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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1921
Page
8
A poem urges readers to face the sunshine and cast shadows behind. It celebrates sunshine as a source of joy, warmth, and resilience guiding through life from dawn to night. The piece invites letting light heighten pleasure and scatter brightness through the years.
A stream of letters to the Sewing Circle debates bobbed hair, short skirts, and social reform. Ex-GOB defends reformers, while others defend personal choice and criticize moral policing. Readers urge balanced views, health concerns, and respect for individual style amid 1920s fashion tensions.
Food column presents several recipes including Golden Glow Salad with carrots apples and celery, a peanut butter banana mixture, and a lemon sugar banana mix. Also includes Coffee Souffle and One Egg Cocoa Cake with chocolate frosting. Attributed to Mrs Helen Coburn of South Easton and Helen Kingman of Middleboro.
In a lighthearted domestic tale, Jill fears the Pons-Winnecke comet and its doomsday idea, while Jack calms her. A roaring thunderstorm arrives with eerie green lightning and a blaze that rattles their bungalow. They end by watching the storm from the porch, and the comet worry is never mentioned again.
Dear reader asks whether to give up other boyfriends for a man who she cares for only when apart. The adviser says to keep away if she does not feel for him when together and to consider his potential value before sacrificing other prospects. She should not discard many friends without thoughtful reflection on happiness and blessings.
A letter column replies to readers about banking terms the Bank of England nickname Threadneedle Street, grammar about is versus are for national names, Edison arc vs incandescent lamp, succession in the U.S. Senate, bonny clabber, and wills with two witnesses varying by state. It clarifies origins and legal nuances for readers.
Practical kitchen tips from Mrs J V Galligan of Boston on stove care oven use and cleaning methods. Steps cover lighting gas for baking timing biscuits cups cake and leaf cake, keeping burners clean, and safety measures to avoid burning. Also includes methods for boiling beans starch and silver cleaning with kerosenecloth and soapy water.
New York Supreme Court recognizes a divorce from a French court for Frank Jay Gould. Justice Mullan dismisses Edith Kelly Gould’s action, noting she defended in France and had full court time. French records show a Paris raid admitting infidelity and that the suit followed New York law due to temporary domicile in France.
Mrs Helen Henderson Hemming filed notices to contest her estranged husband Henry G Hemming’s will after his death in her presence by Frank Eberhard. The will allegedly left Mrs Hemming nothing and named a son from a prior marriage as sole beneficiary. She claims the will is invalid and that Hemming died intestate.
Mise Waden Abboud a Syrian school teacher, was released from East Boston immigration station and married Masibba Abboud of St. Louis. She had been detained for claiming Palestine as her origin though born in Syria, a mistake corrected after her fiancé enlisted attorney Gerald J. Culhane who informed Washington.
United States Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert told 500 teachers at Harvard that the nation spends more on education than any other country and that illiteracy at the outbreak of the war was deplorable and must be corrected to keep the nation strong, in a Harvard lecture hall event hosted by the New England Vocational Guidance Association.
Taunton July 23 William Robert Park a renowned inventor and mechanical engineer died today at Morgan Hospital after an operation in his 90th year He held many patents and possessed a gold medal awarded by the United States for significant mechanical achievements.
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