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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
12
The Sewing Circle editor offers five dollars weekly for best letters. Readers discuss whether couples mean to have children, sacrifices for careers, and the value of love, cake, and kiss ethics. Letters advise on marriage, finances, and home life with social guidance and practical tips.
A cosmetic article touts La May Poudre L Aime as pure and long lasting staying on until washed off. It claims no white lead or rice powder, offers a $5000 prize for chemists proving lead content, and notes a medicinal powder to heal skin with enlarged pores and pimples. Sold in large fifty cent and small twenty five cent sizes.
Colonial style dishes and household tips sourced from readers Cora C Hanson Worcester and Mrs Howard Morrison Bridgton Maine share gelatin milk custards and spice cakes with notes on cottage cheese production and market demand during wartime.
A call to unite native and foreign born Americans in a shared national effort. The piece honors sacrifice in war and extols America as the global savior of liberty, justice, and democracy, urging citizens to work for a future of peace and freedom.
A 1918 poem reflects on memory and longing for earlier places and times. The speaker recalls being elsewhere with unfamiliar people in distant lands or shores and wonders at possible forgotten glories from dreams of past skies.
A reader expresses heartbreak over a bashful suitor who never asked to visit her home. The columnist argues inviting him to her home is the proper first step and suggests renewed contact could revive the budding romance if he remains attentive and there is mutual interest.
Poem describes a candle on a battered bureau and a service flag in a cottage as symbols of liberty. It contrasts Revolutionary era duty with civil wartime sacrifice, linking a mother’s care, a fallen soldier, and a living pledge to freedom through a shared glow of candle light and flag star.
Paris July 18 Charles J Biddle of Andalusia Penn American pilot attacked two enemy two seater machines over German lines and likely downed one though wounded. He landed between lines after a shell hole refuge Christopher Ford of New York City claimed his second enemy aircraft Frank C D Hunter attacked an enemy two seater and was wounded though brought his machine to earth George Trunure of Lenox Mass downed a sausage balloon after three tries scoring his third aerial victory.
Sunday services and lectures mark the week with visits from Rev. William Harman van Allen on Belgium liberty. St Bart's Cambridge celebrates mortgage cancellation and Rhodes Hall anniversary with Rev. Walter D. McClane in charge. West Roxbury churches plan union services at the Methodist Church. Taunton pastor Rev. Robert T. Craig preaches at Dudley Street Baptist. Detroit pastor Rev. Thomas J. Villiers is slated for July 28 at First Baptist. Rev. George L. Stair vacationing at Pine Lodge. Universalist pastor Rev. Hal T. Kearns, serving as a lieutenant chaplain with the 312th Machine Gun Battalion, expects overseas duty to Jan 1 and has been granted leave.
May Irwin seeks appointment as administratrix of a $200 estate portion shared by four sisters. She notes it is all her mother had, highlighting her 57 years. The item appears among a series of society notices and public interest snippets from wartime era.
A narrator questions why one does not call a man by telephone to ask if he would visit on a Sunday afternoon. The man's response is said to reveal how he values the proposer.
Mordecai Noah born July 19 1785 in Philadelphia built a talent filled career. He formed a theatre troupe in New York wrote plays acted as manager producer and extra. He served as consul to Tunis freeing Americans from Barbary slavery and later became a prominent journalist and editor. His Niagara Grand Island New Jerusalem plan failed and a monument was raised but the project died. He died in 1851.
The article outlines proper dining decorum advising guests not to play with utensils or bread and to sit upright. It notes fish may be plated or passed on a platter for self service and states bridesmaids and bride should keep hats on during the wedding breakfast.
Mrs. Winifred Ogden Krieger acting for her son John a minor will contest both an annulment and a divorce from Miss Ogden. The 24 year old bride filed motions in Suffolk Superior Court seeking alimony during the libel trials and funds for attorney fees.
A motion asks detailing of times and places of alleged adultery in the Krieger divorce libel with a hearing set for next Monday. The bride, Winifred Ogden Krieger, is alleged to have misrepresented wealth and status to John Krieger and his mother, planning an elaborate reception that never occurred as events unfolded at Back Bay hotels.
The Forty Hours Devotion begins this morning at Holy Trinity Shawmut Avenue South End Holy Rosary South Boston and St John’s Canton The feast days next week honor St Mary Magdalen St Apollinaris St James the Apostle and St Ann Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Society of St Vincent de Paul in Boston to mark its patron saint with 8 am mass at the Cathedral The Holy Name Society of St Peter’s Dorchester to receive communion at 7 30 am Mass SS Peter and Paul parish South Boston holds its annual festival on Wednesday Aug 21 in the school yard opposite the church
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