Sewing Circle Debates Home Family Help in Boston Post
A regular department invites New England homemakers to discuss household affairs domestic problems and family matters. Writers may use pen names and ask questions seeking practical advice on baby care marriage children cooking gardening and home economy. Submit letters to Sewing Circle Editor Boston Post.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Dear Sewing Circle Mission Worker Letter
A reader replies to a letter urging women to monitor daughters in public spaces. The writer argues many women of "unfortunate" background come from neglected homes and lack proper instruction. She advocates constant supervision and even eavesdropping to protect daughters from perceived moral danger.
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Sewing Circle
Chinatown
Wrecked Lives Dear Sewing Circle
A letter asserts most poor wrecks of womanhood are country girls drawn to city life for work and pleasure. It argues poverty, not ignorance, wrecks many young lives, noting many end as waitresses in cheap restaurants and that few find real work. The writer praises women's goodness while condemning dangerous city temptations.
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Sewing Circle
Rexall 93 Hair Tonic Claims Baldness Cure
An advertisement attributes baldness to a scalp microbe, citing Professor Anna and Dr. Sabouraud. It promotes Rexall 93 Hair Tonic as a universal remedy, offering a one month trial with money-back guarantee and urging immediate purchase at the local drugstore on Washington and School Streets.
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Bair
Anna
Germany
Sabouraud
Rexall ‘93
Rexall “93
Dear Sewing Circle on managing a happier husband
A reader advises practical marital harmony through acceptance of husbands after marriage. She argues politeness can fade, hair and curl papers aside, and stresses that a faithful, loving husband who handles the payroll weekly is near an ideal.
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Jessica
Jack
Dear Sewing Circle on ideal husbands and sympathy
A reader declares differing opinions on marriage duties and money, praising sympathy as the key virtue in a husband. She describes tolerances for drinking and smoking but insists on affection and support when she is tired, calling her husband ideal. Chestnut Hill.
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Jessica
Chestnut Hill
Readers Debate Best Time to Marry in Circle Poll
The column surveys Circle readers on when people should marry, collecting varied opinions from an engaged audience. Suggestions range from seasonal timing to life milestones, with emphasis on personal readiness and social expectations discussed across multiple letters.
Dear Sewing Circle I regret my teen marriage and its costs
A reader writes of marrying in youth and regret, urging daughters to wait until at least 25. She recalls a first marriage urged by her mother, a later love left unfulfilled, and warns teens to play with dolls rather than wed early. REGRETFUL. Dear Sisters of the Circle when I was 18 my ideal of a husband was a fine.
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Sisters of the Circle
Resinol Facial Cure Praised by Mrs Bateman
Philadelphia December 6 1012 a woman recounts severe facial eruptions since 1908 after trying many remedies. She credits Resinol Soap and Ointment, using three cakes and a jar, with clearing her skin in four weeks and removing the need for a veil. She mentions her address and asks for samples from Resinol Chem Co Baltimore Md.
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Hiladelphia
M. J. Bateman
Viola Street
Dept. T. Resinol Chem. Co
Baltimore
Dear Sewing Circle letters on marriage timing and happiness
A collection of letters from readers in a sewing circle discussing marriage age, character, and future happiness. The writers share contrasting views on marrying young versus waiting for a man with good habits, social position, and income, citing personal experience and cross cultural observations. A Sojourner adds advice favoring practical considerations over romance and love alone.
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New England
Boston
Female grafters and the wage squeeze in society
Ida Tarbell labels a class of wives and daughters of affluent men as female grafters who work only when not obliged to. Their competition, Tarbell argues, depresses wages for other working women and reinforces a social order that limits female labor.
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Ida Tarbell
Sewing Chrele
Fall River
My Private Secretary Replaces Discharged Worker
Orphan writes of a factory secretary job filled by a daughter who displaced the author’s mother and left the family in hardship. The letter condemns wage competition and calls out gendered employment effects, ending with a blunt moral.
