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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1919
Page
19
Patch of a Dewar Sewing Circle letter asks if a $25 weekly budget for a cold home with four children, rent, coal, insurance, bills, and bread makes her extravagant. She cooks at home, patches, wears no new clothes for years, and still goes to movies weekly. Responses urge prudence, affirm faithfulness, and advise focusing on practical frugality and family duties.
A guide discusses who should lead on crowded streets recommending ladies first and explains that inviting a guest to a fixed timeframe requires prior consent for any change. If a guest proposes altering dates, the host may refuse politely and reiterate the original schedule.
The records list Boston coldest for April ninth as 24 above in 1876 and 26 in 1917. The warmest on this date reached 66 in 1915. No rain or snow has fallen in the past decade except in 1911 1912 1914 1916 and 1917. Nine inches of snow fell on the date in 1917.
An advertisement promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle, vegetable remedy to cleanse blood, bowels, and liver like calomel without sickness. It claims clearer skin, absence of bad breath, dullness, or pimples, and urges taking one or two nightly for a week. Boxes priced 30c and 25c, available at all druggists.
Mrs Barton and neighbor Alice plan a thrifty outing after the war. They tour a grocery window, crafts shop, bookseller, and pet window, marveling at free colors and simple pleasures while keeping to a budget of 380 cents for three hours.
Anna and Alice tour a shop admiring calla lilies and blue bowls. They pace a frugal outing spending 30 cents total on carfare, purchases, and refreshments. They plan to support bonds and Red Cross, noting wartime thrift.
A collection of home recipes including Chocolate Dainties, Potato Patties, Welsh Rabbit, Best Ever Fudge, and Ginger Cake Muffins from correspondents Julia Quimby Marlboro and Marion L Russell West Lynn. The note advises spelling out words and provides basic preparation steps for each dish.
Miss Mary Thomas Dumaine, daughter of Mr and Mrs Frederick C Dumaine of Concord, engaged to Captain D Lt G Nutt of the British Machine Gun Corps. The Vincent Club girl belongs to the Sewing Circle, with wedding date not yet set.
Relatives of the lith Engineers who fought with the British in Cambrai voted to dispatch a wireless petition to Secretary Baker to return the 11th Engineers to the United States at once if military conditions allow. The unit, first American casualty and pioneer in the drive under General Byng, had been on the priority list since January but was delayed aboard the Leviathan en route to France.
One of Botchkareva's most painful wounds was caused by a fragment of shell striking her back and causing intense suffering. The story of her struggle against odds is told in her recital, My Life, which will be continued in next week's Boston Sunday Post.
Donald B. MacMillan reports Arctic flowers and birds. Greenland hosts 700 flower types. Irene Castle in Miami denies engagement rumors. Japanese Diet members Mochizuki and Ozaki tour the U S, touting a billion-dollar syndicate for Far East exploitation. Cowie medal honors Navy leadership in Liberty Loans. Zauditu, Abyssinian ruler, faces revolution threats. Baron Roman Rosen and wife flee Russia to settle in the U S.
Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss who oversaw the mine barrage in the North Sea sailed on the Orduna to direct mine removal. He is accompanied by aide Commander W L Beck as eighteen American mine sweepers join the effort with twelve already at sea. Strauss says the danger from the mines has been exaggerated as they become ineffective after a period.
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