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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1915
Page
13
Readers share tough family money strain, child rearing, and loneliness in the Sewing Circle. A wife counsels obedience and adoption, others urge Christmas kindness, self-respect, and resilience, while sisters seek love and companionship. The column preserves practical, comforting guidance for 1930s readers.
The Sunday Post presents a collection of intriguing letters to the Sewing Circle. Readers share tips, fashion ideas, and community notes, reflecting hobbyist interests and local discourse.
A charming young girl at Madeline's coming-out tea is expected to join the set this winter. She plans to meet for tea after the matinee this afternoon and asks attendance. She wore a panne velvet hat in pale moonlight blue with ermine trim and chiffon roses, paired with white fox furs.
A 1915 poem titled The Firing Line describes life as a firing line where individuals face danger and test courage, duty, faith, and love. It emphasizes manhood, resolve, and rising to the occasion against foes in a wartime setting. The piece reflects heroic sentiment and patriotic duty.
A collection of old fashioned recipes includes Escalloped Tomatoes with buttered crumbs and pecans, Brown Bread using cornmeal and molasses, and Coconut Indian Pudding with milk and raisins. Recipes credited to Miss A. Jackson of Medford and Mrs. F. A. Mayberry Randolph R. F. D. Read as a kitchen notes item from a local column.
Dear Miss Champagne advises choosing the person you truly love and can form a lifelong companionship with. She warns against rushing marriage, urges a year of steady friendship to base love, and notes parental views may misjudge suitability.
Mrs. Charles A. Capwell of 550 Power Road Pawtucket Rhode Island advises two kitchen tips for onion peeling. Place bread on the knife end to reduce tearing or peel onions under running water to lessen eye irritation.
The College of Liberal Arts at Boston University held a heated clash between suffragists and antis amid a parade atmosphere. Co-eds with yellow badges pursued men who dodged then wore pro and anti buttons causing crowded discussions. Pros led early, but antis mobilized across the street to challenge them.
At the City Hospital morgue lies an unidentified man about 88 years old, 5 feet 6 inches, 150 pounds, found dead in his Hanson street South End room by roommate William G. Tasco. Medical Examiner Leary cites natural causes. Tattoos on both arms may help identification, including a dancing girl on the left forearm, a girl with bow and arrow shooting at the moon on the upper left arm, a wreath and ship on the right wrist, crossed cannon with C G on the right forearm, and J M in large letters on the right biceps.
Miss Catharine Hayward Bowles daughter of Rear Admiral Francis I Bowles will marry Alfred Putnam Lowell today at noon at Arlington Street Church The Rev Paul Revere Frothingham will officiate Bowles will be given in marriage by her father maid of honor is Mrs Frederick S Bigelow best man Leonard J Wyeth of New York and a group of Boston Cambridge and Quincy ushers attend the ceremony.
The Massachusetts Association of ex Prisoners of War held its annual reunion at Wakefield. About 100 members attended. Officers for the coming year include Dennis Linehan of Boston as commander and Thomas J. Buffum of Somerville as senior vice commander. Additional officers are H Dribou junior vice commander James H Griggs adjutant and quartermaster W W Fish chaplain J Fred Leslie Woburn W G M Howe Reading D L Weymouth William Riley Levi J McKnight and Charles H McPhee on the executive committee.
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