Sewing Circle Letters Offer Homemaking Help and Advice
In Boston Post readers discuss home life and marriage in a Sewing Circle feature. Letters from 18 to 85 year olds share experiences with cost of living, husband relations, child care, and advice on domestic matters.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Hubby
Shaksperé
D. W.A.S
Ford
Wilson
Will Talk on Business and the Press Agent
Will Deming, the advertising man in the play It Pays to Advertise, will speak on Business and the Press Agent before the class in advertising at Boston University College of Business Administration tomorrow evening. After the address the class will attend It Pays to Advertise as guests of the George Frost Company.
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Will Deming
Boston University College of Business Administration
George Frost Company
What’s in a Name in a Wart Eyes Drama
In a domestic medical tale Marion Hood overuses boric acid on her eyes and nearly blinds herself. Dr. Dickey cares for her while Dr. Dane Smiley watches, and a romance deepens as Marion learns to trust the physician who helps her. The line What’s in a name ends the scene.
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Marion
Ann Hood
Anna
Dr. Dane
Mrs
Dr. Dickey
Dr. Smiley
Marton
Remark of Gratitude Amid Generous Hospitality
A traveler recalls receiving abundant flowers and fruit and generous kindness that made a short stay feel like a two week visit. The tone reflects gratitude for hospitality and sustenance during an extended yet brief trip.
Violet Silk Duvetyne Costume Described in Detail
The narrator details a vibrant violet silk duvetyne costume featuring a semi fitted coat six inches above a circular skirt with a long white corduroy waistcoat. The outfit is trimmed with sealskin edges, fur cuffing, and braid loops, with black buttons on the left side. The passage ends with a寒寒 remark about cold weather and a farewell.
Home Style Recipes From New England Housewives
A collection of old kitchen instructions includes cabbage rolls with beef and rice style filling, steeped in a sweet sour glaze, and baked two hours. Also featured are prune custards with rich pastry and orange custard with orange slices and meringue. Names and addresses accompany each recipe.
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R. Weinstein
Lynde Street
Malden
Paragraph on Fads and Fashions From A Tailor Column
The article surveys mid century style notes featuring a net blouse as a latest item, marabou scarfs lined with satin, a matching toque and muff with a simple suit, and Parisian trends. It highlights sheer materials with weight, white wool plaited straw hats, embroidered half-season suits, and a black velvet evening dress with three tiered brocade skirt.
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Paris
Poems for Pour Scrap Book: Where the West Begins
A verse by Arthur Chapman describes the West as a place of stronger handshakes brighter suns and bluer skies. The poem emphasizes tighter homes truer friendship and more giving than buying with simpler, friendlier paths and hopeful living.
Missionary Movement speaker to tour Duluth to St Paul
The Rev. William M. Gilbert of Morgan Memorial joins the Laymen's Missionary Movement tour through Duluth Minneapolis and St Paul. The campaign opens in Duluth Thursday and closes January 26 in St Paul. Dr. Frederick B. Fisher of New York heads the team and Gilbert will show moving pictures illustrating Morgan Memorial work. The movement views Morgan Memorial as a leading institutional effort and aims to replicate it in major cities. The tour includes daily conferences with laymen.
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William M. Gilbert
Morgan Memorial
Duluth
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Frederick B. Fisher
New York
Gilbert
United States
the Memorial
Guild of St Genesius of Arles Holds Night Whist at Boston College
Members of the Guild of St Genesius of Arles host a whist party at Boston College music room to aid the Convent of the Cenacle in Brighton. The event aims to be the guild’s most successful yet.
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Guild of St. Genesuis of
Arles
Brighton
Boston College
James Street
Guild
Householder first aid and plaster mix tips from 1900s column
A domestic guide recommends keeping a box of bandages ready in every home using strong cotton cloth and sterilizing jars for storage. It also suggests a coal ash and wheat flour plaster mix to repair plastering, and shares a sausage wrapped roast pork tip from Doris Louise Stymest of Bath New Hampshire.
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H. B. Crosby
Lexington Street
East
Boston
Doris Louise Stymest
Bath, N. H
Fire in Lisbon Incendiary Loss Reported
A fire in a building full of military stores in Lisbon caused about 1 1/2 million dollars in damage. Firemen were buried in the ruins as officials blamed incendiaries. The minister of war announced the finding in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Lisbon
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Bennington High Damaged by Fire
Fire in the Bennington high school chemistry lab caused $20,000 in damage to the comparatively new structure finished in November 1914 at a cost of $90,000. The blaze erupted tonight and is believed to have started from combustion involving chemicals in the laboratory.
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Bennington
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