the Wentworth cottage awaiting Philip’s arrival tonight.
The Empire skirt is rising in fashion while tulle over satin dominates evening wear. Paris trends show big hats and shoulder draperies. champagne gloves are in vogue. Black and white remains the classic pairing with large collars and side ja bots popular in neckwear. Double faced fabrics appear in tailored suits. sashes vary and hang in various positions. Fringes adorn many items.
The Rev Cortland Myers will preach at Tremont Temple tomorrow in both services after two months away. Dr Myers plans fall work next week as Mrs Myers returns from vacation. The Rev Dillon Bronson and Mrs Bronson return to Newton after a trip to Nova Scotia and Maine. All Souls Church East Boston opens fall services with Rev Alfred Ellsworth Wright preaching on the Lord’s Supper. Dudley Street Baptist Church opens fall with a social and Sunday school tomorrow. Labor representatives join Page class at noon with Gilbert M Smith of Boston and Bayard Harrison addressing unions and church roles.
William H. O'Brien president of the Boston Central Labor Union writes to the Post praising fair news reports and editorials in Boston dailies on Monday's parade and protest meeting. He notes more than 60 000 wage earners in the union's jurisdiction support such coverage and public opinion as a path to progress. Boston Sept 8.
President Taft released Will G. Comstock from jail so he could attend the funeral of his partner Bartlett Richards who died in his cell. Both men from Ellsworth, Nebraska, were convicted in 1907 of defrauding the government by land entry schemes and perjury.
A reader asks how to be engaging on a social visit. The guidance suggests being natural, conversing about personal interests, and treating the hostess as you would a family member. It emphasizes that formal accomplishment is not essential for a pleasant evening.
Reader writes that the Oregon arrived in time for the battle of Santiago and fired its first shot under Captain Charles Clark. The Post editor confirms the Oregon participated fully in the engagement, countering a Sunday editorial suggestion it might be too late.
A young man seeks advice on winning back an old flame after a falling out. The columnist urges immediate letter writing, warns against marrying a second choice, and argues romance now is best while noting a persistent, hopeful response from the former lover. Byron is cited to underscore enduring female devotion.
In New York on September 8 William J. Bryan visited Colonel Theodore Roosevelt at Roosevelt's Outlook editorial offices. Roosevelt said the meeting included a general talk on interesting subjects and nothing more.
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