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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1920
Page
11
The Mayflower voyage theme appears in Joems For Your Scrap Book. A Pilgrim anniversary hymn event titled Duke Street is noted, with reference to ongoing sailing imagery tied to the Mayflower.
Letters from a sewing circle argue over modern youth’s radical change and decay. A self styled Old Idealist and others defend or critique youth culture, urging balanced paths for marriage, work, and personal conduct amid social change.
A Sunday Post recipe feature presents Cheddar Chapleigh and Baked Bananas with Apple Sauce. Chee se loaf uses cheese milk eggs and spices as a meat substitute. Baked Bananas combine bananas sugar butter water and lemon juice. Apple Sauce cooks tart apples with water lemon rind and sugar.
Household hints cover practical tips from Arlene Murray of Lynn and Mps B L Ford of Brookfield. Advice includes wiping clothespin bags, dropping cakes, removing date paper, pota toes browning, boiled frosting, egg whites, corned beef flavor, bread steaming, ham tenderizing, and marshmallow freshening.
A description of spring and summer dresses featuring lace collars and pin tucked batiste. A gray crepe de chine dress sketched at an exclusive shop highlights a Binge lace collar and embroidered patch pockets, with double streamers extending below the knees.
The piece reflects on human foibles and shared folly as people acknowledge mistakes and the urge to confess. It notes gumption mixed with muddle, the ease of missteps, and the consolation in knowing everyone errs, yet urges a simple, candid view of fault.
Three Parkinson children, two girls and a 15 month old boy, were rescued from a fire at 12 Prescott Street Somerville while their mother worked. The boy is listed on the dangerous list. Rescuers Dennis Corcoran Salvatore Bianchino Albert Doherty and John Kearns are credited with saving the children. Cause of the fire is unknown. The girls were in a bed and the boy in a crib.
A brief note credits Selena Senda in a 1920 Metropolitan News paper Service publication from New York, marking copyright attribution for a home feature.
A colorful carved wooden box described as Pandora’s box sits in a sunlit living room. Artists explain the piece holds practical items like irons and a skillet while serving as a decorative storage for toys and a playful conversation piece.
A terse weather note recalls Boston temperature records for the date. It cites official figures 11 in 1876 and 14 in 187/ as cold benchmarks and 76 in 1908 as the warm record. It adds that rain or snow has not fallen on this date in the last decade except 1911 1912 and 1913.
Decorated with geese ducks and Noah’s ark figures, families fill small apartments with attractive seats and extra stores of blankets linen summer gowns or magazines. Pandora’s box reference hints at a practical, helpful idea that women adopt for organization.
The bride must write immediate thanks for gifts sent by business or social connections of the groom elect. Gifts received by the bride elect should be acknowledged on a single page, signed by the bride as Mary R Blanke, even if delayed beyond the wedding.
Betty Clayton schemes to flirt and humiliate Paul Brent and Bob Critely on a river trip. She aids a planned weekend with a mysterious man, then discovers Brent’s affection and admits her feelings as the two confess love at last.
In a 1920 McClure Syndicate column the writer notes that modern readers doubt dream significance while presenting a series that explains dream meanings as interesting but not essential. The piece previews the ongoing feature and frames its purpose for readers.
Mysticus writes that dreaming of angels signals good omens including happiness riches and potential offspring for married people and prosperity for the unmarried in love. An angel appearing distant warns to reform private life. The omen is favorable especially for young married women with good news and possible legacy hinted.
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