Letters and moral notes in a Sewing Circle column
Readers sign as Mother First and other nicknames vent about family conflict and gender roles. Advice covers marriage expectations, support for husbands, leap year proposals, height insecurities, and balancing work, money, and household duties with Humane Society and pet empathy mentions. The piece blends letters, responses, and a poem about work as a calling.
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Boston Daily
Woman's Own Forum
New England
Sewing Circle
Boston Post
Meatless Vegetable Soup and Fluffy Cake by Mrs O'Brien
A home recipe collection presents Meatless Vegetable Soup with potatoes onions carrots celery tomatoes barley rice corn milk and crackers, and Fluffy Cake with sugar butter eggs milk lemon flour cornstarch. Attribution to Mrs E O Brien Clinton and Mrs FB OBrien.
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FB. O'Brien
Clinton
Save date seeds and grow palms at home
Household hints advise planting date seeds with the open side down and keeping them consistently wet. If cared for well, the plant may grow and rival a florist bought palm. A living note includes ZILLIAN G. ULACE of 60 Mills Street, Beverly.
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Mills Street
Beverly
Aunt Pro Tem and the Unexpected Romance in 1914
A plain suburban spinster, 50s, recounts meeting young lovers Chester and Grace on a Boston-bound trip. A spontaneous lunch and a secret kiss lead to a long-distance romance with Patsy, a dogged chaperon role, and a later marriage. The narrator, now titled Aunt Pro Tem, remains close to the couple.
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Boston
Eliza Ann Todd
Jordan
Chester
Hattie
Grace
Patsy
New York
Trinity Place
South
Cester
Mother
Frigid Jan 28 Dates Mark Boston Weather History
The notes recount historical Boston low and high temperatures for January 28. Notable lows include 3 above in 1881 zero in 1885 and minus values in 1888, with several years seeing single digit highs. Warmth peaks are 53 in 1880 and 54 in 1914, while storms occurred on this date in 1906 1909 and 1911.
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Boston
Mercury
Trial hydro aeroplane mail service announced
New Bedford plans a trial hydro aeroplane mail route to Nantucket with stops at Wood's Hole and Martha's Vineyard. The service may become permanent if useful, and could aid island communities in winter when ice limits other transport and food supplies are scarce.
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Crystal Palace
New Bedford
Nantucket
Wood's Hole
Martha's Vineyard
Universalist banquet in Boston marks church unity
The Universalist Sunday schools of Greater Boston plan a banquet in the Universalist Church vestry Bunker Hill with delegates from all metropolitan Universalist churches attending. Speakers will review past work and propose plans for the coming year.
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Universalist
Greater Boston
Universalist Church
Bunker Hill
Pa Van Loon Gets In Bad Again
The next Sunday Post promises more adventures of the Pa Van Loon comic family with their signature humor and misadventures on the pages ahead.
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Pa van Loon
Ex Mayor's Daughter to Be Bride in March
The daughter of former Mayor George H. Fall of Malden Miss Emma Fall of the Malden School Committee will wed her fiancé Albert Schofield in early March. The wedding date was announced by the Fall family.
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George H. Fall
Malden
Emma Fall
Albert Schofield
George Fall of
South Africa
Palm Beach Dance Inspires Romantic Escapade
The writer describes a tropical dance in Palm Beach with a moonlit water reflection and palm silhouettes. Lady Renwick carries a peacock themed fan with a mirror in its breast and a tail as the fan part, adding color to her black satin and spanglie outfit. The weather is noted as wonderful.
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Veelig
Palm Beach
Tropics
Boston Wool Firm Employee Returns From South Africa Trip
The article notes Mr. Schofield's five month absence for a work trip to South Africa to purchase wool for his firm and his return to Boston from Cape Town on Wednesday.
Greek Islands Used for Submarine Bases
Lord Robert Cecil told the House of Commons that Greek islands have been used or attempted as bases for German and Austrian submarines. He said the Greek government, with British and French naval authorities, has taken measures to stop the practice.
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London
House of Commons
Robert Cecil
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