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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1913
Page
15
Readers discuss hiring practices for housework and wage equity within marriage. A Boston母 mother-in-law criticizes old norms while a young bride-to-be describes shared funds and a banked future. A Eugenic Believer urges civil service style screening for marriage licenses.
Sunday Post invites readers to see a full page of New England Housewives recipes including meals and baking ideas for home cooks.
Recipes narrate tomato relish and fruit cake like batters. Names Mrs F I Pettingell Miss Nellie M Tillson Mrs Frank Lyden Mrs WW Monroe appear with addresses in Revere Whitman Waltham and Providence. Each item lists ingredients such as tomatoes peppers sugar vinegar spices and condensed milk with baking steps and measurements.
Lois returns home to her father as a farmer named James Barnard, actually Jim Allen of New York, reveals he inherited a fortune and chose farm life. He bought a North Hero farm, asks to marry Lois, and the pair plan to unite with her father’s blessing.
A correspondent titled Standing Up for Her Sex challenges a Circle letter arguing about a man’s right to spend 50 cents on his meals and keep weekly wages. The writer defends fair pay and personal expenses for a man who supports his wife, urging reasonable car fare and a decent meal without attack on male finances.
A reader argues against early marriage for daughters aged 18 and 19 and asserts women only know their true future when near 30. The letter references a neighbor’s son as an example in the discussion.
The Sunday Post features a selection of notable letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader opinions, anecdotes, and community concerns in a lively newspaper column.
A young 18 year old asks how to tell a 16 year old friend that her behavior with boys is risky. The columnist says true friendship shows in concern and suggests involving a trusted mother figure to admonish the girl if the friend remains disinterested.
The verse remarks that cold days occur when sun hides yet every cloud holds a gold or silver lining, suggesting optimism despite dreary weather and mood.
A poetic meditation by Elizabeth Akers Allen on bearing pain and loss. The speaker questions how much suffering the heart and body can endure and reflects on death approaching in a surgeon's knife, famine, bereavement, and endless grief yet asserts the soul's resilience.
Mrs Bertha L Heald wife of Principal Frank Heald of Ames Grammar School Dedham died after collapsing at home then at the school. Her funeral is set for 2 pm today in Dedham with burial Friday in North Isleboro Maine. She had substituted for Miss Ella Howe since Monday.
Princess Augustine Victoria of Hohenzollern wife of former King Manuel of Portugal is expected to recover within a reasonable time according to attending physicians. Manuel has joined his wife at the hospital where she is being treated after falling ill on September 18 with fever and gastric symptoms and going there on September 22.
Miss Leonora Whitaker Kronenberg daughter of Franklin Kronenberg of Cambridge became the bride of Arthur Franklin Macey postmaster of the Charlestown navy yard in St James Episcopal Church Cambridge last night in the presence of hundreds of guests.
Two year old Pepronio Chersyansky of 8 Laurel Avenue was left alone in a locked house when his mother visited a neighbor. He fell from a second story window to the pavement, fracturing his skull. He is expected to die.
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