Four Inch Gas Main Burst Strikes Malden Residents
A four inch gas main leak on Rockland avenue near Summer street Malden caused four people to be overcome with fumes and nearly claim a life. Mrs Louisa McCrillis unconscious for hours and Miss Alice Spencer who found the leak fell ill. Other household members and neighbors were affected while the gas escaped into cellars. The frost chilled pipes causing the break and a repair crew capped the leak, leaving the house uninhabitable for a week.
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Rockland Avenue
Malden
Summer Street
Louisa McCrillis
C. E. Prior
Alice Spencer
Winifred Murray
J. M. Dodge
Miss Spencer
Malden & Melrose Gaslight Company
N. Owen McCrillis
Wooden Leg Incident Shocks Lobby of American House
A man with a new wooden leg crashed in the American House lobby last evening after his feet slipped on the marble floor. He shouted for assistance as a Japanese bellhop fled toward the elevator shaft, and an ambulance soon carried him to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment.
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Turkey hears of techs fame
A Turkish student from Adana, Shahin Adjemian, will enroll at MIT as part of the Ottoman government’s push for technical education. Governor Mouammer signs the notification to President Mac Aurin, stating the goal of sending young men to America to study and return to serve their country.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shahin Adjemian
Adana
Asia Minor
Turkey
Asia
Mediterranean
Macaurin
Mouammer
America
Boston
Sewing Circle Pleas for Free Girlhood Voice
The Boston Post quotes a Sewing Circle plea urging relief for a young girl bound by chores and motherhood. A fragment from LITTLE CRIPPLE expresses loneliness as a young girl hopes for weeks of carefree days before early marriage and child care.
Delicate Chicken Substitutes and Shortcake Squares
Cut the chicken up and stew in water until done, then thicken with cream or rich milk and flour. Season with butter, pepper and salt. Serve over hot crust squares with chicken gravy. Also a recipe for savory pie crust and a lard dough with sweet milk.
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W. C. Griffin
Hyde Park Avenue
Forest Hills
Annie M. Meyer
P. O. No
Yarmouthville
AFRAID OF THE WOMEN
A brief exchange reflects on loneliness and home life, with a man's view on happiness, gender roles, and financial frugality as he contemplates contentment versus unhappiness in a domestic setting.
Dear J J A housewife letter on improving home life
A note from Mrs. H M T advises a wife to rise early, keep the home neat, and reduce clutter to ease her husband's mood. She shares personal experience of tidiness improving domestic peace and asks for news of improved behavior.
Women Have Bad Habits Dear Sisters
The speaker condemns women who defend cigarette smoking as proper for either sex. She cites moral degradation and ruined dispositions, telling of a once-talented young woman whose voice and musical career were damaged by smoking.
Downward Spiral From Smoking to Drinking Ends in Tragedy
A young woman around eighteen begins smoking which injures her throat and ruins her voice. She abandons pleas, then slips into drinking, and her decline becomes complete, labeled by the article as Geraldine.
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Geraldine
Smoke Pipes Instead To A Maine Woman Letter
A Maine woman argues that cigarette smoking is unladylike and unhealthy for both sexes. She says she would rather see a daughter smoke a pipe than a cigarette and condemns the cigarette habit as seldom broken once formed.
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Bunny
Maine
Easy mark to Mrs. P in prairie flower note
A letter accuses Mrs. P of being a mollycoddle while contrasting her supposed lack of children with the author’s own marriage and baby. The writer says her husband is a pushover and claims her own spouse helps only when she is sick.
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Jane Gray
Wild Rose
Mrs. P
Let Her Be a Girl Dear Dutiful Mother
A letter warns a mother to allow a daughter freedom in youth. The writer recalls her restricted teens up to age 18, notes she left home to marry a man she knew and now asks how her life amounts to, though she cherishes husband and baby.
Dear Sisters Seek Advice on a Joyless Marriage
A reader asks Circle readers for help with a troubled marriage. She describes a good husband over 50 who works and provides, but they disagree on many things. She loves singing and theatre while he smokes, reads, and stays indoors. The couple has been married nearly 15 years and she feels despondent and unsure how to endure him as they grow older.
Letters and Honor
A reader writes that her husband opened her letter and she contemplates arresting him for tampering with government mail. She defends personal privacy, questions spying, and insists marriage does not grant dishonor. Pepper Pot signs with a plea for honor and openness.
Perishing With Cold Strikes Martha's Vineyard Birds
On Martha's Vineyard the cold wave freezes Edgartown harbor to three feet of ice and flocks of game birds die of starvation. The coldest spell in years has cut off feeding grounds leaving hundreds of birds dying daily along the harbor.
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Martha’s Vineyard
Edgartown
Ducks Peril Winter Ice Massachusetts Flocks
Game wardens ordered to spread food for the ducks as thousands perish in cold weather. The January shooting ban weighs on island inhabitants who depend on winter duck hunting. Ducks linger on ice unable to fly, threatening mass losses if thaw delays.
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Massachusetts
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By C. M. Payne
Joon Bercua
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Pop
Iyer
LAW
Turkey Hears OF Techs Fame
The
Boston Post
Sewingc Circle
Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
J. J
Hisie
Janet
Pepper Pot
Martha's Vineyard
Wm. H. Richardson & Co., Inc
ACE
London
Alfred Benjamin & Co
Washington
Stuart
Rome
Paris
Plapao Laboratories
Block 726
St. Louis
Bosto
Gt. 8c Branch, Ltd
UN Ee Seacree
Nbiegten Street
Washington Street
Washington x
Friend St
Horlick
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