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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1909
Page
4
A reader asks if it is proper to pursue a marriage with a married woman who wants him to help her obtain a divorce. The response warns against coercion or marrying under such terms, urging patience until divorce is granted and noting risks of involving another person’s marriage.
Providence, R. I ., Sept. 12 Miss Annie Peck a mountain climber and explorer praises Mrs Fanny Bullock Workman as the world s top woman climber. She says she relinquished the title in 1900 and argues that estimates put Huascaran height near 24000 feet. Her letter to Mrs Workman cites past ascents and clarifies why papers misattributed records to her.
The Board of Schoolhouse Commissioners faces a split between Chairman R. Clipston Sturgis and fellow appointees Tilton S. Bell and Thomas Leavitt. Superintendent Stratton Brooks aligns with Bell and Leavitt over portable school houses, while Sturgis questions colleagues. Sharp letters reportedly reflect on board authority as tensions rise.
Fall River iron workers plan a strike tomorrow morning seeking a 10 percent wage increase. About 1000 weavers employed by the Fall River Iron Works Company, controlled by M. C. D. Borden of New York, are involved.
The article outlines autumn fashion trends with tight-fitting sleeves and empire shapes, shorter skirts, and puffed sleeves on Paris gowns. It notes colored linings for sheer gowns, white twine handbags, green accents, and black bearded velvet trims on hats. It mentions Russian needlework on corsages and skirts, topcoats in smart English tweed, hollow gold earring balls for travel, and draped cap silhouettes with embroidery and feathers.
A speaker recalls past maids who deserved praise but says none among the present girls raises a heart-throb. He notes a change in the people he has met and admits he is not hard to please, contrasting with his earlier youth.
A letter to the Boston Post urges transit commissioners to deepen a tunnel under the Common to avoid removing or damaging trees. The writer emphasizes the trees are essential to a parkway and people’s enjoyment, urging preservation in the Cambridge subway linkage to Park Street.
The second of Germanys fleet for the Hudson Fulton celebration, the cruiser Bertha, reached Newport R I today joined by the training ship Bremen and protected cruiser Trieste expected soon. Bertha sailed from the Azores in under five days and the trio plans to stay about a week.
A Minneapolis reader shares a testimonial praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving female troubles. The letter claims full recovery within three months and urges publication to show benefits for women. The note notes that testimonials are published only with the writer's permission and authenticity.
Boston butter dealer George A. Cochrane predicts prices may reach 50 cents per pound before winter as demand for top quality butter remains strong. He notes September prices in Boston setting records, a shortage in ice vault stocks, and growing use of substitutes like margarine while hotel and restaurant demand remains for the finest product.
Work by Cambridge Park Commission to remove about 496 dead trees has begun. Some, near Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Buckingham street home, face removal though Higginson is in Dublin for the summer and objects that the trees may still shade and benefit the street.
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