Women discuss uninvited visits and social norms
Letters reveal strong opinions on welcoming guests without invitation. Women defend hospitality, urge fairness, and critique routines that burden hosts. Others call for rights and reform, citing personal stories of intrusion and workplace equality.
Dearborn Kemper Couple Wed in Somerville Home
The Rev. RE Perry Bush officiated at the marriage of Miss Jamily H Kemper of 83 Pearson Avenue West Somerville and Lester W Dearborn of 61 Towden Avenue last night at the bride’s parents home. The groom is a teacher at Somerville High School.
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RE. Perry Bush
Jamily H. Kemper
Pearson Avenue
West Somerville
Lester W. Dearborn
Towden Avenue
Somerville High School
New England Housewives Share Sunday Recipes
Colonial style menu items including macaroni and ham bake with cracker crumb topping, raised doughnuts with mashed potatoes, and pork with split peas. lemon pie crust and lemon filling with meringue, credited to Mrs. S A Marrs and Mrs W E Campbell of Manchester New Hampshire.
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S. A. Marrs
Garland Avenue
Manchester
N. TH
W. E. Campbell
Household Hints From Marblehead Reader Edna M. Caron
Practical kitchen tips include avoiding sugar in fruit pies and using hot syrup to preserve juice. Vinegar in poaching water keeps egg whites intact. A pinch of soda steadies custard that overcooks. A cord tied around hot bread marks slices to serve. Stale bread crust absorbs cabbage odor. Marblehead tip credited to Edna M. Caron.
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Edna M. Caron
Village Street
Marblehead
Fashions Note: Slippers Cope with New Styles in 1920s
Paragraph Points highlights fashionable items such as blue glazed kid slippers and suede bags. It notes New Russian style coats and very full three piece dresses in ivy leaf green with gold and brown soutache embroidery.
Onward in Life’s Strife Through River to Sea
A poem urging persistence and progress. The speaker contrasts slowing or yielding with moving forward like a river, overcoming barriers, and continuing toward a broad future. It envisions life as an ongoing journey toward growth and achievement.
Letter Box Inquiries on Queen Alexandra and U S Election
A reader asks if Queen Alexandra is alive and active. another questions Mr B's land sale rights under statute of frauds. A third asks how U S presidents are elected and the role of electors and committeemen. Boston subway ownership and lease to the Boston Elevated Railway is noted.
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Massachusetts
Sir
England
Alexandra
the Post
I. H
Boston
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Chicago Vice Reports for Grand Jury
Officers representing Maclay Hoyne State's attorney raided the offices of Mayor Thompson and Chief Healey ordering them to surrender to the grand jury all files containing correspondence on vice and gambling.
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Chicago
Maclay Hoyne
Thompson
Healey
Grand Jury
Auto-Knitter Hosiery Ad Seeks Home Workers
Many women at home knit hosiery and earn two to three dollars daily. The work is steady, year round, and easy to learn. Apply to Auto Knitter Hosiery Co Inc Desk 8 D 147 Franklin Street Buffalo NY with a 2 cent stamp for full particulars.
Poem about Death and celestial hope
The verses mourn a death with consoling faith as the poem contrasts earthly loss with heavenly transition. It speaks of patient endurance, celestial benedictions disguising as darkness, and the longing to reunite with loved ones in a divine mansion beyond death. It emphasizes patience, silence, and acceptance.
Delegates Named for Irish Freedom Convention in Boston
Ten Malden delegates to the Friends of Irish Freedom convention at Faneuil Hall were elected at a Malden O Rahilly unit meeting. The Roxbury Roger Casement Branch Irish relief fund shows 190 dollars in credit under treasurer Catherine O Flaherty. A Brookline resident involved in an annulment suit was denied alimony by Suffolk Superior Court amid claims of unemployment and support from a brother.
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Friends of Irish Freedom
Faneuil Hall
O’rahilly
Malden
William P. Curley
Cornelius Sullivan
Robert Ford
James Meegan
Michael O'Neil
Richard Howard
Michael Hardiman
Matthew Conner
Peter Hastings
Joan M. O'Brien
Irish Relief Fund Committee
Roger Casement
Cedar Street
Roxbury
Jeremiah Carroll
Catherine O'Flaherty
Thomas O’flaherty
Catherine O’flaherty
Matthew Quinn
Joseph Walsh
J. Carroll
Maura Quinn
Mortimer O'Connor
Mitchell
Cornelius Curran
Brookline
Albert Victor Sykes
Suffolk Superior Court
Sykes
No alimony pending annulment suit noted for nurse
Mrs. Thorborg Hildegrad Sykes, a district nurse employed in Arlington, is connected to an annulment suit with no alimony pending. The sparse item focuses on the legal filing and the nurse’s employment context.
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