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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1915
Page
17
Readers share advice on domestic life, marriage, and independence. Letters discuss staying with an underemployed husband, avoiding furnished rooms, returning home, and balancing moral and legal rights. Multiple voices from readers named S. M. B. A. and others offer guidance.
A verse piece contrasts the Liner as a lady with the Man-o-War's husband and the cargo boats in Portsmouth harbour. It portrays naval and maritime life, duty, and Britain’s pride, noting loading, trade, and wartime sacrifice across verses.
A letter from a mother condemns female cigarette smoking urging girls to resist the habit. She argues women are the weaker sex created for chastity and virtue and warns that imitation of men corrupts virtue. She calls on readers to "TRY AGAIN" and maintain female respect and duties.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most intriguing letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader opinions and community thoughts in a colorful correspondence feature.
The Sunday Post features home recipe ideas from readers Mrs F L Putnam of Hardwick Massachusetts and Mrs E C Hall of Topsham Maine. Salmon fritters use canned salmon eggs flour and milk then fried. buttered bread pudding mixes bread molasses sugar sweet milk and spices. Excelsior Sauce blends green tomatoes onions peppers cabbage and salt overnight then drained.
A reader confesses splurging on a cream taffeta frock with rosebud sprigging and a cameo clasp. The letter mentions plans for bridge tonight and Jack bringing a friend home, ending with a casual farewell.
A recipe fragment lists ingredients for a spiced pickle glaze: celery seed, cloves, airspice, black pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, cider vinegar and sugar with a half hour boil. It directs jar filling without sealing and is signed by Mrs A J Tankard of 299 Prospect Heights in Northampton.
A Boston resident reports seasonable weather for November 11 with no rain, a night low in the 30s and a midday high near 50. He recalls two rainy Nov. 11 days in 1906 and 1908, a record cold 24 degree day in 1901, and warms up to 66 degrees in 1891, 64 degrees in 1911 in the last decade.
Little folk wear turbans like grown ups and velvet buttons fasten tight coats. Muff collars on loose flaring coats are smart. Jersey cloth suits suit town and country wear. Short evening dresses feature odd narrow sash trains.
The Post filed a detailed field report on the Peabody fire catching 16 of 21 victims in photographs. Photographers’ captions and texts accompanying the images were praised as well handled by the editor and publisher.
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