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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1912
Page
4
The Scotty Circle in the Boston Daily and Sunday Post offers a women’s own forum for home matters. Topics include household management, family, economy, and garden items. Readers may use noms de plume and exchange advice addressing household issues.
A married woman asks if her demand that she not press her husband trousers is justified. She notes his coolness after she refused to press them herself and says she may leave if asked again. A reader urges accommodating marriages and suggests youthful unions reduce divorces.
A woman advocates early marriage for girls with good opportunities and cites personal experience of youths married at 17 and 19 with many similar marriages showing no divorces. She urges sisters to seek marriage with a partner about two years older.
A letter admonishes a young woman to show respect to a stepmother and to value the care given by a relative who raised four destitute nieces or nephews after dire hardship. The writer recalls years of support, illness, and family loss, condemning ingratitude and defending a 10:30 curfew as reasonable discipline.
A stern mother cautions against letting a married man pay attention to her daughter. She argues the daughters are attractive but urges choosing a more honorable partner. She asks the reader to consider the wife’s perspective if someone’s daughter tainted her marriage.
A 17 year old writes of strict parenting and constant chaperoned outings. She asks the Sewing Circle sisters whether she deserves more freedom and whether the after-dark restriction should end. She threatens to run away if the isolation continues.
A 26 year old woman asks for guidance about marrying a 31 year old man who earns $40 a week and cares for his widowed mother. She rejects living with the mother after marriage, fears the burden on his income, and notes parental pressure toward another suitor. She seeks sisterly advice.
A reader criticizes the column's "Baby Face" for conceited self praise. The writer questions modesty and respect for the mother, urging reflection on appearance and behavior and noting the sisters of the column would not sympathize. The writer signs as JUST 21.
A reader known as Cynic shares a personal history of an elopement at 16 with a 22 year old. the marriage ended quickly, annulment followed, and she now distrusts love as a basis for happiness. She endorses Radcliffe Wife's view that money and social position are the safer path to security.
Some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle will be published in Sunday's Post, offering readers insights and community perspectives on crafting, sewing tips, and local concerns.
In a Sunday Post comic panel Brick Bodkins' father shirks churchgoing and finds himself in mischief. The strip plays on everyday family antics with a light humorous tone.
Mrs Clarence Mackay of New York was hurled from her automobile on Monument mountain near Stockbridge. She was unconscious, bruised, and carried to a farmhouse before revival. Dr Bruce W Paddock treated her and she insisted on attending a social event that evening despite the shock.
San Francisco reports the first municipal opera house in the United States will join the new civic centre. A $650,000 building is planned on municipal land with $8,000,000 in bonds approved earlier. The musical association will erect it and it will become city property with all receipts used for maintenance and production.
Captain David A. Stevens of the North Cambridge police married Mrs. Catharine B. Goodwin, Brattle Square station matron, Aug 8 in Dexter Maine. The 69 year old veteran, nicknamed Big Dave, has long served Cambridge police. his bride is the widow of Daniel A. Goodwin.
Warren Y. Farnum age 32 of 19 Thornley Street Dorchester a watchmaker and diamond salesman for N G Wood Sons at 1 Park Street was arrested last night charged with larceny of gems valued at 1697 75 for the firm of which he was a trusted employee
Dorchester and Mattapan residents clash over backyard hens as the Health Board orders disposal. Mayor suggests limited hen ownership in non crowded areas with neighbor consent and roosters removed if crowing annoys neighbors. Mayor notes personal hens and plans to seek a permit, signaling a shift in Health Board policy.
The question asks if residents should keep poultry in suburbs and if rooster crowing warrants banning poultry. Mayor Fitzgerald favors hens in back yards and the Health Board leans against. A city ordinance requires a Health Board permit to keep live poultry, but the board rarely grants them and enforces only after complaints. A Mattapan policeman has complained about several residents.
Nearly 50 ticket sellers at the Boston Elevated Street Railway Company applied yesterday afternoon at Street Carmen's Union headquarters to become members. They asked to form a collectors' branch and filled out applications in four groups from the tunnel, subway, tube, and above ground stations. Union efforts to recruit conductors and motormen continued alongside.
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