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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
15
The editor of the Sewing Circle offers $5 weekly for top contributions. Women reading the Post are invited to submit new problems or comments on current topics. A pen name may be used. The writer of the week’s best letter will be announced on Sunday’s editorial page. Brief, single-sided submissions only.
A reader insists many marriages fail due to premature alliances and poor home skills. Letters from Audrey urge restraint and neighborly discretion, warning against gossip, urging quiet influence, and citing scriptural caution.
The guide advises a fiancés absence allows a young woman to accept escorts from other men but not excessive attention from any one. It suggests hosting a post engagement shower with guest friends invited at a set hour and escorted home. Music and knitting may precede refreshments during the gift shower.
A reader questions Europe despatches calling Russia Ukraine and explains Ukraine as a historic Russian region. The letter also asks why naval personnel are not dressed in khaki, noting modern battles occur at long range where ships are the targets, not sailors.
The March 4 1861 Confederate flag featured seven stars and two red stripes with a white interstripe. The post May 1 1861 battle flag and navy jack displayed a red field with a blue diagonal cross bearing 13 white stars.
Reader asks why a street car transfer given after a friend paid his fare may not be used. Answer: law forbids using another rider’s transfer. Penalty cited is a $50 fine or 80 days imprisonment.
Flower lovers are told that pansy seed sown now will not bloom until months later. Pansy plants on sale come from last fall seed, so they will produce flowers this spring but new seed sown now won’t.
A humorous artifact by Josh Billings, satirizing wartime household chatter and townsfolk. It skewers busybodies, clever talkers, and gossip hounds as idle chatter of the Bizzy Body class, contrasting domestic pretense with practical duties. The piece lampoons self important neighbors and their endless inessential details.
A wartime guidance sheet promotes wheatless breakfasts with suggestions to avoid wheat flour. It lists non wheat cereals and alternatives for toast free meals, including cornmeal rye and barley options, plus two sample recipes Apple Breakfast Cake and a chocolate frosting recipe credited to Mrs L M MacCurdy and Mrs W A LeDuc with measurements and serving notes.
Charles Cramp born May 9 1828 in Philadelphia was heir to Cramps shipyards. He helped build up a major shipbuilding business and contributed to wooden vessel construction during a pivotal era for naval industry.
The speaker credits Cramp with building iron and steel vessels including the New Ironside and the Chatta nooga. His yard grew into a premier naval arsenal in the Western Hemisphere. He pursued lifelong studies to push America toward shipbuilding as a national strength, commercial and military alike.
The Post invites readers to submit the three best contributions for a Funny Story Contest offering prizes of a Double Gold Eagle a Single Gold Eagle and five dollars in gold. Entries must be original or credited and signed with real name and address. Judges include Newton Newkirk Joe Toye and the contest editor. selected stories printed in the Post.
A quip from L. N. Crosby of Boston about a valet who carried a note to Mr. Rus sell, who is blind. The servant said Mr. Russell asked three times where his hat was, while it rested on the valet’s head.
A boy not a regular church attendant was invited by the minister to attend the next Sunday. He accepted the invitation, and during the following week a minister's friend asked him on the street if he had attended church last Sunday.
An advertisement touts aramara as a superior skin treatment replacing soap and cold cream. It claims it cleanses, lightens the complexion, reduces pores and irritations, and makes users look youthfully fresh after a single treatment. Available at Liggett’s Filene’s or by mail from Herbert Roystone in New York.
A man visits his minister who had not attended church. The minister shares his Sunday text, stating Fear not, I will send you a comforter. The boy’s prompt reassurance adds a hopeful note to the exchange.
A boy, Bobbie, visits an old lady every Saturday for cocoanut layer cake. One week she withholds cake expecting visitors. He senses a faint aroma, and she yields a tiny slice. He asks why he can smell such a small portion.
A Maine sugar orchard owner hid in a hogshead to catch a thief. A bear entered the camp and feasted on syrup, getting its tail caught. the man tied a knot that blocked the bunghole and the hogshead dragged into the woods. The next spring bears returned with cubs and hogsheads to raid more sugar. J EB Hewey Worcester.
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