Feeding Germans in War Time Sparks Public Debate
A flood of Sewing Circle letters argues over whether to feed German women and children amid World War I. Contributors cite mercy, punishments, and humanity, with contrasting views from prohumanitarian pleas to calls to deny aid to Germans, referencing Lusitania, Kaiser, and war’s toll on civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle
Germany
Kingdom of Heaven
Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Lusitania
United States
Bill
Marion J
France
Belgium
Earth
Waiser
Potsdam
Isabel the Cow Seeks Sunlit Status and Intrigue
A quarrelsome Jersey cow named Isabel rejects barn life and pursues a sunlit status. She wanders from the pasture to a house where Evelyn the city cousin awaits departure and Howard B. intervenes as chaos erupts. Isabel returns to her stall with dignity as Evelyn clings to her rescuer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel
Evelyn
Howard R
Howard B
Howard
Household Hints And Frugal Craft Advice From The Era
A sequence of homemaking tips on jewelry cleaning with warm suds and sal volatile, scallop edge stitching before embroidery, ferns thriving with charcoal, sardiniere watering, olive oil root spray for rubber plants, fat stain removal from stoves, silk umbrella remnants for hat linings, velveteen dress reuse as polishing cloths and silverware polishing cloths, plus a poem about finding peace and renewal in hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sardiniere
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Fred Wood
Avon
W. H. Burtt
Highland Street
Nashua
N. H
Wells Street
Greenfield
Margaret I. Friberg
Woolley Square
Jamaica Plain
Leipziger
Surar
Monsy
Insurance Money
Nes Te
Sion
Lars
United Ghirt A Collar CO
Troy.n. Y
Carter
U. S. Pat
U.S. Pat
William Carter
Needham Heights
Springfield, Mass
New England
Sunday Post
The
Louise M. Addleson
First Ave
Berlin, N. H
Bentztown Bard
Southern Press Syndicates
John Greenleaf Whittier
Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. Dept
New Kensington
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