Sewing Circle letters reveal domestic debates in Boston Post
Readers discuss home life and gender roles in the Boston Post Sewing Circle. Letters praise wives’ unpaid labor, critique wage gaps, and advise on child discipline and money management.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1915
Page
11
Readers discuss home life and gender roles in the Boston Post Sewing Circle. Letters praise wives’ unpaid labor, critique wage gaps, and advise on child discipline and money management.
The Sunday Post prints a collection of engaging letters to the Sewing Circle, highlighting reader opinions, tips, and community anecdotes. The feature showcases personal voices and practical sewing insights from local readers.
The verse calls for living free of baser thoughts and seeking light through sound conduct. It extols reverence for women and children, likening them to sisters in a peaceful cloister where purity and peace vanish mean, vile acts, and base behavior as God’s light shines on their faces.
The Holstein breed yields light colored milk with 3.55 percent fat from 9722 cows tested last year, showing lower fat than ordinary dairy cows. Its small fat globules are easily digested, closely resembling human milk, and Dr Thomas Morgan Rotch endorses its suitability for infants and all ages. The notice invites readers to obtain Holstein milk and mentions higher cost.
At the annual reunion closing 1896 many diocesan clergy ordained 19 years ago attended at Copley Plaza. Revs Madden Doherty Casey Haberstroh Gilbride McGrath Curtin Heaney named among attendees. Parish notices cite St Ann Neponset reunion planning and St Monica South Boston sermons. Mortgage reduced at St Eulalia South Boston. Holy Redeemer East Boston to hold parish reunion Feb 15 at Crescent Gardens Revere Beach.
A poem contrasts the Thousandth Man with a thousand other friends. Ninety nine nine celebrate money while the Thousandth Man supports you unconditionally in deeds and convictions, standing by you to the gallows foot and beyond. He shares your feelings and backs you in all seasons.
The Salvation Army unveils a nation wide mobilization to capture 10000 prisoners over 30 days in Massachusetts. The plan marks 50 years since its work began with nightly meetings across city buildings and a 35 piece band supporting the largest outdoor revivals yet.
Under the auspices of the organization gatherings will be staged on street corners. Prayer meetings will be held in the various quarters nearly every noon.
Mewa Singh, condemned for killing Immigration Interpreter William J. Hopkinson, was hanged at New Westminster's provincial prison. About three hundred Hindus gathered outside the jail. only the priest was admitted to the building and yard.
William S. Sellers files a $10,000 suit against the town of Stoughton over street lights operated on a moon schedule. He says a jury meeting in a town street was affected when lights were turned off at 8 30 in the evening.
Seller recounts a September 18 1913 accident at Turnpike and Pleasant streets in Stoughton after a timber was struck when street lamps, normally lit until 1 am, were allegedly off due to the moon's obscured appearance. He incurred medical costs and long incapacity, arguing the town had no right to turn off lights after nightfall.
Dull gold and metal embroidery decorates many blouse designs while blues span a wide palette for spring dresses. Cotton satins form foundation garments under sheer fabrics as wraps gain volume with hip framing folds. Ten circular ruffles adorn taffeta gowns. Russian leather returns in fine handbags, sleeves lengthen with elbow frills, and short box coats emerge as trend smart.
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