Brown's Wartime Work Laud At City Club Dinner
Nearly 100 alumni heard president Faunce reflect on Brown in Wartime. Of last year's 50 football squad, 39 went to the front and 123 of 253 alumni in service are commissioned officers. The executive committee will report Jan 7 1918 on a substitute plan for the midwinter reunion and a war fund will be created from the event's expenses.
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Brown
City Club
W. H. P. Faunce
Wilson
George B. Bullock
Are You as Old As Your Hands
An old saying links a woman hands to age and class. A hand cream La may promises soft white hands with weekly use for thirty five cents. It also touts La may Face Powder as pure and long lasting with wrinkle and rough skin benefits.
Christmas Giving and Sacrifice in The Sewing Circle
Readers share letters on how to balance Christmas gifts with wartime sacrifice. The exchange urges continuing presents for children, praising soldiers at home and abroad, while urging frugal behavior and keeping holiday cheer for families.
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France
Poems From Bour Scrap Book Vision of a Birch Tree
A fragment describes a birch tree swaying in the wind and a woman whose life is a vision and dream. It evokes gentle movement, love as sunlight and storm, and a solitary figure guiding a steadfast shallop through daily tumult.
Bread Dough Mixing and Rolling Instructions
The recipe combines 2 cups bread flour with 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt. Mazola is chilled and mixed with dry ingredients, then cut in with a knife and water added gradually until the dough is soft yet not sticky. Roll the dough very thin after a light toss to the board.
Adorable Slip-On Jersey Costume Described in Detail
A white woolly Jersey costume features a slip-on upper, orange lined collar and cuffs, and cuff bands with fine tucks and roping for stiffness. It is described as awfully smart and stylish, with the wearer looking adorable.
Etiquette Notes On Funerals And Weddings
Pallbearers are chosen from close friends and dress in black with matching frock coats and gloves. Wedding cake boxes bearing the couple's initials are handed to guests as they depart. The maid of honor ensures the bride’s costume while the mother of the bride hosts guests. A tip suggests addressing the mistress in the third person for luncheon requests.
Plentiful Vegetables Mark Market Prices
Vegetables were plentiful in yesterday's markets with cabbage and celery near last week's highs. Baldwin apples sell as low as 8 cents per peck while beets and carrots go 5 cents a pound. Prices include 52 bunches celery, 3 cents a pound cabbage and turnips, 4 cents for squash, 6 cents onions, 8 cents tomatoes, 7 cents parsnips, 15 cents artichokes, leeks 10 cents a bunch and watercress 10 cents a bunch. Radishes 5 a bunch, lettuce 8 a head, spinach 6 a peck and cucumbers 15 cents each.
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Bay State
Original Recipes from Mrs. Brown at 22 Garland Avenue
Mrs O M Brown of East Manchester New Hampshire shares original kitchen recipes for salad dressing graham bread chocolate cake and ginger bread Made to use sour milk at half price the instructions emphasize sifting soda with flour and baking times and temperatures for reliable results
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O. M. Brown
Garland Avenue
East Manchester
N. H
Skating Confidence and Costume Dilemma Revealed
Dolly worries about nerves before a skating appearance and contemplates swapping to a prior costume for confidence. The speaker advises against changes and notes Dolly's youthful appearance and charm as she prepares.
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Dolly
Dear Miss Champagne Advises a Cautious Bride to Wait
A 22 year old woman in America nine years advises Mildred Champagne on marriage. She alternates between two suitors, one proposed fiancé and a childhood sweetheart. Champagne calls the earlier promise childish and urges waiting another year or two to decide truly and avoid injustice.
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Miss Champagne
America
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Washington St
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Summer St
Tremont St
Boston
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Salem
Brockton
Andrew J. Lloyd Co
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Hoover
New England
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State Street
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New York
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Alicia Hoyt
Sunday Post
Florida
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Pasco County
Highlands
Good Town
Seaboard
Seaboard Magazine
B. L. Hamner
Seaboard Air Line By. Co
Royster Bldg
Norfolk, Va
Bigelow Kennard & Co., Inc
Washington Streets
Mildred Champagne
3Magrane Houston CO
Europe
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Cuba
United States
Atlantic Coast
American Sugar Refining Company
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