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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1919
Page
13
Passers by pause in the wide world to share stories of distant lands and loves of the past. Some bring joy, others woe, yet each visit to your den leaves a memory that lasts beyond their name. The poem honors brief meetings and shared kindness.
In junior year Julia King longs for a silk gown for graduation. With support from her mother and work berry-picking, Julia saves to buy a white dress for her mother and a lustrous blue taffeta gown for herself, embroidering it to triumph over poverty and pride.
The merger of the infirmary and the children's institutions with the penal institutions under a single head is approved by Mayor Peters. Sanford Bates would become the commissioner of charities and corrections, earning 7500 yearly, up from 5000. A legislative bill is being drafted to formalize the change.
Two Armenians paid 25 dollars to two Greeks for a deed to a parcel of public garden at Boylston and Charles streets. They began staking the land for a fruit store when Special Officers Brett and Mattey stopped them, questioning the deal and the plans. The Armenians produced the option deed, revealing the ruse misled by the Greeks.
A brief column titled A Little Chat on Style hosted by Dorothy offers fashion tips and etiquette guidance. The piece emphasizes practical dress choices and poised communication in everyday conversations.
In a tea scene a young girl wears a strikingly plain hat of bare black horsehair braid with satin cord. Her blond hair shows through the straw and hoops appear as earrings attached by ribbon loops, a curious, near-invisible accessory.
Wash flannels with borax in water using half a teaspoon per quart for bright results. Stop hinge squeaks with laundry soap which cleans as effectively as oil. Clean boots with glycerine rubbed into leather, then brushed lightly to preserve the material. Remove white marks from polished tables with paraffin and finish with alcohol.
The Interborough Consolidated Railway Corpora tion, holder of most Manhattan subway elevated and surface lines, was placed in receivership. James R. Sheffield appointed by Federal Judge Mayer to oversee the company.
The Oldest Inhabitant cites official figures for Boston on March 22 noting temperatures of 8 degrees above in 1885 and 10 above in 1875 as cold records. The warmest on this date reached 60 degrees in 1908 and 1911, with no rain or snow in the past decade except in 1911 1914 and 1916.
Readers respond to the editor’s weekly prize for best contribution in the Sewing Circle column. Letters favor motherhood and stable homes, with varied personal stories on marriage ages, salaries, and happiness. Several sign with pen names, urging belief in babies and shared finances.
Braxton Bragg born March 22 1917 in Warren County North Carolina. He attended United States Military Academy at age 20 and served in the Seminole and Florida wars. He helped move Cherokees West, retired to a Louisiana sugar plantation, reentered service in the Civil War, commanded in the Army of the Mississippi, fought at Shiloh Perryville Chickamauga Chattanooga and in Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, later surrendered to Sherman, served as Alabama chief engineer, improved Mobile harbor and died in Galveston in 1876.
Charles Franklin Jones of Boston presents brief talks aimed at American readers. The piece outlines concise, practical ideas to guide daily civic life and personal conduct.
Recipes from the Sunday Post offer two teaspoon cream tartar in water and salt, flour dough for griddle cakes, sour milk substitute, boiled fruit cake with raisins and maple icing, salmon cutlets with potato, pineapple custard pies, and a oil-free salad dressing with egg and vinegar. Mrs Marcus M Ryder of New Bedford signs one dresser.
A reflective poem fragment speaks of resilience and fate. It contrasts giving versus taking and praises a life that endures hardship to align with divine intent. The verse captures hope, perseverance, and the idea that fortune favors unwavering resolve.
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