Sewing Circle in Boston Post Discusses Female Grafters and Working Wives
A Boston Post Sewing Circle column invites women to share home and family advice and discusses Miss Tarbell's view of working wives. A reader argues that the real grafters are those who undermine others by slander and undercut wages, highlighting competition and value in employment.
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Peweng
Boston Daily
Banday Post
Cme
New England
Sewing Circle
Boston ‘Post
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as a rapid cure for grippe and severe colds. It claims two hourly doses over three doses will relieve headaches stuffed head feverishness sneezing sore throat and rheumatic pains and urges buyers to ask for a 25 cent package from their druggist.
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Pape
How She Found Her Work To the Sister who signs herself Back Bay
A 39 year old homemaker describes finding purpose after moving to a new town. She joins church groups and serves as Sunday school teacher and visiting committee member. She urges others to bring sunshine to homes through small acts of kindness and notes the value of redeeming time.
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Back Bay
Tarbell
Ladies’ Aid
Epworth League
Satan
Christ
Women too soon informed about vital life questions
A teacher urges honest discussions with teenage girls about sex and relationships, arguing parents and schools fail to address essential life questions. She says ignorance breeds harm, and mothers should guide daughters to distinguish physical attraction from true love, warning against hiding truths.
Dark Days on the Park Amid Empty Bleachers
A 1912 verse laments a baseball season offstage as players seek fame and media, while fans vanish. The poem mocks egotism in sports, predicting spring returns to baseball and a return to the game.
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Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Poem about a mother’s loss and faith after a stillbirth
The speaker mourns a buried infant, grappling with sin and sorrow. She recalls church blessing and God as father, vows to serve more and hopes to meet her child in Heaven, noting the one month anniversary of the burial.
Her Choice for Her Daughters
A letter from a mother of four arguing parents must educate daughters about morality from early age. She recounts teaching at age 12, noting daughters seek guidance later when confronted with moral topics. She defends proactive instruction against charges of causing morbid self consciousness.
Common Decency Demands Debate in Sewing Circle
A sister speaker asserts that children of dissipated parents can be as healthy as those from clean lives. She claims to know this while addressing a sewing circle, sparking claims of bias and concern over parental influence and morality.
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Ives
Sewing Circle Letters Highlighted in Sunday Post
The Sunday Post features a selection of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader opinions, tips, and community debates in a compact literary vignette.
Governor Blease Urges Quotation Law and Rail Rate Bill
Governor Blease urged the South Carolina Legislature to enact a misdemeanor penalty for misquoting public speakers. He also recommended a two cent railway rate bill and measures concerning the Carolina Public Service Corporation and a cotton mill merger.
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Columbia
Blease
South Carolina
Carolina Public Service Corporation
The Treasure Chest and Ruth's Desperate Gift
Ruth, jobless and weighed by debt, contemplates selling heirlooms to feed Daisy. At 9 PM she opens the treasure chest, betrothal ring in hand, planning to barter it for money. Uncle Isaac arrives at the door, bringing relief and renewed hope for Daisy.
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Ruth
Daisy
Isaac
California
Victor
Ruth Hathaway
Sgaiai Ruth
Dessert and candy recipes from W J Murphy I B Peak and Minnie Gay
One half cup sugar and a molasses mixture with shortening egg cinnamon and flour make a dessert served with whipped cream. A chocolate butter cream fudge uses sugar cream chocolate and butter then cools in tins. Tomato tomato soup base combines ripe tomatoes onion parsley bay leaves salt sugar pepper cloves thickened with flour and canned for storage.
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Cliff Street
St. Johnsbury
Ida B. Peak
Forest Street
Medford
Minnie Gay
East Central Street
Natick
Back Bay Co-operative Society Expands to 150 Members
The Charles River Co-operative Society plans to raise membership to 150 and move its store from Yale Street to Charles or Chestnut Street to widen its work. It has been serving about 30 Beacon Hill families for a year and aims to cut the cost of living for Boston’s wealthy residents.
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Back Bay
Charles River
Yame Street
Charles
Chestnut Street
Fashion Trends Report From Paris And Beyond
The newest sashes have ornate accessories and short coats resemble boleros. Evening gowns favor rhinestone buttons while opossum fur blends with yellows blues and browns. Spring hats feature upturned brims and the question mark plume.
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Paris
Stops Tobacco Habit Book From Elders’ Sanitarium
Elders' Sanitarium at 657 Main Street St Joseph Missouri publishes a book on the deadly effects of tobacco and how to quit in three to five days. Free copies are being distributed. send name and address to obtain one.
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England
Thames
Gay
America
Fleisher
Elders’ Sanitarium
Main Street
St. Joseph
Woman Sues Under Jim Crow Car Law in Supreme Court
Miss Pearl Morris sues Alabama & Vicksburg Railroad in a Jim Crow car suit alleging distress from being forced to share a Pullman berth with three Black men. Mississippi court reduced damages from an initial award of 000 to 2000, while the case advances toward the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Alabama & Vicksburg Railroad Company
Mississippi Court
Miss Pearl Morris
Supreme Court of Mississippi
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