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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1920
Page
11
The speaker lauds the Night as a calm, majestic presence. The verse describes Night sweeping through marble halls, its sable skirts fringed with light, bringing repose and perpetual peace. It references Orestes and a prayer for night to descend with broad winged flight.
Sabra Stewart debates vacation choices with her mother Mrs. Stewart as two other girls must decide where to go. Sabra buys a new outfit with her savings while her mother faces mixed feelings about Sabra accompanying Aunt Nancy and leaving home.
A reader asks if informal invitations may be written on visiting cards with the Harper's Manners guidance noting cards may be mailed for teas and small parties. A letter to the Editor corrects a quotation from Julius Caesar about tears and a famous line.
Readers discuss whether a child owes parents gratitude for life and care. One letter argues love and moral training trump material inheritance, urging respect and self reliance. A second letter sympathizes with the son and defends independence, noting board, earnings, and freedom to choose.
Readers are advised letters are answered in order received and answers mailed as possible. Writers should include correct names and full addresses and enclose a self addressed stamped envelope for reply.
The guide explains car signals with arm angles to indicate stop left turn and right turn. The Christian Intelligencer estimates 41,926,854 church members, noting many regular attendees aren’t members and many too young or old don’t attend.
Sir Is Chapman once drew immense crowds in Boston and elsewhere. Evangelist J Wilbur Chapman died on Christmas morning 1918.
Coal ranges from light brown lignite to pure black and may show blue or yellow tint. When sliced thin for transmitted light it appears dark brown.
A Letter Box Editor query about the meaning of Chautauqua prompts reader responses. One suggests it means foggy place among Indians, another says it derives from tied in the middle, a reference to the lake’s shape.
The piece argues vast undersea oil and coal reserves may exist, citing shallow sea oil wells and coal seams extending beneath seas and noting reports of submarine diamond mines off South Africa as evidence of probable underwater riches shaping future supply concerns.
A 21 year old asks about marrying a 29 year old with parental approval but social ridicule. The adviser urges courage, says love and happiness matter, notes youth and inexperience, and cautions that few 21 year olds choose wisely in matters of love.
Charles D. Kidder, 55, superintendent of the Moses Williams building at 5 Kilby Street, was crushed between an elevator floor and a wall yesterday afternoon. Fire crews freed him after 30 minutes. he suffered a compound fracture of the lower left leg and was taken to the relief station. The incident occurred as Kidder slipped from an open edge of an old elevator car without a gate, amid panicked bystanders and a crowd outside.
In Lawrence District Court Joseph St Sauveur of 30 Phillip Street pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill his wife after nine stab wounds were found on her as she slept. Judge Mahoney ordered a not guilty plea due to lack of counsel and set a hearing for Aug 11 with the defendant held on $20,000 bond. He also slashed his throat in the incident.
Bolshevik and Polish delegates opened negotiations Saturday after meeting Friday evening at Kobryn east of Brest Litovsk. Karl Radek said in a Berlin Daily Mail despatch that the Bolsheviks began by demanding Brest Litovsk's surrender, which they already held.
Young Peter Joyce a U S sailor and Joseph Granite both courted Miss Helen Whetland of Blossom Street. In Scollay Square they fought over a shove misread as an affront. Joyce was jailed, Granite discharged, and the three ended by chatting on a front court bleacher.
ST. LOUIS Aug 2 After being kept alive with a pulmoter for 24 hours Robert Stansbury 16 died at City Hospital this afternoon. He had undergone an ear operation yesterday and stopped breathing on the table but his heart kept beating and a pulmoter was brought in. Doctors say this may be the longest continuous use of a pulmoter.
Mrs. Alice Stevens thirty of six hundred Washington street Brighton suffered cuts and scratches when struck by a Boston Elevated car opposite six hundred Washington street Brighton She was taken to Dr H S Bowen for treatment and sent home
Archie Vance a night watchman at Whiting Steel Company Harvey Illinois received unpaid time off and later killed O L Vannier who was with his wife Vance followed them and fired a fatal shot Vance is booked for murder and his wife is held as a witness mourning the man’s wife was detained as a witness in this shocking incident.
A vintage recipe from Sybil Bruce lists ingredients for Virgin ia waffles including cornmeal water milk flour sugar baking powder salt and eggs with butter. The method uses boiled meal then combined with beaten yolks and stiffly beaten whites to make waffles. Sybil Bruce Duncan Street Willimansett is cited.
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