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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1917
Page
15
Wilbur C Steele 23 of Boxboro sustained severe facial and arm burns when his automobile truck caught fire while passing Arlington Centre yesterday. Arlington Fire Department responded and extinguished the blaze.
A series of letters discuss gender roles amid wartime, praising women who work and serve, condemning short dresses and vanity, and debating male jealousy and devotion. The exchanges reference Joan of Arc and a Russian Battalion of Death as examples of female courage.
The article offers guidance on small coffee spoons for after dinner, hat etiquette in elevators, and handwriting versus typing. It notes men should remove hats in residential elevators but may keep them in office elevators, with a preference to remove when ladies are present. It also contrasts pen writing with typing for social correspondence versus business letters.
Washington dispatches report two American expeditionary force deaths. Myron Bertman of North Vernon Indiana, captain of engineers, died Tuesday from a tumor. Edmund Squire, a butcher, died of pneumonia Sunday.
In town for a final night at the club I bought a sapphire-blue dance gown I hadn’t planned to buy this month. The bodice uses heavy taffeta with rhinestone straps, a crimson velvet flower centerpiece, and silver bead fringe. The chiffon skirt features a net flounce panel and jet detailing, signaling a need for a second gown when I return next week.
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