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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1919
Page
15
A lyrical verse urges a cherished boy to value learning and virtue over idle pleasure. It speaks of parental blessing, the debt of love repaid, and the lasting glow of heaven and virtue as time passes. It encourages reflection on diligence, time, and moral growth through a small gift.
Lieutenant Willard S. Monroe of the U S Navy lands in Boston on a 48 hour leave and meets Debbie Dean at North Station. He impersonates Will McIntyre to win her affection, continues visits, confesses his ruse, and earns her forgiveness. They marry after Monroe receives an honorable discharge.
Mildred asks which suitor to marry among two older and younger men from respected families. Advice stresses shared tastes, congeniality, and negotiating with the elder to share interests, guiding a first love toward careful choice. Also includes assorted old fashioned recipes from readers.
Household hints offer compact advice on cooking and chores. Tips include stuffing potatoes lengthwise, using chicken fat, drying fabrics on stretchers, candied cranberries as a dinner addition, thinning paste with vinegar, placing raffia mats under vases, and ensuring daily fruit for children. It notes steaming potatoes after baking, cleaning woodwork, washing shades with flour, reusing old nightgowns, easing new shoes with talcum, using alcohol to varnish piano ivory, saving pickled fruit juice for boil water, and packing russet apples in sand in a cool dry place.
A reader questions parental rights over a child’s future, weighing musician versus cook paths and contrasting farming, nursing, and physician calls. Other letters urge early talent observation, avoiding coercion, and encouraging kids to pursue genuine interests for happiness and broader impact.
Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII, married James IV at fourteen to seal a peace treaty. Their union sparked rival factions, battles, and a dynastic struggle over dowry, leading to divorce attempts and multiple marriages. She died at fifty two after a life filled with political intrigue and money disputes.
A tan velour coat with dark green stripes, gathered cartridge pleating, and a continuous skirt fullness defines ultra smart fashion for children. Accented by green silk braid, a matching green velvet hat with dull gold trim, and muskrat muff and collar, the ensemble aims to make a girl feel grown and dignified at school or shop with her mother.
The piece explains courtesy for conjugal card usage by couples bearing both names at condolence or congratulation events. It notes a matron of honor is usually the bride’s married sister, else a cousin or close friend. At theatre entry, women pass first after the usher and host with larger groups.
Born in a small New England village, Lowell Mason grew from a self taught, unpromising boy to a pioneering educator. He introduced music into Boston public schools, a move that soon spread to the nation, transforming countless lives and earning praise from former pupils and a leading merchant who credited Mason with his own success.
The day features a public wage hearing for confectionery workers at the State House, a steamship sale at the Commercial Wharf, a Twentieth Century Club luncheon, a Dorchester sun parlor sale, Boston College versus Georgetown football at Braves Field, a Winter Circus opening, lectures at Old South Meeting House and Boston Public Library, Hull town meeting on streetcars, multiple religious observances, and commemorations including Carney Hospital Nurses' Alumnae anniversary.
A long list of marriage intentions records numerous couples from Boston and nearby cities. The notices include ages occupations and addresses with additional remarks such as widowed or special permits noted for several pairs.
Everett L. Crouse a 24 year old carpenter of 172 Powder House boulevard and Hazel G. Lockhart 22 of 49 Greenville street Haverhill a stenographer, Nelson Be MaclFadyen 27 of 33 Franklin street locomotive fireman and Katherine MacEachern 24 of 88 Franklin street rubber worker, David J Ray 84 107 Cross street brakeman and Beatrice Soper 840 Commonwealth Avenue Boston domestic.
Paul D. Sheeline aged 21 at 4 Story Street Cambridge and Mary F. Child aged 19 of 8 Cragie Circle Cambridge at home. Joseph M. Cliffe 27 of Boxtown New Mexico a coal miner and Alice C. Donnelly 19 of 48 Kinnaird Street Cambridge a saleslady.
Wilmington Del Nov 28 A letter from the Rev Frederick J Kinsman former bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Delaware was received by Chancellor Charles M Curtis stating that on Nov 23 he was received into the Catholic church He added that he has no plans for priesthood study nor any statements supporting such a report
Members of the Boston Gaelic School, 809 strong, unanimously adopted resolutions praising Senators Lodge and Walsh for their stance during the League of Nations debate in the U S Senate. The resolves were sent to the senators in Washington from Dudley Hall Roxbury yesterday.
Ithaca New York Navy line post of the American Legion adopts resolutions protesting Fritz Kreisler appearing in a Cornell University music department concert on December 10. The post urges the public to withdraw support for the event.
The Newman Lecture in Symphony Hall highlighted Belgium’s wartime devastation with images from Ypres Ostende Zeebrugge Bruges and a Brussels tour. Mr Newman joined the presidential party to view destroyed areas and the king and queen’s return. The vivid presentation will be repeated this afternoon.
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