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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1916
Page
13
A reader asks if contemporary fashion is required to get ahead in business, with responses noting varied employer tastes from conservative dress to stylish attire. Women recount experiences of being hired or rejected based on clothing, while one writer defends stylish workwear and another urges charitable work to cope with personal struggles.
Champlain reads the Boston Post and receives a heartfelt reply. Sonja explains her penniless period after her mother’s death, her hard four years, and her current success as an assistant to a professional man. She notes loneliness after hours and a cautious trust in friendship. The Sewing Circle highlights these letters in the Sunday Post.
A note from Dorothy describes wooden painted caricature heads called pounces. Various ladies use them as hat stands or display pieces. The piece notes a city scene with maids and trunks stopping to view the unusual shop window novelty.
An outlined recipe from Mrs. Jessie Grant of Brookline for red fishballs using haddock onions carrots celery parsley salt pepper and eggs. The mixture is boiled in water with vegetables, ground, seasoned, formed into balls and cooked twenty minutes in stock.
The oldest resident recalls Mercury reaching 88 at Boston on this date in 1879 and 1898, with 75 as the warmest in the past decade in 1908. He notes a coolest official reading of 2 and a next-lowest 36, and mentions rain on this date in 1906 and 1914.
A young reader asks if men demand a kiss as affection or pleasure after theatre dances. The reply: such requests are improper and a sign of trifling. refuse respectfully, expect no further invites, and value self respect. Those who persist are not worthy.
An interesting programme by First Methodist Episcopal Church Dorchester marks its centennial. Tomorrow morning the Woman's Anniversary features speakers Mrs Willard Coy Miss Caroline R Steels Mrs Robert Upham and Mrs Dr T Corwin Watkins. In the evening the Men's Anniversary guest is Dr Webster H Powell.
An account from the set describes a 50 mile day ending at lunch where Mary Pickford endures a tense encounter with a persistent admirer. The star faces questions about grease paint and a native Indian character while a public gaze resembles a gilded cage.
Eleanor Haddie five year old of Weymouth is reunited with her mother after a year of cross country legal battles. She arrived with her uncle Dr Leonard F Wolf at 168 Sea street North Weymouth. The girl cried and clung to her mother at Trinity Crossing station amid onlookers. Her father James Leslie Haddie had abducted her from Bridgeport Connecticut last October, and she had been moved between a convent school and other locations before Chicago judge Wessner ordered custody to the mother.
A poem evokes a mother’s embrace as a ship of dream rides moonlit tides. The speaker asks about the quaint vessel and finds it is the ship of mother’s arms carrying a sleeping baby. The lullaby comforts against storms and loss across East and West and North and South.
A Boston newspaper notes fur and velvet trends for the season with nutria coats and moleskin fashions and highlights a Prayer Sunday campaign led by evangelist William A Sunday. The proclamation urges widespread prayer across Greater Boston to support cottage meetings starting Monday night.
Charles L. Page chairman of the Sunday campaign prayer meeting committee issued a proclamation urging all residents of Greater Boston to pray over the next six weeks and during the coming Sunday revival with unprecedented fervor.
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