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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1918
Page
11
A Dear Sewing Circle exchange debates whether a man may smoke in his own home. Readers argue for a den or designated room, while others insist smoking indoors offends wives and children. The letters compare smoking to drinking and urge reasonable limits to avoid conflicts.
A beauty notice touts aramara as a safe facial wash replacing soap and cold cream. It claims aramara cleanses thoroughly, lightens the complexion and reduces enlarged pores, blackheads, and irritation, with a few ounces lasting weeks. Filene's and Liggett's supply aramara.
A speaker invites a mother to hold hands and wander to a dreamland garden. They promise calming, starry night, fragrant flowers, and peaceful sleep away from daily cares. The poem imagines mutual comfort, distant travel, and shared quiet moments in a celestial land.
A columnist argues that husbands deserve home comforts including smoking and relaxed rules, urging women to share duties and keep the home cooperative. A reader notes a telephone chat about a husband John and friends, and a wife Josephine in a velvet suit, exposing household tensions and judgments over spending and manners.
Marcus Tullius Cicero born January 3 106 B C at Arpinum rises to power in Rome as an orator and statesman. He becomes consul, suppresses Catiline, flees, returns under Pompey and Caesar, writes philosophy, and dies after Antony’s faction defeats him. Caesar divorces and remarries, then his heir dies.
Mrs. Clara Jl Bell of 52 Safford Street Wollaston notes crochet cotton in darning stockings does not harden after washing, making repairs easier and longer lasting.
A guide to stylish evening wear highlights a chain of black moire ribbon and crystal beads as a key accent. It notes quilting for ornamentation on wraps, tweeds and cheviots for sportswear, and an evening cape in gray with a deep squirrel fur collar as a charming option.
Medical schools agree that about 95 percent of illness stems from intestinal putrefaction caused by constipation. A gentle remedy is Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin sold for fifty cents. Free sample offered by Dr W B Caldwell at 466 Washington St Monticello Illinois.
The Post invites readers to submit stories about babies with signed real names and addresses. Three prizes total for the best stories, including two gold eagle awards and cash. The best entries will be printed in Daily and Sunday Post. winners announced next Sunday.
Mrs. James M'Intosh of Milford, New Hampshire recalls her toddler's odd habit. The girl places baked potatoes and junket on her head, leading Mrs. M'Intosh to try a buttered potato on the head as a determent. the child now prefers eating the food to headwear.
A Bristol New Hampshire note recounts four year old Marjorie scratching a newly gifted piano with her boot buttons. She briefly leaves the room then returns unclothed to her toes and vows she will not scratch it. The writer signs as Mrs EB Bickford.
Harriet age 3 12 and her younger sister Madeline share breakfast. Harriet cleans her saucer to a spotless finish while Madeline toys with a spoon and wishes for candy. Harriet reproves her sister urging haste with a tiny finger raised.
A reader recalls a household scene where a punitive warning prompts a child to finish every bite of oatmeal rapidly. The threatening remark, aimed at obedience, drives an immediate end to the meal.
A fragment mentions EMITA B. HASTINGS of 3 Phillips Place Cambridge and references a throat incident without sugar on it. The readable portion preserves a personal identifier and address with no clear date or outcome.
Helen Allen a talkative four year old visits Santa at a Cambridge dry goods store on December 21 after recovering from diphtheria. Her hair long and yellow was recently cut and she quips at Santa that he took it all, wondering why it wasn’t shared with the poor. She tells her mother she would have kept it if she had known Santa would take it all.
A narrator recalls settling in Aroostook County Maine thirty five years ago. The tiny log cabin with a turf bank and overgrown hedge sheltered a mother and her infant son Frank who wandered near the door. The baby climbed the roof astride the ridgepole, aided by earth banks and surrounding shrubs.
A photo of Evelyn Bligh, age two years ten months, sent by Mrs. Alfred A. Bligh of 2775 Washington Street. The little girl, nicknamed the nurses' “music box,” recently left the City Hospital South Department. The note recounts her cheerful demeanor and a child’s curious remark about a funeral procession.
A mother in Kittery Point Maine borrowed a neighbor’s ladder to reach her child who had perched about 12 feet up on the house peak. She safely brought the barefoot infant down from the rough boards, with the child unharmed. Pearl Ashby Tibbetts.
Captain Hollon C. Spaulding opens a Boston office of the Ordnance Examining Board in the Chamber of Commerce building to examine men seeking commissions. Lieutenant G. S. Dellerrill assists in processing applicants for the Ordnance Department.
A dose taken every two hours for three doses stops grippe misery and breaks a severe cold. It opens nasal passages, stops discharge, eases headache and feverishness, relieves throat soreness and sneezing. The genuine Pape's Cold Compound costs only a few cents and acts without aid.
Lieut Coningsby Dawson recalls a front line march to Blighty on a stretcher after battle, longing for a bed and warm water. The piece promises a simple, beautiful wartime account far from usual war articles and urges readers to read it in January Good Housekeeping.
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