Sewing Circle column urges women to seek husbands and warns of emigration
A 1913 Boston Post Sewing Circle column urges homemakers to push for marriage, even suggesting emigration to gain partners. It argues men today care less about matrimony, and women should be tactful and proactive to win love, urging a return to traditional home life.
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Boston Daily and Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Sewing Circle
Commonwealth
Montana
Oklahoma
Allston
Massachusetts
Girls Can Win Whom They Wish
A 1913 era letter urges women to attract eligible men by courting and visiting homes while staying ladylike. The piece discusses social norms and the emphasis on securing husbands deemed worthwhile as women face a growing population of single women.
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Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Dear Readers Debate a Wife’s Clothes Spending
A Sewing Circle reader from Cape Ann replies to the letter Neglected about leaving her husband. The contributor notes her husband earns 35 dollars weekly and provides all but ten, while she buys silk stockings, a gown, and a hat on credit. She asks if a wife should stand for a husband selecting her clothes and shares her own approach to budgeting and quarreling.
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Sewing Circle
Cape Ann
Bible as Guide in Daily Life Urges Charity and Rule of Gold
A reader signs as ANXIOUS TO HELP rebuking a sister who invoked scripture. The letter urges citing First Corinthians Chapter XIII on charity and highlights the Golden Rule and Ten Commandments as paths to comfort and guidance.
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Charity
A Sister Who Married Well Dear Sisters of the Sewing Circle
A reader recounts choosing between two suitors with different fortunes. One fiancé earns 16 dollars weekly with planned raises, while another, from a wealthy wholesale family, offers 5000 dollars yearly and a future marriage. The letter ends with the narrator noting happiness with her choice.
One Who Chose Wisely in Hard Times
The narrator notes a man who inherited a factory and became wealthy after his father’s death while a younger man, who had once returned a ring, marries into a station and struggles on about 35 dollars weekly. The passage reflects class differences and prudent life choices.
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Boston
The Privileges of the Wife Dear Sewing Circle
A 15 year married woman writes that if she remarried she would insist on full control of finances and household accounts, owning property and bank deposits, and shared social life including weekly theater and a summer seaside month, asserting a wife’s rights must be understood.
Letters to the Sewing Circle Highlighted for Sunday Post
Readers will see a selection of notable letters to the Sewing Circle printed in Sunday's Post. The column showcases community thoughts, tips, and anecdotes exchanged among local readers.
Thanking the Post for coverage of East Boston union demonstration
A July 17 letter from Daniel B. Minnes, secretary of Lodge 585 East Boston, thanks the Post for its truthful account of a demonstration by Lodge 685 of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers. The letter insists there is no anarchy in their ranks and pledges respect for law and order while appealing to impartial arbitration.
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Sir—Lodge 685
International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers
Daniel B. Minnes
East Boston
When you are old poem fragment at the fire
The verses recall aging, memory, and enduring love as a narrator bids a beloved figure to read and dream of past beauty. One faithful lover valued the pilgrim soul and sorrows behind the changing face, while love fades and remains among distant stars.
Recipes from New England Housewives on Sunday Post Page
Readable recipes and tips from New England homemakers including Mrs N L Chapman Ms E B Patterson Miss G F Jones and others. Recipes cover desserts fruits vegetables and seafood with measurements and serving ideas from Scituate Somerville Hudson and South Portland Maine.
Maine Regiment Goes Into Camp at Fort Williams
The 12 companies of the first regiment Coast Artillery Corps Western Maine National Guard arrived by train and electric car today for a 10 day encampment at Fort Williams Cape Elizabeth. Target practice starts Monday and continues through the week ahead.
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Portland
Maine
Fort Williams
Coast Artillery Corps
N. G
Cape Elizabeth
The Engagement Ring
A five year old, Jimmy, borrows ten cents from his mother to buy an engagement ring for Lillie at a five and ten store. He fears arrest for theft, confesses to his mother, and is forgiven, ending with dreams of growing up together.
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Jimmy
Lillie
Jimmie
Boston Letter Carriers Fund Floating Hospital Subscribes
The Boston Letter Carriers Mutual Benefit Association votes fifth year to subscribe for a named day on the Floating Hospital. Committee heads are John F Doherty chairman J M V Plunkett P A Cunningham and J F McGovern plan the Boston Letter Carriers Day on the Floating Hospital.
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Boston Letter Carriers’ Mutual Benefit Association
Boston Letter
John F. Doherty
J. M. V. Plunkett
P. A. Cunningham
J. F. McGovern
Beacon Hill legislative counsel costs revealed
Reports filed with the Secretary of State show Boston & Maine spent 15709 for legislative counsel on Beacon Hill this year. Distributions included 2500 to Coolidge & Hight, 6000 to Arthur P. Russell, 6000 to Robert A. Southworth, and 1209 to Charles E. Walker.
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Secretary of State
Boston & Maine
Beacon Hill
Coolidge & Hight
Arthur P. Russell
Robert A. Southworth
Charles E. Walker
Congressmen Test Submarine at Narragansett Bay
Members of the House committee on naval affairs led by Rep. Lemuel P. Padgett visited Narragansett naval station and tested three submarine craft. The squads rode the subs on the surface then submerged, demonstrating diving and surfacing operations under varied depths.
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Newport
R. I
Narragansett Bay
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Narragansett Naval Station
Lemuel P. Padgett
Tennessee
Mustard endorsed by chemists for purity and strength
A chemistry professor extols Stickney & Poors Mustard for medical uses and safety. The copy claims the product’s long reputation for purity, urging households to buy the 1 Ibc cans sold by grocers at 10 and 20 cents. Receipts are requested for savings.
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Stickney & Poors
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Pete
Boston, SF
Sanfords Cinger
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Ite
Bour
William Butler Yeats
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Sunday Post
Scituate
N. L. Chapman
E. B. Patterson
Perkins Street
Somerville
Anna Girmus
Bridgeport, Mich
Lilla Fef
Lincoln Street
Hudson
G. F. Jones
South Portland
Mpetit
Torin
Verna
Beatrice Aiken
Grasmere, N. H
Sterkney Poor's
Stickne & Poor
Stickney & Poor Spice CO
State St
the National Mustard
O’leary
George Buchanan
Pat F
Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden, N. J
Victor
Express
Rosen’s Machine Exchange
School Street
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