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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1921
Page
15
Readers debate best ways to discipline and guide teenage daughters with mother daughter trust. Letters urge mutual respect, shared activities, and attending events together to avoid locking doors and driving teens toward risky company.
Mrs. Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh of Chicago turns from talismanic art to an artistic statuette the Good Fairy. The sculpture conquers the market from Fifth Avenue to nationwide shops, attracting figures like Theodore Roosevelt and Sarah Bernhardt and enabling a thriving royalty based manufacturing model. Tomorrow Feathered Boarders.
A reflective poem fragment speaks of love as a sorrowful life lesson. The speaker recalls a summer of love now ended by death, noting graves under daisies and the pain of two hearts estranged. The piece contrasts beauty with dust and sorrow, asserting love's enduring sadness.
A Cornishman recalls visiting a cemetery after twenty years away and meeting an old acquaintance. The Yankee skeptical, but the tale continues with a hand from a grave gripping the narrator, revealed as the hand of the old sexton digging a fresh grave.
Pokus quips that Hardup is not industrious but every person he touches ends up stung. The exchange frames Hardup as a dangerous figure whose contact brings harm.
A clipped exchange shows Mrs Gabb accusing her husband of selfishness and failure to aid others while Mr Gabb retorts that his sacrifice was marrying her. The dialogue reflects a domestic dispute and questions of social responsibility.
A playful dialogue riffs on cosmopolitan identity through a mosaic of nationalities and flavors. A hypothetical Rus sian Jew in England with an Italian wife embodies the cosmopolitan idea amid diverse beverages, music, and foods.
In a quoted exchange a critic attributes a boy’s scrappy behavior to his upbringing. The remark notes the mother forced curls on him until age nine, linking that to later conduct. The line suggests parental influence on character and social judgment amid a broader discussion.
A teacher questions Cyril about attending class while his younger brother has scarlet fever. Cyril replies that the boy is only his half-brother, challenging the teacher’s assumption about family ties and illness.
SAVING MA Pilson and his wife visit their son captain of the school cricket club. The match runs late and Pilson senior joins church singing loudly, provoking amusement and a reply from his son about singing lower. The punchline reveals his wife’s louder voice.
Walt Mason laments rural decline as youngsters flock to the city. Hay Centre remains quiet with aging merchants and idle streets while the Great White Way beckons. The poem contrasts village slow life with urban vibrancy and nostalgic decay.
Jill bursts into tears as her wedding ring slips from her finger into the kitchen sink. Jack panics at first then jokes to restore calm, promising to kiss the ring back on and reassure his distraught wife. The scene ends with her faint smile amid lingering worry.
A reader asks the Post where the phrase HM, 40, or fight began. The letter notes William Allen used it in a U S Senate speech during the 1844 presidential election referencing the Oregon boundary parallel of latitude 40 degrees.
John Bradbury signed special war issues of English paper money, including a small black one pound note. The Treasury called these notes in, and the public nicknamed them Bradburys.
Cape Horn lies at about 65 degrees south while the Cape of Good Hope sits near 34 degrees south making Cape Horn the more southern point.
The story began as a serial in The National Era before book publication on March 20 1852. Hornblow notes C W Taylor’s 1852 dramatization at Purdy’s National Theatre in New York as the first stage version, followed a year later by the Howard family staging George L Aiken’s adaptation at the same venue.
The figure notes that Carnegie funded eleven hundred and twenty five public libraries worldwide totaling 60 million four thousand five hundred nine dollars. One sixteenth of these libraries are in the United States.
The sequence of world heavyweight champions from Sullivan to Dempsey runs Sullivan, Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Jeffries, Burns, Johnson, Willard, Dempsey. The Sullivan Corbett bout date is September 7, 1892 in New Orleans.
In early summer 1914 granulated sugar sold in some places for about 4 1/2 cents per pound.
Charles James Fox, born in London on January 15, 1740, was a brilliant yet eccentric British statesman known for a gambling habit and cheerful debt. He opposed taxing the American colonies, faced unpopularity with George III, and rose to Secretary of State before his death at 47. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
The War Department reports 48,909 total battle deaths from 34,180 killed in action and 14,729 died of wounds. Deaths from disease reach 56,991, with over 40,000 dying from pneumonia amid the influenza epidemic.
Eddie prides himself on office order but Nan runs the home with a strict system. He battles canned salmon on Wednesdays and looser routines clash with Miss Locke in the office. By summer he sees home life, not the office, as the real stressor and reverses his views.
Belted fur ecarfs pair with simple coats. Tea gowns feature satin cord embroidery. A toque of silver brocade is trimmed with ermine.
The record recalls Boston coldest for January 13 at 5 below in 1912 and 1914 and warmest 61 in 1590. It notes no rain or snow on this date in 16 years except 1911 1915 1916 1917 1920.
A nostalgic reflection contrasts a legendary old woman who cared for many children with modern mothers now raising families. The piece praises Bond Bread as a symbol of nourishment for today’s mothers and their thousands of children.
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