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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
11
The passage recalls a late evening visit at the Martins where Louise lends a delicate night gown. It features flesh color georgette crepe, a high-waist bodice with filet insertion, tucked georgette over the shoulders, pale lavender satin ribons, filet lace edges, a front split, and a rosebud clasp.
Travel promoter advertises Burlington Route Personally Conducted trips to California by car with daylight sightseeing through Denver and the Rocky Mountain West. A specially trained guide accompanies travelers, explaining sights and simplifying planning. A descriptive illustrated folder and maps can be sent to interested readers.
A trio of letters argues over propriety of young couples holding hands or kissing in public. One writer promises marriage and independence, while others defend affection and urge tolerance and open treatment of love in public.
A column argues for public displays of affection as a sign of sincerity, urging against judging young lovers and inviting readers to reconsider outdated views. A reader signs as a popular movie star praising openness while revealing a contrasting, harsh family memory.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward recalls a dying Confederate soldier at Malvern Hill clutching a woman’s portrait and asking to tell his mother. The speaker ponders whether war’s red hours carry a message for heroes and their loved ones, urging reflection on kindness and remorse.
Recipes offer a Baked Apple Dumpling using tart apples salt water and a soft flour dough baked briefly and served with butter and sugar. The contributor is Helen G. Donoven of Lowell. The Bun recipe riff uses butter sugar currants and cinnamon with a dough folding technique for loaf formation.
A reader recalls a father who squandered money on drink and left children in hardship. Now successful and fearful for future generations, she urges young women to consider the fate of their offspring before marrying a drinker and hopes her mother remains secure in a good home. Heaven pity the drunkard's children. The writer is a happy wife to a man who hates the cup. Facts.2 Fashions outlines millinery, clothing trends, and accessories with notes on colors, fabrics, and silhouettes.
Reading from official records the writer notes August 16 heat in Boston reaching 89 degrees with ambiguous year markings 19138 and 191d and a coldest 47 degrees in 1880. Rain occurrences on this date are listed for 1909 1910 and 1914 within the last decade.
Instructions describe breaking portions of dough, shaping into biscuit rounds with floured hands, placing on greased tins, allowing to rise, baking in a quick oven, and serving warm. The passage attributes the method to Mrs James Dickie.
When the front of a man's shirt wears out the back can be turned into fair size aprons by cutting along seams to the yoke. Add a waist band and optional edging. After cleaning silverware smear with vase line to prevent tarnish from Mattapan resident Mrs A Bradley.
War and national conditions force the Fowle Kindred Association to cancel this year’s annual Labor Day reunion and postpone it until after the war.
Washington August 15 Victor Murdoch former Kansas Representative and Progressive leader was nominated by President Wilson to the Federal Trade Commission vacancy created by the death of Will Parry.
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