Sewings Circle Advice Columns From Boston Post
A restored Sewing Circle section invites homemakers to share advice on domestic life. Letters cover marriage, pets, home budgeting, and childcare with responses urging fairness, prudent finances, and practical steps. Readers discuss husband roles and family duties in a period increasingly focused on home economics.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Decrepit Unknown Man Ends in Midnight Marriage
Altha Brooks works at a city office and plans to marry for money to satisfy her father’s will. She discovers her lover Jack Marshall endures a forced engagement to another, and at midnight they marry after she confesses the truth and they seize their own chance.
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Altha Brooks
Exchange Hotel
California
Altha
Jack Marshall
Miss Russell
Marshall
Miss Brooks
Altha Brooks Russell
Jack
Letters to the Sewing Circle Highlighted in Sunday Post
The Sunday Post features a selection of notable letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing community interests, opinions, and sewing tips from local readers.
Over the Wire A Little Chat on Style by
A column labeled Over the Wire presents a brief chat on style with Dorothy. The piece discusses daily voice and wardrobe choices, aiming to offer readers simple timeless guidelines.
Afternoon gown described in cheerful fashion note
The speaker outlines a new afternoon gown chosen to lift spirits. The dress features a high girdle, shadow lace underblouse, black chiffon embroidered in turquoise, black satin bands, white chiffon frills, puff sleeves, and a tiered three-flounce skirt with blue satin at the waist.
Fleischer Speaks on Hyphens and Adjectives in Huntington
Charles Fleischer of the Sun day Commons spoke at Huntington Chambers on Hyphens and Adjectives. He argued that even Wilson era protests cannot erase the hyphen from American conscience and urged broad mutual respect and shared devotion to democracy and country.
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Charles Fleischer
Huntington Chambers
Wilson
Songs of Sunshine by the Bentztown Bard
Poem from 1916 copyright by Southern Press Syndicate. The piece extols dreams and dreams of beauty in simple things, urging onward effort and optimistic yearning through recurring lines about being breast high in dreams and hopes.
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Southern Press Syndicate
Laurels For Chorus In Handel and Haydn Society Concert
Mozart's Requiem and Mendelssohn Walpurgisnacht highlighted a Handel and Haydn Society program conducted by Emil Mollenhauer in Symphony Hall. Soloists Grace Bonner Williams Christine Miller Juan Lambert Murphy Bernard Ferguson Wilfred Glenn. The Requiem drew deep impressions while Mendelssohn showed older musical voice with romantic touches. A large attentive audience displayed enthusiasm for the performance.
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Mendelssohn
Symphony Hall
Handel and Haydn Society
Emil Mollenhauer
Grace Bonner Williams
Christine Miller
Juambert Murphy
Bernard Ferguson
Wilfred Glenn
Boston
Handel and Haydn
Mollenhauer
Mozart
Nantucket to Have a Telephone Cable
Nantucket will be connected to the mainland by telephone for the first time next summer. A town committee said a long distance cable would be installed at once with service starting as soon as possible. The island also expects airship mail delivery next summer to further break isolation.
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Nantucket
Leap Year Party for St. Margaret's Church
A leap year party hosted by the Young Ladies Sodality of St. Margaret's Church Dorchester will be held tomorrow night at 8 at Rowan Memorial Hall Dorchester. Proceeds will go toward reducing the debt on the new convent on Mayhew Street.
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Young Ladies’ Sodality
St. Margaret's Church
Dorchester
Rowan Memorial Hall
Mayhew Street
Mary nee Brother in Law writes for silent films
The memoir recounts early days conceiving and selling screenplays in the silent era. It notes Mack Sennett’s Keystone exploits, police themed plots, and Mae Marsh and Alice Joyce collaborations. The author recalls first accepted works and advises aspiring writers to persevere despite rejections.
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Billy Quirk
Jim Kirkwood
Mae Marsh
Claire McDowell
Lena
Granny
Lottie
Alice Joyce
Grandma’s Cough Remedy Endorsed In Letter
A reader thanks Maggie for a bottle of cough medicine and expresses faith in old fashioned remedies. The writer notes they will try the grandmother’s prescription for future colds.
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Maggie S
Mary Pickford Talks Weekly in Daily and Sunday Posts
Mary Pickford’s talks will appear about five days weekly in the Daily Post and every Sunday in the Sunday Post. The arrangement places her discussions on regular newspaper pages for steady reader access.
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Mary Pickford
Daily Post
Sunday Post
Farnam Organ Recital Draws Large Harvard Club Audience
W Lynnwood Farnam organist of Emmanuel Church played eight pieces at the Harvard Club under the New England Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. The hall was filled for one of its largest throngs, with Farnam bowing twice. The scherzo from Vierne second symphony drew especially strong applause. Benjamin L Whelpley and Wilbur Hasecall led the program.
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Harvard Club
W. Lynnwood Farnam
Emmanuel Church
New England
American Guild of Organists
Farnam
Vierne
Benjamin L. Whelpley
Wilbur Haseall
Death of George J. Wickes 21 Dorchester auto salesman
George J. Wickes aged 21 son of Mr and Mrs B H Wickes of 77 Dix Street Dorchester died yesterday morning after a brief illness acute inflammation of the kidneys. He worked as salesman and driver for Bay State Motor Car Company and is survived by his parents and six brothers. Funeral from 8:45 Tuesday at his home with requiem high mass at 9 a.m. at St Marks Church Dorchester Avenue.
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George J. Wickes
B. H. Wickes
Dix Street
Dorchester
Wickes
Bay State Motor Car Company
St. Mark's Church
Dorchester Avenue
Passing Away Poem by John Pierpont
Poem describes time passing as a clock and a girl pendulum swing. A child with a bouquet grows into a bride while the clock warns of passing away. The scene shifts from bright to aged, with image of a crone delivering the final lilt.
College Head Going to War
Halifax Feb 27 Dr George Barton Cutten president of Acadia University is enlisted for war service and appointed an officer in the Nova Scotia Highland Brigade He is recruiting in Amherst his hometown A graduate of Acadia and Yale he excelled in football tennis and track at Yale He previously led Baptist pastorates in New Haven Corning and Columbus before becoming Acadia president in 1910.
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Halifax
George Barton Cutten
Acadia University
Cutten
Nova Scotia Highland Brigade
Amherst
Acadia
Yale
Yale Divinity School
New Haven
Weiner urging U S to oppose Germany in war
Harvard professor Leo Weiner told Maverick Church listeners in East Boston that the United States must take a stand against Germany. He argued German efficiency masks aggrandizement and warned that failure to act could erase freedom and liberties. He traced the war to Prussian conquest history and a continuing desire to conquer others.
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United States
Germany
Leo Weiner
Harvard
Maverick Church
East
Boston
Chocolate cake and sherbet recipe by Mrs Miller
Lemon sherbet recipe dissolves sugar in lemon juice and uses eggs and milk for freezing. Chocolate cake frosting blends grated chocolate or cocoa with sugar and butter, then boils water with cornstarch and vanilla. Charlestown New Hampshire contact credited to Mrs B H Miller.
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B. H. Miller
Charlestown
N. H
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