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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1917
Page
7
Poem stanzas contrast the passing of the Old Year with the rise of the New. Edmund Vance Cook’s verse in The Uncommon Commoner praises resilience and toil, urging the New Year to labor beyond holidays and to earn lasting praise through spent days.
A charming married vaudeville pair Laura and Harry confront a drinking rift. Laura, husband accused of club life, stays loyal and urges sobriety. After years apart, she exposes hypocrisy by drinking to teach him a lesson, revealing their bond endures despite flaws.
A clipped reader page from 1917 offers varied tips and gossip on silent film actors and work. Elsie B and Alice Joyce are named in industry notes, while advice covers health, salary ranges for extras, and how to submit motion picture plot synopses.
Dr I M Rupinow secretary of the AMA committee on social insurance will be in Boston January 8 and 9 to confer with stakeholders about wage earner sickness insurance. A public meeting is planned for January 9 where Dr Rubinow will address health insurance.
The historic chateau birthplace of Marquis de Lafayette was purchased by Americans to be restored as a memorial museum and home. The notice also includes two local recipes, one for an orange pie and another for a peach whip, credited to Mrs. Critchett and Mrs. Austin B. Trask of Peabody, Massachusetts.
A vivid exchange shows Dorothy in furs and flirtatious banter as she chats over the wire. The scene hints at a planned Northward pursuit and a playful, suggestive mood that touches on social style and expectations of courtship.
A reader rebukes a published letter about marital fidelity and motherly rights. She defends a wife’s leeway toward her husband’s mother and recounts personal experience with trust, betrayal, and independence, urging women to seek own happiness while steering clear of petty spites.
Mrs William Astor Chanler and John Moffat spearhead purchase for the French Heroes Fund to transform Chateau de Chavaniac Lafayette into a Washington home offering records of colonial and wartime history, a shelter for orphans and disabled soldiers, near the sacred Lafayette church in Auvergne. Prominent associates include Theodore Roosevelt Choate Mackay Meyer Hibben Butler Coudert Blair and others.
Recipes by Miss Mildred Morse from East Saugus feature a celery sauce with vinegar and mustard, and a baked apples dish with cinnamon. Also included is a cake batter for a apple topping and an orange pie using two large oranges and eggs.
New Year breakfast for the down and outs at West End Rescue Mission led by Frank and Mrs Curtis. Ruggles Street Baptist Church to hold its annual meeting January 4 with reports from church officers and affiliated societies. First Baptist Church Boston votes to abolish pew rentals making seats free from today. Governor McCall to speak on Temperance January 7 at St Paul Cathedral, with other bishops and speakers this month. Brotherhood of St Andrew to meet January 4 at Cathedral Church of St Paul with supper, conference, and service.
The Rev. Dr. Harry Levi told Temple Israel on Commonwealth avenue that war is blurring American standards. He warned it is provincializing the nation, fostering fear and selfishness, yet urged a march toward peace as humanity’s true ideal. He stressed peace, love, and welfare over conflict.
A Boston Catholic page describes New Year activities and society events. Highlights include a Christmas Eve romance with a Southerner, a Sacred Heart devotion on Friday at Cathedral, a 3 PM Confraternity meeting, a play The Angelus by St Philip’s groups at Boston College High School for parish funds, a New Year’s mass for night workers at St James, a lecture on Catholic Citizenship by John Low McMahon, Friday sessions by the Common Cause Society, and a St Ambrose parish whist and dance fundraiser with a barrel of flour prize.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, highlighting reader topics and community craft projects. The feature showcases community voices and practical sewing tips.
Paragraph notes fashion trends with brimless hats, black and white outfits, and richly trimmed outerwear. Skunk fur accents robes in Bordeaux red velour while Cossack style coats gain popularity. Lingerie uses filet lace with animal motifs and pepper and salt tones trend for coats. Parchment suede wraps shine amid bold foreign embroideries and fur shoulder capes with pointed fronts.
The R H Stearns Co reports its clearance sale opened last Tuesday with the best first day in sixty nine years and each subsequent day exceeding last year. It offers deep values across departments including linens towels sheets silks dresses furs and more with straight lots bought months ago at below current values.
A vintage medical advertisement extols Resinol Ointment as a long standing remedy prescribed for eczema ringworm and similar itching conditions. It claims quick itching relief and rapid disappearance of eruptions while noting safety for sensitive skin.
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