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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1916
Page
9
A set of reader letters discuss a husband paying his mother in law from his earnings, quarrels in marriage, and women workers rights. Advice urges checking legal support for the mother in law, considering fairness, and promoting women’s unions and truthful disclosure about a partner’s past.
An item from Over the Wire titled A Little Chat on Style features a discussion on fashion and presentation tips. The piece reflects period tone and focuses on how appearance interacts with social context and media expectations.
The writer meets Jean Watson en route to tea and is inspired by her stylish outfit. Jean looks sharp in a silk three piece suit with a gray floral skirt, a black velvet coat with a peplum, fur belt, and matching silk lining. The narrator notes summer is ending but plans to return to town.
Suggestions from New England Housewives in Sunday Post describe Cream Potato Candy made with one baked potato sugar and walnuts, set 20 minutes then cut into squares. Also included are a prune and flour dough bread recipe and quince preserving directions with steps for soft dough, rising, and jammy syrup.
City officials warn that without a council appropriation by September 16 the poor department must halt payments to needy families and other dependents. The plea stresses immediate funding to continue welfare disbursements.
The Mayor announced plans to send an order to the City Council for an additional appropriation of 75000 to cover exhausted funds in the overseers of the poor. He criticized the unpaid board for inefficiency and urged a paid official to take responsibility. Separate aid for dependent mothers and widows remains unaffected.
Captain W Barlow of the American steamship Owego reported details of the Aug 3 engagement in the English Channel with a German submarine. He said haze prevented sighting the U boat and that the ship displayed an American flag and the vessel name on both sides to deter attack.
The funeral of Ex Alderman Lyman A Bowker of Waltham who died after a fall from a street car will be held Monday at 2 PM from his home 107 Main Street Waltham The Rev Francis Webster of Christ Church Episcopal Waltham will conduct the services at the house.
President Wilson declares the suffrage movement rising to a flood, praising the "wholesome contagion" of the occasion in Atlantic City. He notes social questions post Civil War have brought women into public affairs and calls the tide unstoppable. He travels to Long Branch tomorrow for a summer stay.
A heat wave caused one death and four prostrations in the city yesterday. Victim Simon Naffan osky, 43 Wall Street, West Hind, died amid the swelter while many residents fled to homes or outings for relief as temperature peaked around 88 degrees at 2 PM. Vacationers returning to Boston said the city felt midsummer hot despite autumn hints.
Thomas H. Dow, business agent of Firemen's Union local 3, received the quill from Mayor James M. Curley as he signed wage increases for firemen and oilers in the public works and hospital departments. The Mayor praised Dow and the union for persistent, intelligent work and for timely recognition of service.
Louis Pberle head chef at the Tennis and Racquet Club is revealed as a French naturalized American, amid a strike by kitchen staff over wages. S. Hooper and Superintendent Owens confirm the incident closed with strikers replaced and no chance of return. Three to six workers quit, varying accounts, while the chef’s pro Allied stance is denied as motivation.
A 45 year old man, Leslie M Gretter, elopes with his employer Mr Gretter's betrothed daughter-in-law Miss Merrill, shocking the Gretter and Merrill households. Mrs Gretter pleads for reconciliation and for the daughter’s restoration to her father as Leslie faces social ruin while serving with the National Guard away in El Paso.
The Bay State Street Railway Company filed a revised fare schedule with the Public Service Commission proposing a six cent fare in strictly rural sections, leaving five cent zones in cities and towns untouched. The plan follows a commission decision made public August 31 and, if meeting restrictions, could be approved without further hearing and take effect October 9.
In South Boston on a date in September Peter Carey dies suddenly at the home of his cousin Michael Wade 53 East Second Street. A funeral date notice is given.
Poem by James Whitcomb Riley reprinted from the Lockerbie Book. The speaker admires a lover’s eyes likened to dew on violet, sunlit meadows and guiding stars, alternating dawn noon and night imagery to express awe and longing.
In a letter to the editor M J West defends his record as school superintendent amid public confusion over claims of hugging and kissing teachers. The State Board of Education reviewed charges of incompetency and improper personal conduct, finding no substantiated incompetence and that alleged intimate conduct did not justify dismissal.
Town clocks halt as pigeons perch on the minute hand atop the church causing time to seem to stand still. Doves depart, the minute hand resumes, and local transport resumes normal pace. Meanwhile the Royal Prince freighter, aground at Tovell's Island, was floated after a 1900 ton cargo lightening with longshoremen aid.
Datagraph notes from a fashion column discuss new dress silhouettes with slim skirts and satin hats featuring self cords. Short summer furs rise in popularity and casual evening wear returns to the separate skirt with a fichu blouse. Fur blocks may decorate skirt or coat hems at even intervals.
The Norfolk Grand Jury reported to Judge Raymond of the Norfolk Superior Court at Dedham listing four no bills and eight true bills. One true bill charged Gustav Axel Persson with the murder of Mrs. Annie Pearson in Needham on April 2. Thomas J. O'Mara of Stoughton, an Adams Express Company messenger, was indicted on six counts for larceny from the company totaling $1500.
Household hints describe saving colored material and cutting into inch wide strips. Sew strips light to dark, roll into a ball, then begin rug with a 12 stitch chain joined and worked in single crochet. Result is a pretty and serviceable rug by Mrs Battis Merrimac.
Miss Loretta Gertrude Chase daughter of Mrs. Alice M. Chase of 3 Law Square Chelsea married Prescott C. Crafts a member of Everett City Council. The ceremony led by Rev John H Quint took place at the Crafts family home 29 Stewart Street Overett.
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