Women Work, Wages, and Marriage in Changing Times
Observer letter argues economics drive more women into work, notes wage gaps and professions where women excel, contrasts past constraints with modern choices. Claims marriage prospects affected by women’s earning power, warns against social stigma of working daughters and advocates female independence.
Letters from the Sewing Circle Highlight Sunday Post reads
Some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle are printed in the Sunday Post, showcasing community voices, personal anecdotes, and shared sewing tips that illuminate local life and craft interests.
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Sunday Post
Sauer Kraut Uncle Walt Says
Poem by Walt Mason extols sauerkraut as a beloved, savory dish. It humorously muses on its invention, cooking aroma, and neighbors sniffing the air as grandma prepares a kraut laden dinner. The verse blends nostalgic flavor with playful lines about old fogies and hearty meals.
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Benjamin
Grandma
Granny
Walt Mason
Adams
Matron Wed by Bank Head in Somerville Nuptials
Nathan H. Reed bank president and Somerville official married Emma Gordon Perry, widow of Dr. Edgar Perry, at the Winter Hill church. The ceremony was quiet with family witnesses, followed by a Boston hotel dinner and a New York wedding tour. The bride is Brookyln born and the matron of Somerville Hospital. They will live at 35 Pearl street.
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Nathan H. Reed
Somerville
Charles L. Noyes
Winter Hill Congregational Church
Pembroke Street
Winter Hill
Emma Gordon Perry
Eighth Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Somerville Hospital
Edgar Perry
Boston
New York Herald
Reed
James F. Beard
Elwell
Butterworth
Winchester
Nathan P. Reed
Albert E. Doak
Lynn
New York
Somerville Institution For Savings
Somerville National Bank
Somerville Trust Company
Somerville Iron Foundry
Pearl Street
Batchelors and the Footloose Uncle Will
A verse by T. A. Daly explains bachelor status in a family humorously. It notes a bachelor is a man over twenty not married, free from worry, labeled as footloose and fancy free, with Uncle Will as an example, while the narrator admires both father and bachelor Uncle Will and hints at family bonds.
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Batchelor
Will
T. A. Daly
Adamson's Balsam touted as cure for coughs and grippe
An old advertisement claims Adamson's Balsam cures coughs colds and grippe with guaranteed relief, noting its popularity and reliability as a household remedy in period catalogs.
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Adamson
School children aided by city doctors total over thirty thousand
Mayor Fitzgerald revealed a report from Dr. William J. Gallivan showing more than 30,000 school children were found to have physical defects last year and had them corrected through school physicians.
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William J. Gallivan
Bureau of Child Hygiene
Fitzgerald
City reports progress in school child health drive
Dr Gallivan reports 30 081 of about 100 000 school children examined so far this year show defects previously noted. Of 17 233 last year s cases, 9245 were cured this year as parents were informed. If trends continue, 30 331 children may benefit from the campaign to prevent disease. Teeth defects least remediable. most defects in mouth diseases. City flags lack of hospital dental clinics and awaits Forsyth dispensary to aid poorer pupils.
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Gallivan
Forsyth
Funeral Closures Mark Edward Mitton Death At Jordan Marsh VP
Funeral services for Edward J. Mitton, vice-president of Jordan Marsh, were held at his Brookline home and commemorations led stores to close across Boston between 2 and 3 pm. The service, burial at Cambridge Cemetery, and tributes by business associates and clubs highlighted a well-known local figure. The Harvard Male Quartet performed psalms and hymns, with attendees including Eben D. Jordan and other Jordan Marsh executives and club members.
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Edward J. Mitton
Jordan Marsh Company
Beacon Street
Brookline
Boston
Jordan Marsh
D. D. Addison
All Saints’ Episcopal Church
Cambridge Cemetery
Addison
Harvard
Union, Country and
Algonquin Clubs
Mitton
Joseph Siegel
Siegel & Co
A. L. Filene
F. W. Tully
R. H. White Company
Eben D. Jordan
W. F. Waters
Frank G. Webster
Kidder Peabody Company
George Quincy
George B. Barnes, Jr
William H. Wellington
Yale Clubs Federation Proposed
At Yale Club of Boston banquet at Hotel Somerset last night a New England Federation of Yale Clubs was proposed. A committee appointed a year ago reported progress and ratified a constitution for the new organization to be formed immediately.
