Baby Story Contest Seeks Tales for Prizes in The Post
The Post invites readers to submit good baby stories up to 200 words for three prizes a Double Gold Eagle a Single Gold Eagle and $5 in Gold. Stories may be original or not one side of the paper signed with real name and address. Judges include Rufus B Tobey Theresa M Lally and the Baby Story Editor.
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Post
the Post
Boston
Sunday Post
Rufus B. Tobey
Wonderful Floating Hospital For Children
Theresa M. Lally
Infant den
Catholic Charitable Bureau
Helping Mother Betty Story From Moosehead Lake
A tale of a young girl Betty who learns to help her mother after a nursemaid story about a child who did not cooperate. The narrative contrasts crying and willingness with a lesson about taking steps and caring for a sick mother. Betty improves after hearing the cautionary tale and obediently performs errands.
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Betty
Moosehead Lake
B. H. Jackson
Greenville
Child Resists Toy Trade Over Shoe in Simple Trial
Eight month old Drexel Gordon, just beginning to stand, clung to his white kid shoe despite his mother offering bright colored toys. She tried a second toy, aiming to lure him away from the shoe, but he persisted in retaining the shoe.
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Drexel Gordon
Mamma
Drexel
California Syrup of Figs Ad Claims Trustworthy Cure
An ad touts California Syrup of Figs as the first remedy for sickness and internal cleansing. It warns against counterfeit syrups and directs buyers to request the California Fig Syrup Company product with full dosing directions for all ages.
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California
California Fig Aytae Company
Infant Uses Shoe To Free Toy
A baby, puzzled at first, bites the toe of a shoe to free a held toy. Mrs. Fred Chambers of Newport New Hampshire reports the scene with the child managing to disengage a hand to grab the toy, showing resourceful use of a shoe as a tool.
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Fred Chambers
Newport, N. H
Deserted Kindergarten Mischief Leads to Early Exit
Four year old Ethel, a leader for a luncheon march, slipped out the open front door with classmates as teachers chatted. Her escape caused a street pursuit and she was sent home and dismissed for the day. Mrs Mary Berman, 42 Dacta Street, Roxbury.
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Ethel
Mary Berman
Dacta Street
Roxbury
Lost Child Found in Dorchester Police Station
A three year old girl, Maude, wandered after a stray kitten and was discovered hiding under a desk in the Dorchester police sergeant's office. She asked for papers, hugged the sergeant, and promised to visit again, ending the search with a tearful reunion.
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Maude
Mayde
Midda Peaceman
Molly and Jack the bath swash in farm yard tale
Four year old Molly on a large farm bathes her white poodle Jack in a watering tub. She holds the dog under one arm and the scrub brush under the other, both soaked as the dog kicks and splashes. The girl proclaims to her mother that Jack washed her after the bath.
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Molly
Jack
Catherine Keen
Eutaw Street
East
Boston
Tie Tac-Too nursery tale with Alec and babies
In a Boston nursery Catherine Farley recalls two babies Fred and Ales, their sister Patie and Alec playing a playful game of tic tac toe. The scene shows siblings interacting with a simple, cheerful domestic moment centered on a small child’s amusements.
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Fred
Ales
Patie
Alec
Baby Alec
Catherine Farley
Charles Street
Boston
The City Knows by Elizabeth Newport Hepburn
Poem reflecting New York’s war-time spirit with urban imagery of lights and avenues. It contrasts bustling Broadway and vaudeville with a beggar and soldiers going to fight in France, ending on the City’s breath held in night and a Titan facing love and death.
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Elizabeth Newport Hepburn
New York Times
France
Broadway
Phyllis
Question on wifely work balance fuels Sewing Circle contest
A reader note invites letters answering whether a wife who earns more than her husband should continue working while he stays home. The excerpt recalls a lighthearted exchange between spouses with humor about cigars and domestic roles in the Good Old Beaton Post.
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Sewing Circle
Good Old Beaton Post
Smoking at Home and the Husband’s Privilege
A Waterville reader argues that a man may smoke in his own home but should consider others, suggesting limited use near non-smokers or outside the home. The letter reflects on domestic norms, gender roles, and the health concerns of smoke in sleeping areas, ending with a widow recounting her husband’s unrestricted smoking.
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Sewing Circle
Waterville
Deer Sewing Circle Statera
Gibralter
La May Face Powder Pure Beauty Cream
A specialist announces La May Poudre L Ame as a pure face powder that stays on until washed off and contains no white lead or starch. It uses a medicinal skin healing powder to prevent enlarged pores blackheads and pimples and is sold nationwide at fifty cents for large and twenty five cents for half.
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New York
Hubby’s Smoke Rights Stir Household Debate
A lighthearted column argues a husband may smoke anywhere in his home except in bed, while a wife may enjoy sweets in any room. It defends a husband’s right to use his own space after earning his home, contrasting household freedoms and responsibilities.
Household Hints Then Recipes From Mrs Harris
Household hints offer simple remedies from Mrs J. T. Harris of Dorchester. They cover pressing with ammonia in water, using hot soda water for toothache, celery to remove onion stains, zinc over live coals to vent a stovepipe, buttering custard cups to prevent sticking, beating flour and water to avoid lumps, salt in dough, and peroxide on rust for stain removal.
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Morrison Avenue
West Somerville
Pearl
Ruby
Laloon Perley
Perley
Pear
America
Ruby and
Pearl Jones
Gracie
Papa
Mary MacDonald
Hall Street
Margaretto
Baisley
Washington Street
Dorchester
Dolly
Washington
Bour
J. T. Harris
Seaver Street
Chandler & Co
Tremont Street
New Management
The
Great Ceylon Tea Co
Sale ‘Siriany
Warner
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the Great Ceylon Tea Co
Armour
Brazil
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Rmour
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