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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1918
Page
7
A collection of letters from Salem residents offering counsel on marrying soldiers before or after deployment to France. Voices urge rapid marriage for devotion and support, while others advise waiting to test love, weigh risks, and consider parental duty and a soldier’s burden.
Lieutenant 115th Field Artillery reflects on WWI life as khaki lines form in orderly ranks. Soldiers face the blood red storm of flame while some dream of a vanished day and others wait through the night. The poem ends with three thousand miles from home, a man learns what Flag and Country mean.
Charles F Franklin Jones contemplates the war as a test of nations and values. He foresees a postwar Growing Age after cleansing past evils and emphasizes liberty and fairness as essential foundations. A botany anecdote contrasts growth from dirt with the war’s exposing of societal sores.
Arlington merchants begin voluntary sugar rationing with two pounds per person per month for ticket holders only. Residents must register at Liberty Cottage this week during morning, afternoon, and evening hours to obtain sugar tickets.
Sibyl visited while I dressed for dinner admiring her silver gray chiffon frock. The plain bodice has short sleeves and a skirt swept up with a flesh color under skirt. A three ribbon girdle in American Beauty, violet and blue colors completes the ensemble with silver thread trim and beads.
A note or personal call is proper for sponsors at a christening. When meeting, say How do you do Mr B rather than Pleased to meet you. In calling on a widow or never married woman a married woman leaves her card. upon a married woman she leaves hers plus two of her husband’s.
A dull fashion roundup notes a yellow mull frock with silk hem and black lace sash, mercerized cotton sweaters with angora trim, wool fringe scarf hems on duvetyne coats, turquoise silk frock with lavender organdie, silk flower collars on evening capes, and ostrich feather hats under tulle. Pink silk gingham frock with pink organdie, long sleeves to wrinkle at the wrist, a belt from two small dog collars, and Dolly Varden poke bonnet hats.
A young woman writes seeking help to attract a steady suitor. She is 22, considered a housekeeper, a capable singer, and asks Miss Champagne to advise inviting the bashful man to visit her home to demonstrate her appeal and prompt a lasting engagement.
The article profiles Charlies Humbert a powerful French official now on treason trial Frances Marion sacrifices a $50 000 Mary Pickford writing post to aid France Miss Pickford backs her honorary colonel role at the 148th Field Artillery Kean Rieroch head chef at the Hotel Vanderbilt and Hilltop Inn serves Marines while preparing to fight King George jokes with a Chicago village reply and Belgium’s Lt George H Pendleton earns a war cross Emily Farr becomes the first woman chairman of a Big Six printing chapel in New York Actor Clark Silvernail stars in Officer 666 as descendants of old French nobility attend a performance behind the lines.
Silvernail receives standing invitations to visit exclusive chateaus when not engaged in fighting the Huns. The scene captures a brisk, amused reception contrasting with ongoing wartime duties.
A Canadian writer Wilhelmina Stitch introduces herself as a new star contributor for the Post. She describes her Manitoba roots and family life, promising practical, down-to-earth observations on daily matters from childrearing to cooking and modern life. Wilhelmina signs with a playful note of gratitude to readers.
A memorial service honoring Sergeant Leonard L. Millican of the 102d Machine Gun Battalion was held at Lexington First Baptist Church yesterday. The ceremony featured adding a second gold star to the church service flag by Deacon Theodore Custance, continuing a prior star for Ralph A. Coolidge.
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