The Middle Years Poem by Arthur Davison Ficke
Poem fragments from North American Review explore the burden of midlife understanding and the shift from conflict to quiet acceptance. The speaker muses on limits, discovery, and a personal turning point as one life voyage ends and another begins.
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Arthur Davison Ficke
North American Review
Retaliation and the Home Circle in a Tobacco Debate
A reader questions a husband who promised to quit smoking and the column responds with advice on division of labor and marital harmony. The exchange explores whether smoking is a vice, whether a wife should imitate her husband, and whether revoking promises justifies retaliation or justified tolerance in the home.
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Ivorce
Rhubarb Pudding and Tomato Drying Recipes Featured
Recipes from New England housewives including rhubarb pudding with bread crumb topping from Mrs C F Sinnott Medford and sun dried tomatoes with preserved ginger from Mrs Emma A Collins Nashua. Also a spiced apple sauce cake by Mrs Perley D Munbey Hudson with mixed flour sugar and raisins.
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C F Sinnott
Riverside Avenue
Medford
Emma A. Collins
Main Street
Nashua
N. H
Perley D. Munbey
Pope Street
Hudson
Vacation Dreams and a Bobbed Hair Debate in a Train Car
A tired student longs for home during summer travel and reads an Advice to the Lovelorn column about bobbed hair. He compares different hairstyles among travelers, notes female peers’ reactions, and considers whether bobbed hair signals vanity or practicality.
The Seatmate in the Sleeper Car and Entreaties
A man builds up courage to speak to a bobbed haired woman in a train car. He fumbles with missteps and Betty jokes about a hair mirror of the soul as they share a blush filled moment and light exchange.
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Betty
Bob
Household Hints and Jelly Making Tips
A collection of quick household tips includes removing onion and kerosene odors with dry mustard and cold water, plus advice on jelly making by preparing juice and storing it to reduce summer work. Also notes on softening hands with Indian meal and tips for jelly storage.
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Corine Lebel
Sahoo
Beverly
H. B. Crosby
Princeton Street
Boston
Rhode Island battleship armament and gun calibres
The Rhode Island carries four 12 inch guns along with smaller calibre weapons. A scientific writer discusses the influenza outbreaks, noting pandemics affected large populations whereas epidemics are more localized.
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Rhode Island
Civic Service Bureau Leader Denies Cosmopolitan Loan
Attorney Philip Davis denies borrowing 29000 dollars from the Cosmopolitan Trust Company. He states notes were accommodation signatures lent at the request of Max Mitchell, president, and offers to testify under oath to clear his name.
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Philip Davis
Civic Service Bureau
Allen
Cosmopolitan Trust Company
Cosmopolitan
Max Mitchell
Albert Kenney's Hancock Street Trick Baffles Boston Police
Prohibition era misadventure reads like fate at work as Albert Kenney lands a Hancock Street address and stirs a rare smile among Joy Street police officers amid the odd trials facing Boston’s sons and nephews.
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Dame Boston
Albert Kenney
Hancock Street
Joy Street
Moonshine Guest Mistakes Court Street Building for Hotel
Albert, inebriated, wandered into 98 Court Street in the early hours to book “room and a bath.” He slept on tiled flooring, was mistaken for a burglar by a passerby, and after a police rescue climbed down a skylight. Officers found $298 on him and labeled the incident drunkenness.
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Albert
Court Street
Gale & Kent
Joy Street
John Walker
Bank President Promised to Honor Notes, Liquidating Agent Advised
Statement asserts that Mitchell as bank president under state bank commission supervision fully transacted the notes and promised to cover them. It claims assurances were given that funds exist in the bank to meet the notes and that the liquidating agent has been properly informed.
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Mitchell
Commonwealth
Motorcyclist Bates Dies After Wreck in Wallingford
Francis M. Bates aged 38 of Somerville Massachusetts died at Merden Hospital from injuries after the motorcycle side car he drove left the road into a ditch in Wallingford. His wife, riding in the side car, is hospitalized with minor injuries. Bates was an advertising man with an office in Boston.
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Wallingford, Conn
Francis M. Bates
Somerville
Mass
Merden Hospital
Boston
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