Sewing Circle Editorial Guidelines for Boston Post
The Sewing Circle serves as a woman’s forum for New England homemakers to discuss home life, domestic problems, family care, budgeting, gardening, and related topics. Correspondents may use pen names and ask questions. write on one side of the paper and address letters to the Sewing Circle Editor at the Boston Post.
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Should We Buy A House With Tight Budget Advice
A reader with husband earning about 17 dollars per week seeks guidance on purchasing a home. They face a second mortgage and where half of earnings would cover housing costs including taxes and interest. With two children and possible sickness, the risk of losing it all worries them. The sisters are asked to advise.
Whose the Deed Dear Sewing Circle Sisters
A reader asks how to handle home purchase and deed ownership when she contributes part of the funds while her husband covers living costs. She seeks legal ways to deed the property to both in proportion to their payments and asks for advice from experienced sisters.
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Sewing Circle
Hubby
The Isle of Shoals
A historical work titled The Isle of Shoals explores the maritime region famed for Native American history and colonial fishing communities. Author details vary by edition, with many reprints by regional historians and publishing houses. Availability spans libraries, secondhand bookstores, and digital archives online.
How to Buy for Less and Dress Well on a Budget
The author explains frugal shopping habits for hats and suits noting typical prices and the possibility of paying less by smart buying. They claim comfort and style can be achieved on modest spending while warning against overpaying for quality.
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Butsey
Jeff
Fragmented advice on financial independence in marriage
A 60 year old woman writes about a duplicative personal situation, urging the recipient to save money and put assets in her own name. She recalls poverty caused by her husband and reflects on leaving love for dignity, while working in a kitchen for boarders.
Advice on life choices and keeping gray hair white
A speaker addresses a sister figure, reflecting on lifelong decisions and urging self-reliance. She recounts regret about a troubled marriage and considers starting anew. The writer asks for tips to maintain white hair, noting smoke and grease from cooking yellow her hair despite wearing a cap and monthly shampooing.
The Drink Stirs Worries in Sewing Circle Letter
A wife writes to The Drink about a husband weakened by alcohol. She seeks guidance from Doctor's Wife or the sisters, hoping for help to restore his ability to work and family happiness.
Dear Grace Seeks Help for Hair on Face
A reader writes from a store setting about many pin hairs covering her face especially around the mouth. She asks how to kill the roots of the hairs and expresses heartbreak at being teased. She signs as Grace.
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Sisters of the Circle
Grace
Is He Justified by a Wife Seeking Time Out
A wife asks the Sewing Circle if a wife with a busy husband who returns late has the right to go out with friends occasionally. She explains her husband works long hours and she has no children, seeking permission and perspective on personal time apart from domestic duties.
Should I Defy My Husband For an Old Friend
A reader asks whether to continue courting an old fiancé who now asks for dinners and theater. She argues no grounds for jealousy and insists on living her life, while her husband forbids such meetings. She seeks sisters’ advice on whether to abandon the friendship or proceed without telling him.
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Suzette
A Sensible Husband Letter to Sewing Circle
A reader writes criticizing a man who asks his second wife to wear his first wife's clothing. The correspondent mocks his lack of effort and asserts a woman should work for her own clothing if her partner does not provide.
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Saiwee Knoll
Have Spunk To Sad Susie No Man Worthy Of A Man
A male voice, signed Phyllis hd Lon, says no man worthy of the name would strike a woman. He argues any woman with spirit would not endure such insult more than once and sees the remedy as simple for those subjected to abuse.
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Susie
Phyllis
Mid Winter Mark Down At R H White Company
The January stock take sale at R H White Company runs all week offering half price on most stock. Men’s wear hosiery and underwear value lines, fur coats, suits, gowns, waists, gloves, corsets, and knit underwear appear with deep discounts. Household goods, curtains, silks, draperies, and sewing machines are heavily reduced, with many items aimed at spring wardrobes and home decor.
