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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1917
Page
9
A series of letters from New Hampshire and other writers defend city workers and attack farm life while debating the high cost of living, wages, and profits. Farmers defend hard labor, price setting, and fairness, arguing city consumers benefit from cheap produce and should share the burden.
The Sunday Post previews a Gentleman's Day event by the Sewing Circle scheduled for tomorrow. It notes activities, gatherings, and social tones typical of the club's Sunday observance.
The speaker expresses excitement about a four-person Easter trip for two weeks, planned as a surprise by Jack. They anticipate golf tennis riding and dancing, plus buying a stylish modified Spanish hat to match the anticipated stylish time together.
Dear Miss Champagne offers relationship advice about a 19 year old who is engaged in a romantic triangle after a dance. The advisor suggests the friend’s actions aren’t proof of disloyalty and urges the young woman to focus on her own relationship, noting faithfulness is a matter between them.
A quirky verse notes the first circus booking of spring. The speaker recalls past thrills and the lure of the big show with elephants, antelopes, and the royal Bengala leading the zoo, urging readers to drop duties and follow the band to carefree days.
Letters to the editor address multiple queries including U S Army regiment strength, exemptions for professions, noncombatant service for conscientious objectors, passport access and costs, age relevance, Panama Canal involvement, and the meaning of Esperanza. Answers note a regiment of 1 colonel to 12 infantry companies with 150 per company, no general exemptions for doctors lawyers clergymen or schoolmasters beyond noncombatant roles, passport steps via the U S District Court in Boston with a $3.03 fee, age not affecting eligibility, Britain’s early Panama Canal involvement, and Esperanza meaning hope in Spanish.
A personal reminiscence notes Esme, a young French actress at Hollywood studios, who sails to France to help as a Red Cross aid worker. She becomes a godmother to orphans, organized by fellow moving picture workers, while Bob He reads her letter and plans to join the Flying Squad as their romance endures through war.
A fragment from a homemakers feature lists step by step fruit dessert ideas. It cites egg whites with grated apples, sugar, heating until firm, then serving in glasses with a cherry, noting any fruit may be used and crediting Mrs E R Chase of Kenduskeag Maine.
A Public Service Commission hearing weighed the use of one man trolley cars favored by street railway officials and opposed by street car employees. The petitions sought experiments on a Maverick square East Boston to ferries route and Plymouth to Kingston route. Officials claim 30 seat cars operated by one man with automatic brakes. employees warn a single operator cannot safely handle fares and passenger care.
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