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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
17
The poem speaks of April Moon looking on tranquil French fields. It contrasts peace with ruined towns and fallen soldiers. It celebrates a formed spirit, chivalry, and a holy purpose born from battle. It asserts a star of hope guiding a transformed race over the fields of France.
A wartime recipe collection from Mrs. F. L. Cram of Manchester New Hampshire includes onion and tomato blend with eggs served on crackers or toast peanut butter bread made with flour sugar salt and baking powder and egg milk mixture potato codfish balls with egg topping and a creamed potato dish fried in pork fat noting the contributor and locality.
John Keats born October 31 1795 in London rose from harsh critical initial reviews to become a foremost poet. His early poems were seen as amateurish yet Endymion and the Ode to a Nightingale show matured genius, while he died young in Rome after a life shaped by illness and financial struggle.
Mrs J A Power of Brookline describes salt applications for cups tea stain removal whitewash adhesion tooth whitening gum strengthening sore throat diphtheria prevention mouth rinse willow furniture cleaning after pulling a tooth and as a fertilizer.
Readers discuss whether to reveal myths about Santa Claus and the stork to children. Contributions favor honesty, while others warn against eroding childhood joy, urging balanced storytelling and keeping faith with the young. Justice notes many letters appear in the Sunday Post.
A collection of reader questions and editor replies covers Tennyson lines in Break Break Break, whether the U S declared war on Austria Hungary, flag differences, printing a poem, value of a Confederate $10 bill, and Mary Goodnow’s grave marker in 1707 with details of the Indians attack and burial site.
The records show Boston’s coldest October 31 as 27 above in 1887 and 1904. The warmest for the date reached 76 degrees in 1896, with no rain in Boston on this date in the past decade.
Lieutenant-Colonel I Thord-Gray of the Canadian forces plans a Siberian chapter after service in Africa India and the Philippines with American forces. Other dispatches note Mme Sarah Bernhardt in a damage suit against Pullman and Thomas Nelson Page delivering a Dante monument replica to President Wilson. Marquis de Chambrun praises American war efforts. Miss Frances Nelson is said to be losing her figure amid a $16 000 matter.
A wartime column argues Germany must surrender unconditionally, urging common effort behind the U S in the war. The piece compares Germany to Bulgaria, presents a doctors’ metaphor about medicine, and emphasizes punitive peace as necessary before any truce.
The article notes Elsie Janis drawing London chatter with her storytelling and explains her modest ambition, saying her mother has long provided for them both. It also mentions General Anta Goosdenovich, newly appointed Montenegrin minister to the United States, who previously served a year in the French armed forces.
The subject served in multiple conflicts including with Russians against the Turks in 15876 and against the Japanese, also participating in the Balkan War.
James J. Pinkham of Dorchester was escorted from Quincy to Camp Devens by a provost guard weighing about 200 pounds. He registered in Quincy and did not return his questionnaire, wrote a discourteous letter to the MDistrict Board claiming he is a British subject and not intending to fight. He had declared citizenship intentions and worked at Squantum.
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