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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1921
Page
7
Readers respond to the bobbed hair fad with varied views on appearance and morality. Letters praise, critique, and defend bobbed styles, noting personal convenience, social pressures, and gender norms while challenging critics and defending women’s choice.
A vintage listing of sandwich recipes including mint, fruit, pineapple with celery walnuts, ginger nut, toasted cheese and rye, cucumber with walnuts, meat and nut, Merry Widow, and Nettie R Miller at 9 Duncklee Avenue Stoneham 80. The item preserves a home cooking tone with step style instructions and a signature.
Lenore Styles describes hot weather dresses using fgeer pin striped dimity in red and white green and white blue and white and lavender and green. Frock features a V neck trimmed with pleated lace and a floating sash for a youthful summer look. Bias stripe bands on the skirt plus bound sleeves and neck complete the ensemble.
Jack Mintes receives a collect telegram from his wife Jill and plans a bachelor evening with neighbors. He funds the message and later enjoys a poker night with Begby while Jill calls from afar, writing affectionate notes and hinting at home life versus club life. The story ends with Begby quipping that the first hundred years of marriage are hardest to pay for.
Tisquantum or Squanto, as Governor Bradford called him, is highlighted in the Pilgrim pageant at Plymouth this week. His English taught the Pilgrims planting and fishing skills, making him a key interpreter and guide and a “special instrument” in their early colony. He was captured in 1614 by Thomas Hunt, aboard Captain John Smith’s vessel.
Walt Mason recalls William Bryan as a regional beacon for Nebraska from Broken Bow to Odell and York to Weeping Water. The poem laments his departure, calling him a fixture and landmark for all time as fear and grief strike the state.
The account recounts Squanto being captured in 1606 by Captain George Waymouth and taken to England with five other natives, then held by Sir Ferdinando Gorges for over three years. It notes later reports that Squanto sailed with Captain John Smith and reached Cape Cod in June 1614.
Baking powder added to bread crumbs lightens bread. Powdered starch removes fruit juice and iodine stains if left a few hours. Rice in damp salt shakers absorbs moisture. When stoves are warm, rub well.
Practical cleaning and laundry tips from Mrs J L Dunham of Taunton. Ammonia in wash water boosts stain removal and brightens jewelry and oilcloth with kerosene smoothing gloss. Velvet and waxed paper brushes, velvet squares, and dyeing crepe paper red offer small decorative and maintenance ideas.
A rare collection of quaint old pictures of colonial and Pilgrim days will be printed in the Boston Sunday Post Pilgrim booklet next Sunday as part of the regular magazine section.
Poem by Edgar A. Guest in July Good Housekeeping extols fatherhood as rich and noble. It says being a dad is a divine calling, a role chosen by God, demanding careful work to guard and guide a child. The verses praise pride in fatherhood beyond wealth or fame.
Letters discuss Indian name Patuxet for Plymouth prior to Pilgrims, race of ships Berengaria and Aquitania, a sun radiation meteor theory defended by Lord Kelvin and opposed by F. R. Moulton, average birth weight of children, and citizenship queries including Czech and Hungarian capitals and food energy values for beverages.
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