Baby Story Contest Invites Boston Submissions
The Post calls for readers to submit up to 200 word baby stories for prizes of a Double Gold Eagle $20, Single Gold Eagle $10, and $5 in Gold. Entries must be signed with real name and address and may be original or copied. Judges include Rufus B. Tobey and Theresa M. Lally.
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the Post
Boston
Sunday Post
Rufus B. Tobey
Wonderful Floating Hospital For Children
Theresa M. Lally
Editor's Sewing Circle seeks weekly best contributions
The Sewing Circle invites women readers of the Post to submit new problems or comments with optional pen names. The editor will pay five dollars weekly for the best contribution and announce the author on Sundays.
Banish Horrid Blackheads with New Ara-Mara Cream
A specialist credits a cream like Ara-Mara with dissolving blackheads and brightening complexions. Users praise quick results and prefer it to soap and cold cream, noting it is safer and grease free. Sold at Filene's and Liggett's with a money back guarantee.
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Filene’s
Liggett’s
A Patriotic Little Boy Sent by Medford Scout
Germaine Van Laethemn sends a note about William F. Callahan Jr known as Junior a two and a half year old from Medford who can recite many verses. He famously says It s your country and my duty What are you going to do I m going to join the navy He has spoken at recruiting stations in a sailor suit and inspired enlistments plus he helped raise Red Cross subscriptions.
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Germaine van Laethemn
Tainter Street
Medford
William F. Callahan, Jr
Junior
Miss Muffet
Jack
Jil
Navy
Red Cross
Santa Claus blocks vanish and reappear in chimney tale
A Boston child aged Leon hid 24 hollow Santa blocks in his apron and later confessed by dropping the last piece into the fireplace. The blocks slid up the chimney and fell into the ash pit after a mason removed bricks, revealing all blocks. The family attributes the mystery to the boy’s sudden discovery. ALICE H. HACKETT.
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Leon
Santa Claus
Santa
Alice H. Hackett
Commonwealth Avenue
Boston
Cornmeal and Cheese Delicacies From Fanny May Hewitt
A vintage collection lists cornmeal dishes with cheese including Cornmeal Biscuits and Old Fashioned Brown Bread. It details quantities for cornmeal rye meal salt soda molasses sour milk and options with nuts or raisins, plus serving notes and a cornmeal and cheese dish fried in oil.
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Fanny May Hewitt
Boston
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