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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1914
Page
13
Correspondents debate state pensions for teachers and mothers versus healthy unmarried women. Letters argue work as salvation, value of mothers, and economic pressures. readers share personal stories of family duty, wage realities, and chaperone opinions.
The Sunday Post highlights a selection of the Sewing Circle's most engaging letters. Readers share anecdotes, craft tips, and community updates, reflecting the group’s lively exchange and local interest.
The Ladies' Alliance of Milford Unitarian Church has raised about $100 from tea and lecture parties in recent weeks to aid the Salem relief fund. A Maverick church street meeting will be held in Central Square East Boston tonight with Fletcher D. Parker preaching. Rev. George H. Tilton of North Congregational Church Woburn is spending the month at Peterboro New Hampshire.
Mrs. Rogers faces strain as haying and dishes run short. A neighbor’s overheard talk prompts Mr. Rogers to provide help by hiring a woman to stay and assist his wife and children all summer. He reflects on selfishness and acts to relieve his family.
The St Monica’s parish field day in South Boston raises funds to ease church debt at Locust street grounds. St Anthony’s Revere gains permit for an evening St Ciriaco celebration with a band concert and services. St Rose’s Chelsea plans its annual parish picnic on church grounds led by Rev. William F. Powers.
Mr. G. Gladwin Errington landed a 42 pound salmon from the River Awe in Argyllshire after a 13 hour battle with a light rod. The fish sulked much of the time before a boat from Loch Awe arrived at 10 a.m. and a gillie finally gaffed the salmon in three feet of water using an acetylene lamp to lure it to the bank.
Paris reports a popular fall hat trend a velour crowned sailor with a black lace brim and an upstanding feather accent. The hat is worn jauntily on one side, signaling stylish preference for bold, asymmetrical headwear this season.
A reflective piece extols the enduring pull of boyhood. The speaker contrasts adult burdens with youthful playfulness. It celebrates laughter as a guiding force, suggesting embracing the inner child to navigate life’s challenges.
Tommy 14 arrives home with his school kept account book showing frequent S P G entries. His mother extols charity to missionaries while sister discovers S P G means Sundries Probably Grub.
A collection of dated home recipes and serving tips from Mrs. Samuel D. Watrous of Westerly Rhode Island Mrs F O Mariner of Sanford Maine Mrs F C Mariner of Sanford Maine Mrs Bell Y Roberts of Woburn Massachusetts and Mrs Be Hart of Portland Maine includes eggs with milk and butter baked custard layered potato and cheese bake fish and ham pie with eggs milk and mustard and a baked fish and ham dish with browned meringue style topoffs.
Boston baked beans are no longer an economy dish as war conditions push up prices. Meat fish and imported groceries grow scarce eggs rise with the season and coffee sugar and flour advance to keep beans company. Green vegetables and fruits remain plentiful.
Retail prices rise across sugar coffee and flour with canned goods up ten percent. Fresh fish and meats show varied gains while eggs butter corn and beans move. A closing London tea market and import fears trigger tea price expectations alongside a distant anecdote of a clergyman with an Indian village chief.
Poem praising sturdy neighbors and simple virtues of old fashioned folks. It extols fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, and community members who help others, stay true, and resist fashion. Appears credited to Detroit Free Press.
A broad notice invites advertising from New England firms in steamship lines manufacturers real estate agents book publishers wholesalers grocers and others seeking regional exposure and market reach.
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