The Lost Child Meets Her Father And A New Mother
Bessie Dodge shelters a frightened eight year old girl who arrives claiming to be lost. Years earlier her sweetheart Albert left Crescent and later married another, but the girl now reveals he is her father. He comes to reclaim his daughter and asks Bessie to become the mother she never had, transforming both their lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Dodge
Ann
Essie
Bessie
Michael
Crescent
Albert
Miss Dodge
Engagment rings spark debate on love and money
Letters from readers in the Sewing Circle tackle diamond engagement rings and the cost of courtship. Advocates urge restraint, warn against buying for love of gifts, and argue marriages should be based on affection not displays of wealth.
Fried Chicken With Mazola Oil Recipe Preview
A vintage kitchen note promotes Mazola as superior frying fat for fried chicken and veal cutlets. It outlines steps to brown the bird, simmer slowly, and finish with milk gravy, then explains Mazola’s heat, cleanliness, and reuse advantages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mazda
Corn Products Refining Company Ahern and Cahoon
Corn Products Refining Company is represented by Ahern and Cahoon, New England representatives handling regional duties and inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corn Products Refining Company
Ahern & Cahoon
New England
Over the Wire Night Beneath City Lights
Readers recall a lively benefit event with broad crowds and social chatter. Mrs K appears, stylish in dark blue with emerald highlights, while fashion details and party talk fill a column fragment from the city.
Quiet tribute to a reformer and workers unity
Come workers: a teacher’s lasting lesson on human brotherhood beyond class, race, and creed. The reformer’s creed centers on freedom, justice, and restraint against greed, honored by toil-stained hands laying unseen wreaths on his coffin.
Deserted scene sparks questions about Rocks rumor
Fragmentary lines describe a deserted area and rumors about rocks. No clear persons or places are named, leaving the event details uncertain.
Hat Rest and Handy Spool Holder from Mrs Pallifer
Hat rest for a lady's hat folds flat for carrying or snaps together for display. A brass curtain rod serves as an efficient spool holder, supporting multiple spools and mounting on the sewing room wall. Mrs Janet A Pallifer 72A Grove Street Gloucester.
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Janet A. Pallifer
Grove Street
Gloucester
Fads and Fashions Parade in Recent Showings
Paragraph points on fashion trends note short sleeves white silk embroidered tusser coats and white tulle dresses. Bridesmaids wear organdy while rows of buttons define true street dresses. Blue serge coats feature flowered linings as collars and cuffs and crepey shirtwaists with apple blossom trimming gain style.
Mill Factory Sale Offers Wide Unprecedented Economies
A mill and factory sale advertises deep discounts across a broad range of clothing and fabrics. Dresses, silk waists, skirts, robes, hats, undergarments, children's wear, and men's shirts are promoted with prices slashed from standard values.
Coffee ice cream in cantaloupe halves recipe
Instructions for making coffee ice cream served in cantaloupe halves with milk sugar flour and egg cooked in double boiler then cooled and mixed with salt and cream before freezing. Includes contributor Mrs Jennie Gove of Cliftondale. Also a Johnny Cake recipe from Mrs H F Marshall using corn meal milk sugar and flavoring for a quick bread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Gove
Maple Avenue
Cliftondale
H. F. Marshall
N Street
North Adams
Pure and Clean Homemade Ice Cream Guide
A brief note advocates making ice cream at home for children, stressing purity and safety. It promotes avoiding bought ice cream and suggests that freezing homemade mixtures is easy, guiding readers toward simple, clean preparation.
Alaska Freezer Dasher Promises Lighter Creams
The Alaska Aerating Spoon Dasher rims a slotted mixing ig pattern to whip air into creams, meringues and batters. Three minutes creates lighter texture and richer flavor, inviting shoppers to see the Alaska Freezer in action.
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Alaska
Boston Area Wholesale Firms Listed by Street and Co.
A long list of Boston area hardware and general merchants sorted by street and district names includes Boston stores such as Houghton & Dutton, Jordan Marsh, F. A. Fraser, Onan & Streeter, Gray Co., Macy, Dock 8 Arlington, and Shattuck Co. among others. The compilation names numerous firms and their locations across neighborhoods including Cambridge, Medford, Melrose, Newton, Quincy, Salem, Somerville, Waltham, Winchester and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
W. & A. Bacon
Houghton & Dutton Co
Jordan Marsh Co
K. H. White Co
Zrmoeey Smith Co
S. H. Davis Co
Portland & Sudbury
F. A. Fraser
Portland St
J. W. Philbrick & Co
Lynn
J. B. Blood Co
W. Henry Hutchinson
B. Magrane
B. H
Malden
F. N. Joslin & Co
van A. Brown
Medford
Page & Curtin Melrose
Frank E. Coyle
Perry & Marston Needham
T. J. Crossman
Needham, Hdn
Newton
Daland Co., Inc
Somerville
Maurice J. Barron
W. E. Plumer
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Post
Gladys Dacey
Hilliad Avenue
Braintree
Peri
Frank E. Davipsoni
Boston Fost Sewing Circle
Connecticut
Mrs. Scott
Philadelphia
Mazola
Dorothy
M. J. O'Keefe
Salem
John Boyle O’reilly
Wendell Phillips
Tively
Coornnabir
Coats
Isa A
Turkey
Marine Boas
Thomson’s
Palm Beach
Tremont St
Sunday Post
Dasher
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