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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1917
Page
15
Dear Sewing Circle laments women who limit husbands pocket money and promote family teamwork. A reader argues men should not endure lunch-room meals, urging home lunches and shared finances to build a stronger marriage. The column taunts contrarian views and praises practicality, noting aging readers and social changes.
A Sewing Circle letter warns women to keep money in their own hands and avoid reforming dissipated husbands. The author argues for caution, recounting a personal life fable of marriage to a man with dissipation and the harm to a daughter’s happiness, urging readers to protect daughters’ purity and security.
The Sunday Post highlights witty letters to the Sewing Circle and plans for a comic page. Lady Bountiful visits with her spry uncle and escorts the boys to meet Aunt Matilda for a lighthearted local feature.
Russell Bowle and a long list of ministers from St Pauls Lynchburg Rev Dunn van Etten Sullivan Rousmaniere Addison Blodgett Campbell Har rison Sprague appear among speakers for a Feb 19 children’s vested choir entertainment at St Ann’s Episcopal in Revere. Mayor Hall to open. W T McElveen of Chicago to preach in San Francisco for a month at First Congregational Church.
Recipes for Cocoanut Buns Cheese Pie Scalloped Veal Marmalade Pudding credited to Mrs Laura E Rand Barton Vermont. Includes batter steps, ingredients, baking times and serving tips.
Batiste waists gain favor with color accents alongside white. Smocking remains on children’s frocks but fades as contrasting trim or colored embroidery grows in popularity. A high crowned turban features rich crown embroidery and a straight feather. A spring hat uses blue satin with a light straw brim. Coats frocks and hats show checks in trims.
Household hints advise using an empty baking powder can as a potato chopper to speed prep and explain a quick method for cooling hot fomentations by wringing hot flannels dry with a towel. Maude Simonds Hayes Fast Ryegate Vermont.
Cardinal OConnell orders four priest transfers effective Monday Feb 19. Rev John A Sheridan moves from St Joseph Holbrook to Church of the Sacred Heart West Lynn to fill the James Gilfether vacancy. Rev William J Casey shifts from Malden Immaculate Conception to Holbrook St Josephs. Rev James J Walsh moves from Mast Pepperell St Josephs to Malden Immaculate Conception to replace Casey. Augustine D Malley will take Walshs Pepperell post.
The passage recalls leaving summer for winter as spring nears and describes tennis, swimming, and a tea dance with Ruth and Bileen and admirers. It notes exhibition dancing by Mlle Helene and her partner, and details her pale grey silk frock with circles in old blue and violet, a coatee bodice, round collar, stiff cuffs, and violet ribbons.
Dear Miss Champagne offers guidance to a 20 year old girl torn between two suitors. She weighs A a college student and B a well placed family friend who visits often. The adviser says B is serious, suggests expressing her feelings to clarify intentions, and notes jealousy can reveal genuine interest.
Harwichport reports an ice blockade along both shores from here to Monomoy Point and Cape Cod Bay. For the first time in over two decades water is unseen from shore as ice extends four to five miles in places, crippling the fishing industry with scallop quahung and clam fleets unable to reach grounds or harvests.
Many women can earn over $2 per day knitting hosiery at home with Auto-Knitter Hosiery Co Inc. Work is pleasant, easy to learn, and provides year round steady employment. Write with a 2c stamp to Desk 8 D, 147 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY for full particulars and immediate recruitment.
Former Cambridge mayor Charles H. Thurston will address the Men's Brotherhood Class at Ruggles Street Baptist Church on Sunday February 18 at 3 30 pm with the Swampscott quartet performing. Bishop William Lawrence is named among preachers for Lent noonday services at Cathedral Church of St Paul along with several other clergy.
Poem lines celebrate flags and flags flying across lands and seas. It imagines rose red snow white and sky blue stripes gleaming as a guiding symbol and shelter through night for forefathers and descendants.
The Cathedral parish opens its annual mission on Sunday February 25 conducted by Redemptorist members from Roxbury with weeks focused on women then men and a Passion Sunday program for non Catholics. Forty Hours devotion starts today at Our Lady of Grace Chelsea and St Adalbert Hyde Park. Alumni of St Mary’s Cambridge hold a February 18 banquet with a reception and concert featuring speakers. A women’s retreat starts February 31 at the Cenacle Brighton with a full night of adoration.
Henry B. Endicott of Dedham head of the Endicott Johnson Company was selected by the executive committee of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety to organize the executive branch of the committee's work.
Chairman Storrow announced Mr. Endicott will leave his business to devote full time to the new task. Temporary quarters are in the State House west wing. William A. Gaston will head the finance committee with a long roster of Boston and regional business leaders and former officials.
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