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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1918
Page
15
The narrator compliments Edith on her new green Scotch tweed suit. The outfit features a high collar, one shoulder fastening with leather-covered buttons, a split skirt to the waist with deep pockets, a brown suede belt, and a skirt that unbuttons at the side seams for a longer stride.
Corine Gaudreau credits Fruit-a-tives with curing years of indigestion and constipation and urges others to try the product. The ad promotes Fruit-a-tives at 50 cents a box, six for $2.50, and a trial size 25 cents, available at dealers or Fruit-Ace Limited in Ogdensburg.
A nostalgic voice recalls a man who loves the city but fears it stole his boyhood. The speaker notes wrinkles and tremors as kin greet him with My boy and laments paths of fortune that cost old friends and joys, while affirming home as the true reward.
A reader from Saco Maine explains a method to render fat from baked pork scraps after cooking beans. She collects crisped pieces, strains the fat, and yields about half a cup from one quart of beans. The fat is used for gingerbread frying, fish, and potatoes, with brown scraps eaten on bread.
A 1918 verse piece urging a return to the right path and perseverance despite hardship. The song promotes hope, struggle, and moral resolve, contrasting effort with past failures. The text ends with an unrelated note about a blouse collar design.
Editor pays five dollars weekly for best letters. Women readers not invited to critique topics. A pithy exchange shows wartime food conservation by choosing human life over pets. Readers sign with pen names. weekly writer of best letter announced.
A collage of figures and moments: Robert Chanler paints a large Brooklyn Bridge view for New York soldiers in France and donates it to the YMCA. Dr. Grenfell pursues caribou blood infusion to improve deer herds. A photo captures vote day in New York with Alfred E. Smith voting and Mrs Smith nearby. Kentucky Governor Stanley promotes hog farming by placing a pig pen on the State House lawn. Mrs. John McCormack donates her London home to the Knights of Columbus for war work. William James Sidis contemplates retreat to write after Harvard Law. Russell Thaw debuts as a movie actor. Mrs. Draper remains in Rome amid her daughter’s marriage to Prince Boncompagni.
A new pattern service for women grows from a magazine’s success. Pictorial Review Patterns promise fabric savings and easy cutting guides, with widespread distribution and millions of copies sold yearly.
Warden Nathan D. Allen of the State prison Charlestown has requested retirement on a pension effective Oct. 1. He led the facility for 25 years, originally appointed deputy warden by Warden B. F. Bridges, who has since retired, and his request is before Prison Director E. C. J. Bagley.
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