The Sewing Circle of Boston Post Letters
A collection of reader submissions from the Sewing Circle in the Boston Post offering advice on home life and finances. Contributors, including NORAH, Maplewood, CONSTANT READER, HOPE, and others, discuss rent, groceries, wages, and managing households on tight budgets with appeals for honesty and practical tips.
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Boston
Ali
New England
Owing Circle
Boston Post
Greater
Norah
Sewing Circle
Maplewood
Lucy
Hubby
Woman recalls changing courtesy from men in public places
A reader contrasts men's self defense of their sex with women's tendency to criticize. She recounts personal experiences of public sexism, from a man ignoring her on a streetcar to repeated flirtations by older men. She vows to withdraw invitations and cease seeking gentlemanly courtesy. SEILF-RELIANT.
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New England
A Girl of Today Defends Modern Young Women
In a Sewing Circle note, readers debate how today’s girls handle tango culture, slashed skirts, and lack of chaperones. The writer argues modern women are as respectable as those of yesterday, noting parallels with past fashions and courtship. Letters from the Sunday Post accompany the piece.
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Copenhagen
Sunday Post
Six Months More For Escaping Jail
Arthur Quinlan alias Australian Murphy was sentenced to six months in the Superior Criminal Court for breaking away from the Charles Street jail last December. He had been serving time for carrying a loaded revolver when he, with two other prisoners, escaped by dropping from a third story window. The new sentence will start after his current term ends.
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Arthur Quinlan
Murphy
Charles Street
Superior Criminal Court
Quinlan
Harvard Prohibition League Formed at Cambridge
Harvard College formed an Intercollegiate Prohibition League branch at Cambridge with 5000 students enrolled but only 20 attending the opening meeting. Edward Wilder of Dorchester was installed as president of the Harvard Prohibs.
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Harvard
Cambridge
Edward Wilder
Dorchester
Harvard Prohibition Club forms amid temperance wave
The Harvard Union hosted a speech by Neil D. Crammer, national secretary of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, stating Harvard members need not be absolule temperance zealots or Prohibition Party affiliates, just to study liquor traffic issues. Twenty students enrolled, planning to recruit peers as the temperance movement grows, while Harvard square reports a surge in buttermilk consumption at campus lunchrooms.
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Harvard Union
Neil D. Crammer
Intercollegiate Prohibition Association
Harvard
Prohibition
United States
Harvard Club
Prohibition Club
Harvard Square
Catholic Church Notes on Endicott Hall Productions and Alumni Event
Arrangements for the play My New Curate at St Marys Hall Endicott Street are complete with first show set for February 4. Canon Sheehan’s The Right Rev Joseph G Anderson will attend Bostons College home night for graduates and alumni next Tuesday. A reception for Rev W Lyons SJ follows, as Frank Randall of the Prison Commission lectures at the Training School for Social Workers.
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St. Mary's Hall
Endicott Street
John J. Douglas
Canon Sheehan
Doneraile
Ireland
Joseph G. Anderson
Boston College
James Street
Arthur W. Dolan
Suffolk County
Frank T. Randall
Massachusetts Prison Commission
Training School For Social Workers
Young Men's Catholic Association
Very Clever Pet Jerry the Pocketbook Dog
Jerry the French bulldog known as Jerry2 Hanson-Benson-Page-Butler shows high intelligence and loyalty to each master. He once carried a pocketbook containing stage money, announced readiness, and avoided loss while his owners questioned the risk. Now owned by A C Butler in Boston with more pet stories promised tomorrow.
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Jerry
A. C. Butler
St. James Avenue
Boston
Post
Dear Miss Champagne Advice on Love and Bashful Intentions
A reader seeks guidance on a two year affair with a bashful lover who ended things by letter and now writes but avoids commitment. The columnist urges clear talk to establish certainty about marriage plans, noting his actions may outpace his words and stressing the need for a frank discussion to end doubt and distress.
