South Boston power plant site draws crowd and talk
An observer notes the scale of the new Elevated power plant in South Boston and its promise to power Boston streetcars while reflecting on past local declines and new industrial growth. A Geneva avenue line expansion is anticipated to improve Dorchester travel.
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South Boston
Edison
L Street
Boston
House of Correction
Poor House
Insane Asylums
Geneva Avenue
Dorchester
Neponset
Field’s Corner
Grove Hall
Chicago Record-Herald
New York World
Boston Globe
Minneapolis Tribune
Harold Bell Wright
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dan Matthews
Barbara Worth
the Book Supply Company
Chicago
Date nut cake recipe by Rose Takvorian
A dated cake recipe lists butter and brown sugar with eggs and milk, then flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Dates are folded in and the batter is beaten and baked briefly, attributed to Rose Takvorian of Warsegter.
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Mae Martyn
Sacramento Post
Rose Takvorian
Hollis Street
Warsegter
Sewing Circle Forum Publishes Homemaking Talks
The Boston Daily and Sunday Post introduce the Sewing Circle as a woman’s own forum for home keeping advice. Readers may use noms de plume, ask questions, and contribute on topics from family care to gardening, writing on one side of the page.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Two Ways to Gain a Husband's Love and Peace at Home
A domestic advice note urges wives to be lovable and good cooks to win and keep a husband's affection. It warns against nagging and constant fault finding, suggesting calm speech and pleasant home life as the path to harmony, ending with a quip about pie tempering a high temper.
Married woman seeks help for jealous husband
A 23 year old wife writes that after seven years of marriage she has no children and her husband, 29, becomes furious when she goes out once a week. He sulks afterward and bans her socializing, saying she has too much of a good time for a married woman. She asks for advice from married sisters. Reader of the Post, St. Louis, Nov. 24.
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St. Louis
Choosing Between Lovers for a Home in a Reading Circle Letter
A 22 year old girl asks for advice on selecting between two suitors. One is a divorced man ten years older who supports three children and drinks. the other is three months older, single, and a steady earner who does not drink. She seeks guidance on which will provide the best home and least hardship.
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Sewing Circle
Blue Bell
WANTS MORE RAIMENT
A reader signs as NEGLECTED WIFE asking for advice about her husband’s tight budget. She says he earns 21 dollars weekly and limits her to ten for a hat and twenty five for a suit, leaving her with only two suits and three hats yearly.
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Sisters of the Cirecle
Dear Sisters Advice on Husbands Fashion
A reader asks how to handle a husband who wears the same suit until it wears out and ignores pressing. She notes his large salary allows her to dress as she wishes, but she resents his neglect of neatness and seeks sisterly guidance.
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Atlantic Avenue
Mornine
Kitty
Radizene hair treatment promises big reward guarantee
The Boston Post promotes Radizene as a new hair remedy for baldness dandruff gray hair and itchy scalp. It guarantees satisfactory results or money back and offers a $100 reward with free information after sending in a coupon.
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Radizene Laboratory
Boston Post
Free Radizene Coupon Offer for Hair Growth Information
A Boston Post reader offer invites readers to mail a coupon to Radizene Laboratory Dept. 176 Scranton Penn for free information on Radizene claimed to grow hair erase dandruff restore natural hair color and remedy scalp troubles. The coupon is valid for one week.
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Radizene Laboratory
Dept
Scranton
Penn
Boston Post
Happy as Bug in Bug
A 19 year old wife writes of happiness in marriage to a 22 year old husband living on 40 a week after starting with 15 a week. She rejects traditional housekeeping burdens, loves simple life, and invites similarly content couples to respond.
Sisterly Confession of a Forbidden Love
A letter from a woman in a sewing circle reveals an affair with a man twenty years older, both married, he with five children and she with one. He persuaded her to leave her husband, and the note ends mid sentence as the affair continues.
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Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Divorces and marriage plans spark reader’s plea for guidance
A reader signing BABY ROSE asks for advice on divorce from her 5-year marriage begun at 17. She mentions a lover who wants divorce and remarriage, a husband who leaves in winter, and concerns about sisters’ reactions and horsewhipping. The note notes mutual support for children. The Sewing Circle page promotes Sunday Post features and magazine humor pieces.
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Mr. Regan
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Boston University Law School
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Mabel
Earth
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Barbara
Temple Place
Blake Blds
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James M'Dermott
Coburn Street
Lowell
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Baby Rose
the Sunday Post
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York
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