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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1914
Page
15
Market mood soured as foreign markets close and New England growers cope with a bumper apple harvest that lacks buyers. Growers fear unsold fruit driving prices down and profits down across the United States.
Apples of top quality available at 1.75 to 2.2 per barrel while lower grade fruit is not packed for shipment. Chamber urges retailers to handle the supply to offset reduced foreign demand, warning farmers may suffer if retailers cling to last year’s prices and hamper wholesale disposal.
Mrs Bridget C Peixotto who left a New York City school to become a mother was not reinstated by the New York Board of Education. The Court of Appeals ruled the board acted fairly in dismissing her for absence without permission, rejecting the argument that maternity leave equaled neglect.
In Asheville North Carolina on September 29 W J rent secretary of a negro Y M C A at Atlantic and J W Walker a local physician both negroes were exon erated in Superior Court of arson. Seven other negroes including Bishop C R Harris are on trial for burning a church to collect insurance.
The famous New England actor Nat Goodwin faced a fourth divorce with his only remark being Expensive luxury. The Sunday Post promises further details about his life and career in the next issue.
The Boston Post presents a regular Sewing Circle forum for homemakers in New England. Readers discuss home and household topics, family management, baby care, budgeting, flowers, and gardening. Use noms de plume and write on one side of the paper. address letters to Sewing Circle Editor.
A serialized exchange from a newspaper letters page discusses marriage roles and equal partnership. A wife asserts dominance as master while praising her husband as steady breadwinner. Replies cover parenting, work for wives, pensions, and dangers of exposing children to modern ideas.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, highlighting reader anecdotes, tips, and community conversations from the weekly column.
A collection of home recipes from Roxbury and Portland addresses. Instructions describe halved tomatoes with bacon, a butter sugar mix, molasses spice cake, and baked fish with salt pork bed. Recipes credited to M A F Ryan, Mrs Frank Nelson, and Mrs E Currier.
Mrs. Glendower Evans backs Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey's view that the old-time family is gone but foresees a new family form based on higher values. In an interview at 12 Otis Place she says the family as an institution has dissolved yet the family tie endures, now non integrated with the State.
The text argues that the state now supports widows and takes over parental protections, shifting authority from parents to social systems. It asserts women should balance home duties with work, and that private property underpins society, with calls for community compensation when property is socially controlled.
A narrator recalls dawn on a ship voyage with creaking sails and a crew bracing to reef. He notices memories of home and family growing distant as the vessel faces the sea in cold darkness. The captain orders sails as the ship clears headland and heads seaward.
The excerpt argues that personal property is not man’s destiny and that progress governs the future. It envisions democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equal rights, universal education, and a higher social plane guided by experience, intelligence, and knowledge.
A committee of wealthy brokers forms the Wall Street Employees relief group to aid 6000 workers displaced by the foreign crisis and stock market closures. It will assist army clerks and other stock exchange staff facing job loss or reduced salaries.
A promotional note touts El Rado hair removal as safer and more durable than permanent methods. It asserts long lasting effects, skin smoothing, and eventual finer regrowth, urging trial with a money back guarantee. Available in 0c and $1.00 sizes from Pilgrim Mfg. Co. New York.
The ad extols Fels-Naptha Soap as cutting washday effort. It claims less work and more leisure by enabling cleaning of dishes clothes paint and woodwork in cool or lukewarm water with half the effort.
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