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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1920
Page
17
Letter to The Post from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. requesting credit for publishing rights to The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. They note the poet’s widow benefits from royalties and that the work appears in Dreams in Homespun.
Mrs S W Cummings of Shelburne Falls shares a method to substitute citron using overgrown cucumbers. She preserves cucumber rind in thick syrup with orange slices until firm, then seals in jars. The rind is used in fruit cake during winter as a citron substitute.
A collection of recipes from the Sunday Post includes Lyonnaise String Beans and Hopped Carrots with butter and lemon, Cream of Celery Soup, tomato and caviar toast, mint vinegar sugar mix, and a note by Lillian Bayliss of Amherst.
Readers discuss dating ideals in a letters page. A 19 year old business girl advocates a homely, ambitious partner with backbone rather than stylish men. Several correspondents critique modern standards, urging discretion, genuine character, and respect in relationships.
Alicia Coxe Keefer of Philadelphia builds a niche in reconstruction and restoration focusing on homes not buildings. She proves feminine viewpoint attracts clients as she creates spaces reflecting spirit, transforming a vacant three story residence and renting it quickly at a high figure before tomorrow’s sales manager role.
The narrator and Silas recall a dawn voyage aboard the Mary Ann when a mermaid appeared in the skiff near rocky shores. They tailed traps for eels and discussed an odd romance while preparing a stew as gulls watched from the shore.
A man and Silas take a mysterious boat seeker named Mary Ann to a minister, marry her aboard the Mary Ann, then return home. The scene shifts to fashion notes of late Parisian arrivals, battenberg corsets, fur collars, and wrap cloaks.
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