Dear Spotless Town letters on housekeeping and marriage
A flood of reader letters critique domestic roles and husband duties. Women advise and tease about keeping homes neat, budget strains, and refusing to work while wives reflect on financial pressures and gender norms. A warning against divorce temptation caps the exchange.
Old Song about Nellie Home at Aunt Dinah's Party
A nostalgic verse recalls seeing Nellie home from Aunt Dinah's quilting party under August evening skies. The poem describes stars, moonlight, and a blossoming romance as the singer pauses to reflect on love and aging, with a chorus emphasizing the moment of seeing Nellie home.
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Dinah
Nelly
Nellie
Common sense advice to an undecided wife confronted by a husband’s friend
A column urges a married woman to reveal the truth to her husband about his friend who seeks her affections. It argues honesty restores self respect, advises apologizing, and warns against deceit toward the husband and child. It emphasizes a mother’s perspective, the dangers of manipulation, and the need for decisive action to preserve family integrity.
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Husbarmi
The Horse in a Changing World 1915
A reflective verse on horses as autos and tractors replace them. It notes urban shift, farm decline, and export to Europe amid war, imagining the horse’s place fading as machinery dominates fields and transport. Walt Mason’s poem comments on industry, economy, and mortality of the sport horse.
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Dobbin
Europe
Walt Mason
Adams
Why are you sad Papa my darling a warning to wives
A reader letter urges women to confess infidelity to their husbands and abandon unfaithful partners to protect homes. It warns that a cheating man is a coward and a villain who can ruin a family, citing a tragic example and urging forgiveness if possible. M B notes sewing circle letters in the Sunday Post.
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Suzy
Hubby
Sunday Post
George
Boston Daily and
New England
Boston Post
Papa
M. B
Sewing Circle
Emock Fashion Display Highlights Satin and Silk
The展示 features emocks for house wear in heavy satin. One ensemble pairs with a silk tapestry striped skirt in broad black and silvery white bands. A black satin smock is embroidered and smocked with heavy silver thread.
Boston Hippodrome Opening Postponed to March 25
The Boston Hippodrome opening is delayed from Oct 18 to March 25 to allow Creatore and his 50 musicians to adapt the music for moving pictures. The band will give daily concerts and accompany films, with Creatore needing a week to arrange the score after a recent concert tour. The Tremont and Berkeley streets venue will stay dark next week for rehearsals in New York.
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Boston Hippodrome
Creatore
Tremont
Berkeley Streets
New York
Rose Bush in Revere Produces Blooming American Beauty
Mrs. R. R. Ellingwood of 215 Walnut Avenue Revere cut a full blown American Beauty rose from her front yard yesterday She expects to cut more blossoms during the Indian summer as several buds remain intact.
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R. R. Ellingwood
Walnut Avenue
Revere
Fashion Sash and Silver Lace Dress Described in Evening Attire
A reader notes two outfits: a black satin gown with a high silver lace frill collar and matching sleeves, and an oyster white satin dress smocked and black embroidered with black lace at neck and wrists. The caller invites the companion to view them tomorrow and bid farewell.
Metcalf Re-elected President of Grain Dealers Association
Lee G. Metcalf of Illiopolis Illinois was re elected president of the Grain Dealers National Association at the close of the 19th annual convention in Peoria Illinois on October 13 year.
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Peoria
Lee G. Metcalf
Illiopolis
Ill
Grain Dealers’ National Association
New England Homemaker Shares Hidden Sundays Recipe
Maude A. Washburn of Dorchester offers a compact recipe fragment from the Sunday Post. The note lists clove cinnamon baking powder and a steaming step with a sweetened sauce.
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New England
Sunday Post
Maude A. Washburn
Clifton Street
Dorchester
Fruit Mold With Lemon Jelly Mayonnaise Dressing
A recipe fragment lists making a layered fruit mold with Malaga grapes oranges bananas and lemon jelly then serving with mayonnaise. It mentions South Vernon and names Ida 8S Russell and Mrs H G Robertson with Hartford Connecticut address details and additional baking instructions including butter eggs milk and raisins.
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Malaga
South Vernon
Ida
Russell
H. G. Robertson
Bodwell Street
Hartford
Conn
Kerrigan elected president of BC junior class
William E. Kerrigan of South Boston, a Boston Latin School graduate, was unanimously elected president of the Boston College junior class yesterday. Maurice Murphy of Abington was named vice-president, Maurice Dullea of South Boston treasurer, and Thomas Printon of Medford secretary. Dullea has played on the varsity football team for two years.
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William E. Kerrigan
South Boston
Boston Latin School
Boston College
Kerrigan
Marquette Debating Society
Maurice Murphy
Abington
Maurice Dullea
Dullea
Thomas Printon
Medford
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