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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1922
Page
11
Ruth Teigh outlines practical lunch box choices for students and shoppers. Emphasizing portability, ventilation, and odor control, she favors collapsible tins, paraffin-lined baskets, and folding paper boxes, noting new vacuum bottle designs.
A compact vented tin container makes a versatile addition to picnics and school lunches. The source emphasizes its light weight, easy ventilation, and portability for on the go meals.
A young woman writes that after two years with a distant lover her feelings have faded though he is kind. The column notes absence often makes fondness wane and that a suitor who is constantly present and dependable has a better chance of winning a girl than one kept by letters.
The piece argues that love letters fail to sustain affection and urges clear honesty with the young man. It notes long distance loneliness is common and duty calls can cause a painful shock, stressing that loving is a fragile habit affected by distance. A separate note mentions a summer coat made of chintz with carpet tape.
A frightened narrator steels herself to fight as shrieks and kicks assault her from behind. She steadies, crouching to continue despite the torment and a driving, dreadful onward pressure.
Fashion items described include a white organdie hat adorned with two lilies an evening gown train worn at the front and frocks in crepe de chine with scalloped edges short taffeta for Second Empire styles and a black Milan straw hat trimmed with lacquered leaves.
Letters from readers in the Sewing Circle page discuss a proposed law requiring a health certificate for both parties before a marriage license is issued. Commenters warn of impractical enforcement and ethical concerns while others argue it could reduce divorces and ensure healthier offspring.
Margaret Kahoon, 85, of 520 Cambridge Street Allston, was arrested repeatedly in a span of 15 hours for passing worthless checks and larceny. Brookline police first detained her Wednesday night, then Waltham and Roxbury arrests followed as bail was posted or set, with a court case postponed to August 4 and potential further arrests if bail fails.
Brockton July 27 officer William H. Wilson escaped likely death when a female prisoner booked for moonshine selling placed a revolver at his side and pulled the trigger. A rim fire cartridge failed to explode due to the center-fire revolver design.
Workmen on the estate of the late Dr. Blanchard unearthed two human skeletons without skulls near the surface on Greenough and Washington streets in Brookline yesterday. The find occurred about fifty years after burial and the search continues.
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