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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1910
Page
11
The Boston Post announces a new department named Sewing Circle for women readers. It invites discussion on home life, recipes, health tips, child care, budgeting, and social topics, with anonymous bylines allowed. Submissions addressed to the Sewing Circle Editor.
A reader asks fellow women for help about persistent nerves and unhappiness despite a loving husband, good children, a comfortable home, and adequate income. She reports irritability, low spirits, and physical malaise and questions why her doctor finds nothing wrong.
A country woman laments urban social leisure in Boston and other cities. She recalls village evenings of music, cards, charades, spelling contests and harmless pastimes, suggesting city dwellers lack such entertainment despite abundant theatre and cinema options.
A New England seaport mother writes that her two sons work with good prospects while one daughter is a high school graduate and the other plans to follow. She worries the local high school attracts girls who become discontent with their station and fear educated daughters may not marry locally. She asks if girls have too much education.
A reader asks for a remedy to insomnia after trying traditional folk prompts like counting sheep and other methods. The inquiry highlights persistent sleeplessness and seeks practical solutions to improve sleep.
Women readers are invited to write under pen names for the Sewing Circle column. Real names and addresses will not be printed without permission. Letters may be addressed to other correspondents, but envelopes go to Editor Sewing Circle Boston Post. The column appears in daily and Sunday Post with larger installments on Sundays.
A young woman asks about marrying a prize fighter despite parental opposition. The advisor notes prize fighting’s dangers and questions whether the suitor is a professional, urging consideration of freedom, wealth differences, and genuine affection. The column counsels balancing love with personal values and warns against becoming a hero only to face a heavy burden.
A man recounts helping a wealthy young lady after a suburban accident a year ago and receiving her affection. He notes her family’s respectability and wealth and seeks guidance on her professed exclusive love.
The Dorchester Guild will host its annual guest night on February 1, a premier pre season social event. Invitations are limited to 600, with last year under Mrs. Herbert E. Wells hailed as the banner affair in the club’s history.
The Union Square Presbyterian Church in Somerville weighs enlarging its edifice or building a new church after a recent meeting where all bills were paid and a surplus remained. Various city churches and unions hold events, from address talks by mayors to Christian Endeavor rallies and Y M C A auxiliaries conferences, while the Federal Council releases a pamphlet urging labor reform with three principals: a weekly rest day, a living wage, and reasonable hours.
Representative Arthur B. Breed died at his home in Lynn today at age 53. The death was reported from the city, with Breed remembered as a longtime public servant and member of the state legislature.
A collection of kitchen instructions including clam soup with cream and bread crumbs, baked oyster dough roll with sauce, salmon moulds with drawn butter, and spiced pork head headmeat moulds with wine. Contains names Georgia B Flinn Mrs John J Murphy Mrs A M Graham and Mrs Ss Garwin with addresses in Vermont Maine New Hampshire.
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