Sewing Circle Opens Dialog for Boston Post Readers
The Sewing Circle column invites New England women to discuss home life issues and domestic tips. Questions on marriage, parenting, health, remedies, budgeting, and gardening are welcome via noms de plume, with letters reserved for one side of the page.
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Three Bystanders End Up Standing By Each Other
A janitor and two lonely souls in a boarding house connect through a child named Rudolph Baron and a kind girl. The Bystanders reflect on missed chances, a mother separated by social prejudice, and a vow to cease watching life passively as they choose to stand together.
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Love and Matrimony Advice From a Thimbleful to Buckets
A reader asks how to tell if a girl loves him as a young man seeks guidance. The columnist cites Sheridan on starting marriage with aversion, noting love may grow or fade, and warns that all marriages vary.
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Dear Miss Champagne Advice on a Love Triangle
A reader asks how to handle a man who claims to love both her and her friend. The adviser urges the two women to end contact with him, labeling him untrustworthy and suggesting they avoid a man who cannot decide his affections, to protect their friendship and happiness.
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Admitted to Missouri Massachusetts Accident Co License
The Massachusetts Accident Company has been granted a Missouri license and a certificate of authority. President G Leonard McNeill states the firm will immediately begin developing its business in Missouri.
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Help for a New Housekeeper Budgeting Essentials
A reader asks for guidance from sisters on dividing a weekly income of 13.60 dollars for household expenses and lists necessities for starting a home. She seeks a practical shopping list and budgeting tips for gas, fuel, food, and other essentials as she prepares for marriage.
Let Him Fetch Breakfast. Remain in Bed for Your Sleep
A wife tells herself to let her husband get his own breakfast after starting work at 4 30. She wonders why she should wake early, arguing a tired husband deserves his own meal. She promises sweeter repose by not waiting on him.
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Gift suggestions for a gentleman of small stature
A reader offers a shopping list of personalized presents including monogrammed linen handkerchiefs, fur lined gloves, travel gear, pillared smoking stands, brass cigar cases, embroidered frames, and self made bathrobe gowns. The note asks if matrimony is being contemplated and mentions lists already sent in.
Letter of Help and Hope for Missing Items
A note expresses willingness to share backed by a fiances belongings that are hard to replace. The writer offers to send documents or items to assist and ends with well wishes and anticipation of a reply. The tone is hopeful and supportive.
Wife shares early rising sacrifice for husband in housekeeping note
A reader describes her 4:30 wake schedule and daily routine to support her husband. She details helping him dress and lace his shoes, noting his ambition and the praise she holds for him. The letter ends with her sign off as a union teamster's wife.
Homemade ice in winter inquiry from Tillie
A reader asks for practical methods to make ice in winter using wooden boxes and clamps. She seeks guidance on freezing water in boxes and how to remove ice without sticking to the wood, inviting housewives to share usable information.
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Tillie
Remedy for Cat Mange Promoted by Boston Writer
A home remedy for mange in cats is proposed using a paste of lard and sulphur in equal parts plus dry sulphur on the tongue twice a week. The note claims many homeless cats have been cured. East Boston report dated November 2.
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Hope Hunters Reflects Boxing Blues and Hopes in 1910
Poet Walt Mason laments gloomy boxing prospects as hopefuls chase a champion like Johnsing across continents from Missouri to Cork. Across cities from New York to London, sluggers seek the mantle of the diamond belt while fans grow weary and hearts remain sick and sore.
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