Boston notes on suffrage, pipes, and a barbers team
Florence Luscomb reports a new Anti-Suffrage Review in England arguing against women's parliamentary franchise while supporting women's municipal representation. Boston youths build a portable camp on Governor's Island and plan to live on self caught fish. A pipe dealer cautions that most calabash pipes are fake and made of wood. The Boston Barbers' Union forms a baseball team aiming for New England bragging rights. a Bay View car near Newspaper Row narrowly injures a conductor when a taxi passes. Massachusetts maneuvers draw crowds as Ninth Regiment trains near Essex county towns. A Roxbury boy explains his departure for milk shortages at home saying hens are not laying.
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Florence Luscomb
England
Boston
Harry Hollis
William Melville
Governor's Island
Boston Barbers’ Union
New England
Barbers
Boston Union
Peddock’s Island
Bay View
Washington Street
Newspaper Row
To the Circle I Have Been Pleased With Letters
A Roxbury note from SEWING circle member expresses satisfaction with house girls letters, defends friendly treatment, and recalls opening a savings account for the second-to-last girl who is now married and well to do. The writer invites requests for information and signs off not afraid of work.
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Roxbury
Square Deal For Housegirl
A reader letters the Post Sewing Circle praising a columnist for advocating equal privileges for housemaids. The writer agrees with the sentiments and notes empowerment among housework workers, though not a housemaid or employer. The letter endorses fair treatment and parallels with other lines of work.
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Deal Square
Deal
Post
Alhough
Sabeth
Thinks Married Men Not so Much to Blame
A reader claims married men are often not to blame for flirting and urges women to leave office jobs to men. She argues women chase male attention with appearance and perfume and tells them to return to home duties. Former stenographer No. 3 signs off.
Pineapple Marmalade and Addressed Letters From Nashua to Boston
Contains canning recipe for pineapple marmalade and a dairy entry for dating with milk and eggs. Includes a Boston sewing circle letter by a stenographer urging professional conduct, defending married men, and advising women to be self reliant and discerning in relationships. The note is signed by a stenographer with three years experience.
Fashions Show Fringes Boleros and Eyelet Embroidery
Paragraphs describe fringes and galloons weighting tunics, boleros in Oriental style with Greek Byzantine and Egyptian embroidery, and beads used on evening costumes. Hair swirls are held by tortoise and amber combs and metal settings. Norfolk jackets with belts, net coats for afternoon wear, veils of tulle, and cabochons with small flowers at bodice or skirt fastenings. Eyelet embroidery brightens midsummer hats with bows brims and facings in white and colored work.
300 Pound Woman Weds 100 Pound Man
In McLeansboro Illinois a 300 pound Miss Nellie G Lowery and 23 year old William Beckham 23 both of Woolum Ark wed after correspondence. They agreed to marry only if they liked each other after meeting at the railroad station. She weighed 300 pounds, he six feet tall and 100 pounds.
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M'Leansboro
Ijl
Nellie G. Lowery
William Tl. Beckham
Woolum
Ark
Curious Green Coat Prank Ends With Bath For Willie Wilkins
In Connellsville Pennsylvania two year old Willie Wilkins wore a skin tight green paint coat while cousins watched. A dog’s barking brought the mother and a doctor, who prescribed a hot bath as paint remained in hair and on skin. The prank led to the nephews being sent to stay with their grandfather for the rest of the summer.
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Connellsville
Penn
Willie Wilkins
Mary Wilkins
Willie
George
Scott Williams
Walter Mustin
Daniel Wilkins
Ohio Village Holds Centre Of Virtue In Dry Region
Degraff Ohto July 23 Indiana may have population center but Degraff Ohio bears the centre of virtue. A dry village of 1200 with two years without an arrest, its virtuous citizens resist mayor and marshal claims of authority. They warn the pair may stay in office for arrests they have not made.
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Degraff
Indiana
Ohio
Cat and snakes headline a North Jersey tale
In Rancocas New Jersey on July 23 Mrs. John W. Hilyard found her Angora cat returning with a copperhead four feet long in its mouth. The cat dropped the snake at her feet and left, returning twenty minutes later with a dead black snake. Neighbors believe the cat stalks a nearby colony of snakes and fights when they appear.
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Rancocas
N. J
John W. Hilyard
Lightning saves life of a man at Spartanburg mill
In Spartanburg South Carolina on July 23 a bolt struck the Green Manufacturing Company mill while William Heffner cleaned machinery. The lightning halted the dynamo and stopped the belt just as he was about to be crushed. Heffner survived with serious injuries but will recover. mill damage is minor.
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Spartanburg
S. S
Green Manufacturing Company
William Heffner
Heffner
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