RECIPE SECTIONS FROM NEW ENGLAND HOUSEWIVES
A Sunday Post recipe column lists Lobster Newburg and Swordfish with horseradish sauce plus a loafing French toast. It includes ingredients, steps, and user notes from Mrs. H. B. Crosby of East Boston and Jennie V. Miret of Lexington Street East Boston.
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Recipe's of
New England Housewives
H. B. Crosby
Princeton Street
Boston
Jennie V. Miret
Lexington Street
East
The Woman Voter Letters on Suffrage and Duty
A collection of reader letters debated in the Sewing Circle about women's suffrage. Contributors argue whether women should renounce traditions, accept voting, and balance home life with public roles, with calls for courtesy and equality and reminders of physical differences.
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Sewing Circle
Magnolia
Goring Rocks
Mne
Colby
Sewing Cirle
Turkey nurse revives New England turkey industry
Miss Margaret Mahaney left nursing to raise turkeys in Massachusetts. Despite blackhead plague fears, she developed a care system for the disease and grew from one head in the first batch to 13 birds from 15 eggs the following year. By the third year she earned nearly $400 and helped revive a nearly lost regional craft.
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Margaret Mahaney
Massachusetts
Blackhead
New England
Miss Mahaney
Buying a Dinner Etiquette Guide by Miss Stuart
In wartime dining, Hoover era conservation guides a shorter menu. For group meals at hotels or restaurants, suggest soup a single principal dish of fish flesh or fowl seasonal vegetables a dessert and a beverage. Nuts fruits crackers and cheese may accompany as preferred.
Great Eastern Size Compared With Leviathan
The Leviathan measures 920 feet long and 100 feet in breadth with a tonnage of 54 282. The Great Eastern reaches 680 feet in length and 82 12 feet in breadth with 118 feet including paddle boxes, and it can carry 5000 tons of cargo.
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Great Eastern
Leviathan
Inquiry on Chestnut Hill reservoir construction date and cost
Letter asks when the Chestnut Hill reservoir was built and states an 1865 act authorized the project. It notes the total cost including the driveway around the reservoir was 2,450,000 dollars.
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Chestnut Hill
Boston
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Questioning a fiancé who relies on her funds during unemployment
A long letter from PUZZLED G A asks Miss Champagne whether a woman should finance amusements for a fiancé out of work. The columnist criticizes the man for improvidence after three years of courtship and questions the wisdom of such dependence.
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Miss Champagne
G. A
Sewing Machine Tips and Quick Glove and Corset Repairs
Sewing hints describe a board with nails to hold thread spools while sewing. Tips include fasten thread by sewing backward after lifting the presser foot, and using adhesive plaster to protect gloves from ring rubbing. Corsets can be reinforced with tape, and brown wrapping paper improves ironing for men’s suits. By Mrs. Gertrude A. White Auburn.
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Gertrude A. White
Two-Legged Peter Lulu Bent Cat Drama Ends With Cat and Suitor
In a humorous domestic tale a widow Mrs Archibald Frothmin hires Lulu Bent to board her cat Peter and her son during an upcoming European trip. Lulu coddles the two Peters, while town gossip mixes with Mrs Frothman’s envy as the cat causes jealous drama and comic misunderstandings.
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Lulu Bent
Archibald Frothmin
Bent's
Peter
Bent
Luluf
Lulu
Mr. Frothman
Mrs. Frothman
Mary
Bents
Self-addressed Envelopes Requested for Notices
The notice requests readers to include self-addressed stamped envelopes with inquiries. It specifies no stories will be processed without the envelopes.
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Sunday’ Post
Lobster Newburg
By John Masefield
Nineveh
Ophir
Palestine
Isthmus
Tropics
Tyne
Public Ledger Co
the Post
The
Sunda Post
Chandler & Co
Tremont Street
West
Roel
Goldens
Uust Bis
Ieee Up
America
Sehelf
Alice Stuart
Sir John Harrington
Tony
Wey
Taunton Knitting CO
Taunton, Mase
Cordon & Dilworth
Mildred Champagne
Annie
S. Goldsmith
Folger Avenue
Beverly
Jane McBain
Charlesbank Road
Newton
Drewn
Chandler 4 Co
Paris
Serge
Bolivia
Bison
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