Funniest Story Contest Promoted by The Post Boston
The Boston Post invites readers to submit humorous tales for a contest starting May 1. Prizes include 20, 10 and 5 dollars in gold. Submissions must be 200 words max, on one side of paper, with real name and address. copies may be printed in daily editions. Judges include Newton Newkirk and Joe Toye.
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England
THE
POST
Kee Corran
the Post
Boston
Sunday Post
Newton Newkirk
Joe Toye
Remarkable 82 Year Old Seamstress Of Somerville
Mrs Rose Merrow of Somerville aged 82 is praised as an excellent seamstress and housekeeper. She recently transformed last year's dress into a fresh model in two days, prepared a superb dinner alone, and shows keen interest in Civil War history and current events. Reading Massachusetts notes her in-depth days and daily news interest.
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Rose Merrow
Somerville
Catherine J. Pheney
Reading
Mass
Mary Spencer joins spry old folks list in Belfast
Mary Spencer aged 98 is added to the spry old folks list. She is mother of six, stepmother of two, adopted mother to one, and now lives with a grandson caring for his three motherless children. She sews for them all without glasses at Swan Lake Avenue, Belfast Maine.
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Mary Spencer
Agnes Walker
Swan Lake Avenue
Belfast
Speech by 96 year old Isaiah Chute at G A R encampment
Observant Citizen's Column notes Isaiah Chute of Peabody Massachusetts, aged 96, spoke clearly at a Sons of Veterans Auxiliary gathering in Boston on April 6 1918. His son Rupert, also a post member, spoke of his father's active life and early rising to tend the garden when weather allowed.
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G. A. R. Post
Sons of Veterans
Peabody
Mass
Boston
Anna Larcom Goldsmith
Central Street
Beverly
Isaiah Chute
Rupert
Sons of Veterans Auxiliary
Everyday Etiquette For Guests And Sealing Wax
A guide on proper host guest manners for greeting and bidding farewell with cordial phrases. It notes serving tea or hot chocolate and small cakes, served fresh from a drawing room table, presided by the hostess or daughter. It also advises on sealing wax and avoiding glue on envelopes.
A Rallying Call for Bond Buying Across Means
The text urges resilience and unity after hardship, encouraging citizens to buy bonds within their means. It contrasts the virtue of modest savers with the wealthy who also invest, urging universal participation. It frames bond ownership as a moral, collective effort to support national aims.
Remarkable Hinsdale Woman Remembering Mt Holyoke Founder
Mrs Elvira Stearns Sanderson of Hinsdale New Hampshire an alumna of Mt Holyoke College recalls Mary Lyon founder memories She is in her final year born December 4 1827 mother of five children and stepdaughter owner of sharp memory and active in family life She wrote poetry and taught after leaving Mt Holyoke and still reads papers and discusses current events in her community
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Elvira (Stearns) Sanderson
Hinsdale
N. H
Mt. Holyoke College
Mary Lyon
Miss Lyon
Keeps Flock of Hens at 82
A note from Orrington Maine describes a strong elderly woman turning 88 on May 10. She tends a flock of hens, lives upstairs, carries water, walks uphill for berries, and makes patchwork. She has 12 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. Written by her great granddaughter, 10 years old. Miss Marion Dunham, R F D No 1 So Brewer Maine.
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Orrington
Marion Dunham
Brewer
Recipes from New England Housewives featured in Sunday Post
Readable pages show dated home recipes from Mrs H B Crosby East Boston English Fruit Cake from Mrs W W Hardy and ShadyNook War Bread from Shadynook Farm Naples Maine plus Rolled Oats Cookies by Mrs J P Card Bowdoinham Ridge Me with detailed ingredients and steps for marmalade cake bread and cookies
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New England
Sunday Post
H. B. Crosby
Lexington Street
Boston
W. W. Hardy
Naples
Shadynook Farm
J. P. Card
Bowdoinham Ridge
Suffrage Patriotic Meet Called Off At Boston
The May 1 meeting at the Copley Theatre under the Boston Equal Suffrage Association war service committee is canceled because aviator Bert Hall is not a French army lieutenant. Lieutenant EK. M. Roberta of the Royal Flying Corps will speak instead at 2:15 p.m. on May 10.
