New Baby Stories Contest At The Post
The Boston Post announces a new series GOOD STORIES ABOUT BABIES starting January 1. Prizes include a Double Gold Eagle $20 and a Single Gold Eagle $10 plus $5 in Gold for the three best stories under 200 words about children under five. Submit signed with real name and address to BABY STORY EDITOR, Post, Boston.
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Post
Baby Story
Boston
Sunday Post
Rufus B. Tobey
Wonderful Floating Hospital For Children
Theresa M. Lally
The
Catholic Charitable Bureau
Dick Saves a Child in an Orchard
A boy named Dick helps a sleeping girl named Mary found in an orchard. The narrator feeds Dick an apple, then Mary is found and brought home safely with thanks to Mr. Brown and Dick. The narrator deflects gratitude to Dick. AIDA MARTINO Kensington Conn.
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Mary
Mr. Brown
Equine Joker John Rescues Friend in Ride Disaster
John the horse earned the nickname joker by clever restraint when a wagon wheel toppled on rough terrain. After the narrator fell and lay unconscious, John quieted, blocking movement to protect his friend while the mate stayed still. George W. Hoyt, Chicopee Falls, recounts the episode.
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John
Jie
George W. Hoyt
Washington Street
Chicopee Falls
Lighten Your Skin and Prevent Wrinkles with Aramara
Adated beauty advice warns against harsh soaps and cold creams and promotes aramara as a safe, effective facial wash. It claims aramara cleanses, lightens the complexion, reduces enlarged pores, and delays aging with simple, inexpensive use praised by New York women and druggists.
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New York
Knowing War Horse Patsy Alerts on Haversack Thieves
A Civil War era horse Patsy warned its master of theft attempts by jumping whenever a hand touched the haversack. The owner, Elizabeth M. Needham of Roxbury, notes the horse’s keen awareness and loyalty, with General Sheridan reportedly knowing the tale.
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Patsy
General Sheridan
Elizabeth M. Needham
Penryth Street
Roxbury
Babe the milk wagon horse drives for man on route
Babe the silver gray horse with black mane and tail carries out the milk delivery with no driver required. The milk man stands on the wagon and Babe navigates turns avoids wagons stops at customers and reopens movement when the milk man signals. Owned by M Levenson of Chelsea.
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Babe
Tie
M. Levenson
Chelsea
Lemon Cheese Cakes From New England Housewives
A Sunday Post recipe page shows lemon cheese cakes using a rich short crust lined in patty pans. Fill with sugar butter eggs lemon rind and juice simmer until boiling, cool, fill pans, bake about 15 minutes. Mixture stores well in a closed jar. L. Ex Morris Tippedale.
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Morris
How to Prepare Hamburg Steak with Tomato Sauce
A simple kitchen note from Hopedale by L I Morris describes browning a one pound hamburger steak with two onions then combining with a tomato soup sauce. Heat the soup with water and thickener, season well, pour over the steak and serve hot on a large platter.
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L. I. Morris
Roast chicken method from old kitchen note
Steam a fowl for eight hours or four hours until tender then finish in oven for one to two hours to brown. This yields a tender roast chicken regardless of initial toughness. Cut up the fowl steam until tender then fry as usual. Meat steamed before roasting also tastes nice.
Thanksgiving Poem Of Labor Joy And Gratitude
A reflective verse on harvest toil and blessings. It contrasts reapers and maidens with night and moonlight, praising divine gifts of strength skill seed knowledge and the love shared between lovers by the hearth. The speaker urges gratitude beyond earthly praise to a higher grace.
Skating Date Sparks Quiet questions for Tom and Josephine
Since Sunday Tom has shown intense attention to Josephine. They have walked talked and danced all day and plan to skate after supper. Josephine returns Jack's raccoon coat and changes into a blue velvet gown with self-covered buttons high collar long sleeves and a green silk girdle. I wonder if they are merely playing or truly care.
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Tom
Josephine
Jack
Advice on eloping and waiting to marry
A young man aged 18 asks about marrying a 17 year old girl against her parents' wishes. The adviser warns that eloping would likely worsen their troubles, urges delaying marriage for two to three years, and suggests parental consent will eventually bring a happier outcome.
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Miss Champagne
Post Letter Box Questions On Russian Parties And Tolstoy
Readers raise inquiries about the link between the Russian Socialists and Bolsheviki asking if they are identical and about Tolstoy predicting World War I with Tolstoy’s estate calling the claim a fraud. The letter notes delayed answers due to source gathering and excludes medical or legal questions.
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Social Democratic Party
Tolstoy
Color-Coded Army Hat Cords Explained
To the Editor of the Post asks how to identify a soldier's branch by hat cord color. The note lists infantry sky blue artillery scarlet cavalry yellow ordnance black and red medical maroon signal corps orange and white engineer corps red and white quartermasters buff generals and staff departments deep blue.
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United States Army
Rm. OC. A
Signal
Engineer
Whist rule on examining tricks already played
The text discusses whether a player may examine tricks already played to refresh memory. It notes a common practice of looking back two tricks, and presents the view that once a trick is played and completed no one may look at it again until the hand is finished.
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N. R
Question on American name after naturalization
A would be American asks if a foreign born filer may adopt a new American name when naturalizing or must keep the original family name from the old country. He requests guidance on name change procedures in naturalization.
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Post
Governor eligibility and song authorship trivia notes
The text asks how long a Massachusetts resident must live before election and answers seven years. It then mentions the song The Girl I Left Behind Me, noting the author is unknown and its Irish origins with quoted lines about Ireland and a battle’s end.
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Sir
Massachusetts
Ireland
New Year Resolutions From the Sewing Circle
A Maine reader asks to join the Sewing Circle. The letters urge kindness charity and personal restraint as resolutions. Several contributors share New Year aims emphasizing mercy discretion and cheerful conduct amid social scrutiny and gossip.
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Maine
Florida
Songs of Sunshine by The Benzen Town Bard
A 1917 verse piece extols the path of virtue and truth. It speaks of the sunlit road for those pursuing wisdom and goodness and asserts inner essence guides righteous living and self truth.
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Benzenztown Bard
S Southern Press Syndicate
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