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Yale Club of
Boston
Somerset
New England Federation of
Yale Clubs
Yale
Yale Clubs Plan Unified New England Council
The Boston Yale Club hosted an annual dinner highlighted by three college presidents: Princeton's John Grier Hibben Harvard's A Lawrence Lowell and Yale's Arthur Hadley. A large Yale banner adorned the hall as Yale songs rang out and presidents urged unity, leadership, and community engagement among university men.
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Yale
New England
Boston Club
John Grier Hibben
Princeton
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
Arthur T. Hadley
Rair
Lowell
Hibben
Hadley
William Howard Taft
Taft
Peters seeks writ to free tuberculosis patient McCarthy
W. Scott Peters, former district attorney, filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court at Haverhill seeking release of Andrew McCarthy. Officials claim McCarthy is confined on hospital grounds for tuberculosis and is kept with two infected men to prevent spread. McCarthy, arrested after resisting health orders in November, insists he does not have the disease. Peters will test the Board of Health power to detain anyone deemed contagious.
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Haverhill
W. Scott Peters
McCarthy
Peters
Board of Health
The Parson's Advice Take Red Cross Cough Drops
A brief note quotes the Parson urging use of Red Cross cough drops as a remedy. It mentions a box or box seal and promotes self care through the lozenges. The item reflects a period health tip typical of small town notices.
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Red Cross
Poems for Your Scrap Book Saturday Afternoon
Nathaniel Parker Willis reflects on aging while admiring youth and joyful scenes. The speaker, an old man, admits his time nears death yet feels renewed by lively, bright moments and the lure of youth despite his weariness. The poem contrasts aging with ripened emotion and the pull of life’s fleeting vigor.
Garment Workers Strike Hearing Set at State House
The State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration will hear a committee representing about 6000 garment workers on strike in the city at the State House Monday morning.
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State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
State House
Garment Workers’ Union
Strikers Accept Hearing Invitation And Rally Support
The union and labor leaders move to a hearing with manufacturers as 1000 members pledge 15 percent of weekly wages to aid strikers in ready made branches. Boston Hebrew Bakers' Union calls members to pay 1 per week. Three firms sign the union agreement and return workers. Proceedings see speakers from I W W W and organizers. Strikes may expand to rubber shops today.
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New England
Frank H. McCarthy
A. F. of L
Washington Street
Boston Hebrew Bakers’ Union
Merchants’ Clothing Company
Boston Tailoring Company
The
Maguire Company
Court discharges woman striker in South Boston row
Catherine Supremaskine, 23, of 236 Bolton Street, South Boston, a garment worker on strike, was discharged in the second Police Court session yesterday for want of prosecution. She faced assault and battery charges over an incident with Sarah J. Kelley of 11 Lexington Avenue, Charlestown, last Tuesday morning during strike unrest.
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Catherine Supremaskine
Bolton Street
Boston
Sarah Jf. Kelley
Lexington Avenue
Charlestown
Collision injures East Boston girl on White Street
Branchet Murdock of 343 Border Street East Boston was coasting on White Street when she struck the rear of a coal wagon and was knocked unconscious. Doctors at East Boston Relief Hospital diagnosed a broken left collar bone.
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Murdock
Border Street
East Boston
White Street
East Boston Relief Hospital
Coasting Accident Injures Two Boys in Brighton
Two boys were hurt when their sled collided with an electric car on Faneuil street in Brighton yesterday afternoon. William J. Quinan, 10, of 27 Champney street, suffered head contusions and body abrasions requiring transfer to City Hospital. Herman F. Finch, 12 Clifton street, escaped with body and hand abrasions.
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Faneuil Street
Brighton
William J. Quinan
Champney Street
City Hospital
Herman F. Finch
Clifton Street
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Batchelors
Bureau of Child
CURE
E. J. Mitton
Yale Clubs Federation
Plan Central Council
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Aight Nanilla
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