Five Mast Schooner Nat T Palmer Abandoned Near Bermuda
The five masted coal schooner Nat T Palmer wrecked about 100 miles east of Bermuda. Captain Haskell and nine crew were rescued by the British steamer Armond. The Palmer, from Portland to Norfolk, was overdue and deemed a hopeless wreck when abandoned. The crew reached Baltimore yesterday.
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Nat T. Palmer
Bermuda
Haskell
Palmer
Portland
Norfolk
Baltimore
Punishment for Affinities in the Circle
A letter discusses unhappy home conditions caused by designing women. The writer urges solitary confinement for the woman who harms a family, laments the strain on wives, and pleads for women to endure and endure for their children. The author promises remorse will come and prays for heavenly reward. One Ray.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Dear Twenty I advise independence to strengthen love
A letter to a wife urges caution with jealousy and suggests showing spirit by going out alone sometimes to deepen affection. The author recalls 20 years of marriage with lasting romance and notes a fond mother letter about well managed dinner praise from hungry boys ruled by love.
Hand Kissed Compliment Binds Couple In Public
A wife writes to the sewing circle about her affectionate husband who kisses her hand after she helps him or consoles him. In a store incident he dropped his pocketbook. upon recovery he kissed her hand and joked that it would please the policeman more than a kiss on the lips. He vows to keep the habit lifelong.
Advice on a young woman’s secret engagement in 1900s letters
A 19 year old writes seeking guidance about a long courting friendship with a 24 year old man. Her parents oppose the relationship due to her reputation. She has exchanged many letters and met privately, and the man asks her to marry him promising reform.
Sweet Nineteen and the Sewing Circle Letters
A fragmentary note references a “Sweet Nineteen” and mentions sewing circle letters appearing in the Sunday Post. The tone suggests a personal or social-page item with minimal context and several scattered clues.
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The
Sunday Post
Christian Endeavor Banquet Draws 300 In Boston Churches
The fifth annual Christian Endeavor Society banquet at Union Congregational Church vestry drew about 300 attendees. Rev. Allen A. Stockdale lauded the group’s work after a dinner and entertainment program.
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Christian Endeavor Society
Union Congregational Church
Allen A. Stockdale
Dr. Grenfell at Harvard Cautions on Christianity Ads
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, superintendent of the Labrador Medical Mission, told an audience at Sanders Theatre that advertising of Kodak or breakfast foods would ruin Christianity. His Sanders Theatre remarks opened a six‑lecture Lowell Institute series.
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Trenton
Wilfred T. Grenfell
Sanders Theatre
Cambridge
Dr. Grenfell
Labrador Medical Mission
Lowell Institute
Moose Lodge Recruitment Ad Promotes Growth and Benefits
The Loyal Order of Moose Boston lodge 34 promotes rapid growth with 216 initiated and about 2500 members. It offers weekly dues, sickness and accident coverage, funeral benefit, free medical attention, nonsectarian nonpolitical creed, and special initiations.
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Burnham Jacquer
Jacques & Melancon
Boston Lodge
N. E
Moose
Sith
N. Waldo Kennedy
Washington Street, Co
Canthrax Shampoo Claim Highlights Hair Growth
An advertisement cites Mrs Mae Martyn in the Denver Advocate praising canthrax shampoo. It warns against alkali cleansers that injure the scalp and claims dissolving one teaspoonful in hot water removes dust and dandruff and promotes strong healthy hair growth and easy styling.
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Mae Martyn
Denver Advocate
Hartford Drops Merchant of Venice from School Reading List
Hartford board of school visitors voted to remove Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice from the authorized reading list after appeals from Jewish rabbis and lawyers.
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Hartford
Conn
Hartford Board of School Visitors
Shakspere
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