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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1917
Page
15
Readers debate marriage timing for teenage girls, gender norms, and farm life. A 40 year old performer recalls courtship with her husband, while letters praise wartime home front efforts and reimagine women’s work and dress. Community voices discuss potatoes prices, grange co ops, and support for soldiers’ families.
A casual column mentions Dorothy and vacation routines, plus a quirky kitchen note on frying potatoes and a molasses drop cake recipe with steps and ingredients for a small crowd. The tone blends everyday talk with practical cooking tips and wardrobe description.
A Sunday Post feature by Miss Delphina J. Huston offers home cooking instructions for baked beans and doughnuts. The baked beans guide details bean prep, pork, molasses, seasoning, and a long, slow bake with milk eggs corn and crackers. The doughnuts recipe lists ingredients, dough rolling, and frying steps for a light to medium fry.
A Boston Post inquiry questions whether a married woman may kiss her niece's husband in the family setting after long absence. The letter argues such kisses vary and that acceptable family affection should not be questioned, noting many years of this practice.
The piece urges turning from petty aims to noble action and broader paths. It calls for duty over dreams, nation’s needs, and enduring spirit, urging readers to act on higher responsibilities. EVA M. KELLY of Harwich describes a curtain making tip involving drying and shaping fabric points.
The speaker implores the nation to defend liberty as war approaches. A mother country is praised while soft pleasures are rejected for duty. The piece frames a looming conflict with waves and death near the shore and calls on leaders and people to act now.
The item notes that tipping the soup plate is poor form and that one may skip the last spoonful. It reminds readers to focus on a guest during a call and avoid embroidery work in a social visit.
Dr. William G. Branscomb a renowned physician died at his New Bedford residence today. He was a Vineyard St. John native and a graduate of the Medical College of the University of New York.
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