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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1913
Page
11
The Sewing Circle column invites readers to discuss home life and domestic care. In a letter, a reader urges balancing cleanliness with family comfort, promoting orderly homes that are warm and welcoming for children and visitors.
A mother plans a boy's party around puzzles. Invitations are mirrored to read correctly, with a puzzle for every guest. The piece suggests buying wire puzzles, key puzzles, and pigs in clover from stores and making an inventory of stock.
A reader criticizes a sister for extravagance while recounting a disciplined budget. She describes living on $5 weekly after marriage, sharing two rooms at $2 weekly, buying bargains, sewing at home, earning small income, and saving $20 monthly by avoiding waste. She praises a clean home and homemade bread as proof of thrift.
A wife explains how a couple with limited income uses strict budgeting to balance finances. She highlights lessons from family, personal training, and view of the home as a business, noting savings of seven dollars weekly for rent and six dollars each for food and for both partners, sustaining romance.
Dear Sewing Circle urges women to prioritize home life over social outings. A letter from AN OLD FASHIONED WIFE praises Radcliffe visiting friend who rushed to prepare her husband’s supper. She counsels wives to greet husbands with affection and avoid outside frivolities.
The official prospectus catalogs star names for the Boston Opera Company season including Mary Garden Emmy Destinn Nellie Melba Lina Cavalieri Lucrezia Bori Lucile Marcel Weingartner Tetrazzini and more. Conductors Wein gartner Maranzoni Caplet lead the season with Puccini Manon Lescaut revived while Pelleas et Melisande is not on the winter schedule. Season-seat sales are brisk and urged for subscribers.
A wild young deer wandered from the woods into Providence's North End and crashed into a bakery plate glass window on North Main street. After fleeing through streets toward the river it was pulled from the Providence River but was too badly hurt. a policeman then shot it.
The Panama Exposition will host the Temple of Childhood with international contests for young participants. Mrs Hill of Brockton explains the daily time commitment of a home-based child, while contestants from every state and country vie for cash awards and commemorative medals.
Hugh O'Donnell delivered the second illustrated travel talk at Tremont Temple with a journey from Gibraltar to Alexandria Cairo and Luxor. He showed pyramids Sphinx Nile delta farming at Assouan Thebes Karnak and The Colossi and closed with Suez Canal pictures. The same program repeats this afternoon.
A minister boasts of a busy day saying he married seven hearts and three couples in a light hearted exchange with a parishioner. The punchline has the minister noting he did it for nothing if needed.
John Lind, Wilson's representative in Mexico, reports Vera Cruz indications Huerta plans to resign the provisional presidency. The United States seeks guidance on recognition or negotiations with a possible successor. No resumption of talks has been declared and officials caution against armed protectorate plans that would undermine Mexican sovereignty.
Boston C. L. U. will elect officers tomorrow. Vice-President William Kobs is unopposed for president and Secretary Fleury Abrahams, Secretary-Treasurer James R. Crozier, Assistant Secretary Harry Dunderdale and Sergeant-at-Arms John J. Fenton are unopposed for re-election. Contests are vigorous for vice-president, board of trustees and auditors. Joseph D L Cannon of Michigan copper miners will speak.
The Filene & Sons Company and Engineers' Local 16 settle their dispute with the company accepting the local's wage schedule. The increased pay takes effect next Monday.
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