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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1916
Page
11
A reader asks if a fiancée should demand that her fiancé save his wages after work rather than give most to his mother, to fund their future home. The column argues warning others about a partner’s past is essential to protect future children and reputations, urging caution and shared responsibility.
A concerned mother discusses domestic service hours and a 10 hour day as a solution to the help problem. She urges readers to reward Post Sewing Circle writers and editors for their uplifting verses and sketches, and asks about letters to Cheerful Cherub and Benttown Bard. She ends by asking if Benttown Bard has real children or dream children.
Bryant writes of a lone waterfowl guided by a higher power across a vast sky. The speaker reflects on the bird's elusive journey and the certainty of guidance through life’s long path.
The Sunday Post features notable letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader input, opinions, and community perspectives on sewing topics and social life.
A Medford resident asks the editor to explain the Latin motto Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem. Readers offer translations such as With the sword he seeks tranquil rest where there is liberty and With the sword he seeks peace under liberty.
The Hoosac tunnel is not the longest in America. The Duke of Connaught tunnel under Selkirk Mountain on the Canadian Pacific railroad extends about five miles, making it the longest double track tunnel in the Western Hemisphere.
A Boston woman notes that the last census shows 23.4 percent of U S females aged 10 and over were employed in gainful occupations in 1910, indicating many women work for wages outside the home.
The text notes Emerson served as a minister at the Second Church in Boston from 1829 to 1832, marking an early clerical phase before his later Transcendentalist prominence.
RIDER ON THE L asserts the tunnel is owned by the city and eased to the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The source states the city holds ownership with management by the L company under arrangement.
A young woman claimed to be from Massachusetts General Hospital and sold a fake infantile paralysis preventive in Cambridgeport. She dispensed vials with a black inhalant at two for a quarter. The hoax was confirmed by police after contacting the hospital, and officers are pursuing her.
The story follows Aunt Molly and Uncle Joe as they plan their fiftieth anniversary while facing illness. Joe battles pneumonia, hopes for recovery, and the couple celebrates their anniversary at home as family visits. In the evening Elsie Warren and Robert Lach sing under the maples.
The upcoming Sunday Post features a $1000 prize contest for summer fiction. Writers are invited to submit stories for a chance at the award, with judging criteria highlighted in the issue.
At a Blackstone hotel dinner the guest list included Adolf Zu kor and Alice Brady. The author prepares a speech for Hulda from Holland but forgets it under excitement as she takes the stage amid applause and roses. Pauline Frederick joins in the Paramount booth while policemen move crowds past Exhibits A and B.
Pure transparent soap flakes dissolve instantly in hot water to create a rich lather. Soak woolens briefly in the bubbly solution for soft, pristine fabrics.
After the Coliseum event, heroic firemen carried the narrator to an automobile and sped toward the Chicago University, recounting a dramatic arrival with trusted responders leading the way.
M F Marshall Nielan acted as leading man in The Girl of Yesterday and Madam Butterfly with me. June M notes many actresses are clever despite not being pretty and advises cultivating a sweet disposition. Mary Pickford Talks appear five days weekly in the Daily Post and Sundays in the Sunday Post.
Household hints suggest orange slices to flavor tea with leaf sugar. The tip comes from Anna M Daly of 43 Royal Avenue Cambridge Massachusetts as a simple tea flavoring idea.
A leg of veal is cut and breaded with cracker crumbs and egg, fried for about 20 minutes, and served with a brown gravy. The text also begins Veal Loaf as a second item, but details are cut off.
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