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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1916
Page
15
A man in a passing car stops to speak to Jimmie and commends his work on the road. He gives Jimmie a folded bill as a reward and promises to return next summer, while onlookers, including the mother, cheer from the doorway.
The Sewing Circle pages publish reader letters from Boston Post readers on thrift, budgeting, and family life. Contributors discuss saving on a $15 weekly income, feeding children, rent concerns, and parenting, with several names and places cited in the exchanges.
The piece marks the 18th anniversary of Dewey's Manila Bay victory. It celebrates his bold actions against Spain with strong patriotic lines praising his leadership and success while noting the absence of casualties among his crew and the duty he fulfilled for the nation.
A young boy named Jimmie Petersen uses a shovel to fill a washed out road ditch after a passerby mocks the town for lacking spunk. He works through heat and effort, earning praise from the car party who learn he has no father and lives with his mother in a small house.
Dorothy visits and asks to go gown hunting in a car chatty scene. She mentions trying on a Quaker grey taffeta gown with an old blue chitton underbodice and a panel front and back tied at shoulders and hips.
The description notes a tan silk dress with a cross-stitch rose and green leaf border, a straight taffeta skirt with a blue chiffon yoke at the hips, draped sides, and a heavily corded hem. A matching transparent hat of blue or grey silk net is trimmed with a black ribbon edged in silver, exuding an Easter vibe.
The page includes reader questions to the editor about naval warfare tests, a submarine sinking Turkish Massadieh and torpedoing German Pommern in the Dardanelles and Baltic. It also features inquiries about New England city sizes, U S pension totals for 1914 and 1915, and hymn original titles for Rock of Ages and Lead Kindly Light with related attributions.
Practical tips for home care and sewing include slipping layers with a knitting needle until set, thickening soup with raw potato slices, using a steel crochet needle for sewing details, and keeping a corner-cut envelope to fill salt and pepper boxes. The items reflect common household shortcuts and organization ideas.
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