Christmas Change of Heart on Beacon Hill
Isabel on Beacon Hill learns the true meaning of Christmas after a year of longing for her fiancé Billy Bates. Remorse follows a season of vanity as she hears carolers and recalls their past, prompting a late-night call to Billy to mend their broken engagement. She vows to cherish Christmas原 truth and love.
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Isabel
Beacon Hill
Billy Bates
Billy
Adeste Fideles
Symphony Hall
Sewing Circle Offered For Boston Post Readers
The Sewing Circle is a regular department in the Boston daily and Sunday Post. It invites homemakers of New England to discuss home life domestic problems family management and related topics. Correspondents may use noms de plume and ask questions.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Europe
Post Sewing
Believer in Late Marriages sparks age limit debate
Readers weigh in on whether children should marry early or be required to wait until age 25 or 30. Letters discuss parental consent, independence, finances, and happiness, with anecdotes from young couples and calls for personal choice.
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Charles W. Eliot
Harvard College
The Christ Candle Poem Promise at Christmastide
A devotional verse envisions Christ’s return in a snowy night scene. It calls a taper to glow and a doorway to open for the guest of Christmastide, emphasizing light guiding the path as the town lies quiet. The cadence recalls a nativity-themed meditation on faith and duty.
Letters From The Sewing Circle Feature In Sunday Post
The Sunday Post highlights engaging letters to the Sewing Circle, sharing reader notes and community commentary on crafts and sewing topics.
Household Hints From an Era of Practical Tips
The guide offers quick domestic fixes such as soap and oil on creaky doors, narrow ribbon stitched along crochet ties to prevent stretching, and soaking dishes in cold water to ease washing. It advises burning old linen and thin fabrics after infectious diseases and suggests saving thin centers of sheets as pocket handkerchiefs.
Shake Hands with Mr Christmas Time Theme Poem
A 1914 verse extols Mister Christmas Time as hearty joyful friend who brings laughter and simple happiness. The poem invites readers to shake hands and feel his magic touch softening feelings and lifting spirits.
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Merry and
Southern Press Syndicate
Fads and Fashions Highlight Silk Blouses and Coats
Paragraph points on the latest style trends describe silk blouses with embroidery, organdie party frocks for girls, pony skin coats trimmed with fur, long sleeves for dignity, broadcloth fabrics, marine neck bands, black pony skin coats lined with printed crepe, double snake neckpieces, high waisted skirts, simple hats for children, and narrow fur bands. Velvet coats in seal and mole brown pair with self colored cloth skirts.
Drinking Song Uncle Walt Sings of Taverns and Revels
A 1914 verse by Walt Mason promotes tavern joy with bottles and rituals of Bacchus. It celebrates merriment, brandy and whiskey, and social abandon while disparaging domestic concerns. Copyright Adams Newspaper Service 1914.
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Thomas
Jerry
Bacchus
Walt Mason
Adams
Christmas Services Spread Among Boston Protestant Churches
City churches begin Christmas observances with music, carols, and nativity tableaux. Cathedral of St Paul hosts multiple services and a midnight Holy Communion, while Trinity Emmanuel Advent Arlington Street Christ Church Shawmut Greenwood and others schedule morning and evening celebrations.
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St. Paul
Bethlehem
Dean Rousmaniere
Trinity
Trinity Church
Charlestown
All Methodist Episcopal
Boston
Hamilton
Advice Column Reader Seeks Insight On Troubled Marriage
A reader signed Disgusted Observer requests guidance after describing a yearlong marriage troubled by the wife's flirtation and absence from home. The columnist cautions on outsider limits, notes potential reasons for unhappiness, and urges mutual duty and discipline for both spouses.
Gasolene Gas Sparks Old Tricks in Sunday Post
The upcoming Sunday Post teases Gasolene Gas returning with his familiar playful tricks. Readers are invited to tune in for more humorous antics and surprised transitions.
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Gasolene
Holstein Cows Milk Promotes Baby Health
The article extols Holstein cows milk as a close substitute for mothers milk. It notes lighter color less likely to disturb digestion, and fat globules small enough to form easily assimilated curds. Heavier milks form large curds and may cause digestive issues.
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Gran'ma Schmitz
Hazel
Lares
Boston Pust Sewing Circle
Arnold E. Cook
Main Street
South Portland
Ella B. Jones
Partridge Avenue
Winter Hill
By Kate Louise Brown
Christ Child
Christ
Elsie’s Guest
Universalist Publishing House
Centaur Company
Harvard Bridge
State Armory
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
Toy’s
Cambridge Battalion
Bentztown Bard
MR. Christmas
Walt
Christ Church
Salem Street
Italy
Berkeley
Marlboro Streets
Audubon Circle
King’s Chapel
Shawmut Congregational Church
Greenwood Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church
Dorchester
Mathews
Eliot Church
Newton
Tlehem
C. E. Spaulding
Epworth League
Mildred Champagne
Miss Champagne
Sake
Jec
L. E. Waterman Company
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Holstein-Friesian Association
Brattlebere
Vermont
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