Poem from Tales of the Mermaid Tavern by Alfred Noyes
A dramatic excerpt from Alfred Noyes's Tales of the Mermaid Tavern. Voices debate aging virtue and desire as seven wise men seek warmth, friendship, and meaning. The refrain insists on a roaring fire and a friend or two as ultimate comforts amid grim thoughts of the world.
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Alfred Noyes
Tales of the Mermaid Tavern
Mermaid Inn
Venus
Old
St. Paul’s
Black Settle
Hell
Heaven
Birthday Bio Briefs: Jenner and Vaccination Legacy
Edward Jenner born May 17 1749 in Gloucestershire England. He championed cowpox vaccination against smallpox and inspired global adoption. Despite early opposition he gained royal praise and world recognition, yet memorial subscriptions remained scarce at his 1824 death.
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Edward Jenner
Gloucestershire
England
Germany
Jenner
Court
Spain
London
Advice to a broken hearted young woman about love and age
A letter from a 20 year old woman asks Mildred Champagne for guidance after seeing her younger lover with another girl. The column counsels not to cling to a 19 year old, suggests dating an older man, and urges maintaining youth relative to a partner to keep love balanced.
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Miss Champagne
To Dear Discharged Soldier A letter on marriage and ideals
A series of reader exchanges in a sewing circle critique a discharged soldier's view of marriage. A 20 year old writer disputes the notion of selfish suitors, urging men to be worthy husbands and urging patience, respect, and real affection before forging romance. Other correspondents add their experiences from city life and motion picture work, urging readers to seek genuine partnerships.
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Fair Sex
Matrimonial life and fault finding in early married days
A speaker notes that to understand married life one must see the changes after six months. He recalls a friend who says a six month marriage reveals more faults than five years of courtship. The speaker jokes about matrimonial slacker labels and a sailor’s serenade of love leaving a wife.
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Ards
Bob
Etiquette and Manners by Miss Alice Stuart
Advice on table manners and gift giving from Miss Alice Stuart. Do not mash food on forks or use the knife to convey bites. The sponsor should send a christening gift with the giver’s card to the baby’s home, marking silver with the child’s name.
Post Letter Box Pruning Advice From A Suburban Reader
A reader asks when to prune old shrubs around a suburban home. The editor notes a general rule: prune after flowering to allow new wood growth for next year and avoid heavy pruning, removing only dead wood.
Public salutes by discharged soldiers questioned
To the Editor of the Post a reader asks if a discharged soldier in uniform must salute a commissioned officer in public. The letter notes courtesy is permissible but not compulsory. It also asks if Ellen Terry, the actress, is still living and answers that she appeared in April as the Nurse in a production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Cecelie
Sid
Ellen Terry
Power from Falling Water Turns Turbines to Generators
Water power uses concrete penstocks to guide falling water to turbines that turn electric generators. The resulting horsepower is transmitted long distances via copper lines to power factories, streetcars, and households. Government estimates put potential US stream horsepower between 30 million and 64 million.
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United States
Airship flight Newfoundland to Ireland and ship length over all
A reader asks the flight distance for a straight airship route between Newfoundland and Ireland, answered as about nineteen hundred miles. The term length over all means the ship length from the stem to the end of the stern. Questions about authorship cite Ella Wheeler Wilcox for a quoted line and Tennyson for a separate verse, with Cambridge noted as the source for the Wilcox line.
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Newfoundland
Ireland
Two Minute Talks for Americans by Charles Franklin Jones
Boston author Charles Franklin Jones urges readers to overlook minor flaws and focus on the greater good sought in public discourse, arguing that small defects should not derail pursuit of broader welfare and progress.
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Charles Franklin Jones
Boston
Stew and a Tire Beget a Big Promotion
In a rustic kitchen scene Bill Printley and his wife Eleanor feed a guest, John Gillespie of the firm. A talking dinner reveals hopes and leads to Bill’s rise to sales manager, with the ox tongue mishap and unintended charm shaping the outcome.
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Bill Printley
Eleanor
Bill
John Gillespie
Voite House
Mr. Gillespie
Eléanor
Bil
Gillespie
The House of Whispers Serial Mystery Preview
A teaser ahead of next week’s Boston Post Sunday Magazine introduces William Johnstone’s The House of Whispers. The feature promises clues to the real criminals in a captivating mystery.
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William Johnstone
Boston Post
Who Goes There On The Qui Vive Meaning
The term qui vive is French for who goes there. It signals alertness or being on the lookout. The phrase is used to denote a state of vigilance or readiness to challenge an approaching figure.
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James
Nurse Sunshine
Castoria
Alice Stuart
Fred
Horlick
Ofhaes
Sir
Cambridge
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
An Tennyson
League of Nations
All Nations
Brotherhood of Man
Tom
the Post
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Sunday Post
Mrs. Lucy Hifton
Charles
Town, N. H
Jewel Underr. S
Madewell
Taunton Knitting Co
Taunton
Mass
Elieve
Ludien
Mary
Ludens Menthol
Ciael Ag
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