Sewing Circle letters offer home life advice and budget woes
A Boston Post Sewing Circle page collects a flurry of letters from readers on motherhood, finances, marriage, and household tips. Contributors discuss child care, diet on a budget, love, and guidance for brides, mothers, and single women in New England.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Han
Portland
Boston
New York
Lochinvar
Letters From The Sewing Circle Highlight Sundays Post
The Sunday Post prints some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader views and community creativity in a regular feature.
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Sewing Circle
Sunday Post
Love Keeps House In Lily Room
A poem praising love as a homemaker who tidy rooms and lifts spirits. It portrays love as attentive and skilled in daily chores, smoothing troubles and bringing comfort as a family returns home. The verses celebrate care, order, and warmth through domestic devotion.
Harvard to Hold June Degrees Outdoors at Stadium
Harvard announces June commencement will move from Sanders Theatre to the Stadium weather permitting. Overseers vote to grant the president authority for outdoor exercises and appoint new faculty members and teaching fellows across multiple departments.
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Harvard
Sanders Theatre
John S. Humphreys
Roland B. Dixon
Tenney L. Davis
Victor F. Lenzen
Donald H. McLaughlin
Amos P. McMahon
Norman B. Nash
John J. Savage
Albert A. Shapiro
Louis P. Hammett
Joseph L. Walsh
Austin
Millard B. Gulick
Ralph H. Bailey
Orin R. Douthett
Herbert F. Engelbrecht
James Hallett Hodges
Bruce R. Silver
Lee I. Smith
Walter E. Vail
Osman J. Walker
Fads and fashions noted in velvet trims and sunburst veil
Paragraphs describe wide velvet ribbons on wraps and throat fastenings. Millinery shows no fixed crown or brim height with narrow sashes and looping ties. The sunburst veil appears round with a wide border and radiating lines. A striped black and white taffeta dress with black contrasts. fancy straws noted for hats.
Four Morrissey Sons Pallbearers at Mrs. Julia Morrissey Rite
Funeral services for Mrs. Julia Morrissey longtime Somerville resident were held at St. Joseph's Church with a requiem high mass by Rev. Thomas F. McHugh. Four of her sons William B Michael Thomas and Frank H Morrissey served as pallbearers and she was laid to rest in St. Paul's Cemetery Arlington.
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Julia Morrissey
Somerville
St. Joseph's Church
Thomas F. McHugh
William B
Michael
Thomas
Frank H. Morrissey
St. Paul's Cemetery
Arlington
Robin Raised From Last Spring's Nestling at Franklin Park
A Boston boy raised a robin red breast and donated it to Franklin Park Zoo. The keeper praises the bird and notes its warmth and cheerful song welcoming the season. Also mentions Sewell Ford story in the next Sunday Post Magazine.
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Robin Redbreast
Cock Robin
Young
America
Southland
Boston
Robin Red
Zoo
Franklin Park
Sewell Ford
Shorty McCabe
Next Sunday Post
Robin
A Song of the Flag Poem Love to the Flag
A short poem expresses deep affection for the flag of the United States. It speaks of love for the streaming stripes and stars on blue, and for a land worthy of sacrifice. The verse frames the flag as a symbol of freedom and national fidelity.
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Free
Winnie’s Birthday Card and a Helping Hand
Walter fears being ruined after a reckless stock bet and cannot obtain four hundred dollars. Aunt Mary agrees to loan the money after Winnie’s birthday card message about peace and goodwill inspires Annie to seek help, restoring happiness to Winnie’s celebration.
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Walter
Winnie
Annie
Aunt Mary
Mary
Hoe
Mummy
Stuffed Shoulder of Pork With Onion Dressing
Wash and bone a shoulder of pork, fill with a dressing like chicken dressing plus onion and potato boiled and minced. Sear rind, stuff meat, bake three hours in moderate oven. Make gravy with flour and hot water, serve with boiled onions. Mrs Skinne Worcester.
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Maite
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Eseneues
Sisters
Songs OF
Southern Press Syndicate
McKinney & Waterbury CO Designers and Manufacturers
Franklin St
Cor. Congress
Mass
John
the Press Publishing Co
Maurice Ketten
Dr.Lyon
Dr. Lyon
J. W. Lyon & Sons, Inc
W. 27Th St
N. Y. City
Ashion
Heatherbloom
By Denis A. M’carthy
Palla
Rnease
Louisa Hedges
Bern Street
Jamaica Plain
New Enghard Housewives
Ses Sunday Post
Agnes M. Calley
Holderness
N. H
P. O
Edith W. ©Mith
Hammond Street
East Gloucester
Horlick
Tremont
Carman's Mere Shoe Shop
Park Street
LA France
Gee
Wm. Bentley Co
State
Lesion
Mase
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