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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
19
A reprint from yesterday’s Post invites readers to answer a bold question on women’s equality and whether modern progress has dulled men’s deference. The Sewing Circle offers $5 to the two best replies, inviting brief, single-sided letters and debate on marriage symbols, trousers for women, and shifting social expectations.
The Observant Citizen notes Vermont’s 1777 declaration of independence as New Connecticut before officials renamed it Vermont. Items also touch on high living costs and a sleigh nostalgia, plus political moves by Captain David J. Brickley and local business ties in Detroit and East Boston. The column closes with Denis A. McCarthy’s poetry in the Post.
Walt Mason humorist voices his quirky hymns in a light column style. The piece presents playful verses and a folksy tone typical of Mason’s humor from early 20th century press.
An elderly laborer, crippled and weary, toils in an attic while memories of youth glow. He spent his earnings on pleasures, neglecting the future. now he drifts, a shadow of his former craft, with rain-soaked walls and a town’s grim forecast.
McCarthy selected as secretary of the City Club of Washington DC. He is noted as an author, poet, lecturer, and wartime administrator for the Knights of Columbus. John Courtenay Crocker leads the Old South Meeting House forum, inviting diverse speakers with varied views. Frank A Vanderlip and Glenn F. Plumb are cited among past speakers.
Clarice buys a Duroque gown at Mme De Reval, pleased with its style and price. Millicent also shops there, wearing a rose gown she thought was from Stark’s. At a gala, both learn the gowns are Duroque models, prompting honesty about thrift and shop choices.
Cookery tips by MISS HILDA LARSON and MRS CHARLOTTE SAWYER describe croquette filled cabbage rolls fried or baked slowly, plus delicious graham muffins without eggs and a baked apple dessert with cake crumbs. Recipes share names and addresses for home cooks in Pengtvern Hall Shrewsbury Cliftondale and East Boston.
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