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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1913
Page
7
Mrs James J Storrow and committee members urge Boston schoolhouses be used for supervised dances to keep youth away from public dance halls The Washington School has been a testing venue for this program and the committee supports expanding it citywide
A letter from the organizing committee argues dances held at Washington School justify the public cost and should expand to more city districts. They call for more schoolhouse venues offering supervised, affordable dances and condemn profit driven halls as unsafe. Signatories include Mitchell Freiman chair and representatives from Elizabeth Peabody House Civic Service House and Council of Jewish Women.
Ipswich Mills shut by manager W E Heywood after refusing a 20 percent wage increase demanded by strikers. IWW organizer Frank Morris and local secretary Alexander Apolewski say strikers have funds to sustain a yearlong job action. Manager planned to import strike breakers starting Monday.
Readers of the Sewing Circle column in the Boston Post discuss causes of young women’s wrecked lives, wages, morals, dancing, courtships, and parental influence. Letters criticize class bias, cheer dance forms, and urge practical ethics, work, and health as paths to reform.
A collection of letters discussing marriage, parental control, taxation on childless couples, and social expectations. Contributors argue for marrying for love, preserving self respect, and avoiding public propriety pressures, while others critique strict parental chaperonage and male courting behavior.
A feature highlights engaging letters to the Sewing Circle printed in the Sunday Post. Readers share reminiscences, crafting tips, and community notes reflecting local life and traditional hobbies.
Women’s coats priced from 37.50 to 50.00 feature four styles. Style 1 offers unusual wraps in silks with floral or plain chiffon linings in several colors. Style 3 presents smart Eponges with Bulgarian silk linings and trims in tan rose blue and navy. Style 4 offers black bengaline silk coats for elderly women.
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