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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1922
Page
19
A reader named DADDY GOOSE argues for young men to date two types of women before settling down the "gem" and the "flighty" girl. HATTIE replies as a married woman criticizing such double standards and urging genuine preparation for marriage. The exchange becomes a social commentary on dating, appearance, and commitment.
The text presents a comic exchange about gendered advice in marriage with lines from HER counterplay and HIS counterplay. It lampoons how wives and husbands react to advice and ends with the referee declaring Madame the winner.
Recipes from a Sunday Post page include Salt Codfish Chowder with layered potatoes onions and fish baked with pork fat and milk, a layered cake batter with egg whites, parsnip stew with codfish, and sour milk raised biscuits. The dishes are described with steps and ingredients and note the recipe is over 80 years old.
A tested fudge recipe passed along by Lula Hamilton of Corinna Maine and Mrs J Frank Woodbury of Brattleboro Vermont. It uses light brown sugar milk butter marshmallow cream pineapple raisins and coconut and yields a soft fudge.
The article notes navy blue and black remain in use with bright color accents. Browns range from seal to caramel with tawny red tones popular in Paris. Lanvin showcases a dark blue duvetyn frock with creamy shadow lace, a middy like bodice, and upturned cuff. Period styling is promoted by theatre with winter adaptations.
The Ghent peace treaty of 1814 left both nations content while Britain attempted to seize Louisiana. General Andrew Jackson defended New Orleans with 6000 troops, building earthworks at Chalmette. In the battle two thousand British were killed and American losses ran to sixteen, securing Louisiana for the United States.
Dear Miss Champagne counsels a boy aged 18 to heed his mother's disapproval of a romance with a girl labeled a jazz hound who dances nightly. The letter warns elopement risks and urges patience, maturity, and choosing a partner with lasting standards for life.
Bright silver items enhance evening attire with lace square bertha collars and silver cloth ornaments on girdles. Black velvet girdles gain character, while striped gingham overblouses charm and chambray trims shape collars cuffs and waistbands. A navy and green plaid frock features a scalloped hem and a tight buttoned bodice.
An essay contrasts social climbing perils in Boston and New York with a mother and daughter case of theft linked to a flapper era impulse. It laments lack of courage to resist luxury and notes the desperate reach of an aging ex-convict facing abandonment and memory of past crimes.
In a 1922 office scene, Elsie Warren decides to write for films inspired by a bank plot overheard on a train. She pitches a bank heist romance tied to a poor lover, but editor Mr. Roberts critiques a slipped line and warns of consequences for misdated proofreading.
The piece reflects on powerful X ray and radio technologies and their implications. It discusses a Columbia University X ray device, a vast Buenos Aires radio plant with 10 towers, and the era of mechanical miracles while pondering control and future communications with other intelligences.
The Boston Post publishes a segment detailing government information and where to request it. Readers are directed on how to inquire about official resources and what to ask for to obtain further details.
A booklet from the United States Public Health Service outlines scarlet fever causes and symptoms, its infectiousness and possible complications, and prevention steps. Readers may request a free copy from Washington DC for a limited edition.
A reflective poem laments modern life’s dull real estate obsessions and noisy households. The speaker criticizes lack of art and virtue, mocks highbrow lectures, and notes common routines in homes and the social scene. The piece ends with a paradoxical affection for humanity despite flaws.
A fragment from a haunted authored record hints at a spectral writer who once penned a note to a wife and conveyed various tales. The passage preserves a ghostly voice and intimate recollections.
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