Office training vs home life in wartime marriage advice
The Sewing Circle editor offers five dollar weekly prizes for top contributions and invites women readers to submit problems or comments. Letters may carry pen names and weekly letters will be announced on Sundays. Advice favors pursuing a business career to gain funds and social access, arguing office experience enhances home efficiency and cooking skill, with letters urging women to join the war effort and support working roles.
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Sewing Circle
Letters to the Sewing Circle Highlighted in Sunday Post
The Sunday Post features notable letters from readers of the Sewing Circle, showcasing community voices, tips, and opinions on crafts, fashion, and needlework. Strong names or places are not specified in the readable excerpt.
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Sunday Post
Thomas W Lawson Slightly Indisposed
Thomas W Lawson has been slightly indisposed since the Marshfield fair, suffering from ptomaine poisoning. He is resting at Dreamwold preparing to campaign for the United States Senate.
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Thomas W. Lawson
Dreamwold
United States Senate
Afternoon Walk and Fashionable Visit to Marguerite
An anxious mood lifts during a stroll as the narrator visits Marguerite who wears a garnet blue changeable frock with lace and chiffon details. They hurry home for tea and then attend a dance at The Farm with two aviation officers arriving by air.
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Denar
Sam
Marguerite
Escape Me Never Beloved A Poetic Pursuit
A reflective poem of unfulfilled love and resilient striving. The speaker compares love to a constant chase, accepting failure yet continuing to pursue meaning. The refrain centers on being ever removed as hope shifts with each attempt.
Wartime Garden Party Fashions For Summer Attire
Fadts and fashions describe robes gowns and hats for garden parties. Yellow swimsuits with blue stripes and pockets appear alongside hand painted silk flowers on hats. Low cut necks flatter plump throats while practicality shines in a shanting summer suit and meteor black gown trimmed with fringe and fur. Georgette crepe creates a delightful blouse with a V neck and twin horizontal tucks.
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Georgette Crepe
War Time Recipes of New England Housewives
Wartime food tips for New England households by Lucy Lee outline a rush pudding blending raspberries currants and orange peel with corn starch and nut garnishes. A banana based baked dish accompanies a bran muffin mix recipe, both urging simple prep and whipped cream service.
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New England
Seven Oaks Dairy Fined for Dirty Milk Bottle Air
The Seven Oaks Dairy Company of Somerville was fined 10 by Judge Murray in the Municipal Court for possessing a dirty milk bottle on the complaint of milk inspector Dr. James O Jordan. Other milk dealers and restaurants faced fines of 10 to 15 for milk below the legal standard.
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Seven Oaks Dairy Company
Somerville
Murray
James O. Jordan
Middlesex County Creamery
Fultton Place
Acton Farms Milk Company
Wellington Cafe, Inc
The Working Mother and the Grateful Children
A poem about a mother who toils from dawn to night to support her family, while her friend lauds the children and the positive view of labor. The speaker contrasts the mother’s hardship with the daughter’s praise, concluding that work is not so bad when children are happy and healthy.
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Ays
Mary
Lis
Bob
Wilhelmina Stitch
Canada
English Philosopher John Locke and Liberal Teachings
The piece profiles English philosopher John Locke born in 1632 in Somersetshire who studied at Oxford and pursued politics theology medicine and philosophy. It notes his refugee years in Holland due to politics and his later works including the Essay Concerning Human Understanding and the Reasonableness of Christianity asserting his emphasis on universal toleration and freedom of thought.
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Locke
Hegel
Somersetshire
Oxford
Holland
England
Three Ships a Week For Port Newark
Newark, N. J., Aug. 28. Director-General Charles M. Schwab of the Shipping Board congratulated the yard workers on increased activity as three ships per week will be turned out at Port Newark instead of two.
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Newark
N. J
Port Newark
Charles M. Schwab
The
Shipping Board
Fashion and travel notes from wartime society pages
A miscellany of etiquette tips and celebrity updates includes bathing cape style advice, birth announcement courtesies, weekend invitation norms, and notes on society figures. It mentions Schwab working among shipyard workers, Dana Pond painting General Bliss in France, and several U S and British leaders abroad, plus fashion and royal notes from Zoppot and Buckingham Palace.
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Dana Pond
France
Tasker H. Bliss
Allied War Council
General Bliss
Personal caddy critiques Wilson and a German music campaign
A golf caddy catalogs President Wilson's swing flaws noting a fuller swing would help. Separately Mrs. William Jay of New York leads a wartime effort to remove German music from programs, extending campaigns to Newport and Bar Harbor social scenes.
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Edward H. Laudon
New York
Red Cross
Church of St. Gervais
Paris
Wilson
William Jay
Newport
Bar Harbor
School for Enlisted Men at Camp Meade
A school for enlisted candidates for commissions in the Signal Corps will open at Camp Meade Maryland on October 1. Four hundred men will enter a three month course.
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Camp Meade
Washington
Signal Corps
Maryland
Appeal for U S Guards Bands
Mary Williams Crozier appeals to New England readers for funds to establish military bands for United States guards and coast defences lacking government music provisions. The note notes about 300 dollars to equip one band and training by John P. Marshall, urging public contribution to boost morale and patriotism.
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Northeastern Department
United States Guards
John P. Marshall
Crozier
Copley Plaza Hotel
Copley Square
Boston
New England
Mary Williams Crozier
Dear Miss Champagne Advising Love at Nineteen
A reader aged 19 asks which of two suitors to marry a younger artist and a wealthy manufacturer. The adviser says true love must be present and urges patience, noting the girl has time to wait for the right man and that love should determine marriage, not money or status.
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Champagne
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