Dear Sewing Circle Advice on marriage and home life
A crowded letter page of a mid-century advice column follows a wife seeking help to manage a hot meal routine and marital tensions. Readers, including a 20-year-old wife, share frugal living tips, financial strains, and questions about adopting a girl as a companion for a mother with two young sons.
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Thomas
Susie
Ee Circle
Springfield
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Letters to the Sewing Circle Highlight Sunday Post Readers
The Sunday Post features a selection of engaging letters to the Sewing Circle. Readers share insights and tips, reflecting hobbyist concerns, community voice, and practical sewing advice.
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Sunday Post
Songs of Sunshine by the Bentztown Bard
A fragment from 1916 poetry collection with verses expressing affection and wistful desires. The speaker yearns for love’s calm, noting the moonlit winter night and gentle touches as preferred above all.
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Southern Press Syndicate
The Little Dressmaker and the Party Dress Dilemma
Nina Wetherer, a dressmaker, alters a pink taffeta gown for a social event but a toaster causes a lace catastrophe. The torn dress may ruin her night until Ned Sanborn irons out the moment with a dance while Phil Saunders arrives. Nina’s night ends with a rescue and a shared waltz.
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Miss Saunders
Mrs
Nina
Molly
Miss Wetherer
Mrs. Sanborn
Ned Sanborn
Ned
Phil Saunders
Phil
Miss Wet
Miss Helen Saunders
Mr. Saunders
Unexpected Car Ride Sparks Love In Nina and Phil
Nina learns of a weekend plan with Phil and Helen at Sanborns and joins a sunrise drive that strengthens their bond. He returns to the city, leaving Nina lonely until a later surprise arrives. Phil presents a solitaire as a symbol of their growing romance.
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Nina
Helen
Sanborns
Ned
Phil
Mrs. Sanborn
Nita
Velvet and Butter Cakes From 1700s Home Recipes
A collection of old fashioned cake and dessert recipes including Velvet Cake with two frostings from Mrs. Gertrude Roak Westwood. Butter Pie by Mrs Herbert Gibbs Livermore Falls. M’s Never Fail Sugar Cake. Prune Puff by Mrs Golden Centre Barnstead with method and serving notes.
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Golden
Centre Barnstead
N. H
New Steel Freighter To Sail From Boston
The Shawmut Steamship Company of Boston has contracted for a new steel freighter with a capacity of 7500 tons. The vessel will join the fleet from Boston in a few months, expanding local shipping capacity.
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Boston
Shawmut Steamship Company
Remembrance in a Fire Lit Chamber Poem
A solitary speaker recalls a lost beloved while winter rain taps the window and embers glow I sit in a cozy room and memory returns to days long past as time and death gently erode ties and love leaving only a wraith of memory and aging sorrow.
Opening of new musical proves stylish in debut
Dorothy reports on a debut performance with a striking navy serge outfit. The actress wears a circular coat and matching skirt with crimson satin lining and decorative buttons. The piece ends with a note on political clashes over Justice Brandeis and Republican opprobrium.
Analysis of Anti Brandeis Petition Sparks Party Leanings Debate
Letter to the editor argues that the anti Brandeis petition is mainly a Republican protest with few Democrats among signers. The writer questions motives and who signs, labeling Republicans as tax dodgers and opponents of Democrats.
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Brandeis
Supreme Court
Supreme Bench
Sumner Woods
Watertown
Steamship Grangesberg Sighted Halfway Across Atlantic
The Grangesberg, 38 days from Rotterdam, was seen February 3 by Noordwyk at 50.85 N 81.15 W. A gale forced both ships to ride out 12 hours. Grangesberg reported adequate crew but short on coal and expected to reach Portland in a few days.
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Portland
Grangesberg
Rotterdam
Atlantic
Noordwyk
Boston Post Letter on Universal Firearm Carrying
A Boston reader argues for allowing all citizens to carry firearms to deter crime. The writer contends criminals will obtain guns anyway and law abiding citizens become defenceless without broad carry rights. He cites a student canvass showing firearm ignorance and urges preparedness through mechanism and operation education.
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Post
Boston Post
Boston
Oldest Inhabitant Recites Boston February Cold and Warmth
The Oldest Inhabitant notes the record low of 11 below zero on February 1 in 1896, and 8 above zero after 24 hours. It cites 1894 as the next coldest, 9 above as the coldest in recent years, and 41 degrees as the warmest on this date in 1910 and 1915. It says February 17 has a warmest record of 60 degrees in 1883 and lists recent storms in 1907 1910 1911 and 1913.
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Mercury
Boston
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J. Jones
Horlick
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George Arnold
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