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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1913
Page
15
A Boston Post Sewing Circle page features letters debating marriage money and independence. Writers discuss wives demanding wages, life insurance, and female financial independence, warning against alimony and the decline of marriage and birth rates while defending self-supporting women and workers facing rising living costs.
Widely offered home remedies promise skin whitening tonics eye soothers and weight loss aids. Recipes include spurmax in water with glycerine for a velvet complexion and an eye rinse with crystal dissolved in water. Treatments target dandruff hair tonics shampoo and wrinkle prevention with simple drugstore ingredients.
A tale exposes how women harshly judge other women in service roles and uphold the double standard. It contrasts forgiveness for male faults with punitive treatment of female workers, highlighting intolerance among women and the social pressure it creates. The manager questions the fairness of firing a girl over a bread mix up.
A neighborhood cake maker, known for high quality, earns extra pin money by selling homemade cakes to neighbors at home. She emphasizes using the finest materials and superior craft to justify higher prices.
The Sunday Post features notable letters to the Sewing Circle offering reader opinions and anecdotes. Readers discuss crafts, community events, and fashion with a warm, domestic tone typical of Sunday pages.
A sentimental poem depicts a returning figure seeking solace in home and family. The speaker celebrates a loving nest with a secure rest for loved ones, contrasting worldly turmoil with domestic warmth, declaring love and cheer as sovereign. The refrain affirms the world’s goodness.
Miss Elizabeth Standish guards a vanished fortune in a creaking mansion. Dick Meredith reveals a cameo brooch with a note and key to a secret panel, promising restoration of land and happiness for Betty and Elizabeth.
A short letter from a reader describes a telephone conversation that blossomed into a budding romance. The writer proposes a simple, honest introduction by sharing personal details and references to facilitate a real meeting without a middleman.
The text covers funeral rites for Rt. Rev. Denis O Callaghan at St Augustine's with Rev. Coppinger presiding, a Redemptorist mission for unmarried women at St Mary’s Charlestown, a farewell sermon by Rev Garrett Barry at St Benedict's Somerville, and plans for St Patrick's Parochial School Watertown’s 16th anniversary reception. It also notes St Ann's Neponset mission closing and a farewell reception for Rev Henry Grady.
Lieutenant Harold C. Daniels of the Marine Corps at Charlestown navy yard postpones his marriage to Miss Annie Mary Williams due to a serious illness. He has been hospitalized at Chelsea Naval Hospital with rheumatism and malaria. Miss Williams, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Gardner Richard Williams of Ocala Florida, had been a guest of Y. S. Williams at the navy yard. Daniels, a Newton native, graduated high school in 1902 and joined the Marine Corps in 1909.
Confusion over appointed delegates at the Boston Central W C T U meeting in Chipman Hall as the state convention in Worcester Oct 7 to 9 approached. Names raised included Mrs. F E Wilson, Everett. Mrs Emma Thomas, Boston. Mrs Ralph Fisher, Brookline. Miss J Caswell, Cambridge. A vote set a Columbus Day parade float and next meeting is Monday at 2 30.
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