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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1919
Page
13
A readable excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s To A Skylark praising the bird’s unpremeditated art and celestial motion. The speaker seeks to learn the bird’s pure joy and creative fire, comparing earthly limits with skylark freedom and poetic insight.
Letters discuss marriage as home building versus nightlife. Readers argue for a stay at home husband with children and critique modern dances and the jazz era. A dancing teacher defends modernity while urging balanced companionship and family priorities.
Flowers serve as a near perfect adjunct to the dinner table, often arranged in an epergne beside fruit. At formal dinners, smoking ends when guests reassemble, and some guests may depart after a short stay while others plan their early departure.
A Sunday Post page presents home made recipes from Mrs. James C. Coy of Rochester New Hampshire and Mrs. H. B. Clement of Bristol New Hampshire. Dishes include egg rice balls fried in crumbs and buttered toast, custards with milk and eggs, pie crust and fillings, oyster celery cream dressing, brown pork onion sausage stock soups, and a chilled berry pie with a meringue topping.
A historical recipe lists ingredients for doughnuts including two eggs one cup sugar one cup milk one cup mashed potato salt nutmeg baking powder ginger and about one quart flour credited to Mrs Mary Wolfe at 114 Holden R D.
The Bowhead and crew flee past Japanese forts during a violent gale. The narrator describes threatening the engine chief to secure steam, anchoring in Mississippi Bay, and sailing toward Arctic ice. After outrunning Japanese orders, tensions ease and sailors reconcile as they reach St Michaels and host a ship captain and family aboard.
Astley Cooper born in 1768 at Brooke Norfolk England. Son of a clergyman and a novelist he pursued medicine in London. He became demonstrator of anatomy at St Thomas Hospital aged 21 and later joined the Royal Society. His Hernia volumes boosted income. he removed a wen from George IV in 1820 earning a baronetcy.
The oldest resident recalls Boston’s warmest August 234th day timing with official figures of 96 in 1880 and 98 in 1918 and notes a coldest 49 in 1886. He adds no rain on this date in the past decade except 1912 1913 1915 1916 and 1917.
Household hints cover kerosene for marble cleaning and stain remedies with soda pumice and salt. It advises soaking scorched pans in salt water, polishing linen shades with bath brick, and using a jelly mould for pudding. Tips include damp brooming with salted water and a flower holder from an embroidery hoop. Address: 260 Lexington street East Boston.
A reader asks about the Santa Maria del Tule cypress said to be 6000 years old. The Panama Canal tolls note that the United States and Panama exempt none. Snuff production is about 30 million pounds yearly. The Princess Pat regiment took its name from Princess Patricia. King George V was born June 3 1865 and became king May 6 1910. Tobacco consumption is cited as 215 million dollars in cigars and cigarettes plus 175 million in chewing tobacco.
Poem in which Walt Mason celebrates owning a humble home with pride yet laments a leaky roof and a cramped space. He contrasts his self sufficiency with the renter’s fate while asserting ownership and creative effort in a modest shack.
Helen dismisses a handsome suitor but flees when James Alexander Jefferson arrives. A rock injures her foot and she meets a stranger, James, who reveals his name and charm. She later agrees to marry him, as the two form a surprising connection from a perilous outing.
A reader seeks advice on gaining a lady's love after nine months of companionship. The response urges steady attention, avoiding overt declarations until she seems receptive, and to become indispensable by matching her tastes and desires. A seaside luncheon memory and attire details follow in a separate anecdote.
The piece notes lace and embroidery on brassieres as popular, blending materials remains in vogue, and a rounded silhouette appears. Tweed flatters growing girls, ball tassels finish soft girdles, navy blue and tan dominate fall palettes, buttons and girdles top trims, frills and pleats appear on evening frocks, white felt hats feature flower wreaths, and rich tucks trim white organdie for children.
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