ADETSHIP TO BE FILLED SOON
A cadetship for West Point will be filled by examination on February 13 1913 under the United States Civil Service Commission. The district served by Congressman James M Curley includes Wards 13 14 15 16 17 20 and 24. The top scorer will receive the appointment and all applications go to Edward Stebbins secretary of the Civil Service Commission Boston.
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West Point
United States Civil Service Commission
James M. Curley
Annapolis
Edward Stebbins
Boston
Sewing Circle Letters on Faith, Family and Love in Boston Post
Readers discuss motherhood forgiveness and moral double standards, sharing personal duels with unfaithful fiancés, abusive partners, and loyalty to pets. Letters condemn class-mate pressure, promote love over status, and warn that aristocratic lineage risks extinction without genuine affection guiding marriage.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Social Strain After Expulsion From College
A mother regrets her daughter's expulsion from a women's college and laments the loss of social standing. The narrator, AGED 23, describes family shame and leaving home to escape nagging, with little detail about the reasons for expulsion or subsequent life.
Dear Sewing Circle I Ask How to Break From a Bad Influence
A 19 year old girl writes about two years under a manipulative older man she hates yet fears losing willpower when he declares love. She asks other sisters who faced similar situations for guidance on surviving married life after a troubling courtship.
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Sewing Circle
Defending the Dog Lover Woman in Commonwealth Avenue
A correspondent on Commonwealth Avenue argues for women who love dogs against sneers about canine affection. She praises dogs as true friends, faithful and loving, contrasting them with human ties that fail or withdraw.
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Commonwealth Avenue
Dear Sewing Circle Sister Letter Sparks Faithful D
A reader responds to a letter from a sister about her husband pressuring her to give up her faithful design, affirming her stance and encouraging perseverance in faith.
Toiler in the Cause Demands Pension Equity
A letter to the Sewing Circle argues for pension equality between child bearing and childless women. The writer contrasts a former schoolmate who married and prospered with life insurance benefits against a lifelong activist who remained single to advance women’s rights. She questions who has contributed more to posterity and urges pension policy reform.
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Old Wheaton Seminary
Toiler
Wellesley ’80 and the test of love in marriage
A letter from Wellesley ’80 asserts that no couple should marry without medical certificates proving fitness to be parents. The text critiques this by proposing that love itself is a surer test of fitness for marriage, describing love as true, pure and holy.
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Emerson
Cure of Eczema in Child Promoted by Cuticura Products
A Pawtucket resident describes severe eczema in her fourteen month old son, detailing itching sores and crusting across face scalp and body. She credits relief to Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment after one week, urging others to try the products and noting availability and mail order in Boston.
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Grotto Ave
Pawtucket
R. I
Mary Richard
Cuticura
Dept. T
Had the Advantage
A brief exchange between two men recalls their past engagement to the same woman and how one married her, while the other concedes the advantage to him in their current meeting.
New Year's Woman's Home Companion 1913 Canning Tips
A promotional blurb for the New Year issue of Woman's Home Companion 1913 praising midwinter preserves, sheet music, and practical household ideas. Highlights include The Esquimaux Maid by George Lowell Tracy and The Little Marquise waltz by Maurice Depret, with additional features on entertaining, copy-cat cures, and a nursemaid narrative.
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Jimmy
Mary Heaton Vorse
Preston
Edith
Woman's Home Companion
George Lowell Tracy
Maurice Depret
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Charles Dana Gibson
Marcia Keyes
Jeanne W. Ward
Nellie Grant
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New York
Astoria
the Centaur Company
New York City
Moms" Mayr
Akeses
Jay
Jane A
George H. Mayr
Mfg
Mayr
Whiting St
Chicago
Mercantile Agencies
State Bank of Chicago
Lauescoe and Mall
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Galy
Cit
Geo. H. R
Mass
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Cambridge
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Federal St
Fort Hill
Elizabeth Mulhallon
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