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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1920
Page
15
A reflective verse from the Yarmouth Nova Scotia paper ponders daily duty and compassion. The poem asks what has been given or spoken today and imagines future good arising from present acts of care and hope.
Readers discuss if a wealthy 40 year old should advertise for a wife and how a partner should be chosen. Letters from JOAN and JUST 4 urge discretion, while THROUGH THE MILL and WAY DOWN EAST caution against money as the sole draw and advocate meeting through natural courtship.
Ottawa reports that Canada abolished its tax on manufactures but left in place the luxury tax on four top revenue sources liquors confectionery playing cards and chewing gum. The combined two special taxes have yielded nearly 50 million dollars.
The article surveys current styles with a brown tan duvetine hat and fine blue brim, dandelion peach apricot lavender shades, a three point spangled net train on a slim draped gown, white panne velvet and black seal wraps, satin overslips over net dresses, and a rose blue layered overskirt on a changeable taffeta frock.
A couple in a playful back and forth debate about blue laws during Sunday observance. Jack fears restrictions on tobacco cinema sports and marriage while Jill, amused, warmfully indulges the dialogue about Puritan rules and Sunday life.
Jill questions harsh Sunday restrictions after a man is jailed for kissing his own wife. He admits the act and jokes about the law, while Jill declares the blue laws absurd and vows they won’t pass.
Household hints advise cleaning gold chains in warm water with chalk and soap for brilliance. A method for frying eggs uses hot fat and a little water for tender results. Sewing pockets low prevents finger tearing. velvet lightly brushes silks and satins to remove dust without damage. M. E. Harding. Box F North Conway New Hampshire.
A description notes a cloth dress featuring a snug bodice and a circular overskirt set at a low waist line.
The article sketches Benjamin Disraeli born in London to Isaac D Israeli. It notes his early brilliance, first novel Vivian Grey at age 22, shift to politics, rise to prime minister and peerage as Lord Beaconsfield. It highlights his foreign policy, Suez control, Empress of India title, Delhi Durbar, and his death near age eighty.
A reader asks a provocative question about Germany declaring a republic, noting the term Die Deutsche Republik and questioning the status of the nation. The letter presents a contemporary political curiosity and reaction.
A letter to the editor discusses the correct Iowa pronunciation. Natives favor I o way with even emphasis, dictionaries use I o wa with final short a. The writer suggests natives should decide the pronunciation.
The text traces Socialist party presence in U S presidential contests back to 1900 after a union of the Social Democratic party with much of the Socialist Labor party. It notes 1882 as the first presidential bid by the latter, with the Socialist organization dating to 1877 and the Social comers organized in 1897 by Eugene V. Debs.
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