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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1921
Page
11
Readers discuss personal liberty versus social responsibility in a wartime domestic letter column. A husband challenges his wife over home brewing and drunkenness, while multiple contributors urge quitting alcohol, adopting self discipline, and seeking healthier habits to restore harmony and moral standards.
A reader recalls an air raid near escape and credits abstinence from home brew with improved wellbeing. The writer notes personal suffering from drinking and urges giving up the 18th a trial, expressing support for spunk to fight addiction and wishing stronger resolve.
A Holworthy Hall story titled In Close Retirement will be printed in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The feature promises the author’s reflective fiction in the periodical’s upcoming issue.
Poem describes a woman living alone on a hill and the contrast between neighbors pitying her and the beauty she sees in the world beyond. She recalls memories in the home’s furnishings and embers that seem to conjure absent loved ones who drift in at night. The piece emphasizes theme of inner life versus public perception.
Jack, famed for boasting courage, faces real fear when ghost tales draw him into a dark woods near the morgue. A prank by Peter Banks exposes the stunt as staged, leaving Jack to confess public bravado was for effect and that true courage involves restraint and self awareness.
A speaker praises nurses for choosing bravery that helps others and commits to support their essential good works. The remark frames nursing as a noble calling and an ongoing personal pledge.
Household tips recommend baking soda and cold water to scour unfinished wood. Create a paste with soda for cleaning, rinse with cold water, then wash lamp chimneys, scrub with soap for glass, and polish with old cotton cloth. Save thick cloth from coats to make holders. finish edges with buttonhole stitch. Citric acid improves overly sweet jelly, and a simple hassock method uses pound cans.
Instructions describe covering coffee cans with carpeting to form a circle with a central can and six around it. Materials include carpeting, cotton batting, and cloth. edges are turned and sewn, tops covered before attaching. Signed by Mrs. M. B. Rhodes, Lock Box 459, Woodsville, New Hampshire.
A fragment describes a mother who distrusted germs and scrubbed her children when they returned from school. Her warnings emphasize caution about unseen illnesses and the relentless pursuit of cleanliness in daily life.
Reader queries address Lusitania anniversary maple wood meanings and city histories. The letter lists dates from 1915 to 1912 and provides population figures for major Massachusetts cities, plus explanations of seal inscriptions and the origin of Vaticanus.
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