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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1919
Page
17
An archival fragment quotes Walt Mason in a column titled Rippling Rhymes. The piece appears to feature social quips and a signature Uncle Walt persona.
A bean bake recipe using baked kidney beans cheese bread crumbs and onion. Mash beans mix in cheese and crumbs pack in a dish and bake in a moderate oven with occasional butter water basting. Signed by Mrs. L. C. Busby of Allston.
A reader asks how repair workers on live trolley wires avoid electrocution, noting dry wooden ladders as insulation. The letter cites wholesale beef pricing by cut and a query on progressive auction whist seating. It also asks about distances from Boston to several cities and recounts Puritan treatment of Quakers in early Massachusetts with historical references.
A newspaper prints a sequence of poems by a recently deceased writer. The voice vows unwavering devotion amid changing passions and wandering tides, comparing steadfast love to unshaken rocks and steadfast ships. The refrain I will be true recurs with steadfast imagery of nature and sea.
The Post invites readers to submit letters on gender equality at home with five dollar prizes for the most compelling pro and con arguments. Wives' union ideas, wage fairness, and wartime romance questions appear as readers describe work, pay, and personal loyalties amid social change.
Quick tips for homemaking from Mrs Everett D Wilson of New Market New Hampshire. The notes include tests for cake texture using toothpicks beet juice frosting methods feathering ironing benefits from a brick and hinting at preserving garment elasticity and easier patching with thimbles.
Self mate rials appear on new set-in sleeves with little embroidered caps. Parrot green taffeta and black velvet form an appealing evening combination.
Dick and Fifi, two childhood sweethearts, deal with Dick's jealousy as Bob Merrill returns home and dominates Fifi's attention. Tom Brewer urges strategy to provoke fear and humor in the pair while Barbara Merrill helps stage a playful ruse to test Dick's feelings. Fifi flirts with mischief and Dick debates presence at a reception.
At a reception four conspirators maneuver around the couple as Barbara and Dick share attention and Bob eyes Nellie Lowe. Fifi, alone and crying, overhears a plan to end her flirting while Dick reassures her and hints at starting over.
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