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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1920
Page
19
A year is a ship God built and launched for you. You stand on the bridge in command and must steer through winds, storms, and false lights. Your log will show if you progress, and faith steadies the helm as you begin your voyage and ask for God's help.
Detective Joe Mitchell pursues a missing silver goblet amid Alice Pennington’s wedding revels. Martha, a reclusive farm woman, and a boy named Bill Ramson Jr. reveal the cup’s location. Joe proposes to Martha and both confess to briefly taking the heirloom. the town turns to celebration as the cup is recovered and a new bicycle becomes a prize.
Recipes from New England housewives appear in the Sunday Post with items like American Chop Suey and Baking Powder Biscuit. The American dish uses bacon onions hamburg steak spaghetti and tomato soup to feed four, while the biscuit recipe covers flour baking powder salt butter milk and a meat pie crust option. A ham potato onion bake details layering and baking for two hours.
The piece extols a blue taffeta suit paired with a champagne colored felt chapeau trimmed in navy grosgrain. It notes a youthful tailored coat with bloused waist and corded edges, practical pockets, a boyish ribbon fastened collar, and cautions on lining color while suggesting brick red with blue figures as a safe color mix.
A chain of letters from readers discuss who should control the family purse. Opinions stress partnership and shared budgeting, with advocates for joint planning, transparency, and a common fund. Some urge budget systems and open pay envelopes to avoid distrust and financial friction.
A nostalgic verse celebrates approaching spring as farmers plow, flowers bloom, and the village awakens. The speaker contrasts winter’s chill with spring’s promise, imagining picnics, bells, and clover while recalling the author Walt Mason and copyright attribution to George Matthew Adams.
It is whispered that Egypt will have a strong influence over the fashions of the coming season. The accepted veil of the moment is a loose square effect in pale gray or beige. A novel evening gown features a skirt covered with three black tulle tunics that come to a point in front.
Boston Children’s Friend Society seeks good families to board children. A Protestant family of six children is particularly desired. Call at 48 Rutland Street between 1 and 4.
Household hints describe turning worn shirts into pajama coats and aprons, renewing shabby garments by cutting into gores, making tea aprons from a shirt, refreshing shirtwaists with new collars, and repurposing skirts into petticoats. Instructions cover cutting, sewing, and fabric reuse. Addresses of Mrs. Marion C. Smith and Clara E. Shackford are given.
The article advises arranging magazines by size in overlapping stacks for visibility and easy access. Start with largest woman and general magazines, then mid sized weeklies, and finally Harper and Atlantic titles. Keep current issues out and move older ones to shelves or donate to charity.
Washington February 9. Enlistment of 190,755 recruits will be required this year to maintain the army at its authorized strength of 256,134. Colonel W Thate, in charge of recruiting, reported to Chairman Lehrman of the House military committee.
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