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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1921
Page
11
The Sewing Circle pages present readers debating bobbed hair on young women and the social pull of appearance. Advice columns urge honesty to a daughter about parentage and the value of open discussion within families.
In a domestic scene a couple argues about trust and money. Jill defends women while Jack jokes about banking. The pair discovers a scam when a half price laundryman vanishes leaving $2000 in fake orders. Police arrest the man. Jill is reassured by Jack.
Household hints offer tips for removing ink and color from fabrics using oil, turpentine, soap powder and ammonia. Advice covers ironing veils by steaming, bleaching stockings with a color removal solution, and creating curtains in a pale shade. Practical pie crust tips suggest using a fork to mix shortening and flour and adjusting water, sugar, and baking powder for better crust and berry drink ideas.
A charm described negligee style outfit includes crepe de chine boudoir jacket with lace edging, a head slip through center, and options of Valenciennes or Binge lace. The ensemble adds a rosebud circlet, two-tone ribbon accents, white net cap, rose pink satin ribbon petticoat, and net pleated ruffle with white crepe de chine foundation.
Plaid silk parasols and mauve frocks with blue sashes dominate. Straight across necklines and split fur trimming appear on wraps, with pale lavender hats and black gowns. Fall styles feature longer sleeves, tinsel on a black veldyne suit, brushed wool trims, and Canton crepe frocks with hemstitching.
The speaker muses on fate and chance in a crowded street as destiny may pass or meet a destined love. He contemplates fame fortune and friendship, asking if a single glance could alter life. The poem unsettles with the thought that fate may pass unseen among the crowd.
A reader confirms Boston Theatre hosted a grand ball in 1860 for Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Queen Victoria. The note also explains celluloid is made from cotton pulp treated with nitric acid and camphor gum, dried into sheets. It adds guidance to contact Maine Inland Fisheries and Game in Augusta for Maine game and fishing laws.
The proposed trip from Cambridge to Niagara Falls goes through Portsmouth New Hampshire and Portland Maine. In Portland the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway is entered passing Bretton Woods St. Johnsbury Montpelier and other Vermont and New Hampshire points to Rochester New York and then to Niagara.
The Republic sank after colliding with the Florida on January 23, 1909, and foundered off Nantucket Lightship in fog. The excerpt asks who wrote the line about mankind's love of praise and pleasure, attributed to John Ruskin in Sesame and Lilies.
The origin of chess is laid in India where the game was said to illustrate the art of war. An Arab legend says it was devised to instruct a young despot by his Brahmin tutor that a king relies on his subjects. Greek historians credit Palamedes with the invention to beguile Troy during the Trojan War.
The Illuminating Engineering Society of England reports that eyestrain from cinema watching is caused by screens placed too high. A committee recommends screen height so the angle from top to bottom to a front row eye is at most 3 degrees, noting London cinemas often exceed 60 degrees.
A Sunday Post page presents home cooking items and methods. Broiled swordfish with horseradish sauce, spiced mackerel in vinegar, bran muffins, coconut and orange salad, chocolate sponge cake, gelatin desserts, and custards from named homemakers including Mrs. H. B. Crosby, Bessie Hill, and Mrs. J. L. Dunham with locations in East Boston Lowell and Taunton.
Elwood Adams a New York clerk confessed to helping Jean Cunningham obtain servant positions, then aided her thefts worth 40009 dollars from employers in New York Philadelphia and Asbury Park. Cunningham was arrested at the Pennsylvania Terminal after selling the loot for 3000 dollars to local dealers.
A day of rest features reunions, rescues, a new police restraint patent, chimney collapse, a bottle of catsup, and various incidents. Moonshine, Volstead violators, and flooded cellars stir unrest, yet such topics are kept quiet in a country still deemed dry.
New York court rulings on the Stillman divorce case will be announced by Referee Gleason, affecting motions from recent hearings. If favored, James A. Stillman may testify in Poughkeepsie, facing cross examination over motives and Guy’s legitimacy.
Frank S. Lufkin, 65, a laborer living alone at 52 Wyatt Avenue Lynn, was found dead in the kitchen with gas on both the range and chandelier. He was discovered by Lynn police and his son-in-law Frank Bendleton of 63 Nudge Avenue. He was last seen alive Friday night.
Bridgewater July 10 Adam Arlene 31 of this town drowned this afternoon while fishing in a small stream near Prattown when he stepped into a hole in the bank due to recent floods. His body was recovered.
Hannibal Hamlin Emery, former business manager of the Boston Post, died of heart failure in Portland while watching a fire on Stevens Avenue. He was 68, long treated at Dr Westcott's sanitarium for a nervous condition, Bowdoin College graduate, former head of Portland Safe Deposit Company. He leaves a niece, Mrs P F Mason of Boston.
Frank Barone a 16 year old of 69 Doves Street South End suffered a lacerated scalp and a broken collarbone after falling 25 feet from the Tremont street bridge over the New Haven tracks at Arlington square He leaned over the railing to watch men pumping water from the tracks and lost balance landing on the tracks below. he was reported not seriously hurt.
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