Sewing Circle Letters Reflect Households and Morals
In the Boston Post’s Sewing Circle column readers discuss domestic finance, marriage, and childrearing. Letters advocate viewing a $5000 inheritance as shared or kept for children, warn about husbands’ control, and urge laws on courtship and women’s roles, with practical hints from real-life experiences.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Love and parental pressure in a marriage engagement
A young woman asks Mildred Champagne how to handle a two year engagement where her suitor defers to his parents. The advice urges the man to decide for himself, condemns selfish parental interference, and suggests pursuing other opportunities if certainty is not forthcoming.
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Sewing Circle Sisters
Miss Champagne
Bee Hunter Captures Swarms From Vermont Forests
David Burgess of Lowell Vermont kept a wintering swarm in his cellar after removing them from a tree trunk. In spring three thriving colonies emerged. Burgess, bee hunter for 30 years, once collected eight swarms in four days and dares others to match the feat.
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David Burgess
Lowell
Mr. Burgess
Can You Beat It Copyright 1915
A brief note from the 1915 Press Publishing Company marks a copyright claim for the work Can You Beat It. The entry notes standard rights and publisher details typical of the period.
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the Press Publishing Company
Riecipes Mixed Fruit Drink and Croquettes of Odds and Ends
Mixed fruit drink recipe uses pineapples oranges lemons grapefruit pears maraschino cherries and mint with sugar and water for serving. Croquettes of odds and ends describe meat potato eggs and crackers forming balls fried in pork fat with salt and pepper. Recipes credited to Mrs H P Smith of Boston and Mrs F A Clark of North Oxford.
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H. Pi. Smith
Shawmut Avenue
Boston
Autumn fashion updates tease new sleeve shapes and fabrics
The piece describes trends in sleeves, skirts, and fabrics for autumn. Full puffs, chiffon and crepe, soft plaids and stripes appear in young girls frocks. Dark blue and green combos, tweeds with subdued plaids, braiding and fur join chiffon and cloth. Grosgrain silk rises in popularity for fall.
Mortgage on My Shack by Walt Mason
A 1915 verse laments the burden of home loans on the working man. The speaker mocks a man who mortgages his home to buy a car, promising quick repayment yet bound to debt. The poem frames mortgage as an Old Man of the Sea dragging the borrower down while the home loses pride to lenders.
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Ton
Oppenheim
Dante
Walt Mason
Adams Newspaper Service
Autumn Social Returns Spark Townwide Chat
The text recalls a tea outing where many familiar faces, including Lillian back from the Fair, gather in town. Lillian wears a glossy black satin beaver hat with a large silver rose and matching gauntlet gloves, a stylish fit described in period detail.
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Lillian
State Police Hunt West End Firebug
Acting Chief George C Neal will hold an inquest next Monday to determine who started the fire at the five story block 34 Anderson street last Monday night. State police have been investigating for days and believe they have a clear suspect and seek more evidence at the inquest.
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George C. Neal
Anderson Street
Maynard Names New High School Principal
Porter W. Averill of Fairhaven Vermont has been appointed by the Maynard school committee as principal of Maynard High School to replace C. W. Millar who resigned during the summer.
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Maynard
Porter Ww. Averill
Fairhaven
Maynard High School
C. W. Millar
He Might Have Been Somebody by Edmund Vance Cook
A reflective poem about a talented man whose gifts never gained public fame. Despite travel and eloquence he rarely published and seldom spoke on public platforms, yet he consistently offered gentle comfort and cheerful words to friends facing hardship.
Cambridge Republicans Hear Nomination Rivals Discuss Issues
Former Congressman McCall and Lt Governor contenders Cushing and Foss spoke at the Hotel Pem berton before Cambridge ward and city committees. Calvin Coolidge and Guy Ham also addressed the gathering as Republican nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
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McCall
Cushing
Foss
Calvin Coolidge
Guy A. Ham
Cambridge
Pemberton
Migration and state reform shape early election talk
Former Congressman McCall urges reversing migration to towns and boosting agricultural education to revive farming. Governor candidates debate party strategy, hospital delays, port interests, and public expenditure as they court voters and outline economic priorities ahead of the campaign.
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Congressman McCall
McCall
Coolidge
Democratic Party
Metropolitan District Insane Hospital
Boston
Cushing
Prohibition Campaign Sparks Jeers At Rally
A speech on the prohibition campaign drew boos and jeers as candidates spoke. McCall touted his GOP lineage as a sign of party unity while Foss urged cooperation among all Republican factions to mobilize for the fall election.
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McCall
Foss
Auto Kills Lame Girl in Charlestown
Frances Balharry eight, crippled, died at Relief Hospital after being struck by an automobile on Main Street at Miller Charlestown last evening. The car owned by Eddy P. Dunbar of Bridgewater carried his wife Gladys Hunt and Wilmer Taylor. Dunbar was detained at the station and bailed out later.
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Frances Balharry
Main Street
Miller
Charlestown
Relief Hospital
Eddy P. Dunbar
River Street
Bridgewater
Gladys Hunt
Wilmer Taylor
Dunbar
Dollar To Rule Washington Echoes in Fed Board Move
The Federal Reserve Board issued revised regulations on rediscounting bankers acceptances to boost American dollar exchange in global markets. The board says the changes widen facilities for U S banks and expand renewal options, aiming to dominate the world market for dollar payments. The move is not linked to the Anglo-French commission visit to discuss exchange problems.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
United States
Federal Reserve Banks
Anglo-French Commission
Largest submarine to be launched by Navy at Fore River
The United States Navy will launch its largest submarine at the Fore River shipyard next Tuesday with Miss Sarah P D Roberts daughter of Congressman Roberts of Chelsea acting as sponsor for the M 1.
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United States Navy
Fore River
Sarah PD. Roberts
Congressman Roberts
Chelsea
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Warren Street
Concord, N. H
Tommy
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West End
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Edmund Vance Cook
Petersburg
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Sophocles
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Ham
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Beacon Hill
Eugene N. Foss
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