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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1916
Page
12
Readers share advice on wives and mothers managing families, raising children, handling husbands, and caring for pets. Letters from Always Crying, Lover of Pets, and others discuss finances, discipline, and the place of women in society while offering practical tips and gentle humor.
A poem from Theodore Botrel translated by Elizabeth S. Dickerman celebrates the Angelus bell. It depicts a Brittany farm evening with bride Marie Hyacinthe, harvest work, family prayers, singing, and reflections on faith and mortal longing. It ends with the refrain Another day is over and mentions rest and the soul’s harvest.
A 19 year old college student seeks counsel on whether to declare love to a governess he met while employed as a chauffeur. The advisor urges delaying romance, focusing on studies and career, and suggests maintaining amiable friendship to avoid rash promises.
Dorothy recounts arriving at a house party after car trouble. Clara wears a blue Georgette crepe gown with a taffeta band, pewter lace frills, and an elaborate fichu and bow. Dorothy compliments Clara’s look and notes Ciara’s blond appearance.
A simple home craft note describes making a food scraper from a cocoa can lid or top to cut biscuits or cookies. It also suggests using halves of a baking powder can to shape cookies and saving pickle bottles to store spices. Mrs. J F Devlin, 124 Manthome Road, West Roxbury.
Simple tips show how to repurpose common items. Use a tin ice cream mould with a wire handle as a toast or chop plate cover, turn hot bread on a wire bread toaster to cool, and fasten a curved curtain rod under the pantry window to hold dish towels.
A description of bread production using controlled dust free rooms and constant temperature. Machines knead and divide dough into loaf sizes ensuring uniform quality, surpassing even the cleanest home kitchens.
A fragment suggests a mutual, informal agreement to separate if both parties later choose to part ways. The text emphasizes freedom to pursue individual paths without conflict or constraint, reflecting a quiet, amicable disentanglement.
A collection of home recipes including Salmon Croquettes by Mrs W R Zimmerman of Lancaster NH Brown Sugar Drop Cakes by Mother Hubbard Cake by Ruby M Thurston of Bethel ME and a spiced fruit cake by Mrs Ellal Durkee Oxford.
A poetic image of an ideal temple where sunbeams dwell and storms are quelled. The poem contrasts joy and beauty with fear and hatred, inviting all to a radiant garden of dreams. It portrays mothering grace, glittering halls, blossoms, and songs lasting as stars and sun.
A letter asks if Shake spere is correct. another queries seed planting for spring and sweet peas. An Oldest Inhabitant cites Boston weather records with a July 1911 heat wave hitting 102 to 104 degrees over several days.
In Aurora Illinois on March 12 Deputy Sheriff Lydia Scott of DeKalb county presides over a jail with a single inmate. The article notes her role and the unusual situation highlighting the lone prisoner under her watch.
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