Who gets the better husband in youth guidance letters
A series of letters to Sweet Eighteen offer dating and marriage guidance. Advice favors delaying marriage until at least 24, encourages girls to pursue education, work, church involvement, and homemaking skills, while warning against rushing into marriage. Several writers share cautions about heartbreak and the mismatch of life choices.
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Sweet Eighteen
Gustus
Sewing Circle
Bach
P. B
Sweet
Imported Pompeiian Olive Oil Adverts Claim Purity
An advertisement promotes Pompeiian Olive Oil as pure and good, promising quality to consumers. The message emphasizes guaranteed purity and reliability, typical of mid-century grocery ads.
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Pompeiian
Storm Bound Sparks New Bonds at Farmhouse
In a blizzard that traps a couple, John Becklin rescues Wilbur Norcross and Myra, whose meeting blossoms into a romance with the Becklin family. Myra and Wilbur reveal a past quarrel and decide to marry, while John and Una plan a double wedding as spring nears.
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John Becklin
John
Mrs. Becklin
Heywood
Htten
Myra
Wilbur
West
Ana
Wilbur Norcross
Fallsburgh
Tina
Everett
Norcross
Una
Cupid
Aerial mail route faces funding protest and rail shift
Massachusetts and New England lawmakers protest dropping the New York Washington air link while a Senate panel endorses 1.415 million for a New York to San Francisco airline. The Postmaster General urges keeping the New York Washington line for New England mail delivery timing. The Aeronautical exposition confirms a 1 million purchase of 235 airplanes by Chattanooga Aircraft Co. and notes Boston socialite Mrs. Frederick Chase buying a craft.
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New York
Washington
New England
Massachusetts
Senate Committee On Post Offices and Post Roads
San Francisco
New York - Washington
Boston
Chattanooga Automobile Company
Tennessee
George W. Browne
Chicago
Curtiss Company
Frederick Chase
Payton McGilvary
New England Company
Short Story Contributor Seeks Correct Address
Miss Nan Edgerly, who recently contributed a short story, asks to forward her correct address. She lists 38 Mellen Street, Cambridge, as her contact details.
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Nan Edgerly
Mellen Street
Cambridge
Polo cloth tones drive top coat styles navy serge trend
Natural tone polo cloth gains favor for top coats while navy remains the leading color in serges and trico tines.
Last Night's Dreams Meaning Explored in Brief Series
A short feature notes that modern readers doubt dream significance. It explains the series aims to explore historical meanings without asserting belief in dreams.
Did You Dream of Faces
A period piece on dream omens from Mysticus notes that seeing faces in dreams signals varying fortunes. Smiling faces foretell success in love and business, swollen faces hint at wealth, and visions of handsome faces promise content in later years for both genders.
Basque bodice flatters full figures with adaptable styling
A basque style of bodice offers graceful waist definition for larger figures. It can be lowered to fill hollows or raised to create a straight skirt line. The featured gown shows a square neck, front and back drapes, and narrow sash knots over the hips in navy silk matelasse with organdic cuffs.
Household Hints and Practical Tips from Readers
Readers share simple fixes for common chores. Mrs Albert H. Twite advises reshaping ironing boards to ease damp-ironed garments and suggests flipping folding boards. Mrs Jennie B. Lawrence recommends painting screens with a block of wood to avoid clogging holes. Mrs T. E. McDonald praises a kitchen scissors for trimming fruit and pastry and cutting vegetables.
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Albert H. Twite
Commercial Street
Provincetown
Jennie B. Lawrence
King Street
Lynn
T. E. Mc Donald
Stratford Avenue
Pittsfield
Exterior decoration for city homes and streets
The author argues for more exterior decoration of urban houses to rival interior beauty. Citing storks and gargoyles as charm, they advocate visible details like tiles, iron latches, and weather vanes to create inviting street fronts rather than blank façades.
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New York City
Love and Loyalty in Letters Across a Long Distance
A reader asks Mildred Champagne for advice on balancing love for a distant army major and a closer suitor. The writer notes monthly letters and doubts about fidelity, while considering whether absence weakens commitment and if a nearer partner deserves attention.
