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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1918
Page
11
A reader signs Cake or Kisses asks which man to marry, comparing a loving but poor husband with a reserved, wealthy suitor. Respondents advise testing affection, choosing long term stability, and weigh kisses against a steady home, motherhood, and finances.
The narrator describes teaching four people to apply dressings at the Red Cross rooms in Mrs. BG’s absence. A notably stylish young volunteer is highlighted, wearing a wet white linen frock with gingham trim, panels, and a gingham belt, remembered for her neat attire.
Voile fabric proves versatile and popular with durable uses. Black patent leather and pink satin create a stylish tam o shanter for driving. Sailor hats and Oriental turbans boost veils trend.
Guidance on formal dinner service etiquette noting the use of service plates throughout the meal. Discussion on post marriage name choices for women and how to sign letters. Advice on removing wedding gift cards from displays to avoid curiosity.
The Windjammers, regimental bands, are celebrated for lifting soldiers through mud and ma fea r, carrying wounded when bearers are absent. The poem honors their music, morale, and quiet bravery that helps lead troops toward Berlin.
The article notes Josiah Wedgwood creating Queen's Ware and becoming royal potter. It mentions Adams brothers architects, the Wedgwood china pairing with period furniture, Pompeii’s discovery sparking Grecian taste, and Wedgwood's marriage to a cousin with a daughter mother to Charles Darwin. Wedgwood died in 1795.
An advertisement claims La May Poudre L Ame is a pure face powder free of white lead and starch to avoid skin damage. It promises long wear, a medicinal base used by doctors, and aims to reduce enlarged pores and pimples. The powder is marketed to over a million American women, priced at fifty and twenty-five cents for sizes.
The Rev Billy Sunday canceled plans as he enters Rochester Minnesota hospital for a serious operation. Mrs James J Storrow has a capable young woman overseeing her farm. Ex President Taft hides in Canada near Murray Bay seeking rest. Henry Ford endows a Detroit hospital calling it a human garage with equal charges for all. A young American reports Prince of Wales as a nice kid and recalls a vaudeville exchange. The moral note urges steady, right living as life’s real job.
Charles Franklin Jones argues that fighting must be for a worthy cause and that America should honor those who defend national ideals. He contends real greatness comes from backing American government and institutions, not personal glory, urging fighters to align with America or risk eroding stature.
A dinner party in which an American guest spoke of an English music hall, the Prince of Wales sighing that he could not join due to another engagement. The reveal came when the captain was identified as the Prince. Colonel E. M. House attended Magnolia with Major General William Branker joining unexpectedly from Mineola for lunch. Wanda Hawley, known for films with Douglas Fairbanks, now stars opposite W. S. Hart. General Bramwell Booth sent a cable to President Wilson hoping for a lasting English speaking unity after the war. Mrs. Nathan Straus offers a milk conversion apparatus to poor mothers free for those unable to pay.
In hot weather mothers are urged to feed babies with Nestlé's Food when nursing is not possible. The ad stresses high temperatures and restless infants, advising a simple preparation by mixing with cold water and boiling to ensure safe, reliable nourishment for summer days.
By Cora B March Greenfield potato salad recipe serves eight potatoes and one onion with a sugar cream butter and vinegar dressing. Miss Effie E Blodgett Plymouth New Hampshire provides an Apple Sauce Cake Variation using molasses applesauce two flours spices and raisins baked as a loaf and malt mixture served with maple sugar and cream.
More than 1 percent of city tenement district youths will join the Volunteers of America at the Reading fresh air camp for two weeks. The grounds have been prepared for a wartime garden project with children helping Uncle Sam and vegetables mainly distributed to their families.
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