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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1919
Page
8
Miss J Isabella Myrer heads a Boston charity urging clothing and shoes donations for schoolchildren. The effort supports a Cornhill store that sells items at minimum prices to preserve dignity for the needy. Donations via Haymarket 495 R.
Dr Lee DeForest announces a method using alternating current for wireless telephony enabling space to space calls. He says the hum of alternating current is eliminated and tests show successful transmission from Highbridge, Westchester County to downtown New York using a small lamp socket panel.
In Newburyport on August 27 police raided Charles Cetlin’s store at 14 Market Square and confiscated 240 bottles labeled Jamaica ginger with 91 percent alcohol. Cetlin will be charged with violation of the prohibition law as authorities push a test case to curb Jamaica ginger intoxication in the city.
In Central square East Boston the open air market opened at 7 45 am and by 11 am three hours later no potatoes remained. Fourteen trucks lined the square amid housekeepers and baby carriages as farmers with 1280 crates and 300 barrels of corn beans beets carrots potatoes apples celery cauliflower cabbage and other vegetables flooded the area.
Produce fresh from vines and ground is sold 15 to 20 percent below store prices. Crowds of buyers flock to markets in Thomas Park South Boston Bowdoin and Hancock streets Dorchester Monument Square Charlestown with opening at 7 45 am. Deputy Peter Connolly warns against grocers buying bulk produce and asks reports of such conduct.
A young 18 year old Labrador writes seeking guidance about accepting an engagement ring from her steady two year beau while another suitor professes love. The advisor urges waiting a year or two, noting she is too young to make a final decision and cautions against competing attentions until she can clearly choose the sincere, good man.
A collection of simple bake from pantry desserts including Cheap Rice Pudding with crushed berries and cream, Cheap Lemon Pie with cracker crust and lemon, Lemon Pie No 2 with custard style filling, Rhubarb and Strawberry Pie baked with rich crust, Mock Cherry Pie using cranberries and raisins. Each recipe details ingredients and oven instructions.
A vintage recipe lists ingredients for two mince pies: four common crackers rolled 11 cups sugar 1 cup molasses 1 cup lemon juice or vinegar 1 cup raisins chopped 12 cup butter and eggs with spices to taste baked in two crusts. Mrs Robert Charnock 96 Pleasant Street Northampton.
Sewell Ford delivers another adventure in the weekly Shorty and Torchy tale printed in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The feature spotlights Shorty’s antics and Torchy’s antics as sideshow to Martha’s misadventures.
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