Boston sewing circle letters discuss uniforms and cost of living
The Sewing Circle column gathers reader letters from Boston Post readers on topics of home life. A working stenographer proposes uniforms to cut clothing costs and relates to nurses in uniforms. Other letters debate marriage meddling, cost of bread, and social support for the needy in a practical, opinionated tone.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Chelsea
Ode to Rare Roast Beef Poem
A vividly playful meditation on rare roast beef as a cure for dyspepsia and a source of pleasure. The speaker extols juiciness tenderness and regal status while contrasting it with other victuals and time. The poem blends humor with reverent appetite and culinary imagery.
Frugal Seven Months of Married Life Shared Inside The Post
A reader describes a thrift minded marriage with a weekly income of 12, monthly rent of 13 and 10 saved monthly. She notes no new clothes, fixes old garments, and avoids debt while keeping plenty to eat. She admits cooking skills may improve with time and wants tobacco for her husband. NOSMO.
Boston man named receiver for Fall River firm
Herbert A. Whiting of Boston was appointed receiver yesterday for the Higgins Fraze Company a leading Fall River dry goods house by Judge Hale in the U S District Court with bonds of 26000 dollars.
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Herbert A. Whiting
Boston
Higgins Fraze Company
Fall River
Hale
United States District Court
Road to the Roses in a 1915 Verse
Poetic verse about a journey along the road to roses, echoes of longing and twilight. Includes a copyright notice attributed to Southern Press Syndicate in 1915. Aimed at romantic imagery rather than narrative event.
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Southern Press Syndicate
New England Anti-Vivisection Society Reelects Officers
At the Vendome the annual meeting re-elected the old board. President E. H. Clement discussed the year’s progress while Dr. Pearce of the University of Pennsylvania argued against vivisection and cited comments on the dog exemption bill by the London Lancet.
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New England
the Vendome
E. H. Clement
Pearce
University of Pennsylvania
London Lancet
Degree Team Shuts Amity Village With Bizarre Misadventure
The Knights of the Golden Circle Lodge degree team touring Orient Hill broke down on the way home. They sheltered in a logging camp then walked six miles for food, leaving the village short of school and services. The misadventure disrupted town life, delayed marriages, and stirred local humor.
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Boston Globe
Amity
Knights of the Golden Circle Lodge
Orient Hill
John Melcher
Stitham Ritchie
Lysander G. Levenseler
Grange
Beauchamp G. Larrabee
Grand
Speciffic Lakes
John
Susie Melcher
Retired After Forty Years Service for City Laborers
Jeremiah Collins aged 77 of 9 Pierce Street Hyde Park was retired on half pay pension after 40 years as a laborer. Mayor Curley signed the papers calling him deserving of a rest. Another retiree was William Leonard 69, in city service 10 years.
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Jeremiah Collins
Pierce Street
Hyde Park
Curley
Wiliam Leonard
Mayor seeks army recruitment at Boston lodging houses
Mayor Curley proposes sending recruiting sergeants to the Wayfarers Lodge Way Street Home and Blossom Street lodging house each morning to recruit from men who spent the night in city shelters. Overseers report 576 men cared for Tuesday night with a large share from other cities.
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Curley
Army
Navy
Boston
Wayfarers’ Lodge
Way Street
Blossom Street
Uncle Sam
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