What to Do With $35 000 A Sisters Letter Advice
A reader imagines two paths for the $35 000 tied to a sister’s question. One option favors generous living, hosting women in need, and supporting charities. The other prescribes prudent wealth use including family care, farm life, and aiding orphans.
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Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Letter from the Sewing Circle sparks country house duties
The editor prints a reader’s letter urging courtesy to country hosts as guests arrive unannounced. It notes washing dishes, cooking, sweeping, and bedding chores, and warns that guests may expect a large Sunday meal. A Gum Drop column notes popular Sewing Circle letters in the Sunday Post.
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the Fortune
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Janet’s smart winter street gown on tricontine style
Janet shows a gray tricontine street gown that resembles a suit, with a full skirt featuring square pockets edged by moleskin fur and lined in American Beauty satin. The coat-like front is panelled, fastens at the shoulder seam, and is fur-faced at the collar and cuffs.
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Janet
Electric Truck Kills Lowell Man
Michael Sullivan aged 65, employee at the Lowell bleachery, was killed by an electric truck this afternoon while walking from the machine shop to the blacksmith shop in Lowell.
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Lowell
Michael Sullivan
Love's song over the world in every breath
The poem speaks of Love's song spanning creation from dawn to night, through flowers, buds, hills, and valleys. It describes the song rising in mother lullabies, in leaves and trees, and traveling across land from lanes to streets, continuing through time and birth.
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Love
Earn Money Knitting at Home
Advertisement inviting women to earn over $2.00 daily by knitting hosiery at home with Auto-Knitters. Claims steady year round employment and easy learning. Instructions to write Auto-Knitter Hosiery Co Inc Desk 8 D 147 Franklin St Buffalo NY with a 2 cent stamp for full details.
Fashions Update on Coats, Furs and Gowns
Fashions note fur bands edging coat hems and black remaining a ceremonial favorite. Cape collars are not highly successful while short bolero effects appear on serge frocks. Velvet sets replace furs before cold weather and suede leather updates tailored suits. Natural muskrat suits appeal for young girls as bodice necks and sleeves gain designer attention.
Questions on rain making grammar and sapper duties
A reader asks if firing cannon to make rain after European battles is a valid belief and if it is correct to say It is me. The letter also inquires about sapper duties in the European war, noting sapper roles in telegraph and pontooning, trench work, mining, surveying, and as mechanics.
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Tech 08
Dear Miss Champagne on Love and Loyalty in a Dying Heart
A reader once called a girl with heartache “poor and sick” while a suitor argues over her health and choices. The writer urges patience and compassion, suggesting she seek proper treatment and space to heal rather than pressuring her with social invitations.
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Miss Champagne
Class of 1918 at Boston College Elects Officers
The class of 1918 at Boston College elected officers yesterday. John M. O Laughlin of Malden was re elected president. H Bennett Murray of Roxbury was named vice president. Thomas S Hurley of Cambridge was elected secretary and Paul F Rooney of East Boston treasurer.
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Boston College
John M. O’laughlin
Malden
H. Bennett Murray
Roxbury
Thomas S. Hurley
Cambridge
Paul F. Rooney
East Boston
Poem of Faith and Afterlife Across Death in Arabia
A poet reflects on Abdullah's death in Arabia, urging friends to see beyond the grave. The speaker portrays the soul as the valuable treasure while the body is a worn vessel, urging calm faith in Allah and the hereafter. The poem comforts mourners and proclaims eternal life in divine light.
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Allah
Fricassee Rabbit and Vintage New England Recipes
A Sunday Post recipe page presents Fricassee Rabbit with milk gravy and onion, Pumpkin Pie crust and filling details, Chocolate Cake with frosting, and Crumb Brown Bread. Includes author credit Mrs. H. H. Whitney of Hartland, Maine.
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New England
Sunday Post
H. H. Whitney
Hartland
Frederick H Prince Reported Better At Princemere
Frederick H Prince, critically ill at Princemere Beverely Farms, passed a comfortable day and is steadily improving. Family reports he has not yet been informed of son Norman Prince's death.
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Frederick H. Prince
Prince
Princemere
Beverely Farms
Norman Prince
Household Hints on Cooking and Potatoes
Mushrooms taste best when simmered in their own juices with butter. For fudge, add a teaspoonful of cornstarch per cup of sugar to keep it smooth. Immature potatoes pulled early will not bake or boil light and fluffy.
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