Gregory's Courtship on a Boston Train Ride
Gregory, a dreamy youth, leaves a purple aster with Ruth and wins the affection of Hope and her older husband in a seaside to Boston trip. He schemes to charm Hope's daughter Phillis while the couple jokes about age and plans a future visit to New York, gifting and matching trinkets along the way.
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Gregory
G&t A
Molly
Ruth
Philadelphia
Rome
Papa
Boston
Shea
Hope
Gayly
Tonneau
Napa
Phillis
New York
Moily
Uncle Walt Sows Germs and Water Fears in Verse
A 1909 poem harshly depicts a thirsty wanderer seeking boiled water. The speaker, Walter Mason, reflects on germ fear stirred by scientific talk, then violently strikes the pilgrim, resolving his own turmoil with lethal action.
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Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Kers
Plaited Yoke Skirts and Early Fall Fashion Notes
Fashion notes describe plaited skirts and plaited coats as fall trends with yoke effects across hips. A black hat with a green wreath and foliage feather boa is highlighted. Jewelry, including laces and brooches, is worn in profusion with daytime outfits. Real lace undersleeves tucked into cuff styles offer a new use.
Love and Sentiment Advice From Miss Champagne
A 19 year old asks how to handle a cooling engagement with a slightly older man. The adviser suggests asking what ails him, notes outside troubles may affect him, and urges steady communication. A second reader prefers a minimum one year engagement to decide compatibility before marriage.
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Miss Champagne
Earth
Dear Miss Champagne Advice Letter on Off Limits Language
A young woman asks how to handle a fiancé who used vulgar language. The correspondent notes his gentleness yet family concerns and a past association with bad company. An advice writer distinguishes careless versus vicious language and urges reliance on her mother’s judgment.
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Miss Champagne
Recipes from New England Housewives Page Highlights
Readable fragments of a Sunday Post page show home recipes including tripe stew with butter onions parsley and tomato sauce, preserved pears with vanilla and brandy, chocolate cream frost, radish and cucumber salad with onion and whipped cream, spiced cookies with currants and raisins, and fried tomatoes with cheese in graham flour.
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New England Housewives
Sunday Post
H. T. Hansen
Horace Street
Boston
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
Religious notes from Boston and surroundings report Rev Ora Samuel Gray leading evangelistic series in Everett with Charles F Allen directing church singing. Sermon topics and vacation visits are noted, plus changes in church leadership and new church-building plans across Massachusetts and nearby states.
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Ora Samuel Gray
Everett
Charles F. Allen
United States
New England
Photographing Thought Sparks a Berkshire Mystery
Robert March, a writer and amateur photographer, develops a roll of film that reveals a perfect portrait on an unexposed frame. The image hints at a supernatural connection between thought and image, guiding March through a fevered search for a scientific basis while a delightful meeting with Ruth Barden’s guest, Frances Trenslow, unfolds at a cottage in the Berkshires.
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Robert March
John Barden
March
No. 12
Withal
Barden
John
Rose & Waters
Ruth
Berkshires
Frances Trenslow
Europe
Boston
Mrs. Barden
Piazza
Miss Ballard
Miss Trensiow
Robert
Miss Trenslow
Paine Furniture builds vast dining room display at canal street
Paine Furniture Co at 48 Canal Street advertises an extensive furniture selection for every room. The display features colonial reproductions in solid mahogany including a 13-drawer mahogany bureau highboy priced at 125.00 and a brass chiffoniere and oval mirror priced 65.00 to 45.00, with a promise of top materials and highest workmanship and a guarantee on hair mattresses.
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E. Y. Wooley
Moody Church
Chicago
Roxbury
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Tripe
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Jennie B. Hunt
Salter’s Point
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Dida
Oak Bluffs
H. M. Parker
Winter Street
Framingham
Greater Boston
Albert R. Williams
Maverick Congregational Church
East
William J. Kelley
East Dedham
Newburyport
Boston University
Ernest Ll. Mills
St. John’s Church
South Boston
Hedding, N. H
Samuel A. Eliot
D. D
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American Unitarian Association
King’s Chapel
William Couden
Third Universalist Church
West Somerville
Concord
Mich
Couden
Lewis G. Wilson
Man Chester-by-the-Sea
Zion's Herald
A. M. Osgood
Lewis B. Bates
Olic
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Augustus Erickson
Mission Tabernacle
Rockford, N
People's A. M. E. Church Society
Chelsea
William Williams
Society
Pearl Street
Congress Avenue
Fourth Street
Edgar C. Wheeler
Bockland, Mass
Pilgrim Church
Tacoma, Wash
Ernest Peabody
Post Publishing Co
Tomorrow's Sunday Post
Paine Furniture Co
Canal Street
Binemerkee Star
Colonial Highboy
Chiffoniere
Maple
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