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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1916
Page
15
A reader seeks work advice on grooming for business life, urging a middle fashion path between extreme styles. Others critique gender comparisons, praising women's financial steadiness and frugality, while a young wife pleads for money through available work opportunities.
A reader asks how a wife with average health can do housework in only a few hours daily. A respondent outlines a regimented routine: daily parlor dusting and sweeping, bedmaking, kitchen chores, and a quick daily wash, claiming five hours suffices and noting the challenge of uninvited visitors.
A nostalgic poem centers on longing and romance under the Harvest Moon with woodland imagery and quiet nature scenes. A prose fragment recounts a tea visit to Louise, describing her thinning figure, blue satin gown, red leather trim, and accompanying details of dress and style from memory.
The Sunday Post prints engaging remarks from readers of the Sewing Circle, showcasing varied opinions and experiences shared with the community.
The Sunday Post presents another instalment of Billy Sunday’s life, chronicled by Paul Waitt. The piece outlines Sunday’s early years, rise to prominence in baseball and preaching, and evolving public influence.
A simple squash roll recipe lists one egg, 1 to 2 cups squash and sweet milk, five tablespoons butter and sugar, two teaspoons cream of tartar, one teaspoon soda, two cups flour and a pinch of salt. Ready for oven.
Moleskin can be worked to reveal shirring on coats and filmy evening skirts feature criss cross fur decoration. Beige gabardine with black astrakan and jet buttons makes a fine coat dress. Gowns in straight lines are often full and tightly pleated. Green and blue plaid velour suits Russian blouse styling.
A historical recipe passage details making a salmon mold with breadcrumbs and milk, lemon and eggs, steamed for 30 minutes, followed by a rich butter and sugar batter, spiced by cloves cinnamon and nutmeg with molasses and raisins. It lists multiple steps and ingredients, ending with a name and location: Mrs Frank Hanson Winthrop Maine.
A young wife seeks guidance about her husband’s long term affair with another woman. She asks Miss Champagne if persuasion can restore the marriage for the sake of their three children and whether writing to the other woman or pursuing legal action would help, noting the man’s absence from home and the desire to keep the family intact.
A reader shares a method to prevent runny pie by skipping sugar in the filling and instead making a syrup from brown sugar and water. The syrup is scented with nutmeg or cinnamon, poured into the hot pie through a funnel, then shaken to blend. Delighted signature from Mrs H B Crosby Lexington Street East Boston.
A two week mission at Sacred Heart Church Roslindale began last Sunday with women this week and men next week led by Jesuit Fathers John Walsh of Philadelphia and P F Necarthy of St Marys North End. A novena for St Teresa begins next Friday at 5 pm at the Carmelite Convent Roxbury 61 Mt Pleasant Ave. A separate women’s mission under Dominican Fathers started last Sunday at St Anthony’s Allston with the men’s session to follow next week.
In a Larchmont summer soiree, Elsie Janis and Douglas Fairbanks joined Clifton Crawford and his wife for a sailboat outing. A sudden storm sent the group far offshore, with hats and lunch gear lost before Crawford arrived in a motorboat to aid them as the sailboat overturned and stalled.
The group faced hours of trouble before a passing small yacht rescued them and towed them to shore. Mr Cransford noted this morning that he had just bought a canoe and would not own a motorboat for anything.
Friendly Lewis Stone leads According to the Code with praised acting. Douglas Fairbanks eyes injury recovery aims for a studio return soon. Carlyle Blackwell joins World Film Peerless Studio. Doris Kenyon plays the peasant girl in The Feast of Life. Charlie Chaplin appears with a taxi driver in early scenes in One Ai M. Romeo and Juliet is produced by the Metro Company with Francis X Bushman as Romeo and Beverly Bayne opposite. Lottie Moore joins Famous Players Company for fall and winter productions. Mat Moore not married. Eye color correction hazel, not blue. Mary Pickford Talks to appear five days weekly in the Daily Post and Sundays in the Sunday Post.
A letter to the editor argues tenants should bear cleaning duties for cellars and back yards instead of landlords. The writer cites health reports, city street cleaning, and repeated calls to the board of health, urging responsibility shifts to tenants to improve alley and sidewalk cleanliness.
Formerly Miss Sadie E. Mason of East Boston and Benno Pineles wed in June. New England Telephone & Telegraph Company workers at 50 Oliver Street found their desks decorated with signs streamers confetti and old shoes after returning from lunch. The couple resides at 29 Lewis Street Medford.
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