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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1918
Page
11
A moral column argues for a licensing commission to test fitness for marriage including a physician cook and financial expert. It urges pre marriage training in saving, budgeting, and household skills to reduce future unhappiness. Other letters urge friends to warn against imprudent marriages and defend prudent financial planning for couples.
A health warning urges constant vigilance against kidney trouble from heavy meat consumption. It promotes Jad Salts as a grape and lemon acid lithia tonic to flush kidneys and neutralize urine irritation, claiming quick relief and safe, inexpensive use.
A columnist notes a gentleman should not monopolize conversation and urges balanced dialogue. It also advises when escorting a young woman to a dance to request at least four of ten dances and ensure the rest of her card is filled.
Old newspaper feature lists practical wartime cooking tips and bake goods from New England housewives. The column covers bone efficiency soups and meals, quick biscuits, molasses cake, apple cake, rye bread, and shared home kitchen methods with names and addresses of contributors.
A young woman asks Mildred Champagne why a 19 year old suitor left her after six weeks of courtship. The adviser urges guarding pride and avoids casual affection until a partner accepts responsibility, noting youth and opportunity to grow.
Readers ask if watermelons can be grown in a Boston suburb backyard and request contrasts between free verse and rhymed verse with Amy Lowell cited. They inquire about red flame additives, fasting without water, and spellings Pekin Peking and Kultur pronunciation.
The text highlights trends in formal wear detailing gown trains lace bodices and turban trims. It notes sailor hats with soft edge flowers voile tunics with bead embroidery high crowned tailored hats blazer style jackets wood framed handbags Philippine decorated corsets and season color pairings.
Household Hints suggest substitute ferns by planting grapefruit seeds in a fern dish with rich earth, covered half an inch and kept well watered, yielding a green center dish in about two weeks and lasting long with little care. Steaming wrinkles from gowns uses a bath or wash boiler half full of hot water with gowns hung above to soften and refresh lace and chiffon.
Waterfront calendar for May 1 notes the 401st day of US involvement, 181st day of the year, and sea conditions. It reports a large fish catch that week with prices for haddock cod pollock hake hali but soles and a total landed weight of about 3.39 million pounds, plus vessel arrivals from Nova Scotia and Welland Canal coal shipments headed to New England. The Shipping Board plans to rapidly move 100 steamers to the transatlantic service and reduce hull and cargo war risk rates from 6 1/2 to 2 percent.
Poem excerpt praising motherhood home and heaven as musical source. Reflects spiritual ascent and soulful comfort through familial and divine ties.
The Post invites readers to submit contributions for the funniest story ever heard with three prizes a Double Gold Eagle 20 dollars a Single Gold Eagle 10 dollars and 5 dollars in Gold. Entries must be original or properly credited if copied and include real name and address.
A Roslindale woman with limited English visits a dry goods store to help her daughter pick a coat. After all options fail, the daughter admires a plush coat and asks if it is exquisite. The mother replies it’s either that or plush, stunning the salesman and shaming the daughter.
A convalescent Yankee begs for meals as a nurse announces gradual solid feeding. She offers tapioca by spoonfuls while he grows hungrier, then asks for a postage stamp to read. The note is signed A. Graham of Somerville.
Leonard Palumbo recalls a New York dinner where an actor notes a purple red complexion of a guest. The hostess reveals the man is her husband with a murderous gleam, sparking a darkly comic moment about appearances. Palumbo signs from Medford.
A prominent eastern college scientist hurrying home from his lab rushes back after realizing he left his watch on the laboratory window ledge. He checks the timepiece, sighs with relief, and retraces his steps to retrieve it. LOUISE B. DUNBAR. 1107 West Oregon Street, Urbana, IL.
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