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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1921
Page
15
A rural tale shows Johnny ignoring his duties as cows wander home at dusk. Grandpa schemes a scare with two white sheets, making a dramatic moonlit chase that ends in Johnny’s playful thrill at a “big Fraid” and a “little Fraid” chasing him through the night.
Advertisement states D. J. Lane of Lane Building, St. Marys, Kansas, claims a simple home remedy cures asthma. He will mail a $1.25 bottle postpaid to applicants who write. Payment only if it cures. readers must report effects within ten days.
The Sewing Circle weighs a widow's vow to never remarry after her husband dies. It argues a promise made in youth may be unwise given future changes and needs. If happiness and protection require it, she may honor new love and move forward, trusting the deceased would wish her well.
A reader counsels a widow to pursue happiness and remarriage, arguing companionship improves life and aligns with golden rule fellowship. Several letters emphasize releasing past vows and focusing on present love, service, and family for a fuller future.
Johnny rushes cows to the barnyard and rushes to tell Grandpa about two Fraids. He finds Grandpa in a rocker with Mother tending him and camphor near his nose. Jocko the monkey sits on the kitchen table draped in white. Johnny slips away to avoid upset.
Recipes from New England housewives featuring Escalloped Egg Plant, Fig Pie, and Suet Pudding. Includes ingredient lists, quantities, steps, and baker addresses Mrs Elsie L Landers Dorchester and Mrs May T Shaw Greenfield. Contains traditional fruit and dessert preparations with baking instructions.
A collection of dated home kitchen directions includes HARD SAUCE with frosting sugar egg white and butter, a flour and molasses batter by MRS ANSON C DAMON of Mattapan, another by ADDIE EF BUSWELL of Norway Maine with milk and butter, and DUMPLINGS for soups by MRS ELIZABETH H GLEASON of Watertown.
A compact poem defines success as doing your job well while staying true to ideals. It links money with friendship, effort with learning, and daring with diligence. It celebrates perseverance, fair play, cheerfulness in defeat, and striving to improve life through service and self-improvement.
Miss Henrietta N. Rowe adapts to outdoor life after a physician advises her to live outside. She leverages bookkeeping, needlework, and household management to run a hunting camp at Moosehead Lake, Me. when not teaching cooking at Mt. Holyoke. The venture becomes a success, providing independence and income while offsetting the bleak prognosis.
In a witty 1920 Vivian Vane comedy Jack and Jill host a series of guests to prove intellectual dinner conversation wins a wife’s affection. A CPA guest, school friends, and debated topics expose marriage dynamics and social pretensions in a lighthearted farce.
A humorous verse about a neighbor who plays a flute poorly and sparks a satirical wish for laws to curb noisy music. The speaker considers legal options to silence the obnoxious flute while the flutist dreams of soothing tones. The poem ends with the thought of breaking the speaker’s phonograph before enacting any law.
The Prince of Wales indulges in six inch Havana cigars despite a 50 cent tax urging costly taste. Sir James Craig, ally of Sir Edward Carson, serves 20 years in the Commons and is parliamentary secretary to the Admiralty. Nahan Franko hears Melba McCreery sing while awaiting a move to Indiana. Joffre Foch and Petain draw about $8000 yearly with extra pay if married. Mrs Cleveland McCauley becomes first woman admitted to law practice in China. Augustus John paints Lord Leverhulme, while a soap magnate hid a painting’s head in a safe amid army leader portraits.
Household hints advise applying a heavy paste of laundry starch with cold water to grease spots on garments, drying and brushing away, repeating if needed, without harming delicate colors. For ink on carpet, pour milk on the stain and rub clean, and worn blankets become warm quilts when covered with sateen or cretonne. ISABELLA I. PITHIB at 23 Main avenue, East Somerville.
A reader asks if widows remarrying should have bridesmaids or a maid of honor and if there is a best man. The answer: at a second marriage the bride may not wear a veil or orange blossoms and typically has no bridesmaids or maid of honor, no best man unless desired. A separate question about raising hats shows first meeting etiquette: raise to a lady when with a friend, but not if unintroduced.
A Louisiana pair revive sugar cane molasses once near extinction calling it Brer Rabbit after plantation tales. It claims to be America’s favorite molasses with light and dark labels. Recipe notes mix butter sugar eggs molasses sour milk ginger cinnamon soda salt flour and baking directions.
Readers ask about Calvin Coolidge birthplace and birth date, his middle name, and naming. The exchange clarifies Plymouth Vermont born July 4 1872, originally John Calvi n but known as Calvin. Other questions address Greater London vs New York populations, walking 33 miles, Lent days, auto speed records, iceboat licenses, airplane fuselage, confusion over question naire pronunciation, and identifying the 18th and 19th amendments.
A leading theatrical manager recalls a persistent playwright, who kept presenting rewrites. After seven refusals, the manager concedes a condition. The playwright agrees, and the manager proposes to “grade it up and use it as a snowstorm” on stage. The anecdote highlights stubborn persistence and inventive production tactics.
In a tense exchange, Anita and Nelly argue whether a tale qualifies as a story and what constitutes truth. Anita insists stories are like truth, citing her professor father and editor father as authorities, while Nelly rejects the implication.
The precise pedagogue asks if hens sit or set while a housewife replies that she cares more about learning when a hen cackles whether she is laying or lying. The exchange highlights language choices versus practical husbandry understanding.
A newspaper fragment captures a shopper and a dealer trading terse line exchanges about race. The dialogue showcases mispronunciations and confrontational repetition highlighting underlying prejudice.
A new cook, allowed three afternoons off weekly, used tickets to a holiday matinee. She left at 3:30 and told her mistress she could not stay for Act III, which she believed duplicated Act I. She returned to ask for tickets for the evening performance.
A magazine editor must lead a somewhat gloomy life says a poet as he opens returned manuscripts. His friend asks why. The peer quotes the editor’s habit of expressing regrets in his work.
Reeseates Father confirms support as the P. A. continues to back Holgaber-50 after his son earns his bachelor and master degrees, cited in the Boston Transcript.
In the Williamsville North Dakota Item a note questions whether a printed apology is real or office humor. It cites an error headline about Mrs Overhalt and clarifies a misused French word fet e meaning celebration and a song word.
A researcher notes several law or accounting firms with puns or rhyming names. Watch Waite Attit Datly Layte Doc Carret Grin Barrett are mentioned as options, highlighting a playful or satirical tone about partnership names.
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