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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1919
Page
3
A collection of letters to a newspaper editor shows exchanges between readers about dating manners and morals. Evelyn writes from Sunshine Eve as she questions modern courting behavior while defending female virtue and love as sacred. The editor’s page hosts reflections on youth and relationships with a cautious social tone.
An advertisement touts Lamay Face Powder as pure and safe for delicate skin, avoiding white lead and rice powder. It claims to prevent enlarged pores and pimples, stays on well, and is used by over a million American women. Price is fifty cents for large and twenty-five cents for trial size.
United States Department of Agriculture guides readers on garden efficiency. Use supports for peas and tomatoes to double plant numbers and improve yield. Train beans on poles or fences and place crops to maximize space, shade, and air circulation. A perforated pipe irrigation line aids watering on level ground. Onions can be planted early with careful drying and storage after harvest.
The article urges citizens to grow vegetables at home or in any available plot to combat hunger as war ends. It stresses gardens on farms, in urban yards, vacant lots, and idle lands near industry as essential to feeding destitute populations in 1919 and beyond.
Onions can be grown from sets or seed with sets favored for garden planting. One quart of sets plants 7 to 12 feet of row with onions four inches apart. Place sets in a shallow furrow root end down and cover about 1 to 1 1/2 inches unless soil is heavy, in which case cover less.
The newspaper notes that the letters to the Sewing Circle are published in both the Sunday and Daily Post editions.
Peas need space and are not ideal for tiny plots. Smooth varieties can be sown early, wrinkled after soil warms, and many dwarf types need little support while larger kinds require a trellis. English sugar peas reach five to six feet, yield until midsummer, and heat can limit production.
Advice from the United States Department of Agriculture on starting tomato plants indoors four to six weeks before warm weather, hardening them outdoors, and two planting methods. It covers spacing, staking, trimming for better fruit, and quantities for a family garden, with notes on transplanting from hotbeds and ordering plants from seed sellers.
Beets grow best in rich sandy loam and should be sown after the last frost. Each drill contains eight to ten seed balls, with three to six seeds per ball, requiring thinning. Thinned beets can be used as greens, and rows may be 12 to 14 inches apart with two to three inches between plants. A late June to August planting allows fall harvest and storage. United States Department of Agriculture.
The report notes that sweet potatoes fail to adapt to very northern growing conditions, citing climate and day length as key constraints. It highlights limited yields, risk of frost damage, and unsuitable soil dynamics in northern regions.
Government specialists wrote garden booklets after years of experiments to help American gardeners. The material argues that familiarity with crops fosters success, urging constant contact with plants throughout the growing season.
Spring fashion movements revive ostrich plumes in millinery with heavy plumes on straw hats and fancies using wheels cockades and buckles of ostrich fringe. Designers shred the long feather for fringe and showerlike crowns while roses fail to replace plumes this season.
The National War Garden Commission of Washington publishes a manual on winter food storage to aid households. It explains methods to preserve staples and ensure supplies, and includes two envelopes for postage.
A letter from Cinderella asks whether to marry a poor army-age sweetheart or a wealthy older suitor. The columnist urges patience until the 18 year old matures, then choose the man her heart has loyally supported, weighing love against money and parental pressure. Waiting, evaluating, and personal choice determine outcomes.
A Franco American reader notes that the Greek stamp urging people to remember when the German drummer arrives echoes a French loan drive poster used before the United States entered the war.
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