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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1918
Page
12
Readers discuss reasons behind not wanting more children. Letters describe economic limits, social distractions, and fears of inheritance of illness, urging restraint and thoughtful choices. Perspectives from multiple correspondents emphasize duty, faith, and personal circumstance in family planning.
A narrator praises a lakeside retreat, describes a hammock morning, and plans to swim after Sibyl and her cousin Jack warn of a lake dunking. Jack, 17, comments on Sibyl while she wears a blue and white silk cape over a bathing suit with matching blue silk borders and ribbon.
Reader crafts an elaborate chicken dish when faced with a scarce chicken supply. Mushrooms red peppers and hard boiled eggs elevate the leftovers. Al Sauce adds a Parisian flavor pleasing Aunt Elizabeth without liquor.
Nashua New Hampshire woman says she suffered monthly pains for two years causing fainting and school absence. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports relief and urges others to try it, claiming it is safe and narcotic free.
The article showcases sailor hats as practical and popular in military style. It describes a foulard with white and black dots paired with black satin, a lawn blouse with a yellow stripe and yellow linen trim, and previews two fall coat silhouettes: a straight military look and a circular, with narrowing skirts elongating the figure. It notes white shirtwaist frocks with self material sashes, jersey dresses with heavy Italian lace, washable satin for summer skirts, and children’s cloth coats with short waists and flaring skirts.
Kipling recounts seafaring trials of merchant sailors from Tarshish to London Town. The crew recalls perilous voyages, haunted by misfortune and awe at distant lands, and ends with resolve to return and bear their cargo to London despite past losses.
United States Food Administration offers wartime dishes and techniques. Recipes include Scalloped Dishes with layers of sauce and vegetables or fish, Buttered Crumbs guidance, Scalloped onions and peanuts with layered onions and peanuts, Milk Sherbet with lemon and corn syrup, and a long baked Rice Pudding with milk rice lemon rind corn syrup and nutmeg.
In entering a theatre a man yields to women after handing tickets to the usher. For a shirt waist dance a middy blouse and blue serge skirt suit, informal. When a marriage is announced one should call on the bride or send a note and address gifts to the new home and name.
A 1918 verse from Southern Press Syndicats extols returning with happiness and success. It urges daily bravery justice and cheer and praises those who go out smiling and sing of love along the way.
Charles Franklin Jones argues Americans must work day and night to win the war. He cites Germany’s 20 to 30 years of preparation and urges rising earlier and sustaining extraordinary industry every day, including Sundays and holidays.
George M Cohan is named head of the New York police reserve theatrical unit. Cardinal Gibbons marks his 84th birthday. The Kaiser’s wife weeps at Strassburg hospitals over wounded soldiers. American troops and Prince Albert attend a London boxing event. Boston Italians present President Wilson with a medal of gratitude. Vincent’s serum saves Allied gas gangrene patients. Editor Hamilton Hall informs the Italian king of troop numbers. James Gordon Bennett’s former West Forty-seventh Street residence is bought by George B Pollock. Chaplain Matthew Jepson joins the fleet chief’s staff. Rear Admiral Aaron Ward leaves $1,000,000 to his widow.
Washington July 22 The House Ways and Means committee tentatively agreed on a ten per cent normal tax on all incomes after a 1000 dollar exemption for singles and 2000 for married couples as part of a new war revenue bill aiming to raise eight billion dollars. The provision may be adjusted as the committee works toward presentation in August.
Fruit helps keep the body healthy and prevents constipation. Use fresh fruit when possible and include prunes dried apples dried apricots soaked overnight and cooked until tender. Dates or raisins add to cereal before serving to avoid sugar. Ripe bananas with dark skins digest better than greenish yellow ones when cooked.
An 85 year old man writes seeking guidance after a young woman ends engagement due to his height. The adviser urges focus on character over size, noting her willingness to renew and praising intellect and heart as true measures of worth.
Earl Manning, expert on household budgets, urged readers to adopt a strict budget. He argued saving $100 yearly from a $1000 income makes a better citizen than those who spend all earnings. He urged thrift and investing in Liberty bonds and War Stamps during wartime.
Washington July 22 Alien Property Custodian Palmer seized major German owned metal firms in the United States and affiliates abroad. L Vogelstein & Co. Inc New York assets exceed 9 million and Beer Sondheimer & Co. Inc New York assets exceed 5 million. Also American Metals Company positions and Stailforth Co of New York with 1 million capital. EF Stailforth, main stockholder, is interned at Fort Oglethorpe.
Charles E. Doying longtime Socialist leader in Nashua died suddenly of acute indigestion in Portland Maine His will directs burial from a hay cart covered with sprite boughs colored red with no black and mourners in ordinary wagons no minister to officiate He had a gravestone inscribed I W W symbolizing his sympathy with the I W W movement rejected for membership last month in Edgewood cemetery
Ver non Diggins a sailor on the U S S Georgia pleaded guilty to disturbance and carrying a revolver. He was discharged at district court and his case placed on file. Arlington police say he left a car at Arlington Heights insulted Leonard F Knox of the Naval Reserve, then pressed a revolver to Knoxs stomach and dared him to move. A onlooker struck Diggins in the jaw during the ensuing scuffle as Diggins clung to the weapon. he was arrested by Patrolmen E C Jacobs and Felix Lopez.
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