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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1918
Page
11
The Sewing Circle editor offers five dollars weekly for top contributions and invites Post readers especially women to submit problems and comments for discussion. The column includes a reader exchange on choosing between a cake like home and kisses and the dangers of marrying for love versus material security included with responses from multiple contributors.
A column notes social etiquette with women served coffee in the drawing room and men in the dining room after meals. It advises promptly sending printed wedding notices when a cancellation occurs and describes preferred plain white or gray stationery with black ink for social correspondence.
Betsy thanks for negligee and notes Dick’s enthusiasm for a hat that could be worn as a tea gown. She sends a photo of the apple green coarse weave straw hat with a wreath of white frosted grapes and velvet leaves. She mentions Dick’s aviation call and plans to be near him during wartime.
Boston musician Edward Schelbert of Gainsboro Street will be interned at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia until the war ends. The order came in a telegram to Assistant United States Attorney Judd Dewey from Attorney General Gregory. Schelbert studied at the Conservatory of Music and was arrested several weeks ago.
Miss Alma T. Hall provides a series of old fashioned bread recipes with detailed steps for squash or pumpkin brown bread and rice corn bread. The instructions include ingredient lists such as cornmeal rye flour soda salt baking powder sour milk pumpkin eggs oil molasses raisins and optional meat bits, plus steps for steaming frying and baking.
A reader asks Mildred Champagne to judge a social dispute over a group outing. With A B and C as escorts and AA BB CO as companions, issues arise when AA is offended by A. The columnist explains a gentleman’s duty to escort and ensure a lady’s safety, even amid quarrels, and to arrange a substitute if unable to accompany her home.
A Washington letter shared with Mayor Peters' office states that discharged sailors will be sent home or transferred to the nearest naval station rather than being turned adrift, marking a change from past practice.
A New York Tribune correspondent lauds Masefield's Sea Fever as a powerful aid to the national call for men to man merchant ships. The piece highlights the poem’s mystic appeal and its vivid imagery of seas, wind, and travel to motivate young men and former sailors to answer the sea's call.
Thousands of children in Greater Boston observed Bastile Day with impressive exercises on city playgrounds. The program told the story of Joan of Arc and Bastile Day meaning, mapped by the school committee, including salutes to colors and French games. The day closed with the Marseillaise and the Star Spangled Banner.
Poem reflects on small setbacks in weather and song, hopeful resilience in life’s sober strife. It speaks of falling and rising, quiet endurance, and growing sweetness of heart and mind under various skies. The passage emphasizes purpose guiding mixed fates toward uplifting meaning.
Facts and Fashions describe summer trends with collarless frocks and white tusser with blue stripes. Corset covers knitted in silk or wool appear, while autumn colors include burgundy brown and green. Ostrich feathers adorn girdles and bright belts pair with white shirt waists.
Jim enjoys Sundays with a special feathery ham omelet. The recipe blends stale bread crumbs milk butty eggs ham and a dash of Al Sauce to elevate an ordinary omelet into a dish fit for a king.
Boston columnist Charles Franklin Jones argues for total wartime unity and duty in a piece urging pacifists to support the war effort. He warns against antiwar sentiment at home and uses a taxi anecdote to illustrate the burden on those contributing to victory.
Edward A. Filene of Boston told the Council of Foreign Relations that foreign trade can rise to its highest level only in a world of permanent peace. He said U S delegates may push for an international program for lasting peace, with no territorial claims to press.
Three hundred enlisted men were commissioned second lieutenants in the Marine Corps at Quantico Virginia after a three month training course. Most are college men and have served abroad. a class of 125 will finish next month.
John Cocheko, a first class oiler aboard a coastwise steamer, arrived Saturday with gifts for his sweetheart. He stored two long silk stockings a yard of hair ribbon garters a bracelet a neck chain and a brooch in Able Seaman Billy Metritros's suitcase while ashore to phone the tidings.
A crew tale unfolds with Mr Kelly stealing a packing kit and suits from John and Billy. Matty Boyle, Gloucester, is described as long ashore and drunken, while court officers decode the incident. The tale leads to a custody and probation scene with Judge Creed and Probation Officer Wordell involved.
Rosa Perrione five years old was playing with other children on West Second Street South Boston when she reached for a passing auto truck hook missed her grip and fell under the rear wheel. She died at the Gillette Safety Razor Company emergency room on West First Street.
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