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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1919
Page
69
The writer urges presenting history to youth in engaging form and endorses the condensation as a fitting educational feature. It argues for a lively portrayal of a major social revolution period to captivate young readers.
Professor Harris offers a condensation of a hundred great novels into short stories. The collection is praised for pure pleasure and for illuminating a crucial historical period. Tell your friends about it.
The biographical sketch surveys Edward Bulwer Lytton's wide range as statesman dramatist novelist and essayist. It traces his need to fund marriage and his mother's disapproval driving prolific output from Pelham to The Strange Story and The Haunted and the Haunters noting how his breadth may have limited deep realism.
A narrative framed around Edward IV and Richard Neville, the Kingmaker, leading to the Battle of Barnet on April 14 1471. The piece surveys the widening clash among nobles, traders, and commoners as dynastic ruin or triumph unfolds for a parliament and nation.
A historical note explains clothing quirks such as clock marks on socks and fourchette stitching on gloves. It describes clock appearances as hiding seams from cloth stockings and links a hat leather bow to old hat-making methods. It ends with Marie Antoinette's push for uniform handkerchief shapes.
A critical look at Bulwer Lytton’s historical romance The Last of the Barons. The piece frames the Wars of the Roses as class struggle between rising middle people and old aristocracy, focusing on Warwick, Edward IV, Robin Halyard, and Sibyll tale lines. It notes themes of liberty, commerce, and national spirit amid court intrigue and personal loves. Copyright 1919 Post Publishing Co. (The Boston Post). Vanity Fair condensed will appear tomorrow.
Henry Woodhouse argues aeronautic progress will yield vast air fleets and non stop transatlantic flights. He predicts giant planes with 50 000 pounds useful load and air mail monopolies, plus aerial lifeboats and vertical landings via helicopters or parachutes, transforming commerce and travel.
The Sunday Post invites submissions of beautiful names from fiction or history with brief descriptions not exceeding 75 words. Five prizes will be awarded for the top entries, with living celebrities excluded, and entrants must include name and address. Deadline is June 5.
The listing enumerates novels adapted in the series with printed dates from May 1 to May 31, naming works by Dickens Thackeray Kipling Sienkiewicz Dumas and others. It tracks titles such as David Copperfield Quo Vadis The Sea Wolf Ben Hur Trillby John Halifax and Jane Eyre among the daily condensations.
Readers can secure back numbers at the standard rates: 2 cents per copy for the daily Post, 6 cents in Greater Boston for the Sunday Post, and 7 cents elsewhere, if applied for immediately.
District Attorney Pelletier born in Roxbury is a Boston College and Boston University Law School graduate admitted to the bar in 1894. He served as assistant superintendent of schools and led the Marcella Street Home program before joining the State Civil Service Commission and later the Democratic Party in his district attorney bid. He is active in Catholic and civic groups, including the Catholic Union of Boston and Knights of Columbus.
A reflective verse on grumbling turning to grit and humor. It extols cheer, pluck, and hero will to find sun amid dismal days and win the battle through perseverance.
West Philadelphia woman testifies after thirty years of marriage and repeated nervous prostration. She credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health enabling her to do housework and urges other women to try it. Letters from users nationwide support the product’s merit.
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