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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1917
Page
9
Letters in the Sewing Circle column discuss whether married women should keep their family names or take their husbands. Contributors share ideas on fairness, financial dependence, and motherhood while recounting personal experiences and viewpoints from multiple signers.
The piece notes detachable satin collars for coats and dresses with jet and iridescent heads on dark fabrics. Foulards show polka dots and small squares, sheer black muslin with red dots makes a striking hat, and a white linen blouse looks better bound in blue or rose. Very wide girdles on filmy summer frocks and a large embroidered rose pocket are suggested.
Readers ask about accents in amateur and Kaiser usage, flag meanings, Napoleon succession, cut worm control, and naval rankings. Expert replies clarify pronunciation, title scope, historical sequence, garden pest tips, and wartime fleet standings.
The poem proclaims a new world era of unity as flags of the United States England France and allied nations fly together. It envisions shared freedom under banners over St Pauls and Westminster and the Eiffel Tower with Lafayette remembered in a common cause against tyranny.
Advice on courteous behavior covers not interrupting conversations with an apology, proper spoon use for soup, and drinking bouillon from the cup. It explains sipping from the side of the spoon away from you, filling only two thirds, and avoiding mouth contact with the spoon.
A Sunday Post recipe column offers oat bread and three desserts. Oatmeal bread uses water salt lard molasses sugar oats and flour. Lemon cracker pudding bakes with butter sugar lemon juice crackers and eggs. Baked Indian pudding with apples uses milk Indian meal spices and shallow-water bake. Recipes credited to Miss Ida Davis Hattie V. Smith and Mrs FH Prisscott.
A concise look at English novelist Thomas Hardy born June 2 1840 in Dorset. From an ecclesiastical architect apprentice he became a famed author whose early novel Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd brought fame. Tess of the D Urbervilles stands as his most famous work and he received the Order of Merit in 1910.
The writer describes a day starting at 9 am in a busy film studio with long hours and meticulous planning. A tale of kitten mischief and dove actors illustrates studio challenges, while staff maintain efficiency and hobby knitting keeps workers occupied during downtime.
A young girl asks how to stop a persistent suitor who escorts her home after church. The columnist advises involving a male relative to clearly state boundaries and avoid giving mixed signals, noting persistence often masks vanity and can pressure a shy young woman into unwanted affection.
Mayor Rockwood issued a proclamation urging Cambridge ministers to preach special patriotic sermons Sunday before Military Registration Day. He also urged manufacturers to grant leave on Tuesday to employees of military age to allow registration.
The warmest June 2 on record in Boston shows 86 degrees in 1877 1891 1900. highs of 91 in 1879 1892 and 96 in 1895. Coldest for this date was 42 in 1834 with 45 in 1915 noted. Rainfall on this date in the past decade totaled a little over half an inch in 1907.
A fragment notes authorities or leaders discussing drastic steps to remove an individual. The terse line implies urgent action and potential political or administrative consequences. No names or places are provided in the visible text.
The Home Guard of Dorchester has opened a recruiting station at 1455 Dorchester Avenue, to stay for 19 days. They plan two companies, one nearly formed, with volunteers 3 years of age and older. Commander Henry C. Thomas of Camp 30, Sons of Veterans, is provisional captain. Office hours are 7 to 10 PM.
Charles Kroemberg aged 42 was arrested in Jersey City on the charge of distributing treasonable literature and held for federal authorities.
The Women’s Municipal League urged canning fish and meats with a demonstration by Miss Margaret Wiggin of Simmons. She showed safe prep for cod haddock salmon mackerel oysters clams beef lamb mutton and veal including rinsing packing sterilizing and storage guidance.
A middle aged well dressed woman was found in a basement doorway at 7 Emerald Street South End yesterday afternoon. She appeared to be breathing when picked up but died at City Hospital. Dr Shortell pronounced her dead. She was about 5 feet 6 inches, 140 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
Rudolph Otto, said to have been formerly German consul at Jamaica West Indies, was taken into custody today by federal officers in Plainfield New Jersey. No statement was made on the reason for his arrest.
An advertisement features James A. Yeaton of Chelsea Massachusetts praising Vitalitas for nervous dyspepsia and rheumatism after a short use. It claims the product contains no alcohol or habit forming drugs and urges readers to visit Woodward's Drug Store 102 Tremont St Boston or write for information.
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