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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1916
Page
13
A reader urges compulsory schooling for women in cooking and home management to prevent unhappy marriages. The piece cites dances and movies as distractions and asks for reader opinions, while a respondent shares insights on marital quarrels and forgiveness.
Letters warn young men about secretive women and lament double standards while a reader seeks work and companionship for a middle aged woman. A critique on youth fashion urges age appropriate styles and a note previews Billy Sunday biography in the Sunday Post.
The piece argues the greater duty in creating remedies for infants and children and praises Fletcher's Castoria for 40 years of production under Mr. Chas. H. Fletcher. It warns against imitators and substitutes and urges mothers to trust the genuine castor oil based formula supported by numerous testimonials.
In a festive castle tale Lovell seeks his bride who hides inside an oak chest. After years of searching the elusive skeleton of the bride is found within the bridal wreath, the doomed jest ending in a silent, tragic tomb.
Industry gossip lists actors and their affiliations with studios like Universal Lasky Essanay and Pathe plus stage returns. Mentions J Warren Kerrigan M E Irving Cummings Beatriz Michelina Henry Walthall Violet Mersereau Paula Shay and Sessue Hayakawa along with production notes and career moves.
The memo discusses Famous Players turning down short reels, a star with two children unlikely to resume correspondence, Evangeline and Enoch Arden films, and notes Mary Pickford talks appearing five days weekly in the Daily Post and Sundays in the Sunday Post.
A brief column discusses fashion cues and etiquette in daily life. The piece cites practical tips, echoes vintage newsroom tones, and promotes a restrained, polished approach to personal presentation.
A participant recalls winning first prize at Shadow Lane’s costume ball. She describes a powder puff costume with a Dresden china doll handle, blue satin basque, tarletan skirt, and cotton batting trim, enhanced by makeup and a single pink rose.
Sports suits are trimmed with bands of fur. Seven hats are made of silk jersey.
Readers question the popular vote versus electoral college outcome in presidential elections. Historical examples cite 1876 and 1888 where the winner did not carry the most popular votes. A reader asks who qualifies as American citizen per the 14th Amendment, noting the word all.
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