Poor English at Harvard prompts Overseers resolution
Judge Robert Grant of the Suffolk Probate Court and Harvard Overseers proposes a new English entrance exam stressing conversational ability over formal rhetoric. He argues English fluency matters more than book English, claiming English graduates abroad may be stronger conversationalists than American peers.
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Robert Grant
Suffolk Probate Court
Harvard Board of Overseers
Grant
Harvard
Board of Overseers of
England
America
Portland youths sought movy actors arrested on arrival
Joseph McMaleaux aged 19 and Charles Bennett aged 18 from Portland Maine were arrested at the city wharf while trying to pose as movy heroes. Police from City Hall avenue station detained them and their relatives have been notified.
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Joseph McMaleaux
Charles Bennett
Portland
City Hall Avenue
Sewing Circle Advice and Debates on Marriage Roles
Readers discuss modern homemaking and personal happiness in the Sewing Circle column. A former social worker argues for cautious marriages and female autonomy while others urge prudence about dissipated partners and the dangers of touring bohemian venues.
Be Pretty Turn Gray Hair Dark With Sage and Sulphur
An old remedy promises to restore natural hair color and luster. Sage Tea and Sulphur mixed in Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy is offered at drug stores for about 50 cents. It claims to darken gray hair naturally with one daily application.
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Wyeth
Dear Sewing Circle Advice Columns on Self Support
The letters share experiences of women left alone with little money seeking guidance. One woman invested in lodging houses and banked 2500. another became a housekeeper at 5 a week with room and board. a widow bought a half interest in a store, running it with a partner to secure steady income.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Why They Married Fixtracts in The Sewing Circle
A reader letter discusses why women marry and why marriages fail citing advice from mothers to wed early. The writer recalls rushing to marriage at seventeen to escape family pressures and describes marrying a first suitor who was persuaded to marry.
Sheridan's Ride Illustrates Battle of Winchester Anniversary
A poem based on the 1864 Battle of Winchester recalls Sheridan’s swift ride to the front. The text celebrates the horse and general’s triumph, painting vivid Civil War imagery and praising the American soldier’s courage.
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Opequan Creek
Sheridan
Wedded Choices: Women Describe Why They Marry
A series of letters to the Sewing Circle reveal women married for respectability, convenience, and security. They recount early marriages under pressure, hidden motives, and later regrets about love, money, and domestic life.
Attractive Women and a Bright Health Promise
A health ad urges women to restore strength by building blood with Dr Williams Pink Pills. It claims improved vigor, reduced dizziness and faintness, and renewed well being after taking the product, encouraging readers to buy a box from their druggist.
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Dr. Williams
Love Advice on a Small Town Dilemma
A letter from a reader asks how to handle a love triangle. The adviser urges to follow the couple’s wishes, marry if desired, and notes love cannot be coerced by any party and may reconcile with the rival if both lovers agree.
Beef from Argentine to halve cost for city markets
Argentine frozen beef shipments received in New York will be distributed to select city markets. The plan promises a drastic drop in beef prices with two Sunday roasts two steaks two braized ribs and two soup knuckles now expected where only one portion was available before.
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New York
Domestic economy notes as markets vary and apples rise
Markets show little change with mackerel steady and eggs and butter up only at wholesalers. Apples flood the market in diverse varieties and find their way into menus with desserts like Grandmother's apple pudding and duted apple pudding featuring apples, eggs, milk, flour, and spice.
Apple Pudding with Peach Substitution
A pudding baked for about thirty minutes in a quick oven is served hot with hard sauce or milk. The recipe notes that peaches may substitute for apples as desired.
New Comet Discovered in Pisces by Barnard
Chicago report states a second new comet of the month has been located in Pisces west of Omega. Professor EF Barnard of Yerkes Observatory announced the find from Williams Bay Wisconsin.
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Chicago
Pisces
Omega
EF. FB. Barnard
Yerkes Observatory
Williams Bay
Wis
Anniversary of Dedham Covenant Observed at Fairbanks Homestead
The 277th anniversary of the signing of the Dedham Covenant by Jonathan Fairbanks will be observed Sunday September 21 with open house at the old Fairbanks homestead in Dedham. All visitors are welcome.
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Dedham
Jonathan Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Milk spread typhoid tied to one New York company
In New York on September 18 a health department report links 147 typhoid cases in the lower East Side to infected milk from a single company. The firm was ordered to stop selling anything but pasteurized milk as investigators trace the supply back to an upstate creamery and its farmers.
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New York
Lower East Side
Health Department
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