Sewing Circle Advice Columns From Boston Post Readers
A long Sewing Circle section shares reader questions on farming marriage finances and social life. Letters discuss buying farms direct versus real estate agents surviving on limited income balancing work for women and child care and issues of propriety and social restrictions in the early 20th century.
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Andunday Post
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New England
Boston Post
Iome
Benning
Paragraphs on Fads and Fashions Highlight Winter Styles
A white chiffon dancing dress features fly ing bands of black velvet and roses at the waist. Smocked children’s garments are in fashion for better wear. Monkey fur fringe inspires the trend while waistcoats remain in vogue. Fur coats fastened by a single button appear with short wide skirts this winter. Raspberry purplish red is rising in popularity. Yokes dominate fashionable coats and black tulle evening gowns with delicate lace trail on the floor. Linen or embroidered muslin collars decline in favor of a somewhat severe neck. New skirts show a high waistband to improve drape.
A Toast to Vermont Poem Recital
A verse celebrating Vermont with lines about wind and hills and the state’s virtue. It extols higher values as the north winds blow and nature and people align with honor, health, and purity in a bucolic portrait of regional pride.
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Vermont
Mock Mincemeat Without Meat Recipe Note
A butter roux is made with 1 tablespoon flour and 1 cup hot milk seasoned with salt pepper and celery salt. Oysters are boiled until plump then added to the sauce. Contains a note with the name Miss Nellie Leary and address 8 Union Street Methuen.
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Nellie Leary
Union Street
Methuen
Mabel Flood
Thayer Place
Brookline
Hicks
Hichborn Street
Revere
Will Quit Waltham If Asylum Goes There
Col George H. Doty and George C. Runkle say they will move residences and interests from Waltham if the State Board of Insanity proceeds with building the largest Massachusetts asylum on Trapelo road, as currently planned.
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Waltham
George H. Doty
State Republican Committee
George C. Runkle
State Board of Insanity
Trapelo Road
State Board
Hearing Set On Insane Asylum Site At City Hall
The Board of Aldermen will hold a hearing at City Hall on December 3 regarding the use of land on the Lawrence and Broderick farms and an adjacent track on Trapelo road for an insane asylum.
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Mense
Lawrence and
Broderick
Trapelo Road
Board of Aldermen
City Hall
Three Dead in Nitroglycerin Plant Blast Near Robinson
A Dupont nitroglycerin plant explosion in Robinson Newfoundland killed three men who were the sole workers present. The blast occurred today at the Dupont operation in the Dupont nitroglycerin plant area. Local authorities reported no other injuries.
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Robinson, NL
Dupont
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