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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1918
Page
7
A wartime advice column addresses a woman who plans to marry a sweetheart after only six months acquaintance and three weeks engagement. Readers urge patience, arguing true wifely love must exist beyond patriotism and war. Multiple voices urge waiting until the man returns from overseas before marriage.
Readers share advice on marriage during wartime and the future, urging lovers to wed if they truly love each other. A sister in England laments widowhood and hopes for children as a sign of hopeful futures. Another letter endorses avoiding disreputable friends and applying the Golden Rule in friendships.
A review roundup highlights McMullen and Evans vivid escape tale Out of the Jaws of Hunland, Ruth Gaines A Village in Picardy and McBride The Emma Gees, with Drake Above the Battle and Massey The Desert Campaigns. Other features note Chesterton writing for the Sunday Post.
The ad argues dandruff causes baldness and other scalp ailments. It urges weekly washing to prevent buildup, warns against harsh soaps, and promotes Birt's Head Wash made from refined soap cocoanut oil eggs glycerin and salicylic acid as a scientific remedy.
An advertisement promotes Cadum Ointment as safe for tender infant skin. It claims instant relief from fetter rash eczema and chafing and says itching stops quickly. The remedy is described as soothing, healing, and helps infants sleep, with use for pimples blotches scaly skin eruptions sores scabs cuts burns ringworm and insect bites.
President Wilson issued a proclamation and an executive order enforcing the alien control law passed by Congress last May. After September 15, aliens leaving the United States must secure permits, with added restrictions on entry to the country, to curb escape of dangerous enemy agents.
Washington Aug 16 government will stop pleasure automobile production for the remainder of the war. Edwin B Parker chief of the priorities division said autos will not be manufactured after current stock of raw materials is exhausted.
Poem praising children as divine gifts. The speaker notes God created man and woman, but children are the loveliest and most gracious. The poem celebrates birth, Heaven and earth sharing wonder at a child’s purity and beauty.
Mr. Parker warns steel and rubber stocks for war purposes are rising and may be seized by the government. He says everything must yield to win the war and Europe has not produced pleasure autos for years. Retailers fear curtailment orders will force many to retire, lose staff, and suffer long term lease losses.
T ran to fetch Jane for a swim but found her by a table of flowers and empty vases. She agreed to wait twenty minutes or meet on the beach after fixing the blossoms, noting flower arrangements show her personality and artistry. She wore a white frock with pink and blue delfineum, and a pink gros-grain hat with a beaded medallion.
An overcoat or package left on a seat marks the seat as taken and should not be moved. To invite and seat guests well tests a dinner hostess. Simple, short dinners are best and foster easy conversations and friendships.
Birthday feature chronicles Julia Marlowe born August seventeenth eighteen seventy, her stage name origin, English birth, Ohio upbringing, early acting in Pinafore and Chimes of Normandy, rise to Shakspearean fame, marriage to Edward H. Southern, retirement and later readings at military camps.
The Chinese government cancelled the minister to the Vatican appointment and ordered the envoy who reached Madrid en route to Rome not to proceed. The move comes as Beijing withdraws a key liaison with the Vatican, affecting ongoing Church diplomacy.
A torn matting may be mended with raffia of the same color. To make cut flowers last longer and keep water fresh, add a lump of charcoal and keep a lump in the icebox. Wet skin after a blow and apply cornstarch. Brown rice browns to prevent burning. Grind coffee as a substitute. For invalids and children. Polish rusty flatirons with beeswax and salt. Clean cut glass vases with scraped raw potato. Boiled linseed oil makes furniture polish. Place foil under the doily for vase water. Mrs C H De Mist 146 Mulberry Street Pawtucket R I.
Samuel Gompers to represent the United States with one declaration that socialism will occupy no part in American delegates deliberations. W J Crowley as US Steel general manager in India married a Calcutta English girl and circled the world for their renewed honeymoon.
Lieutenant George C. Scott of Medford, a member of B Company, 18th Infantry, is rapidly recovering in a base hospital in France after being seriously wounded in action. He was shot through the right thigh by a machine gun bullet, per a letter received by his parents yesterday.
Wartime kitchen notes share barley cake barley drop cookies and meatless day dishes from readers Gertrude Hutchins of Londonderry Vermont and Mary Harvey of Bangor Maine plus Mrs F E Wright of Hartford Connecticut and May E Harvey of Bangor. Recipes use barley flour maple sugar rice crusts custards and simple sauce ideas for thrift and nutrition.
The piece notes fashion trends with plush hats paired with dotted net veils and studded soft leather dresses. Longer slim umbrellas with ivory crook handles appear, while hats, brocade, beads, and white velvet tam o shanters shape a smart summer costume. New tapestry money bags mounted in copper are highlighted.
A cook recalls her Sunday meat loaf transformed by two tablespoons of Al Sauce turning the dish into a so called come again supper. She notes the sauce enhances flavor hot or cold and credits it as her miracle worker in the kitchen.
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