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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1917
Page
10
A reader panel in the Sewing Circle features letters arguing whether women are superior to men in lawfulness, loyalty, beauty, bravery, and everyday behavior. A correspondent laments marriage pressures and a deep personal tale of early wedlock, deceit, and enduring hardship until a hopeful pause for age 21 before marriage.
An advertisement warns that white lead and rice powders damage complexions with clogged pores and pimples. It promotes La May powder as a safer, long lasting alternative with a purity guarantee and a money back promise.
A Sunday Post recipe page offers steps for cinnamon rolls and a biscuit base. It also lists detailed methods for cooking vegetables with timing notes and tips, ending with a signature line from Miss Mfrle Bronson, Lock Box 14, Ashfield.
A Massachusetts judge writes to his soldier son offering guidance for health discipline, temperance, duty, and character. He urges regular meals and bathing, avoidance of alcohol, cheerful spirit, obedience to officers, and steadfast faith in God to sustain him through danger and sickness.
Household hints describe using a tilted floor mirror to spot uneven hems in a skirt. It also suggests turning stockings inside out and sewing around the bottom of the heel to conceal darns and extend wear, with a note from Mrs. J. J. Harrington of Westfield.
A poem contrasts ghostly white ships with a red burning vessel that bears human tragedy and guilt. The scarlet ship recalls the Titanic era, its blood and deeds staining the sea and haunted fleets as judgment approaches.
Grace and Clara discussed an engagement while leisure at the club unfolded. The narrator wore a fashionable black satin afternoon gown with a stand out looped skirt and blue georgette sleeves, a paneled pleated crepe front, and a satin girdle, admired as a great fall look.
Lexington Belmont and Watertown plan a half holiday next Friday to honor 72 drafted men from State Division 81. A parade will feature a police platoon the Lexington Drum Corps and Civil War veterans marching toward Lexington led by the draft boys bearing small American flags with Governor McCall expected to attend.
Ellis Parker Butler warns he will take up sewing if enough women volunteers cannot be secured in Flushing to assist in Red Cross work. The comment links the author to a local efforts drive dated September 16.
John Foster born September 17 1770 in Halifax England rose to fame after a book of essays sparked by conversations with his fiancée Marta Snooke. Early endeavors failed but the essays established his enduring reputation for religious and moral discourse.
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