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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
16
A reflective saying warns against arguing with the fire department during a blaze. It notes a prudent householder cooperates with responders and does not attack officials or favored brigades. The remark critiques loyalties and timing in disputes over institutions amid crisis.
The almanac marks Lexington Day this Friday with three consecutive holidays: a legal Lexington anniversary, Saturday as a workers haliday by common consent, and a wartime lift on Sunday labor for farming. Endicott urges turning leisure into garden and farm development, stressing patriotic food production and early ground preparation despite a season of backwardness.
The law governing conscription has been improved by Congress after the first draft. Local boards classify registrants and assign Class 1 to single men without dependent relatives. Quotas to states consider volunteers already in service, industrial needs, and the larger alien male population.
An editorial urges immediate public thanks to soldiers by funding the war effort. It praises Harry Lauder and his son’s sacrifice, then calls on Americans to act with tangible aid through the Third Liberty Loan, providing money to supply food, clothing, and equipment for troops. It stresses not delaying gratitude and links bond purchases to frontline relief.
The Post endorses the relief bill for the Boston Elevated Railway and the riders, saying it offers meaningful reform and a path to stable service. It notes likely fare and transfer changes, the need for a public board to enforce better service, and the acceptance that riders may pay more for improved transit.
The Oldest Inhabitant notes Boston’s coldest on the 18th of April reaching 26 and 29 degrees in 1887 and 1884, respectively. He records a warming of 76 degrees as the warmest for this date and notes rain or snow on this date in 1910, 1912, 1916, and 1917 over the past decade.
A civic appeal urges readers to enlist in the bond drive to strengthen national credit and honor. The message links personal name on the honor roll with contributing through purchase of bonds to support wartime financing.
Far west the night wind droned as sparks of the day’s torch fade. Eastward the sea moans to cliffs, stars flash, landward crags cling the sky. A speaker longs to translate cosmic truth, seek freedom, and find peace among poets as a sphinx offers wary counsel.
A satirical collage questions a reported elevator drop from third to fourth floor, suggests gravity oddities, and features a humorous correspondent “Anthony” seeking a beans eating solution. It includes a reply by “Newt” offering a pea knife joke and a nod to square beans and peas and bond buying.
A cross section of local items from the Observant Citizen column includes reflections on the San Francisco fire as a recurring California boast, notes on a Boston park work restart and spring beds, Manet the mascot dog changing hands in wartime, a Salem service flag with eight stars, wheat prospects in Essex county, a Brookline man’s 80th birthday, and commentary on boat-building book scarcity. Also cited are a hotbed mishap involving a Ford car and a Norwood organist celebrating 50 years in service, plus a plan to stock Maine waters with humpback salmon and its uncertain outcome.
The article surveys the romance and risks of oil prospecting across continents, detailing the dream of striking oil, the use of nitro glycerine in blasting, and the dangers faced by operators. It explains drilling tools, including heavy strings of tools, and the thrilling moment of a shell detonation at the bottom of a well.
A narrator recalls summer impulsively riding a Maine Old Orchard merry-go-round, spotting Tom Campbell from Lawrence whom she once knew. After recognizing him, she plans to speak when the ride ends, but doubts his recognition and wonders if their past disagreement still colors his memory.
Wartime garden tale invites humor as Uncle Walt Mason mocks the hazards that could plague a perfect plot. He imagines hens dogs cows horses and hogs raiding beds of peas beans leeks and Hubbard squashes, delivering playful rustic counsel and a sigh of frustration.
Charles Franklin Jones urges readers to do their best for the war by buying Liberty bonds. He argues that your bit means your duty and total effort, not just a small contribution, stressing that true enthusiasm shows in cash given, even if only one bond.
A woman recounts a summer romance sparked by mistaken identity on a beach near Lawrence. She first mistakes a stranger for Tom Campbell, then learns his true name and origin in Canada. Their chance meetings grow into friendship and affection, leading to an engagement and a wedding planned after his return to Canada.
A small classified ad lists Green Mountain and New Bermuda potatoes with price 15 cents per quart and 4 pecks at 500 peck, plus a peck for one dollar, alongside strawberries.
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