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Copley Theatre
War Service Committee
Boston
Equal Suffrage Association
Bert Hall
EK. M. Roberta
Royal Flying Corps
Prizes for Best Wheatless Sandwich Bread
The United States Food Administration in Washington DC offers four prizes totaling $1000 to hotel and restaurant bakers for producing the whitest most palatable and best looking wheatless sandwich bread at a moderate price. No wheat in any form and no rye may be used in the bread.
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United States States Food Administration
Washington, D. C
Should a woman handle her future husband's money before marriage
A flurry of reader letters to the Sewing Circle debate if a fiancée should control or contribute to a shared funds before marriage. Contributors argue from duty to future home to trust issues, with examples of saving habits and frugality shaping plans and happiness.
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Sewing Circle
Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Verdun and Spring in the New York Times Poem
A poem reflects on Verdun's trenches and the question of spring after war. It asks if spring has touched Verdun's ruins, if violets bloom in craters, and if gentleness returns to the battlefield. The speaker contrasts springtime rebirth with the memory of dead soldiers and crosses.
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Verdun
The Better Man Of Sam Wins Polly's Choice
Polly learns that Sam is the better man after Barbara shares a tale of a past heartbreak with Charley. When a telegram arrives summoning Sam to the front, Polly abandons all else and rushes to marry him at once, deciding he is the right partner.
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Barbara
Sam
Charley
Polly
Babs
Neway
Mrs. Bam
Mother
Polly Finds Hard Life Hard to Understand
A reflective moment shows Polly reacting to a boy's collision with a smile fading to concern. She muses that life is difficult to comprehend, quieting at the window as she contemplates the event and her feelings.
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Polly
The World Split Into Two Heaps of Phools Says Josh Billings
Josh Billings humorously divides mankind into two heaps of fools and names several notable fool types. He mocks vanity power and ignorance, noting a market of fools and the peril of shortage, with a long list of labeled phools and an estimate of 4391 distinct kinds.
Household Hints From Mrs Connors South Framingham
A column of practical tips covers frying doughnuts or oysters in deep fat with a pared potato to prevent burning grease, saving gas by keeping oven doors open until moisture evaporates, and celery refreshing tips with lemon juice to restore crispness.
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John J. Connors
Concord Street
South
Framingham
A Little Chat on Style Over the Wire
Doris invited a weekend outing. the narrator and Doris’s husband away plan a quiet couple’s excursion. They meet Betty and a striking officer at tea in the Green Inn. Betty’s back hides the admirer. narrator vows to confront her next week.
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Doris
Jack
Green Inn
Betty
Fadts and Fashions in Millinery and Gowns
Navy blue trims brown hats and waistless gowns become permanent. Coats and dresses contrast colors with rosewood pastels and bright blues. A new high stock covers the chin, fiber silk stockinet with satin or crepe de chine, black and white millinery, lacquered wings and quills, sleeveless jackets on frocks, brown tulle folds on hats, straight silhouettes and short skirts. Chantilly Brussels embroidered net filet laces prevail. Crepe de chine common for undergarments. foulard toque with maline streamers for dressy events.
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Chantilly
Brussels
Oldest Inhabitant Recalls Boston’s Coldest Warmest Stats
The Oldest Inhabitant recalls Boston weather on this date with historical extremes. He mentions records of 83 degrees above zero in 1883 and 79 degrees in 1911, plus rain or snow in 1912 1914 and 1917, reflecting long term climate variation.
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Boston
Beads for Liberty Loan Drive Rally Call
A political urging piece encourages supporting the Liberty Loan drive by buying beads as a symbolic contribution.
Urges Women to Save Wool in War Time
Mrs. Mary Schenck Woolman urged the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association to conserve wool for the war effort. She cited wasteful rainbow sweaters made by schoolgirls and called for restraint as 235,000,000 pounds of wool existed while eight hundred million were needed.
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Mary Schenck Woolman
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Germany
Bond buying prompt echoes wartime cheer and duty
A concise question asks if purchasing an additional bond accelerates support for troops at the front, reflecting wartime financial mobilization and public resolve as a patriotic measure.
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Josh Billings
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