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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1916
Page
15
Aunt Alice Rodney adopts a starving boy named John Parker and raises him with love. Years later John returns as a refined young man, grateful for the care that shaped him. Henry, the faithful servant, watches the reunion with quiet joy and pride in the family he helped nurture.
A letter writer argues women should recognize and yield to other women's claims as men do. She cites a railroad smoking car with card tables and notes women would occupy and block such spaces, urging learning from men's behavior and criticizing a wife who asks husbands to wash dishes.
A long letter from ONE WHO LEARNED discusses married life, night hours, and prohibition. It contrasts a husband's needs with a wife’s expectations and argues for restraint, respect, and shared quiet evenings. Other readers, including FRIEND TO HIRED GIRLS and OCTOBER, weigh in on hired help and domestic roles. Some letters note marriage experience and the need for affection. The column highlights letters printed in the Sunday Post.
Poetically urges that clouds of doubt will pass and the sun will shine again. Emphasizes love, hope, and shared service as life’s remedy to gloom and trouble. The verse envisions brighter days, dancing feet, and lasting faith.
A reader shares a bread made with less flour including corn meal lard saleratus milk and vinegar plus bake time and temperature. The letter from Miss J Thomas also includes lemon milk dessert chocolate custard and a ginger pudding recipe attributed to Mrs Henry A Rockwood with names and addresses from Medford East Lynn.
A suburbanite asks about a ban on ladies riding in smokers seats and about current U S territories. The writer notes unwritten courtesy favors smokers and outlines territorial governance under presidents appointees for Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico the District of Columbia Philippines Guam Tutuila and the Isthmian Canal Zone.
Two old readers discuss the presidency term. The constitutional convention report proposed seven years without re election, while later debate considered longer terms. Ultimately the four year term was adopted and all presidents have served under it.
The 1910 census shows 47 982 122 males and 44 640 144 females in the United States. This record notes a higher male population overall, with a gender gap of about 3 342 978 favoring men.
A reflective verse portrait of a life shaped by a farmer father and humble means. The speaker recalls striving for fortune yet embracing the present, enduring misfortune with stubborn cheer and a stubborn vow to avoid melancholy.
A reader describes yesterday's exhibition piece, a mulberry taffeta silk gown with old gold and green stripe, basque blouse, shirred sleeves, and full skirt. The gown is noted for its style and becoming look with a fur scarf, suitable for early fall and potential husband wear.
Jam should cool and form over the top and adhere to the glass edge before pouring paraffin. Otherwise the jam will shrink leave a space and fermentation may occur causing labor and waste. After sealing canned fruit dip tops in hot paraffin over the rubber filling air gaps. Mrs Edith E Kelso 238 Hancock Street Uphams Corner Mass.
A Detroit Free Press snippet quotes a head bookkeeper calling profit in a accounting phrase sarcasm. The quip centers on the pun about charging an account to profit and loss and the word profit being sarcastically used.
A fashion roundup notes a new child’s smock like ploughboy coat with crystal bead trim, coffee linen frocks, ostrich feather edges on velvet hats for half season, autumn velvet hats with felt trim, a low bodice evening frock and short skirt, cherry belts on tussor frocks, and new long shoulder tailed taffeta blouses with bishop sleeves and frilled collars.
At the Colonial Theatre in Akron Ohio on August 1 Robert McLaughlin's drama Little Orphant Annie based on James Whitcomb Riley poems opened to a capacity crowd. Produced by Ralph E Cummings from New York with the Fieber Shea company the premiere is hailed as a memorable dramatic event.
Famous actors and critics gathered in Akron to review a McLaughlin play featuring Little Orphant Annie and the Raggedy Man. The piece honors James Whitcomb Riley, who endorsed it before his death, with the New York company touring Indianapolis Chicago and then New York in October.
Nantucket will gain telephone service to the mainland as AT&T completes a 24 mile submarine cable linking the mainland Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The line enables direct calls for the first time, marking a milestone in regional communications.
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