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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1919
Page
17
A beggar mocks royalty as a king and beggar swap roles gaining insight. The king discards his crown, proclaims a greater king, and both roam the gates in shared freedom. The fear of power returns. the king dies unnamed, his son enslaved in his place.
Readers debate modern jazz dances and gender roles with letters from AN ON-LOOKER YEOGIRL and a COLLEGE GRADUATE. They defend dancing, challenge anti-dance critics, and warn against judging dancers by a few noisy figures as the era shifts toward equality.
Readers debate modern dancing versus traditional forms with strong opinions from young and older dancers. A narrator argues real dancers master waltz and schottische, while others defend jazz and shimmy for lively, modern expression.
Henry V born August 19 1387 in Monmouth. He ruled Wales at 16 led English forces at Shrewsbury fought the Welsh revolt restored church unity and European prestige waged war on France married the French princess started the English navy and died just after 30 leaving Henry VI to rule as a baby. Shakespeares works offer a vivid portrait.
Mrs. Ernest Bacon of Roxbury shares blueberry ideas for season recipes. Suggestions include blueberry bread pudding in place of raisins, blueberry drop cakes with vanilla or lemon, and a blueberry cake with extra sugar and cinnamon. Also notes variations due to flour and baking powder.
The Bowhead enters Yokohama harbor on May 13 1898 as the crew learns the United States is at war with Spain. Seven sailors desert, later replaced by Japanese, before the ship heads to Plover Bay Siberia for Arctic work. Native Eskimo trade outfits and whalebone commerce are described, with social customs and chiefs at Indian Point. The voyage continues toward St. Lawrence Bay and South Head as gold seekers approach the Yukon. The narrative promises daily installments in the Daily and Sunday Post.
A collection of home recipes credited to Mrs F Fraher Harriett Bailey and Mary Tate from Roxbury Jamaica Plain and North Chichester New Hampshire. Recipes include cookies light brown ovens with whipped cream and a tea gem batter with milk flour and spices plus a creamy farina cheese dish served as vegetables.
Miss Alice Stuart explains using a bowl of goldfish as a centrepiece for informal meals signals a cooling midsummer mood. A husband may smoke in public with no objection if the woman consents. a gentleman should refrain if she objects. Au revoir and good-by differ in permanence and imply another meeting.
The narrator recalls a formal dinner where Edith debuted a stunning wrap of heavy black satin with antique gold lining. A black velvet collar and antique gold embroidery frame a square fili gree gold button with a jade centerpiece and gold fringe. The wrap is praised as a versatile fall wardrobe piece.
Ensign Bobs Alert, teased for being a woman hater, is set up to escort a party guest. He meets Daisy at a lavish home and learns her aunt’s joke about “an old shoe” guiding life. The evening ends with a new understanding linking shoes to love and fate.
The piece notes autumn fashion trends with colored neckwear silk gloves and velvets in stripes and plaids. It highlights jet color for the season and lace updates like dead leaf, links girdle corsets, warns heavy filet laces out, and describes beaded cream gloves gray squirrel and hare furs, brocade evening slippers, and motor veils forming the silhouette.
The observer cites official figures noting Boston’s warmest for August 19 at 92 in 1906 and 91 in 1872 and a coldest 63 in 1918. He adds no rain on this date in the last decade except 1910 and 1914.
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine will feature Frank N. Finnegan’s witty piece Putting Pep into the Pastime about baseball in the far West. Finnegan is renowned for sporting stories and this installment promises lively humor and vivid scenes.
In a lively mock anecdote Walt Mason notes Johnson's shop buzzing with clerks racing about and customers elsewhere, arguing brisk activity signals success. He imagines critics scoffing at busyness yet accepts the front window hustle as essential to draw shoppers and keep trade humming.
Advice discusses whether a six month dating period justifies engagement and notes age gaps and temperament affect timing. It argues there is no universal rule for engagement or marriage and that decision depends on personal harmony, finances, and readiness.
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