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R. H. White Company
Ferepe Meteor
Messaline
J. B
Royal Worcester
White’s
Marie
Curious Features in News of the Day
Vernon suburb of Los Angeles voted for wet Sundays yesterday. It is believed to be the only incorporated city in the United States without a church with three saloons operating. Fifty women voted, most of them favoring the wet outcome.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Vernon
United States
Pint Whiskey Bottle Drifts Across the Atlantic
New York report tells how a pint bottle thrown from a Long Island houseboat in August 1909 drifted across the Atlantic to Merionethshire Wales, picked up December 20, after two years and four months at sea. the finder noted the whiskey odor.
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New York
Atlantic
England
J. C. Lavin
Starving Russians Sell Children to Nomads Amid Hunger
A telegram from an Orenburg doctor describes dire conditions among southeastern Russian peasants. With no aid from authorities, starving families sell their children to Khirgese nomads in Saratov. Hunger and typhus prevail. over 70 percent of children in some areas are afflicted.
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London
Russia
Orenburg
Ural
Saratov
Home Made Beauty Remedies Promised for Clear Complexion
An advertisement touts spurmax lotion for clear skin and a velvet feel, plus a sham shampoo from canthrax, delatone for hair removal, and parnous weight loss drink. It claims invisible results, painless use, and no dieting, urging daily applications with brief instructions and price notes for delatone.
Sweden grants women full political rights in parliament
The speech from the throne announced a bill to enfranchise women and allow them to be elected to the Riksdag on equal terms with men. Every Swede over 24 years old and not legally disabled gains voting rights for the second chamber members.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Riksdag
Prussia Seeks Work Duties for Unemployed Loafers
Berlin Jan 16 The Prussian government submitted a bill to the Diet to compel all loafers and men who fail to support their families to go to work. The measure targets those unable to provide support and aims to reduce idle time by forcing employment.
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Berlin
Diet
Comic Characters Return in Next Sundays Post
The Post promises familiar panelists Muggsy Willie Westing House Sambo Hank the Hermit and Mrs Rummage to amuse readers in the upcoming Sunday comic section.
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Muggsy
Willie Westinghouse
Sambo
Hank the Hermit
Mrs. Rummage
Next Sunday’s Post
Babe frozen by mother's side on East Side
New York report from January sixteenth describes a two room East Side scene where an infant two months old died from exposure. The mother Mrs John Cauljiska crippled by rheumatism and hunger fought to save the child as it breathed its last before being removed to an ambulance. The father stood by in grief amid a six month poverty struggle and unemployment.
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New York
East Side
John Cauljiska
Soap Magnate Sues Baroness for Divorce in Cincinnati
Percy Proctor a wealthy Cincinnati soap manufacturer files divorce suit from Nadine Proctor formerly the Baroness de Klifus. He cites gross neglect of duty. Married London October 14 1904. settlement over forty thousand dollars of soap stock linked to dowry. Baroness in Cincinnati, expected not to contest.
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Cincinnati
Percy Proctor
Nadine Proctor
Baroness de Klifus
London
Proctor
New York Life Reports Strong 1911 Performance
The New York Life Insurance Company posted a robust 1911 with new business up to 177 million and 197 million for 1912. The company earned official state approval, praised for efficient operations, prompt claims, fair treatment of policyholders, and strong dividend practices. Total assets exceed 684 million with over 1 022 million policies in force and policyholder payments plus loans over 93 percent of premiums.
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New York Life Insurance Company
Insurance Department of
New York Life
Train kills section hand in fatal on track accident
Patrick Corey a 45 year old section hand of 28 Fleet street was struck by a 7 22 train on the Boston and Albany line yesterday morning. He was at work on the roadway under the Brook line avenue bridge when the fatal incident occurred.
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Patrick Corey
Fleet Street
Boston & Albany
Corey
Brookline Avenue
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