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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1913
Page
7
The Sewing Circle section of the Boston Post invites homemakers in New England to discuss home life and family matters. Topics include domestic economy, child care, gardening, and marital advice. Readers may use pen names and pose questions, writing on only one side of the paper.
Readers discuss wages, marriage, and social rules in 1900 era. A correspondent argues a living wage for men would end female work and wage competition. Others defend women's independence, share personal hardships in Boston work life, and defend evolving dress and manners against moral panic.
A reader laments fashion and maternal influence, arguing daughters learn from overbearing mothers. She defends women drinking in public, recalls a family doctor father and a wife’s “sick head aches” from wine. The writer challenges hypocrisy and calls for sensible, conservative upbringing.
In a stormy Senate nine strike committee session at Charleston a near fist fight was narrowly averted between Senator Martine of New Jersey and Quinn Morton manager of the Paint Creek Operators Association as coal operators of Paint and Cabin creeks presented their side of the dispute.
The whaler Karluk, commanded by Captain Robert Bartlett, readies for Stefansson expedition to the Arctic for three years. Nome arrival hoped around July 7 with Stefansson and Dr. Anderson joining from Seattle. ice may delay progress until July 20. Government instruction letter emphasizes risk acceptance over vessel safety.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, highlighting reader opinions, tips, and community views on crafts, fashion, and sewing projects.
David D. Farnsworth former Bridgewater businessman is on trial in Superior Court charged with manslaughter in the shooting of Thomas Hagan during a poultry yard theft attempt last August. Farnsworth testified not guilty as witnesses for both sides describe the night on his farm and the fatal exit of the intruder.
June 17 New York Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance received an address from delegates of all represented countries begging her to reconsider resigning the presidency. The meeting rose as the address was read and Mrs Catt thanked them, saying she would decide later but favors a single term. Jane Addams and Rev Anna Shaw spoke at a large mass meeting in the evening.
At the International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress in Budapest a decision, urged by the American delegation, limited the American Woman's Republic to one fraternal delegate while other affiliated societies sent one delegate each. The Woman's Republic had previously sent 20 delegates.
A bold double page image titled nee Last Stand promises to set readers' pulses racing in next Sunday's Post Magazine, described as an arresting showcase likely to captivate fans and critics alike.
Supreme Court yesterday held that Dr James R Taylor Jr a Brookline and Back Bay specialist has the right to compel his separated wife Florence S Taylor to sign away her dower in his estate at 53 Geaver Street Grooklin.
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