Mr Wad Vag And His Family
A 1916 feature from the Wheele Syndicate introduces Mr Wad Vag and his family in a serialized tale. The comic setup centers on quirky household dynamics and light humor.
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MR. Wad
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
19
Colorful Life Advice In Dear Dorothy Letter
Dear Dorothy counsels shedding black attire for brighter colors to lift moods and attract more men. She suggests profitable housing, office work, and warns against perpetual gloom, with a personal note to Dorothy and a response to a reader about wifely earnings and equal partnership.
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Dorothy
Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Ruth and John Defy Father in Garden Romance
Ruth keeps meeting John after supper despite her father’s ban on suitors. A series of mishaps unfolds from a fall in the dark to a terrier bite as Ruth’s lover is injured and confined. The doctor warns John cannot be moved for a week while Ruth nurses him. the father realizes he must yield his daughter to the claimant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caesar
Hurpy
Hsband
Ruth
John
Daddy
Dad
Dicky
Fads and Fashions Highlight Textiles and Styles
Paragraph notes ongoing fashion trends with long narrow pocketbooks silk jersey for day dresses corsages fastening at the back gray as a popular color accented by coral jewelry and a new zone cut skirt formed by widening circular sections stitched to the above.
Household Hints Use of Cloves to Deter Moths
A reader recommends using whole bruised cloves to pack away summer garments instead of mothballs. Brush and air clothes, line storage with newspapers, scatter cloves in folds and bottom of the chest, cover with newspapers, and store. The method has worked for 24 years with no moth losses. Mrs. E E Blomquist Jamaica Plain.
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EE. T. Blomquist
Boylston Street
Jamaica Plain
Poem of the Minot's Ledge Lighthouse Keeper
A stormy sea tale of a keeper at Minot's Ledge who prays for souls at sea and rescues his son Charlie from danger. The red-eyed lighthouse beams a guiding crimson wake as father and son find peace within the tower against unyielding night and wild seas.
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Crimson Light
Charlie
God
Open air services to begin at Prospect Street Church
The Rev. William M. McNair announces open air services will start next Sunday in front of Prospect Street Congregational Church Cambridge and continue every Sunday through the summer weather permitting.
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William M. McNair
Prospect Street Congregational Church
Cambridge
Trinity Congregational Church
Walnut Street
Neponset
Alfred V. Hunter
Adams
Neb
West Newton
Helen H. Jones
Benjamin F. Otis
Shortage of Mushroom Spawn Alarm Across Americas
North and South America face a serious mushroom shortage as Louis C. Whiting of Falmouth reports no first class mushroom spawn available for shipment in the United States. Growers seek spawn he says they cannot procure it for love or money.
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North
South America
Louis C. Whiting
Falmouth
United States
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