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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1915
Page
13
The Boston Post Sewing Circle invites home makers of New England to share problems on household economy, childcare, and marriage in a reader letters column. Contributors may sign with noms de plume and seek practical, single-topic guidance from peers.
In a snowbound village Miss Matilda confronts her lifelong bitterness after letters from Alma Strong reveal a chance for reconciliation. A Christmas eve bell stirs her to help Alma as a doctor urges aid, ending with forgiveness and a renewed belief in peace on earth.
Peggy arrived in elegant leaving-for-the-West attire featuring a pale greyish blue velvet hat with a droopy brim. Large roses in pale rose and French lavender accented the hat with silver green foliage. The look impressed Dorothy and inspired a potential copy for future wear.
Paragraph highlights Velvet hats with jaunty bow trimmings and plumage, gray charmeuse and chiffon with sable fur for daytime town wear, circular ribbon trims competing with fur bands on net and velour outfits, and light veiling details. White crepe de chine underwear smocked with pink or blue embroidery, plus a French trick of filling dainty dress pockets with bright flowers. Full black velvet skirts with colored corsages, and a corselet corsage paired to a tulle or chiffon skirt are noted as current favorites.
The poem celebrates a bright marching spirit and dreamlike landscapes with vanguard imagery. It evokes green hills rivers reeds and a rainbow glow as the speaker calls to the colors and ramparts while praising timeless dawns and gentle affection.
A compact collection of kitchen procedures and a preserves recipe. Includes chocolate blancmange with eggs and milk, bread baked with soaked slices, custard topping, and a spiced crabapple raisin jam. Attributed to Mrs. Ned Stewart of Clinton.
Mrs John Kelley shares household hints from Addison Avenue Fast Saugus. A plug fitting the kitchen sink converts the sink into a wash tub for small pieces or as a baby bath when bath on another floor. Keep sifted ashes to clean pots pans and floors. dip cloth in ashes rub with soap for scrubbing.
The evening paper reports Mrs Inez Haynes Gillmore, noted author and suffragist, quit Massachusetts claiming the state rejected suffrage and moved to California for better opportunities for women. Anti suffragists weigh in noting she previously moved to San Francisco in 1914 and later returned east after a divorce.
A reader asks about mixed feelings for a gentleman who has treated her kindly yet she doubts his attentions. The adviser suggests she encourage contact, admit her affection, and propose a period of getting to know each other to allow mutual regard to deepen, noting propinquity often leads to engagement.
The Real Estate Exchange and Auction Board directors urge members to oppose the Anti-Saloon League effort to make Boston dry next Tuesday. They warn of grave danger to real estate interests from the campaign and endorse keeping licensing.
A letter from Francis R. Bangs and the Exchange directors warns members of a grave danger to Boston real estate if the Anti-Saloon League succeeds in banning licenses. It cites $100 million in property value and $1.5 million in license revenue, noting job losses and rent declines with a no-license vote.
The report notes sparse stormy Dec 11 days in the last two years, with stormy Dec 11s listed for 1894, 1897, 1906 and 1908. It records a historic cold of two below in 1876 and shows last decade highs and lows around nine and ten above zero with a warm 68 degrees in 1911.
A reflective verse guiding sailors toward the Fortunate Isles, where Duty and Love and content anchor the voyage. The lyric urges steadfast pursuit straight ahead, shielding from retreat, and equates the isles with the moral rewards of a life lived in faith, labor, and care for kin.
A fire lasting over 12 hours consumed two aging boats, the tug Henrietta and the two masted schooner Woodruff, used as homes by lobster fishermen off Snake Island near Winthrop Beach, threatening the local colony.
The New Hampshire and Massachusetts Public Service Commissions will sit jointly Tuesday to hear evidence in the Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway Company petitions to raise fares to six cents on its lines in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Peter F. J. O'Riley, 44, shot himself three times in the chest and head on the centre walk of the Public Garden after a dispute with his wife. He was taken in critical condition to City Hospital by police ambulance. no witnesses were found.
In a police court session Judge Cohen announced that during the holiday season all offenders brought before the court for offences in shopping districts would receive severe jail sentences.
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