Home for the Holidays from a Longing Family
A mother and father yearn for their children as Christmas letters reach a son and daughter abroad. Frank Benton faces work burdens delaying his return, while Nellie plans social engagements. A hurdy gurdy recalls Home, Sweet Home and motivates both to travel home, reuniting the family for Thanksgiving.
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Frank Benton
Frank
Joe Sanders
Nellie
Dad
Nellie Benton
Martha
John
Sewing Circle Letters From Boston Post Readers
Letters discuss marriage, child custody, self support, and widowhood in Boston. Advice columns urge patience with grieving spouses, debate early marriage, and praise domestic service while sharing personal revolts and experiences. Mothers describe navigating love, money, and family duties amid social expectations.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily Age Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Glendower Evans
Greater
Boston
Forward-Looking Men and The Dreams They Seek
Poetic meditation on visionaries who march with purpose toward an unnamed peak of progress. The speaker praises forward-looking men who endure hardship, confront fate, and endure iron blows with steadfast faith that a brighter future and finer fate will dawn.
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Golden Peak
Southern Press Syndicate
N E Housewives Nut Bread and Pies Recipe Column
New England housewives share a small recipes page including Nut Bread with graham and white flour dates and pastries and a date pie and lemon turnovers credited to Mrs. A L Sanford Chestnut Street Wilmington and Georgia French Newton NH. The nut bread includes milk molasses walnut meats bake 3 4 of an hour in a moderate oven. The date pie uses dates egg milk cinnamon nutmeg and bake in one crust. The turnovers combine lemon sugar raisins egg butter and bake as mince turnovers.
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A. L. Sanford
Chestnut Street
Wilmington
Georgia French
Newton
N. H
Georgia
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