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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1917
Page
13
A reader column addresses taxation fairness for families vs bachelors amid wartime patriotism debates. A Massachusetts farmer's wife laments high living costs and taxes while supporting Uncle Sam's population goals, and urges single women to marry and raise children.
Dorothy shares a personal encounter about a gift frock sent by Clara. The pale gray linen dress features a striped vestee bodice, lemon yellow trims, side pockets, and a broad black patent leather belt, fitting the recipient perfectly.
Unknown author 1898 poem recalling a Manila war scene. A captain on deck signals the attack as ships close in under night and dawn. The admiral declares perseverance while a gunfire finale unfolds and a battle cry echoes. The piece links courage to steadfast fighting.
The military whist party planned at Ronan Memorial Hall for the Lowell Notre Dame Alumni Association on Wednesday May 2 has been postponed until further notice due to the critical illness of the Very Rev Mgr Peter Ronan.
A reader from Stow Massachusetts asks for scrapple recipe andgets a traditional Pennsylvania method. The guide details head meat preparation simmering with cornmeal and buckwheat flour, seasoning, and setting in bread tins to cool for slicing and frying. Included recipes by Mrs G Cunningham Mrs Chester Franklin Mrs Fred C Pearson and Edna Thompson provide raisin coffee cake cookies and scalloped rice and salmon.
A reader asks how to handle jealousy to keep love strong. Mildred Champagne warns that trying to provoke jealousy by seeing others typically harms the relationship and suggests a mutual compromise. She notes if the partner refuses, true harmony may be unlikely and both should reassess their feelings toward each other.
Poem describes farm life and rural labor from dawn to night. It contrasts seasons and chores with family meals and communal activities, urging a return to soil and farm values. The piece reflects 19th century agrarian sentiment and celebrates agricultural toil.
Mrs Herbert Henry of Cambridge offers tips on saving starch by starching clothes after drying and using ham bacon and pork skin to flavor greens or baked beans for economical meals.
Letter questions govern structure of Dominion Canada and the origin of tiger in the toast three cheers. Dean Jones of Yale is credited with a quip replying to the Boston cod homage.
Mrs. William H. Lothrop warned in a Red Cross backed class at 18 Somerset Street that the girl problem could threaten national morale. She urged using women to support farms this summer and warned of moral dangers and family hardships as troops fight abroad.
Local flour dealers and milling men blame hysterical housewives for a dramatic rise in flour and bread costs. They report households hoarding flour for a year, draining the May wheat crop and triggering speculative pressures. yet warn there is no flour shortage if purchases return to normal.
Governor McCall yesterday signed the food and drug bill just passed by the Legislature. The act tightens the state food and drug laws to improve safeguards and enforcement.
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