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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1920
Page
16
Jack Martin fears his new wife Mollie has left him after a delayed train night. A frightened search ends when his friend finds the door open with Mollie’s note explaining she stayed with her sick mother and left the key under the mat.
A nostalgic verse depicts old gardens full of sun ripening fruit and orderly rows of vegetables. The phantom gardener rests on an old bench while bees buzz and robins sing amid perfumes of Araby and Orient recalling colonial days.
Readers discuss John J and Margaret J with empathy and strong opinions. A war widow urges independence and self reliance while others call for personal freedom and responsibility against parental disownment.
Dream interpretations vary widely from doom for failing to keep promises to fortune and health gains. Some see chairs as signs of recovery or desire fulfilled briefly, while many link chairs to general furniture dreams signaling riches and prosperity.
Practical home tips include sewing old stockings into lint free dust cloths and using stove blacking to restore zinc spots. A pinch of salt can help beating eggs, and placing fish on a buttered paper liner eases removal. For rug corners, starch the underside with boiled flour starch. Mrs May J. Whelan of 526 Plymouth Avenue, Fall River.
A reader asks about sending funeral flowers with a card and adding sympathy messages. Guidance says accompany tokens with a card and tailor messages to intimacy, suggesting phrases like With deepest sympathy. Another query notes dress etiquette with daylight saving. authorities advise men wear evening dress only for a 7 o'clock dinner.
The record recalls warm highs for August sixth with 9 percent rise in 1881 and another 0 in 1879. The coldest on this date reached 63 degrees in 1911. No rainfall in Boston on this date for the past decade except in 1918.
Evaporated apple pie recipe instructs overnight soaking, crust assembly, seasoned with salt and sugar, baked first quickly then slowly, yields three pies per pound of evaporated apple. Includes name Mrs W L Coplins and address 838 Winslow Street Everett. Chocolate rice pudding recipe uses double boiler, rice simmered with water milk cocoa sugar butter vanilla, finished with cream. By Mrs Josephine Sullivan 1822 Bathgate Ave Bronx NY.
A young woman asks if she erred by doubting a suitor who then stopped visiting. The columnist advises persistence as proof of affection and notes that continued attention, not rejection, should convince a hesitant partner. The tone mirrors a 1920s advice column.
By a Remarkable Writer The Little God of Washington Square by Walter Prichard Eaton appears in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The prose is praised as unusually well written and highly worth reading.
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