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Miss Champagne
Toodles
Proper wedding regrets wording from Miss Stuart
Regrets of inability to attend a wedding may be expressed as Mr. and Mrs. George L. Blank regret their inability to accept the invitation to the wedding reception of their daughter on Wednesday afternoon April 21 at 4 o'clock.
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George L. Blank
Henry A. Xyzy
Doems For Your Scrap Book The Chickadee
A short poem by Minna Irving in the New York Sun about a cheerful chickadee visiting a lilac tree amid snow. The bird endures cold and storms yet returns to sing, promising spring and renewal to the speaker.
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Minna Irving
New York Sun
RECIPES OF NEW ENGLAND HOUSEWIVES PEANUT BREAD AND BISCUITS
A fragment from a Sunday Post recipe feature lists PEANUT BREAD by EVA M. ARMSTRONG of Portland Maine, BISCUITS by MRS STRASMICK of Providence Rhode Island, and multiple other dishes with ingredient lists and baking steps. It includes Banana Pie by IDA M. BELANGER of Haverhill and a prune marshmallow dessert by MRS J BILLINGS of Bath Maine, plus a meat based soup recipe beginning with alitclbone and onions.
Indictment Returned in Atlantic City Sister Murder Case
Marie Tucci, accused by Atlantic City police of killing her sister Angelina Conti, was indicted by the New York grand jury for murder in the first degree. Extradition proceedings will start, a bench warrant is issued, and an Italian squad detective heads to Atlantic City.
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New York
Marie Tucci
Atlantic City
Angelina Conti
John F. Joyce
Miss Tucci
Joyce
Miss. Tucci
Appoint Fr Fitzgerald to Everett Pastorate
Cardinal OConnell appoints Rev Joseph W Fitzgerald as pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception Everett succeeding the late Rev Joseph F Mahan whose funeral was held last Saturday. He moves from East Boston where he led the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption.
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Cardinal O’connell
Joseph W. Fitzgerald
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Everett
Joseph F. Mahan
Father Fitzgerald
Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
East Boston
William J. Barry
St. Joseph’s Church
Hast Pepperell
John V. Cronan
St. Matthews Church
Dorchester
East Pepperell
Father Barry
Father Cronan
St. Patrick’s Day
Pilot
Springtime Is Coming In A Moonlit Dream
A lyrical ode describes spring arriving "all the way round" by moonlight. It paints spring as a fixed force traveling from rose gardens and dream valleys toward meadows and rills, despite chilly winds. The verse hints at May fairies and a morning message foretelling spring's imminent arrival before laughter turns to tears.
Boston Defenses and British Evacuation in 1776
The piece recalls a Boston merchant William Davis proposing earth filled hogsheads as a defense to deter Howe’s assault in Dorchester Heights during March 1776. It notes Heath’s praise for rapid work and Howe’s decision to evacuate rather than assault, amid terror, pillaging, and hurried embarkations as Boston prepared for fall.
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Boston
Dorchester Heights
Heath
William Davis
Howe
Washington
Courts Must Decide Suffrage Ratification
Washington March 11 The West Virginia Senate after unseating Senator Montgomery ratified the suffrage amendment but left the issue to the courts. The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage called the action a violation of the constitutional two thirds vote needed to expel a member.
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Washington
West Virginia Senate
Montgomery
National Association
7 000 000 Pounds of Raw Sugar Reach Hub
Late last night the American steamship Plainfield from Preston Cuba anchored, and this morning will enter the inner harbor. She carries more than 7 000 000 pounds of raw sugar for the Revere Sugar Refining Company.
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Plainfield
Preston
Cuba
Revere Sugar Refining Company
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MR. Simpkins
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Mysticus
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Metropolitan Newspaper Service
N.Y
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Miss Alice Stuart
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R. I
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Ida M. Belanger
Lowell Avenue
Haverhill
J. Billings
Mechanic Street
Bath
Fr. Fitzgerald
Bentitown Bard
Southern Press Syndicate
Wood
Berry, Dodge Co
Thomas Wood
Montreal
Berry-Dodge CO
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Taunton Knitting Co
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