Sewing Circle: A woman’s forum for home tips and advice
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Post invites New England homemakers to discuss home and household topics. Suitable subjects include domestic problems, managing family life, baby care, household economy, flowers and gardening. Correspondents may use pen names and send questions to the Sewing Circle Editor.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
The Sewing Circle on courtesy and selfishness in public
A letter from ASHAMED OF HER SEX, a Second Wife, argues that many so called courtesies are selfish and that women often rely on men to perform simple acts like giving up seats or paying fares. The writer cites examples from Newton Centre and reflects on how women themselves influence male behavior.
Dear Sewing Circle Second Wife Seeks Advice on Rival First Wife
Woman writes about lingering grief for her husband’s first wife. She loves her husband yet feels jealousy when he speaks of her, uses her name, or places flowers on the grave. She worries about family judgment and hides her emotions behind a calm veneer.
Dear Sewing Circle Cast Out and a Haven for Girls
A reader urges philanthropists to fund shelters in big cities for hungry and solitary women and girls. The letter describes a harsh urban upbringing and street life ending in exploitation, then asks the editor to publish the reader’s personal answer to a posed question about surviving, ending with the blunt statement CAST OUT.
Women and Tobacco Dear Sewing Circle
A collection of letters from readers discussing whether it is worse for women to smoke or drink than men. Mothers recount attempts to curb daughters cigarette use and reflect on how smoking affects memories of mothers. Debates touch on sociability, tradition, and propriety, with examples from college life and domestic settings.
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Sewing Circle
Sewing
Dear Sisters of the Sewing Circle
New England
Sewing Circle Letters Featured In Sunday Post
A selection of engaging letters to the Sewing Circle is printed in the Sunday Post, highlighting community insights, practical tips, and reader perspectives on stitching, patterns, and home crafts.
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Sunday Post
The
Smugglers' case discussed by Boston dressmakers frauds
Assistant United States Attorney Garland of Boston conferred with Assistant Attorney General Adkins regarding alleged dressmakers customs frauds in Boston. Officials gave few details, but the talks related to the legal phases of evidence ahead of trials of those indicted for alleged evasion of duty.
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Washington
United States
Garland
Boston
Adkins
Fads and Fashions Describe Juvenile Coats and Evening Attire
Paragraph points highlight juvenile coats in white serge with colored satin collars and cuffs, belts of black satin, and a short-waisted coat with a flowered silk vest. A broad satin girdle and large bow accent girlish figures. The transparent hat in tulle net lace and wire foundations, and gowns in ratine lace in gray, yellow or chamois. High neck ruffles of tulle and lace with trimmed sleeves appear in new dresses.
Iberian sighted monster berg in transatlantic track
Officers of the Leyland liner Iberian reported a giant iceberg about 600 feet long and over 100 feet high sighted days earlier in the transatlantic route from Manchester. The berg featured three distinct pinnacles like cathedral spires and several smaller bergs were observed nearby.
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Manchester
England
United Shoe suit details union push and alleged payments
Witnesses testified that Charles H. Wilson urged a strike at the Thomas G. Plant Jamaica Plain factory and backed a union. He allegedly offered jobs and manipulated funds, while others spent hundreds organizing. The case, now in its fifteenth day, may continue into fall as defense and government prepare further.
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Charles H. Wilson
United Shoe Machinery Company
Thomas G. Plant
Jamaica Plain
Disselntior
United States District Court
Wilson
Lynn
United Shoe Company
Plant
United
Witnesses testify to Union push and bribe offers at Plant factory
Frank Morrison and Charles Ross recount meetings with Mr. Wilson urging a strike and union formation at the Plant factory. They describe promises of support, cash, and expenses in exchange for information on the toe operating machine and daily output. About 300 signed papers but no union formed. The case clock runs toward June 25 as the government nears its closing.
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Wilson
Field Holmes Company
Chelsea
Arnold School
Lynn
Ross
Abraham Sochat
Morrison
United Company
Charles F. Choate
James A. Fowler
United States Attorney General
Putnam
Frank Morrison
East Weymouth
Eddie’’ Johnson
The
United
Johnson
Plant
Ross and Sochat
Richards
United Shoe Machinery Company
Charles G. Ross
Dana_ street
Revere
Tobin
Raymond
Harvard War on Speculator Targets Commencement Tickets
Harvard authorities press to keep graduation week tickets from ticket speculators by restricting access to personal friends and relatives only. Speculators have appeared around the college square offering premiums for stadium and yard day passes for the confetti fete, ivy oration, and class day events.
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Harvard
College Square
Harvard Yard
Murderer in Death Cell Bargains for Final Week
Stefan Boraski, about 26, entered the death cell at the State prison shortly before noon yesterday awaiting execution in the week of June 22 for the murder of Mrs. Rose Umanaski whose body was found in a well at West Franville on September 27, 1911. He was captured with another man who died in Springfield jail while awaiting sentence. Boraski insists on innocence, says death was caused by fright, and requested a Catholic priest who visited him. he is a heavy cigar smoker and can read little but writes none.
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Stefan Boraski
State
Boraski
Rose Umanaski
West Franville
Springfield
M. J. Murphy
14 Years Jail for Colored Attacker in Providence
Richard Brown colored received a 14 year sentence in Providence for attempted criminal assault on Mrs. Lillian Vinal wife of Professor William G. Vinal of the State Normal School. The crime occurred February 12 1912.
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Providence
Richard Brown
Lillian Vinal
William G. Vinal
State Normal School
Flag Gifts To F. Gray Co Visitors
For Flag Day the F Gray Company clothiers at Hanover and Washington streets will today present a small silk flag on a gilded staff to all visitors. The flags are sized for lapel wear and served as a patriotic observance gift.
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F. Gray Company
Hanover
Washington Streets
Notable Love Letters From George Sand and Musset
A portrait of George Sand and Alfred de Musset through their letters shows a stormy romance. Sand's passion for Musset, then an obsession with a physician during his illness, and her dramatic gestures marked a life of intense, tangled affairs and poignant estrangements.
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George Sand and
Alfred DE Musset
de Musset
Goodby
George
George Sand
Saint-Beauve
Louise Donnelly Ends as Homeowner After Kitchen Rise
Louise Donnelly, once a high school star and failed to secure steady work, becomes a restaurant entrepreneur then buys a newly renovated house. Her former lover Ted Draper, now a clerk at the real estate office, is shocked when she names him as the buyer and signs papers in her name.
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Louise Donnelly
Ted Draper
Mr. Donnelly
Louise
Monster
Miss Donnelly
Refuses to Send Newly Wed to Jail
Samuel Richmond clothing dealer at 27 School Street narrowly escapes jail after trial before Judge Creed in the Police Court. He was fined 200 for operating a small loan business without a license from the Supervisor of Loans Gerry Brown and has appealed.
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Samuel Richmond
School Street
Creed
Gerry Brown
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