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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1919
Page
15
A Boston Sewing Circle page features readers debating German language stigma and American identity. A contributor argues young Americans should avoid German words, while others praise education and modest careers for women and defend business women. The letters cover women’s education, modern fashion, marriage, and the balance between career and home life.
Clara shows a collection of silk stockings as gifts, mentioning a pair to match a gown. She describes one black silk pair with brown clocking and a satin gown, noting the embroidery bands at the neck and down the front with matching sleeve and skirt trim.
Answers explain that correspondence cards suit short informal notes and dinner course order. olives and nuts stay on table. coffee served last. Visiting cards favor Hither script or Roman lettering per taste.
The article previews H. F. Wheeler's intimate account in The Real Life of General Pershing to be published in next week's Boston Sunday Post detailing Pershing’s courtship as a captain and how he won his bride.
A 1918 feature notes Maurice Ketten and a mechanical humor piece titled The Musical Radiator preoccupied with daily tasks. It highlights playful satire about work life and rest days, reflecting period humor and publishing style.
Marie Worthley races to dress in time for lunch with her brother Mark and his chum Phil Gordon. A war cake slips frosting bound to a neighbor cat, sparking a humorous chase and awkward greeting that ends with a budding romance as Phil vows a cordial welcome that grows over subsequent visits.
A historical note extols chinchilla squirrel fur as an ideal trim for fashionable frocks and blouses. The article highlights its delightful texture and luxurious appeal for women's garments.
Old New England household recipes list dishes using sausages cabbage and mutton pie crust with steam vents, minced lamb on toast and rice and cheese croquettes. The collection by Henrietta EB Adderson provides practical steps and serving ideas for inexpensive meals.
Poem mocks gender stereotypes by portraying a speaker defending female frailty as a social badge. It contrasts male anger with a woman's quiet endurance, noting a wife’s nightly care for a crying infant and the broader idea of women as frail yet resilient in daily labor.
The article describes fashion notes with a Russian blouse in fur and a tight belt. It notes young girls wear high waisted frocks with pretty designs. Evening sleeves may be bead strands and scarfs end with beaded tassels. Fringe and ostrich feathers are adaptable for all ages.
A survey of public figures and honors follows the war era. Clemenceau, aged 78, seeks rest in Mouilleron en Retz. Names include Henry van Dyke and J Y Morgan elected to the French Legion of Honor, and Sir Arthur Pearson visiting to aid blinded veterans. Lieutenant Neville Pearson accompanies him. John W. Goff retires from the New York Supreme Court after 25 years. Lilli Boulanger is praised as a leading woman composer. Varilla, Panama Canal engineer, claims Verdun decoration after losing a leg.
The Real Life of General Pershing by H. F. Wheeler has intimate details of Pershing's courtship as he won his bride, described in next week's Boston Sunday Post.
Anita Stewart stars as a young wife drawn into a risky social game while her husband works away. Conway Tearle and William Boyd support the triangle as Edwin Arden adds artistic heft. The photoplay offers timely moral issues and strong facial expression acting, signaling Mayer's promising film craft.
Practical tips from Mrs R M Stone of Rumford Maine. Folded newspapers over an oil stove help cakes brown. Rub nails with laundry soap to prevent blacking. Pour boiling water through a cloth stained with iodine to remove the stain.
The record notes Boston temperatures for January eighth with historic lows of six degrees in 1878 and minus two in 1887 and a warm high of one degree in 1870s. It cites rain or snow on this date in 1910 1911 and 1912 across the past years.
Ine Rockefeller Institute dispatches a commission to Jamaica to lead a fight against hook worm. A census shows 20 percent infection in the population. Authorities are urged to impose a quarantine against Spanish influenza.
The speaker reflects on life on the road, uncertainty, and the drive to record experiences before death. He notes trying many roads, observing others, and the urge to write all pages before passing, celebrating life despite toil and danger.
Sergeant G. B. Cottman of Battery 302 in France bet he could reach the Atlantic City Breakers hotel chief clerk by a spoofed address and a hotel likeness. The censor copied the joke and sent the letter back with the note I bet you don't get it cens or, showing a rare humane moment in wartime mail. The letter, dated November 30, arrived in Atlantic City December 10, bearing the playful Hotel Playground of the World drawing and the clerk’s Try Atlantic City line.
Charles G. Wood and J. Walter Mullen of the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation traveled to New York for a National War Labor Board meeting to review strike conditions at General Electric plants. A local unions committee also joined the conference, and the public hearing on the strike was adjourned for one week at the strikers' request.
The Rev Edward P Tivnan S J professor of chemistry and regent of Fordham University School of Medicine has been appointed president succeeding Rev Joseph A Mulry S J who retired due to ill health Tivnan is described as the youngest university president in the country at the time of appointment.
John Baker Keys a 63 year old Cincinnati clubman under observation at General Hospital since Thanksgiving will return for dental work then rest at Good Samaritan Hospital. Temporary guardian Clyde Johnson replaces Edgar Stark after relatives sought guardianship. Keys still loves Florence Girardin and faults hospital conditions as alienists diagnose circular mania depressive. He alleges illegal detention and confinement in a barred cell.
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