Sewing Circle Letters Bring Farm Life and Family Struggles
Readers discuss the cost of keeping a farm family, marriage on a budget, and domestic loneliness. A letter from ROSE describes hardship on a two-year marriage with adopted children, a jealous husband, and scarce food. Other notes touch on economy, social isolation, and shared household duties.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Hubby
Rose
Honest Reflections On Debt Hypocrisy In Society
A reader rebukes a letter signer Brookline Bride for flaunting debt while owning comforts like a motor car and a flat. The writer condemns hypocrisy and urges honesty, arguing wedding purchases and borrowed gifts reveal moral laxity and borrowing from others.
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Sewing Circle
Brookline Bride
Living on $6 a Week Sisters Share Frugal Family Tale
A reader describes a cousin who sustains a family of three on three dollars per week. The account details light breakfasts of coffee and cereal, lunches, dinners of chowder or pie, and meals at a mother’s boarding house. The narrator notes generous portions and shared meals across several households.
What Twenty Dollars a Week Means to a Family
A letter from ONE WHO KNOWS describes drastic budget cuts over two decades and now living on twenty dollars weekly. The writer details scrimped rent, fuel, clothing, and meals, noting loss of luxuries and social life while urging girls to avoid similar hardship. The piece conveys personal struggle and financial restraint.
Love Surprises at Seventy as Man Falls for Neighbor’s Daughter
A 70 year old man, married with four children, abandons romantic illusions and falls for his neighbor’s 18 year old daughter who is crippled and not bright. He chases her obsessively, challenging the common belief that love fades with age. The writer warns that love can surprise and entrap even in later years.
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Boogie Man
A New Moral Standard in Dear Sewing Circle
A firm appeal from A RESOLUTE OLD MAID urging women to refuse to marry men who lack upright conduct. She calls mothers to teach boys to live aright and argues women must take a public stand to promote cleaner morals and reduce libertinism.
Castoria Praise Highlights Safe Gentle Remedy
Physicians and medical authorities endorse Castoria for stomach pains nerves and digestion. The Journal notes it as a safe harmless substitute for Castor Oil without opiates while warning against unsafe laxatives and urging informed health advances.
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Astoria
Bateman
Godfrey
Hall
Journal of Health
Meat strike extends to Boston area firms in wave
The Malden meat strike is to be extended into Boston Cambridge Charlestown Revere and Everett according to a strike committee report at a mass meeting held last night at 392 Bryant street Malden.
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Malden
Boston
Cambridge
Charlestown
Revere and
Everett
Bryant Street
Boston butchers plan partial shutdown with staged chicken sale
A strike committee reports canvassing South End and Chelsea butcher shops with most owners likely to close by next Monday. Shops that stay open will sell only chicken under a three woman volunteer watch. A large mass meeting at Faneuil Hall was abandoned in favor of several meetings across greater Boston. The first contribution of 386 dollars was received yesterday.
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South End
Chelsea
Faneuil Hall
Women in Philadelphia Stage Meat Boycott by Sprinkling Kerosene
Four women were arrested after demonstrations outside southern Philadelphia butcher shops where prices had risen. At a mass meeting the previous night a boycott was called to pressure lower meat prices, and today the protest spread across the area as women entered shops and poured kerosene on meat.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Mediums Report Lost Jewels Hidden in Hotel Brunswick
Mrs. E L Stoddard widow of Captain Stoddard U S N seeks recovery of jewels taken from her room at the Hotel Brunswick five years ago. She says several mediums and Professor Hyslop have foretold recovery within two weeks after advertising in Boston papers. The jewels valued at 900 near two figures in the scan.
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E. L. Stoddard
Captain Stoddard
Kearsarge
Boston
Brunswick
Philadelphia
Mrs. Stoddard
Hyslop
New York
James
M Harvard
Say Farewell to Boston College
Boston College held its largest graduation exercises yet in college hall on James street marking the last ceremony there before moving to University Heights Newton next year. Tonight the commencement week ends with a seniors banquet following tonight’s festivities.
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Boston College
James Street
University Heights
Newton
Radcliffe Sends Out 11c
Radcliffe College graduation day featured 117 diplomas 81 A B degrees 34 A M degrees and 2 Ph Ds. The ceremony honored John J Phelan and Francis J Phelan with prizes for labor essays and religion evidences. The event closed with a light luncheon and an alumni dinner at Agassiz House.
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David I. Walsh
Fitchburg
Joseph G. Anderson
Thos
John J. Phelan
Jamaica Plain
Stephen H. Mahoney
Somerville
Andrew F. Harrington
Wakefield
James E. Gibbons
Roxbury
Mr. Walsh
Cardinal O’connell
Phelan
Alumni Association
Francis J. Phelan
James Hardy Ropes
Radcliffe
Richard Clark Cabot
Sarah Wyman Whitman
Mary Coes
LeBaron R. Briggs
Natick Doctor Marries Miss Mc Grath in Sacred Heart
Dr. John F. Golden of Natick and Miss Mary E. Mc Grath oldest daughter of Thomas A. Mc Grath wed at Sacred Heart Church at 11 this morning. They will reside in Boston.
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Oak Bluffs
John F. Golden
Natick
Mary E. Mc- Grath
Thomas A. Mc- Grath
Sacred Heart Church
Boston
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