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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1918
Page
13
A heartfelt verse portrays a weary, troubled man apart from home as a woman prays for him. She guides children of a distant father in love and faith, keeping his memory alive in songs and daily prayers.
A narrator muses on escaping a harsh early winter for two or three weeks down South. She hopes to persuade Jack, who hints business may improve soon, to grant a request for travel. She imagines buying a white Jersey coat with pale gray-blue satin trim and a distinctive cross-tie collar.
Recipes from New England Housewives featured in Sunday Post present a meatless sandwich with tomato soup cheese and egg and a warm spread. Also included are instructions for I am in a Hurry cake and a rich chocolate pudding with walnuts and whipped cream. The page credits Mrs Charles H Horton Mrs Charles A Capwell and Mrs Franklin A Clark.
Practical tips on cooking and cleaning advise rolling sausages in flour before frying to prevent bursting and warming plates before hot cakes. Vinegar rinsing water softens hands, enamel baths clean with paraffin-dipped flannels, and tea leaves with vinegar clean narrow glass bottles for a perfectly clear rinse. EMELINE LANTHIER. 938 Water street, Fitchburg. Advertisement.
A specialist introduces Ara-Mara a cream promising to banish blackheads lighten skin and give a fresh youthful complexion. Users report rapid dis solving effects with warm water washing and a cloth and dealers Fermie and Liggett sell Ara-Mara with a money back guarantee.
The Post invites readers to submit up to 200 word baby stories for three prizes: a Double Gold Eagle 20 dollars a Single Gold Eagle 10 dollars and 5 dollars in Gold. Entries must be signed with real name and address and may be original or not the best stories printed in Daily and Sunday Post.
A three to five year old girl named Mary learns to knit with persistence prompting family amusement. Uncle Henry offers a rocking chair as a prize if she completes stockings before five. On her fifth birthday she finishes and values the prize highly, a tale retold in the family by Mrs. C. F. Abbott of Warmer New Hampshire.
A Milton woman recalls two years ago when her niece Lily wore her Aunt Jessie’s lace hat dress and gloves imitating Mary Pitfid. Now five, Lily mimics Mary Pickford, exclaiming That’s me upon seeing the star in films. Margaret Hanley signs the recollection.
A teacher in a room behind a grocery shop kept by his mother recounts a two year old boy named Carl snatching a history book he had borrowed from the teacher. The boy ran out angrily and did not return within an hour driving the teacher to search the store for his mother.
The narrative recalls a missing boy who slept atop coal bags behind a store. Authorities searched without success until about 10 o clock when he returned with a book and said he had been asleep. Miss Rose Miller of 27 Temple Street, Boston, identified the note.
A Dorchester mother recalls a bedtime prayer by her daughter Nancy about soap. The girl scolds a coal driver with a clean face and asks God to give that poor man soap, illustrating a child’s instinct to aid others. The note is signed by Mrs. C. Anderson of 190 Fairmount Street.
A Swanton Vermont reader recounts a funny episode where a young cousin, after eating green apples and black cherries, cannot stop saying long words. Grandmother calms the scene by prompting the child to speak the silly phrases Jee rushy Jeehoshaphat Beel zebub, teaching the idea to divert attention and provoke laughter.
A poem about restless men who roam the world and seek novelty. They chase new grooves and rush through life, but the steady ones who persevere win in the end. The poem warns that those who never settle become the Legion Lost and fail to seize their prime.
A 65 year old boy will attend his father Walter McInness's trial for alleged assault on the mother in Chelsea Police Court. The boy rejected his mother in City Police Court after McInness was freed by Judge Creed from larceny charges filed by his wife. A nurse protected the child as the father reached him. Domestic trouble led to the couple's separation two weeks earlier. The assault allegedly followed the mother's refusal to surrender the boy.
A Mrs. W. O. Davis of Groverton New Hampshire reports her 23 month old son Henry Oliver Davis wandered to the Ammo noosuc River bank. He stood near the water, threw stones, and warned himself not to fall in before being carried back to safety.
A mother recalls locking her year old daughter in a closet with a high snap lock by accident. The child cried until rescued by another girl and playmate. Four year old now shows early independence as she dresses herself and hides recently slept in a far corner. Mrs Josephine M Brown Hillside Avenue Waterville Me
Letters from readers discuss meaning of doing our bit and true share of effort. They note Marines are volunteers, ask about Tuesday beefsteak availability, explain 1888 two cent postage, and describe radium properties and observed glow.
Miss Evans daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard H Evans of Brookline married Captain Frank J Carey at Camp Taylor Louisville on December 26 prior to his departure for France. The couple plan war work from Louisville and Brookline with Carey a Notre Dame 1917 graduate who trained with the Iron Battalion at Harvard.
A series of letters from Sewing Circle members argues if a wife earns more, she should keep working while the husband stays home. Opinions range from supporting shared work and housekeeping to upholding traditional male duties, with emphasis on preserving the American home.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, highlighting reader voices and community chatter in a regular feature.
Sugar kings forecast relief as 6,080,000 pounds of Cuban sugar arrive, predicting the famine will end by February 1 and prices will ease. Officials urge against hoarding to avoid repeating shortages.
Many women using Auto-Knitters at home can earn $1 to $2 per day knitting hosiery. The work is pleasant, easily learned, and offers year round steady employment. Send a 2c stamp to Auto-Knitter Hosiery Co Inc Desk 80 821 Jefferson Avenue Buffalo NY.
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