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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1917
Page
12
Dear sisters respond to domestic questions about modest dress and farming work. A reader urges sensible collars and skirts, warns against country living as a remedy, and notes farmers face high grain costs. Others discuss balancing work, family needs, and wartime duties.
A farmer's wife argues against marrying at 16 for money or love. She warns that a young girl lacks settled judgment, shares a real life tale, and urges patience, responsibility, and respect for husbands' work. The letter laments city excess and praises rural labor and duty.
The Sunday Post features engaging letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader opinions and tips. Readers discuss projects, fabric selection, and sewing methods, reflecting a lively community exchange.
A vintage recipe fragment lists quantities for Chocolate Cake, Economical Pop-Overs, and Molasses Sauce. It includes ingredients such as sugar butter eggs milk flour baking powder ginger soda salt molasses vanilla and methods to mix, bake, and glaze. The note reflects older kitchen measurements and steps.
A reader asks why gossip harms reputation and whether a suitor’s silence proves cowardice. The columnist urges the man to protect the woman's good name, condemns retreat under pressure, and stresses a man’s duty to defend his partner’s honor.
Members of the Women's Charity Club opened coin bags at the Hotel Lenox and found more than 300 dollars raised over the past year for the Massachusetts Women's Hospital.
Over the Wire Dora Tanner’s sister arrives and impresses in a last year boarding school outing. She longs for the stage despite her father’s view one actress sufficing for the family. Dora wears a pale blue chiffon frock with silver accessories and a tasseled finish.
Readers query whether the golden robin is the Baltimore oriole and discuss alien labor law violations. Another letter confirms Jenny Lind sang in grand opera abroad and married Otto Goldschmidt in Boston. A Girl Scout explains the proper flag salute in schools.
A Boston Post reader asks about voting rights after a father’s naturalization and a minor’s ability to naturalize, confirming that two papers are needed and a two year wait between filings. Readers also inquire about flag etiquette and mailing parcels to soldiers in France or under British or French care.
Boston will host a three unit Red Cross base hospital with tents and supplies from the federal government and funding raised by public subscription. The directors include Dr. Harvey Cushing of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Dr. John J. Dowling of Boston City Hospital and Dr. Frederick A. Washburn of Massachusetts General Hospital. A $25 000 fund must cover remaining establishment costs.
Jacques Copeau, leading figure in French experimental theatre, will lecture in French before Harvard drama students in Harvard Hall tomorrow evening under the 47 Workshop of Harvard and Radcliffe. He is busy with experimental theatre work in New York.
Dr Worth M Tippy announced plans to enlist 1 000 000 church members to join the American Red Cross hospital supply effort and aid families of service members while aiding Belgian children. Details were sent to 1500 ministers across 1000 cities for immediate local organization. Louis Denny fined five dollars for walking a lion cub Brutus on Easter in Back Bay. he pleaded not guilty.
Assistant assessors in Malden compiled a list of all aliens over fourteen, recording names and addresses. They planned to determine each person’s country of origin and whether first papers for U S citizenship had been filed.
Miss Madeleine Brewer daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward W Brewer of Jamaica Plain married Henry Gilbert Francke Harvard class of 14 son of Professor and Mrs Francke of Cambridge. The ceremony occurred at the Unitarian Church Jamaica Plain conducted by Rev James A Fairley.
Poem extols the American flag as symbol of freedom and victory. It describes the flag unfurling from the sun and sky, the eagle bearer, and the battle’s violence, linking the banner to courage, hope, and national destiny amid sea and war. The closing refrain urges freedom and the flag to forever stream above the nation.
Captain L P Borman described the sinking of the City of Memphis by a German submarine 40 miles west of Fastnet on March 18. The craft, about 250 feet long with a four inch gun, fired 25 shells along the waterline after the ship halted in ballast from Havre.
The Harvard Union for American Neutrality announced its automatic dissolution after the declaration of war. Secretary Hallowell Davis stated the group had ceased to exist once the war was declared.
Judge Morton of the United States District Court presided with the national ensign in court yesterday as he administered the oath of citizenship to over 100 aliens. The silk flag, bought by the judge, stood behind his bench while he spoke on the obligations that accompany citizenship.
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