Reform debate on marriage roles and motherhood
A Sewing Circle letter urges home training for girls and mothers to curb reform zeal. It argues for two boards to vet brides and grooms, stresses waiting until age 25 to marry, and endorses better housekeeping and moral standards to reduce divorce and later problems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon
Dickens
Mr. Jelleby
Jelleby
Jelleby’s Just Tumbling Up, Yes, and Down, Too, While Mrs. Jelleby
Adam
United States
Denar Sewing Circle
Lillian
Happily Married By Vivian Vane Ends In Dietary Secret
Jack notices Jill eats despite her claim of dieting. Jill reveals she is reducing by cutting many foods while secretly enjoying a hearty lamb dinner with sage dressing and gravy, undercutting her earlier restraint. Jill hints at concern about weight as Jack contrasts her past 140 pounds with present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Jill
Vivian Vane
Thoompson Fe
Jack Ad
Name origins of Boylston and Bunker Hill streets
A reader asks who inspired the street names Boylston and Bunker Hill. The editor replies Boylston Street honors Dr Jabdiel Boylston who introduced inoculation during the 1721 smallpox outbreak, and Bunker Hill is named for George Bunker a wealthy landowner and prominent resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boylston Street
Bunker Hill
Jabdliel Boylston
George Bunker
Pearl fishing seasons in Lower California by shore
Pearl fishing on the Inner shore of Lower California runs from July to October while the Pacific side fisheries operate from March to June ending with the hurricane season. The timing aligns with seasonal weather patterns and hurricane activity.
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Lower
California
Pacific
Nantucket Skipper lines attributed to James Fields
The quoted verse lines are credited to James Thomas Fields and appear in his poem The Nantucket Skipper. The stanza depicts a furious skipper amid a nautical mishap and invokes Marm Hackett's garden as a setting.
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Marden
Nantucket
Marm Hackett
James Thomas Fields
Regimental colors of US Artillery in Civil War
The United States artillery carried yellow regimental colors during the Civil War. On the field the banner featured two crossed cannons at the center with scrolls above and below bearing the regiment’s designation.
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Sir
United States Artillery
The Way of a Maid Courtship Torn By Delay
Barbara insists on a serious fiancé and clashes with Bob Mitchell who leaves town to prove himself. Weeks later he returns a changed man and Barbara faces the choice between a dependent lover and a man capable of real work. He drops by to say goodbye before a possible trip.
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Barbara
Bobbile
Bob Mitchell
Bob
Mr. Merriam
Bob, &Jr
Flushing
L. I
John Buser
College Point
Buser
Barbara and Bob plan Seattle wedding in two days
Barbara tries to halt Bob as he leaves for Seattle to work in his father's mine. He agrees to marry her quickly, promising to write later. The scene blends a flighty courtship with a practical, hurried nuptial plan amid domestic hints and a home column signature by Miss Eleanor I. Vitale.
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Seattle
Barbara
Rob
Bob
Lfe
Will
Eleanor IS
Vitale
Columbus Avenue
Roxbury
RECIPE S of New England Housewives Collection
A collection of home cooking ideas from readers Mrs Earl Marden Mrs Florence Small and Mrs Henry Johnson. Included are a macaroni and cheese dish with onion and tomato soup and a meat crust bake plus a golden fruit salad with a fruit dressing and whipped cream.
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Recipe'’S of
New England Housewives
Earl Marden
North Haven
Florence Small
Bowdoinham, Me
Henry Johnson
Cranston St
Cranston, R. I
Worm breeding business nets daily seven dollars
A Philadelphia man explains he digs and breeds fishing worms for neighbors and fishermen. He earns about seven dollars a day over four months, proving a profitable enterprise around the bait trade.
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Buser
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Board of Women Advisers
Hall
Sewing Circle
Horatio Alger
Baker’s Coconut
Aivlyovy
Ivy
Lyons
I.W. Lyon & Sons, Inc
West 27Th St
New York City
The
Sunday Post
Margaret J. Loan
Flynt Street
Norfolk Downs
Flowers Newman’s
Tremont Street
Tel
Beach
Femme 3S
Public Ledger Co
Atnalns and Potris
Louisiana
RY Megs
Slade
Slade’s. D. & L. Slade CO
Boston
Mass
ARYA
Pillsbury’s
America
Graham
Pillsbury’s Wheat
Macaroni
Pillsburys
Illsburys
Farne
Pillsbury Flour Mills Company
Minneapolis, Minn
Besi
Pillsbury
U. & Pat
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