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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1917
Page
9
A serialized column presents letters from readers about marriage, home life, mothers, and love. Contributors discuss desires for a home, husband, and children, advise on sons choosing trades, and seek guidance on relationships and personal paths through shared anecdotes and inquiries.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most engaging letters to the Sewing Circle, offering readers insight and community anecdotes from crafters and hobbyists.
A lyrical verse celebrates contentment with nature and life. It contrasts passion and greed with trust and hope. The speaker envisions a future of blossoms over dust as affirmation of a righteous path.
A guide advises patience in speech and showcases a social exchange. It suggests a woman may humorously enforce visiting rules with a late caller, highlighting etiquette and the young man's embarrassment as a proper social outcome.
Poem urging young men to join national service. Refrains emphasize duty to flag, country, and fight against tyrants. Portraits the inspiring choice of the youth as protector and bearer of peace and justice.
The record recalls Mungo Park, famed Niger discoverer, as he leaves for another expedition inspired by Major Houghton's death. He sails down the unexplored river with 44 men, loses most to fever, and reports that only one slave survives to deliver news before the boat fails on a rock. Park vows to reach the Niger terminus or perish. The diary then shifts to a personal note about Marion visiting, describing her attire and silk stockings in vivid detail.
A vintage recipe excerpt details Sprit Bakelse cookies from sugar, flour, butter, and eggs formed in assorted shapes with a cookie machine. Rolled wafers use butter, sugar, milk, flour, vanilla. dough is spread thin, baked slowly, cooled, then rolled into tubes or cornucopia shapes.
Mrs Oscar Hammarstrom of Worcester describes shaping lady fingers while warm, wrapping them around a finger or wooden spoon handle for a delicate form.
On the Atlantic port ship Navajo a Yorkshire terrier named Fannie saved two puppies by carrying them as fire broke out. She returned for the rest, but as danger grew she licked each pup and leaped into the sea, dying in what officers called death by own action. The six puppies were eventually rescued.
Mrs J A Busby of Everett describes a method using a Simplex glass egg beater to blend 1 2 pound butter 1 cup warm milk 1 4 teaspoon salt and a drop of yellow dye. Heat ten minutes then cool in a water bath and refrigerate. One pound butter plus two cups milk yields 184 pounds buttermilk? per batch and costs about 27 cents per pound.
The Boston Post invites readers to submit dog stories on one side of the paper within 200 words. Each entry must include the contributor’s real name and address, and all stories may be published at the Post’s discretion. Judges are Dr. Francis H. Rowley, H. C. Merwin, and the Post Dog Story Editor.
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