Debate over education for housework in society columns
Readers trade letters on whether government schools should teach women domestic skills while questioning traditonal roles for men. Voices defend experience over formal schooling and urge individual choice, with cautions about modern norms and propriety.
Icebergs and a Sunday Evening Ship Encounter
A poem recounts Arctic bergs drifting past the Albion steamer near latitude 46.55 N and longitude 52.30 W. The verse contrasts silent ice with a Sunday light as a churchlike cloud appears from the north, haunting memories of the day.
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Albion
Joshua Finds A Way To Restore Martha’s Home
Martha undertakes a major kitchen renovation to迎 welcome her neighbor Joshua’s relatives. After a telegram delays their visit three weeks, Joshua proposes Martha stays in the house to keep it ready, a plan she accepts with warmth as they long have supported each other.
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Martha
Joshua
Marthy
Nell
Soft Water Gingerbread and Other New England Dishes
Sunday Post presents a collection of home recipes including soft hot water gingerbread with molasses and spice, pie crust style lard mix, a molasses raisin cake, walnut cake, and a hearty onion and hamburger rice macaroni dish, with notes on optional raisins and vanilla flavor.
Betty’s Fun Family Returns in Sunday Post Comics
Betty and her amusing family scored a hit in the enlarged comic section of the Sunday Post. Next Sunday Betty presents another entertaining series of adventures.
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Betty
The
Sunday Post
Two North Adams Men Burned By Wire
Frank Spink of the North Adams Gas Company was cutting electric light wires on a switchboard when he touched a 6300 volt wire. He could not release himself and suffered severe burns. Superintendent Horace Kirby tried to free him and was briefly pulled in by the current. They were thrown to the floor when the circuit broke but escaped serious injury.
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North Adams
Frank Spink
North Adams Gas Company
Horace Kirby
Spink
Evermore
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Lectures on Lafayette Draw Cambridge Trip for Students
Professor Horace H. Morse of Mount Hermon delivered the second in a four lecture series on Lafayette as part of a summer course for youth in Old South Meeting House. After the talk he guided the class to the Widener Memorial Library treasure room in Cambridge to view Lafayette memorials.
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Mount Hermon
Lafayette
Old South Meeting House
Widener Memorial Library
Cambridge
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