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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
15
Letter writers share a harsh budget and family strain with a husband who pays for his mother and spends on himself while the wife cuts dressmaking and groceries to survive. Readers advise compassion, self help, and avoiding harmful affairs, urging practical budgeting and moral support.
The excerpt laments sickness and poverty as common, noting the toll of doctors and the loss of wages. It questions entitlement to wealth and hints at moral duty, referencing Maurice Ketten and a copyright line from 1816. The text contrasts hardship with the idea of doing right.
The Sunday Post features a selection of the Sewing Circle's most engaging letters, showcasing community concerns, sewing tips, and personal anecdotes from members.
Poem praising divine creation and beauty of hills vales and seasons. It notes worry doubt and human ingratitude despite healing and beauty and calls for faith amid sunshine and rain. The verse explores life’s sweetness while acknowledging what we do not know.
Dear Miss Champagne advises a mother to welcome her daughter's young friends at home rather than at the street corner. She urges tact and understanding, noting that mothers once were young and can guide their daughters with kindness to maintain good judgement.
A tip recommends using dark blue calico as cheap dishcloths for kettles instead of white towels. The note is signed M. 8 Harding from Box F North Conway New Hampshire.
A clipped back and forth note describes Dorothy phoning about Lucille's return from the South. Lucille arrives in green attire with a tailored hat and quill, sharing gossip at Cranbury tea before saying she’s glad to be back.
Orvel Dorman died at his home in Rome New York in his 101st year after a brief illness. He was in his usual health yesterday and was born in Coldbrook River.
A column chestnut provides a detailed chicken pie recipe. It instructs boiling chicken until tender, mixing flour with butter and lard, adding sour cream and soda, lining a pan, layering chicken and gravy, placing a top crust, and baking in a moderate oven. Signed by Mrs. B. E. Priest of 394 Washington Street Dorchester.
Old newspaper recipes describe making parsnip stew with potatoes onions and salt pork simmered in water then thickened with milk flour and butter. Also included are chocolate bread crumb custards baked in custard cups with vanilla eggs and nuts served with whipped cream. Ruth Rhoades and Mrs Emery Hicks listed in Canaan and Revere respectively.
Union evangelistic meetings organized by the Baptist Methodist and Presbyterian churches of Brookline will run from February 27 to March 12 at the Presbyterian church with pastors of each denomination preaching in turn.
A translated poem from Morris Rosenfeld expresses factory life’s dehumanizing toil. The speaker, a worker, becomes a machine driven by relentless clocks, hunger, and misery. Awakening emotion and rebellion, the poem ends with a call for freedom and human dignity amid the drum of the shop.
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