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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1908
Page
7
A young man rests beneath pines and muses on love. Voices of the trees and a violet, a buttercup, and a mature woman offer contrasting ideals, ending with a graceful woodland girl declaring love as life and God’s essence, as the man pursues her into the meadow.
A reader asks for guidance to improve emotional support from his wife. The columnist argues true wifehood rests on loving affection over tidiness and urges the wife to abandon chores for love and caresses to fulfill her destiny and bring happiness.
A reader asks if a gentleman should walk between two young ladies or on the outside. The columnist replies the gentleman always walks on the outside with one or more ladies, avoiding being sandwiched.
By the George F. Parkman will Boston will receive a substantial sum for upgrading Boston Common and city parks and playgrounds. Estimates suggest as much as 7,000,000. Post readers are invited to send suggestions to the Parkman Fund Editor to guide administration, with the only restriction that funds must be used within Boston city limits for existing parks and playgrounds.
Leland S. Wilson of Boston urges the Parkman Fund be used to enlarge playgrounds public baths and similar recreation facilities from the Parkman legacy. He argues more and better spaces will draw children away from dusty streets and alleys, promoting healthier wiser citizenship.
Parkman Fund letter urges buying rear land beyond Pleasant Street School Dorchester to prevent light loss and enable future expansion. Proposes building three flats to provide a public passageway and safety for children, urging public contributions.
A South Boston woman urges Editor Parkman Fund to allocate one seventh of the Parkman fund to raze dilapidated hovels and build up-to-date homes for Boston’s poor, calling it a lasting monument to the donor.
A letter from George F. Cole of Boston dated September 25 urges using part of the Parkman fund to install more drinking fountains in the Common and public parks to keep young men from visiting rum shops. He argues Mr. Parkman would have agreed.
Councilman A B Zetterman of Boston calls for swift Parkman fund allocation to upgrade North Brighton and Rogers Park into proper playgrounds with gymnastic equipment sand gardens wading pools a running track baseball facilities and a skating rink He urges Mayor to act to keep children off streets improve physique and morals in Allston and Brighton.
Letter from Dr A Th suggests creating a park from City Square to the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston. The plan aims to illustrate to visitors how the British surrounded Bunker Hill. The message invites public input on how to use the Park man fund.
A reader from South Boston proposes using a large sum to build summer cottages in Franklin Park or other large parks for poor or invalid school children who would otherwise lack a vacation or rest. The letter, dated September 25, is signed by Clara Fitz.
The correspondent urges completing paving with granolithic in all currently unpaved areas of the Common, proposing this as a prudent use of an instalment from the fund.
A Charlestown resident urges city officials to install an outdoor gymnasium on the Mys tic playground, praising the park’s layout but noting it currently lacks recreational equipment. He signs as W. J. K. Charlestown.
An early morning basement fire at 48-50 Washington Street damaged a five story brick building. The Boston Construction Company occupied the structure, owned by the Wentworth estate, with damage pegged at $6000. Fault traced to defective wiring.
John Foley aged 19 of 38 Westwood Street fell from the collapsed staging while painting an elevated structure on Washington Street near Arborway yesterday morning. He suffered severe injuries to his left leg and back and was taken to City Hospital.
August Knader an imported affinity suspect was released from jail after his wife Maria traveled from Russia and urged leniency. The US District Attorney and Judge Dodge agreed to dismiss the case, Knader urged reconciliation with his wife and 18 year old son.
A New York upper West Side builder found two doors to a bathroom impossible under the tenement house law. Commissioner Butler cited safety and privacy reasons, saying two doors invite accidental collisions and forgetting to lock the other door.
Russell family stage plans center on Flora Russell daughter of John Russell. Miss Russell a teen with ten siblings will appear as dancer singer and actress in a new play written by her father under Harris or Frohman direction.
Frank Lovely, an elderly Taunton Insane Asylum inmate claiming heavenly powers and baldness cures, escaped Thursday, walked to Boston, and visited United States Marshal Major Murchie at the Federal building. The marshal detained him and returned Lovely to Taunton after a brief, calm interview.
Washington reports the first Cabinet meeting since last June with all members present except Secretary Root. The session reviewed the general political situation and discussed current affairs.
Through the Maine delegation in Washington the Navy Department assigns the battleships Maine and New Hampshire to Portsmouth Navy Yard as their home port.
A collected recipe page lists a lettuce and mayonnaise sandwich with chicken and bacon, plus an egg dish by A N Chick and a tomato broiled dish by M G Bates. It includes tomato sauce preparation, egg whites and yolks method, and directions for broiling ripe tomatoes with butter.
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