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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
13
Readers urged to submit problems or comments with pen names allowed. Letters about Old Friendships highlight loyalty and support. A respondent urges sticking by a friend and helping her, while another advises kindness to restore a drifting friend. An out-of-town reader suggests fundraising via baked beans and a Red Cross quilt project.
A young woman, engaged to a Navy man serving abroad, contemplates breaking her promise or risking harming a second suitor. The adviser urges honesty, urging the woman to reveal her engagement and the fact she favors the deployed fiancé, condemning jealousy and infidelity.
Household hints advise covering leftover cooked foods with cold water when storing to prevent crusting and turning off the water before reuse. A copper wire dish cloth for cleaning produce costs about 10 cents. Clean white enamelled furniture with warm water and baking soda. If a hot water bottle leaks, replace with hot sand or hot salt for longer heat. Mrs. H B Crosby, 260 Lexington Street, East Boston.
Poem celebrates Marines eager to answer duty and fight bravely on land and sea. It praises Yankee grit, fearlessness against Teutonic shells, and pride in American democracy as Marines march in France.
Charles Franklin Jones urges immediate war effort over normal plans. He argues Americans should focus daily on aiding victory for troops in France, sacrificing other work to defeat the Huns, with men measuring each day by contributions to the national war cause.
A note on proper social conduct describes a gentleman and woman enjoying an hour in a hotel reception room. It also covers handling artichokes at table and a farewell dinner given by the groom with gifts like scarf pins and cuff links for close friends.
A simple baked cake recipe lists ingredients for a light beat mixture of egg yolk soda sour milk sugar oil and then flour cinnamon nutmeg salt raisins with light beating and baking in a moderate oven in leaf tin. Name WINNIFRED G. BUSH and address 2 Weston street Augusta Me.
Marion appears in a pale gray gown with a large rose-crowned hat matching the frock’s gray linen belt and cuffed organdie blouse. The one-piece linen dress features a straight neck and front opening to reveal the tucked under blouse, and slips over the head.
Jacob H. Schiff commits 25000 toward a proposed Palestine university for Jews. General Paul Gerard Pau plans to meet President Wilson to praise the US leader. Sir James M Barrie persuades Sir John Forbes Robertson to return briefly to stage life in a new one act play La Politesse. Eleonora Sears buys an imported pony three bay mares and a National Horse Show winner Willisden Finstell Lady. Mme Olga Petrova tours the nation selling War Savings Stamps earning 500000 and auctions a gown benefiting the Red Cross. Ed Geers the jockey, at 67, has 11 wins, 5 seconds, 1 third and several other placings this season. Lord Halsbury, 92, voices opposition to women in the legal profession in the House of Lords. Hoover visits Boulogne as a German air raid shatters his private car window. Jess Willard and wife rise at dawn to work on his farm with him in a red flannel shirt and her purple overalls.
Bread waste not and reuse odds and ends to feed families. A Boston area homemaker describes a bread pudding style dish from a four quart bowl baked to a crust, then served with milk or sauce. The guide promotes Hoover era thrift and meatless lunches using bread, crackers, and pudding substitutes.
Four trains deliver the Florida delegation of colored troops to Camp Devens on August 7 amid reported resistance to service. The Jewish Welfare Board hut is to be dedicated with a New York national HQ delegation and Boston representatives. Dr. David De Sola Poole will open with prayer. Carl Dreyfus will receive keys. Uniform rules apply to war camp reps. civilians wear a white brassard. A new dental infirmary opens under Captain G P Cassidy to serve most troops except depot brigade base hospital and quartermaster unit.
A Waterloo draft board on August 7 ordered reporters from a daily newspaper to appear and show cause why they should not engage in an essential occupation or be placed in Class 1. The order was later narrowed to apply only to reporters, with confusion over how other paper staff could stay employed if news departments were abolished. Washington remarks note newspaper work has not been deemed non essential in the draft regime.
The American Defence Society urged President Wilson to bar military experts from any nation that is not an ally from witnessing U S Army operations in France. The push followed news that a Spanish mission plans to visit the American front.
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