Woman's Own Forum Debates Wives on Living on Low Incomes
Readers of the Sunday Post share letters to Dear Sewing Circle about marriage on low wages. Mothers recount family budgets, rent, coal, food, and clothing costs while arguing for or against marrying on small salaries and maintaining household pleasures.
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Moston Daly
Fender
New Engand Ean
Agaire
Iesaren
Oston Post
Sewing Circle
Sunday Post
Health and Beauty Answers by Mrs Martyn
Mary notes skin care tips from Mrs Martyn including powders lotions tonics and potions for skin clarity dandruff scalp health weight loss and eye sparkle. Readers share formulations using substances like canthrox parnotis and crystal tonic with promises of hair growth wrinkle reduction and a rosy complexion. Read Mrs Martyn's book Beauty for more.
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Dora M
Paragraphs on Fads and Fashions in Spring Hats
Paragraphs on spring fashion describe jet black trims and toques, with hats arranged at angles to suggest distant relatives. Describes crown-like shapes with pleated or curly feathers, fur trim contrasts on evening dresses, and beaded fringe accents in gold silver amber or iridescent tones.
Cure Rheumatism With Simple Home Formula
Readers are advised to mix one ounce Toris compound with one ounce syrup of sarsaparilla in half a pint of whiskey. Take a tablespoonful before meals and at bedtime. Claims rapid relief and cures for chronic and acute rheumatism. Globe Pharmaceutical Laboratories of Chicago promotes the remedy, urging insistence on the original sealed package.
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Globe Pharmaceutical Laboratories of
Chicago
Poems for Bour Scrap Book
Lids dry tears come as speaker recalls a loved one from twenty years ago. They visit the churchyard and lay flowers on graves, noting others in the church yard and at sea. The speaker hopes to be laid to rest where they played two decades ago with Tom.
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Mary
Enhood
Tom
School House
You
Grandfather’s Grit Spurs Lucy’s Henhouse Wedding
Lucy defies her stern grandfather to wed Billy after he schemes to test her resolve. Grandfather overhears their plans, arranges a witnessing alibi with Black Nannie, and the couple marry in the henhouse under his amused approval.
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Jake Brown
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Nannie
Pedler
Mrs. Watson
Hilly
Actress Reveals Home Hair Darkening Remedy
Miss Blanche Rose, a famed actress speaking in Chicago, endorses a home mix to darken gray hair and keep it soft and glossy. The recipe combines bay rum water Barbo Compound and glycerine with instructions to apply twice weekly, claiming it ages hair by twenty years and aids growth, itching, scalp humors, dandruff, and shedding.
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Blanche Rose
Chicago
Ill
Dickey Society Initiates Parade Through Harvard Square
Ten initiates of the Harvard Dickey Society staged a contrast filled display before 500 people in Harvard Square. The group wore rural garb, including wide brimmed hats and leather boots, as William K. B. Emerson pushed a lawn mower through 10 inches of snow cutting paths for companions while J A McCook shoveled. They concluded with speeches and Yale songs before joining the Dickey Society at Mt Auburn Street.
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College Square
William K. B. Emerson
New York
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New Yorker
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Yale
Dickey Society
Mt. Auburn Street
Lock Step
Harvard
City Gardens for Children Meet Draws Roxbury Crowd
Nearly 200 people attended a gathering in the Southend Industrial School Roxbury yesterday afternoon under the garden committee of the Boston Social Union. The event aimed to support urban gardening for children with local participation and civic focus.
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Garden Work and Seed Distribution Discussed by School Committee
A gathering of garden experts and interested adults discussed engaging children in gardening. Superintendent Franklin B. Dyer spoke on The Correlation of Garden Work with School Courses and praised the topic. Speakers included Mary Lee Ware Helen W. Coolridge and Mrs Rudman Peabody from the South End Industrial School. Methods of seed distribution were reviewed with visitors and seed samples shown.
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Franklin B. Dyer
Mary Lee Ware
Helen W. Coolridge
Rudman Peabody
South End
New England Mousewives Recipes at Sunday Port
Recipes from Boston area contributors Regina Choquette Mrs Edward and Mabel Flood. Turbot a la Creme uses halibut or cod with cream and milk sauce baked with bread crumbs. Cranberry pie combines cranberries raisins sugar vanilla and a double crust. Each entry lists a contributor and address in Holyoke Dorchester and Brookline.
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Regina Choquette
Elm Street
Holyoke
Mabel Flood
Thayer Place
Brookline
Rev Dr Shearman Buried Yesterday at St John’s Jamaica Plein
The Rev Sumner A Shearman rector emeritus of St John’s Episcopal Parish Jamaica Plein was buried from St John’s Church yesterday afternoon. Attendees included longtime parish members, Episcopal clergy, Grand Army members, and the Eliot Lodge of Magong allied with L Shearman. The service was led by Bishop William Lawrence with Suffragan Bishop Samuel G Babcock assisting.
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Sumner A. Sheerman
St. John's Episcopal Parish
Jamaica Plein
St. John’s Church
Episcopal
Grand Army
Eliot Lodge
Magong
L. Shearman
William Lawrence
Samuel G. Babcock
St Jacobs Oil Promises Fast Rheumatism Relief
An old ad extols St Jacobs Oil as a harmless rheumatism and sciatica cure that relieves pain stiffness and swelling instantly when rubbed on the tender spot. It claims millions cured over fifty years and urges a trial bottle from the druggist for quick comfort.
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St. Jacobs
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