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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1918
Page
11
Poem reflects on children’s resilience amid crises and a grateful blessing for their role in lifting adults through hardship. The speaker praises daily joy, faith, and the hope children provide as the world faces looming peril.
Readers discuss marriage finances and household roles in the Sewing Circle. Letters argue that marriage should wait for stable income and home skills. Ruths pledge guides couples, while cooks are valued and housekeeping is urged for a stable home life.
Birthday bio notes Honore de Balzac born May 20 1799 in Tours France. It traces his peasant origins his use of de as a title his garret era and late success as a prolific novelist. It covers his work pace debts and his love for Countess Hanska and pending marriage.
The text notes a woman's long devotion spanning twenty years and that she married her partner only a few months before his death in 1861.
The page prints reader queries and editor responses on topics from aircraft in World War I to Mexico’s flag and aluminum melting. Included are scientific notes about breathing patterns when awake versus asleep and a brief explanation of oxygen exchange.
The source notes pronounce buoy to rhyme with boy and laundry with the first syllable like arn. The answer: buoy sounds like boy, laundry sounds like arn dry.
A fragment sketches fashion desire for delicate afternoon frocks in organdie and pink bands, while another skewers a husband who meddles in family life and funeral attendance, highlighting domestic foibles and the perils of meddling.
A quirky old piece contrasts the jealous man with the Model Man in a humorous tone. It wryly notes envy in those who deny spooks and depicts the Model Man performing small, moral acts while signaling social proprieties and family regard.
A comic verse from 1918 by George Matthew Adama imagines wartime fears and family banter about the Teats and Teutons. The narrator, joined by his wife Amanda Jane, laments military losses while urging hedging and rallying with Spartan female resolve. The piece closes with a playful jab at male bravado and a wartime mood.
A 23 year old writes about a girl of 18 who ignored him at a party and later grew close to another man. The columnist counsels not to chase flippant behavior but to seek a dependable partner and to move on if interest wanes.
The document lists three one dish dinners for a family of five. Dinner No 1 uses fish or meat with vegetables and milk to create a thickened chowder. Dinner No 2 combines dried peas with rice onions and tomatoes. Dinner No 3 describes poted hominy and beef with a long simmer method and a baked final dish.
The passage lists dishes that supply all five food groups for a family of five. It recommends eating with bread and fruit or jam for dessert to ensure the body gets the five kinds of nutrients it needs.
A short guide on table etiquette and hat removal in public spaces and lifts. It advises never leaving a teaspoon or coffee spoon in the cup and to remove hats around ladies. It also suggests suitable birthday gifts for a young lady friend, such as a book, flowers, or candy with a brief congratulatory note.
Start the day right with a good breakfast using fruit cereal and milk. The government urges fruit use to maintain health and prevent constipation. favor fresh fruit and dried options like prunes apples and apricots soaked overnight. Dates and raisins boost cereal without added sugar. Bananas should be ripe. greenish yellow ones digest poorly unless cooked.
The Boston Post invites readers to submit humorous stories up to 200 words for a chance at three prizes including a Double Gold Eagle and a Single Gold Eagle plus cash. Submissions must include real name and address and may be original or credit the publication if copied.
Mrs. King sought a unique name for her baby boy and chose Nosmo after seeing a partly closed door. A later glance revealed the door read No Smoking, leaving the family astonished by the unintended meaning of the name Nosmo.
A lighthearted baseball humor piece recounts a fan waking his wife with a dream threat to kill the umpire and his reply about smashing the pitcher. Flora B. Kibbe y Newport New Hampshire provides the anecdote.
A Californian recalls hitching horses to a hay rack and, with an extension ladder and axe, cutting pumpkins. After dropping the axe inside a pumpkin and two hours of searching, he learns a passerby lost his horse and wagon in the same patch a week earlier. Mrs. Cora B Hewey.
A clever lawyer defends a man accused of housebreaking by arguing only an arm committed the crime. The judge sentences the defendant's cork arm to one year in prison, and the man leaves with the arm detached, aided by the lawyer. The item ends with a signature and address in Boston.
A winter incident describes a man tossing boiling water into the air. the vapor froze into ice as it fell, startling onlookers and illustrating the extreme cold. The scene captures a familiar cold weather stunt amid freezing conditions.
A reader replies to an ad for razors with a note asking for one and enclosing a check. The firm sends a box with a note apologizing for the missing razor and praising the reader's “cheek.” The item ends with Mrs. C. Robinson of Varnum Street, West Lynn.
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