English Wife Learns Husband Has Glass Eye Upon Arrival
Mrs. T. H. Mehl, an Englishwoman, learns at arrival that her husband, Mr. Mehl, has a glass eye. Dr. H. B. C. Riemer of the immigration staff notes the eye as artificial while filling official health forms, prompting Mrs. Mehl to exclaim she never knew her husband had only one eye during their six years of marriage.
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Sam
T. H. Mehl
H. B. C. Riemer
Immigration Medical Staff
Mehls
Mehl
Sewing Circle
Fruit and nut plated salad with cream dressing recipe
Instructions describe removing skins, arranging Malaga grapes and fruit on lettuce, serving very cold with cream dressing. Names Miss Elinor Tripp and Mrs WM H Wye Jr appear with partial address. Then a second recipe mixes egg and brown sugar with chopped peanuts baked from spoonfuls, followed by a corn meal loaf batter with rice and snowdrift, baked after mixing.
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Wee
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Sewing Circle Letters Reveal Domestic Debate in Boston Post
Readers share views on marriage duty, reforming dissipated husbands, taxation of bachelors, and parenting priorities. Letters discuss female influence, male responsibility, and practical household economics amid 1900s social norms from Boston Post’s Sewing Circle column.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
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