Funny Story Contest prompts readers to submit tales
The Post announces a Funny Story Contest offering prizes of a Double Gold Eagle a Single Gold Eagle and 85 in Gold for the three best contributions of The funniest story I ever heard. Readers must sign real names and addresses. stories may be original or credited if copied. best pieces to be printed in daily and Sunday Post.
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the Post
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Sunday Post
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Joe Toye
Sewing Circle
Dear Sewing Circle Letters on marriage and cooking rights
The editor offers five dollar weekly prizes for best letters in Sewing Circle. Readers submit opinions on whether a man should marry before securing a good job and whether a woman should marry only after becoming a competent cook and housekeeper. Letters argue about finances, duties, and social expectations with several readers weighing in.
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Fashionable Navy Serge Ensemble Described
The writer notes Lucille repeatedly invites lunch and shopping, valuing opinion yet acting independently. A today encounter features Lucille in navy blue French serge with embroidered bands in Chinese blue green and black, a long back panel, slim belt, and a tea after shopping.
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Poems for Your Scrap Book Ambition
Kenton and Deborah, Michael and Rose are praised as fine children yet the speaker dreams of Peter Christopher Faith and Delight. He muses on each child and questions the color of Peterkin's hair and Christopher's likeness while hoping for more children and brighter prospects.
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Michael
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Dear Miss Champagne on a Summer Letter Mystery
A seventeen year old writer shares heartbreak over a first romance with an eighteen year old who stopped replying to letters. The advisor notes youth and fluctuating affection, urges patience, and suggests the young man may move on while the writer waits for home in June.
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E. Murphy
Atlantic Avenue
Boston
Champagne
Willie Baxter
Fahrenheit biography notes on thermometer origins
Gabriel Fahrenheit born May 14 1686 in Danzig spent life in Holland and England. He studied physics and manufactured meteorological instruments. He improved the hygro meter and Fahrenheit thermometer and set fixed points 32 and 212 for freezing and boiling. He died 1736 in Holland.
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Holland
England
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Isaac Newton
Fahrenheit
Fadts and Fashions Highlight Dress Trims and Colors
White organdy trims gingham outfits while Jersey dresses remain popular. Velvet pairs with striped tub silk and cape gloves debut mahogany. Gowns continue to be made in flesh colored crepe as fashion evolves.
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Waited On by Store Clerk Marie Demos
Dialogue shows Marie Demos of 4 Braddock Park Boston reflecting on a delay at a shop. A mother questions why her daughter Mary did not return with the items, and Mary explains she stayed away to avoid losing her place in line. The exchange reveals family interaction and urban personal detail.
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Marie Demos
Braddock Park
Boston
Maine camping tale ends with game warden reveal
A group camping in Maine during the closed season has a stranger join their camp. One man boasts of a moose killed by the lake and learns the stranger is the game warden after the tale is told. The man admits he is the biggest liar in the state.
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Maine
A. Langille
Broad Street
Lynn
Extreme honesty in a Lippincott tale about Edith and a flea
An excerpt from Lippincott's Magazine presents an extreme act of honesty as Edith tells her mother she found and caught a flea on the cat, illustrating a young girl's blunt straightforwardness in a domestic scene.
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Kitty
Father and Son Learn Through a Short Narrative
A young college student asks his father what extinguish and narrative mean during a weekend at home. The father plans to tell a short tale the next day as they share a meal and conversation unfolds.
Gog tale ends with stern orders to son and dog
In Milford the fragment names Miss Olive Moskowitz of 68 Grove Street and a quoted father figure telling his son to seize the dog. The wording suggests a domestic scene captured in a clipped newspaper item.
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Olive Moskowitz
Grove Street
Milford
Beets with Sour Sauce and Strawberry Custard Recipe
A home kitchen menu provides beets cooked in beet water with a sour sauce, cabbage and onions chopped fine, a layered potato and onion bake with salt pork, and how to finish with strawberry sauce and a milk custard dessert. The instructions include measurements for vinegar, cream, sugar, and butter, plus bake times and serving styles.
Thrifty dress reuse tips from Mrs Pierce
Mrs John Pierce of Arnold Street Lonsdale Rhode Island shares how she cut and reassembled two worn dresses into two new outfits for about 35 cents. She describes turning a plaid skirt with plain cloth into one dress and the reverse for another, plus making a V neck from a worn dress and crafting a slip from an old waist.
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John Pierce
Arnold Street
Lonsdale
R. I
Germans on Registry in Boston Reported
There are 10443 German alien enemies in Boston per figures compiled at the United States Marshal office. Springfield follows with 254 and Worcester with 106. Some town reports are still outstanding.
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Mitchell
Springfield
Worcester
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