Sewing Circle Opens as Woman’s Forum for New England
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Post offers a home maker forum for New England readers. Topics include home life, domestic issues, family care, budgeting, gardening, and child care with readers using pen names. Correspondents seek helpful advice, write on one side only, and address letters to the Sewing Circle Editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle
Boston
Dail
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Taxing bachelors to support unmarried women sparks letters
Readers of the Sewing Circle trade barbs over high minded suffrage era finance ideas. A correspondent urges taxing old bachelors to fund unmarried women while rebuttals defend marriage and equal rights. Various private letters discuss love, childcare, and social expectations.
Letters to the Sewing Circle Highlight Post This Week
The Post prints several of the Sewing Circle’s most engaging letters. Readers share tips, stories, and anecdotes from their domestic craft sessions, reflecting community interests and timeless handmade practices.
QONGS of UNSHINE By the Bentztown Bard
A 1915 verse piece by the Bentztown Bard urges fairness in speech and action toward all, aiming for a kinder daily life. It emphasizes unity among youth and elders, and a life of beauty and love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Qongs
Bentztown
Southern Press Syndicate
Will of Jonathan Eastman Pecker Grants Boston Church 20000
The Church of the Advent in Brimmer street receives 20000 from the late Colo nel Jonathan Eastman Pecker for endowment and charitable work. Two items allocate 10000 to the endowment fund and 10000 for church charity. Other items note clergy guests and pastors' summer moves across New England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Advent
Brimmer Street
William Harman van Allen
Jonathan Eastman Pecker
New England
Household Hints Perforated Kettle Cover
Mrs Jennie Gove of Cliftondale offers tips for kitchen safety and cleanliness. A perforated tin pie plate can cover kettles to vent steam and prevent overflows during cooking and draining. A fork in the holes secures the cover. A cardboard shield over egg beaters reduces cream splatter when whipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Gove
Maple Place
Cliftondale
Farm on Trapelo Road to supply St Elizabeth's Hospital
The Trapelo Road farm bought two years ago by Cardinal O Connell will grow vegetables and dairy to feed patients and staff at St Elizabeth s Hospital Brighton. Dr John F Fitzgerald ex Mayor of Boston will speak at a Brockton automobile social hosted by St Margaret s Church. A requiem mass honors Captain Filippo Boggiano in Revere. Devotion of the Forty Hours begins in Beverly and Newton Highlands. Construction on the SS Peter and Paul Church tower in South Boston starts and will take about three months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trapelo Road
Cardinal O’connell
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Brighton
John F. Fitzgerald
Boston
Brockton
St. Margaret's Church
John S. Burbank
St. Anthony’s Church
Revere
Ernest Rovai
Fillipo Boggiano
Theresa Boggiano
Star of the Sea
Beverly
St. John’s Industrial School
Newton Highlands
Church of SS. Peter and Paul
South
Doings of the Van Loons Roar in Sunday Post
Pa Van Loon provides roaring fun in the Doings of the Van Loons featured in the next Sunday Post, inviting readers to a lighthearted family-friendly comic spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pa van Loon
van Loons
Next Sunday Post
The Lasting Fame and Summer Fashion Fads
The piece opens with Walt Mason’s meditation on fame and its endurance, noting how today’s greats may fade while unknowns achieve lasting memory through simple, enduring gifts. It then shifts to summer fashion, describing dyed pongee with embroidery, a blouse with fine tucks, and organdy lingerie frocks in white or pale rose without lace, highlighting modest, plain lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juneau
Cathay
Walt Mason
Adams Newspaper
Bar on Hwang To Hire Chinese Chef From Pekin
Baron C. L. Hwang of Pekin China, a Nottingham guest who will move to the Lenox this winter after the Nottingham closes, has sent to China for a cook. Visitors note his remarkable collection of Chinese antiquities and jades, showing years of collecting expertise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Hwang
Pekin
China
Nottingham
Lenox
America
Baron Hwang
Apple blossoms in the English spring poem scene
A lyrical meditation on an English apple orchard in spring. The verse recalls pink blossoms, silver brooklets, and a cuckoo’s call as brides and maidens wear apple blossoms, celebrating the season’s color and beauty.
Shad With Roe and Ginger Snaps From Home Recipes
Practical kitchen notes showing browned shad with roe baked in butter or oil and served with maitre d hotel sauce. Includes ginger snaps batter with quick bake method and a sugar free plum and pear jam recipe with cloves. Gleaned from Everett and Rockland, Maine home cooks Nellie Eb Zackular and Mrs Willis Ayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maitre D'Hotel
Nellie EB
Zackular
Baker Road
Everett
Willis Ayer
Main Street
Rockland, Me
Love and Marriage Intent in A Three Year Courtship
A reader asks if two years dating implies engagement plans. The adviser says he should state honorable marriage intentions or end the relationship. The woman is urged to be cautious, not rely on friendship, and consider ending the outings if his behavior verges on vanity without commitment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude
Miss Champagne
Wm. Palmer
Sterling
Ill
Frank H. Cafferty
Providence
R. I
Howard A. Banks
Hickory
N. C
A. J. Nelson
Waco
Texas
Astoria
Eva Ott Melin
Jersey City
N. J
Local Figure Sells Home Canned Pie Fillings
Mrs. Nellie Skinner of 81 Quincy Avenue Quincy advertises burning and pouring into jars as a winter pie filling. The brief notice notes home canning methods for keeping pies ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Skinner
Quincy Avenue
Quincy
Prize boudoir cap wins at Mrs Radcliff’s charity bridge
A narrator boasts of winning the fourth consecutive first prize at Mrs Radcliff’s charity bridge. The cap is described as cream valenciennes lace with hand embroidered beading, gathered over the ears, a pink ribbon bow, and a lace frill. the writer promises to show the cap.
Fads and Fashions Highlight Silks and Colorful Hats
Paragraphs on styles note children wearing rompers from morning to afternoon with silk rompers amid shifting fashions. Hats embrace color, moving away from all black or all white as the tennis blouse features a loosely cut design.
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Boston Post ‘Sewing Circle
Heaven
New York
Sisters of the Sewing Circle
William Basil King
King of
Cambridge
David J. Hill
Cohasset
S. A. Norton
First Congregational Church
Woburn
Belfast
Edwin Harlock Byington
Roxbury
Gloucester
Dane Street
Lynn
Addison B. Lorimer
Edward M. A. Bleakney
Acadia College
Newton
Stoneham
A. E. Murphy
Indiana
Gee. Wr. Bentley Co
State St
the Press Publishing Company
Maurice Ketten
To. Mh
Kent
Inuk
Crimen’ Notes
Baron
Chef
Henry
Chas
Tay
Bear Mcrap
William W. Martin
Mildred Champagne
Ohio
Hag
Ent
Chas. H. Fletcher
Castoria
Ork City
Dorothy
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