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Miss Champagne
Paragraphs on Fads and Fashions In Midwinter Attire
In midwinter fashion, women wear afternoon dresses of chiffon and tulle. Silk stockings with black lace medallions embroidered in silks and beads are in vogue. Lingerie emphasizes long graceful lines from shoulder to sandal with strategic slashes. Millinery favors taffeta foundations with taffeta trims, ribbon bows, flowers, velvet, or plumage details.
Face Burned in Tar Incident at Nolan's Blacksmith
Arthur McCarthy aged 19 of 228 Cherry Street Newton suffered severe facial and neck burns when a ladle spilled boiling tar in Nolan's blacksmith shop. He was taken to Newton Hospital where doctors reported he is resting comfortably.
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Arthur McCarthy
Cherry Street
Newton
Nolan
Newton Hospital
Brandeis Declines Boston & Maine Trusteeship
Washington February 18 Louis 10 Brandeis declined to chair or serve on the board of trustees to take over and dispose of the Boston & Maine stock held by the New York New Haven Hartford. He was urged by Department of Justice officials and New Haven officials but declined due to other business. Justice officials valued his knowledge of Boston & Maine affairs.
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Washington
Louis
Brandeis
Boston & Maine Railroad
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Department of Justice
New Haven
Boston & Maine
Bertillon Dies at 61 in Paris
Alphonse Bertillon creator of the criminal identification system died in Paris at 61 after a long illness. He directed the anthropometric department of the Paris police and had recently undergone an operation in October. Bertillon authored numerous works on ethnography anthropometry and criminal photography.
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Paris
Alphonse Bertillon
Bertillon
Ile
Bertilion
Slingsby Baby Substitution Case Heads for London Trial
The Slingsby baby substitution case, a battle over a million dollar English estate, will be tried in London mid March. Oliver Dibble represents Lieutenant and Mrs. C. H. R. Slingsby in San Francisco and Victoria, B. C., to prove the child is their legitimate heir, resisting a bid by Slingsbys brothers to declare the boy an adopted son of the lieutenant.
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San Francisco
Slingsby
London
Oliver Dibble
C. H. R. Slingsby
Victoria
Dibble
Muglind
Charles Slingsby
Yorkshire
A Bug in a Bug Pi Eta Club Play
The Fifta Club of Tarvard selects A Pug in a Bug for its annual musical comedy with work by J B R Osgood Perkins and Paul Blackmur. Six performances are planned during March in Cambridge Boston Andover Exeter and Quincy under G V W Moore's direction.
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Fifta Club
Tarvard
J. BR. Osgood Perkins
West Newton
Paul Blackmur
Quincy
Cambridge
Boston
Andover
Exeter
Quincey
G. Vv. c. Moore
Memorial and Church Notices Across Hyde Park Watertown and Somerville
Prolific Protestant churches announce memorial Lincoln addresses by Rev. Joseph M. Shepler and Rev. George W. Owen in Hyde Park next Sunday. Unitarian Club of Watertown plans a Wednesday meeting and 7 pm reception with supper. Somerville marks 60th anniversary dinner at First Universalist Church with several clergy speakers. Unitarian Winchester hosts a 4:30 pm vesper service led by Mrs. Anna Winn Lochman with choir and organist director.
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Joseph M. Shepler
Methodist Episcopal Church
George W. Owen
First Congregational Church
Hyde Park
Abraham Lincoln
The
Unitarian Club of
Watertown
Unitarian
First Universalist Church
Somerville
Harley Db. Maxwell
George W. Bicknell
Carl Stackmaan
Dr Lee
McCollester
Frederick A
Winchester
Anna Winn Lochman
Brookline Woman Owes $102,469 in Bankruptcy Case
Mrs Fannie Leighton Luke of Brookline was petitioned into bankruptcy by creditors on October 31. The schedules show debts of $102,461.30 with assets of about $99,950 including real estate at Parkman terrace and 3 Gordon ter race Brookline and household goods. The real estate is valued at $32,000 and personal property at $7,900. Among the claims is a note for money lent signed with her husband Otis H Luke, with an alleged illegal interest rate.
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Fannie Leighton Luke
Brookline
United States District Court
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