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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1917
Page
11
Readers discuss whether a husband should earn more for the same work than a wife with no dependents. The column features responses from Mima and others noting business assets, family duties, and differing views on suffrage, with advice on wage fairness, employment value, and personal choice.
A reader letter column offers guidance for pursuing acting and photography careers in early cinema. Advice covers building portfolios, registering with studios, and willingness to sacrifice time and effort. Mentions figures like Miss Cowl Miss Billie Burke Miss Elsie Ferguson and projects such as The Spreading Dawn Barbary Sheep Charity Castle and Less Than the Dust.
All women who read the Post are cordially invited to write to the Sewing Circle for correspondence and participation.
Dorothy reports excitement over an aviation outing to see Harry and possibly take a short flight. She describes a Russian style satin outfit with beaded trim, gold hoops, and a seal brown hat, plus a knee length fur coat with sealskin detailing. She anticipates cold flights and plans to wear a sturdy outfit for the windy ride.
The poem invokes bugles calling the nation to arms and sacrifice in war. It contrasts peaceful ideals with the drumbeat of national mobilization and the enduring memory of those who fight. It frames war as a collective, quasi-mystical summons shaping the nation's heart and destiny.
A historic etiquette note advises evening dress norms for men and women and proper greeting protocols. It discusses bowing in public, polite retorts to mistaken introductions, and cordial welcomes at home, along with the etiquette of unintroduced strangers.
The excerpt recounts Virgil’s life from his birth to his death after labouring on the Aeneid, noting his wealth of learning and his protection by Augustus. It covers his early fortunes, Maecenas mentorship, emulation and impostor episode, and his final years in Greece and Rome, plus a brief Q&A on death penalty and Greenland.
Instructions to prepare a large batch of apple preserves with ginger and sugar, then a dessert section offering Tapioca Pudding and Date Cookies. Includes simple quantities and methods from E. M. Bakeman of Winter Street Newton Upper Falls.
The ad touts 20 Mule Team Borax as the best household disinfectant noting it cleans hygienically and suggests sprinkling Borax in toilet bowls garbage cans and sinks to kill disease germs. It claims Borax has one hundred household uses and could reduce doctor visits.
Reader asks if distillation halted whiskey may be imported from Europe into the United States under the new war revenue bill. Answer: import of distilled spirits for beverages from any foreign country is forbidden. Also bans imports from Porto Rico to the Philippines unless from island products.
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