Acting Dean of Radcliffe Appoints Caro line B Humphrey
President Briggs of Radcliffe College announced the appointment of Miss Caroline B. Humphrey of Cambridge as acting dean. A permanent Alumnae Board member and Radcliffe graduate, she will serve until the board and council select a successor after Miss Mary Coes’ June death. Humphrey has five years on the Alumnae Associates and ties to the College Settlement Association.
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Briggs
Radcliffe College
Caroline B. Humphrey
Cambridge
Humphrey
Alumnae Associates
Mary Coes
Agenes Irwin
Coes
Miss Humhrey
Miss Humphrey
College Settlement Association of Boston
One Thousand Syracuse Pups Suspended After Hour Strike
In Syracuse on September 2, about a thousand high school pupils at three schools were indefinitely suspended after a morning strike protesting new study hours from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Students escaped via windows, marched through business districts, and held meetings. At Technical High School a boy tried to speak from a barrel but was restrained by police. Pupils demand return to former hours from 8:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Technical High School
New England Housewives Full Page of Recipes in Sunday Post
Chocolate pudding uses butter sugar egg milk flour and baking powder with melted chocolate poured into a buttered dish and steamed half an hour. A sauce or cream may accompany. Another recipe blends chocolate, sugar, eggs, milk, baking powder, and soda then bakes slowly for a rich dessert. Josephine Davis, R F D 3 Box 6 Putnam Conn.
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Josephine Davis
Putnam, Conn
Hairdressing ad lists services and contact in Boston
Mrs Neal formerly with Ernest De Souza now with Misses Riley at 714-715 Lawrence Building Tremont and West streets offers shampooing 50 cents marcel 50 cents facials 50 cents manicure 2 cents telephone Ox 821.
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Neal
Ernest de Souza
Misses Riley
Lawrence Bldg
Corner Tremont
West Sts
Boston
Marcel
Telephone Ox
Sewing Circle in Boston Post text
The Sewing Circle is a regular Boston Post department for homemakers to discuss home and family topics. It invites questions and advice on domestic matters, baby care, flowers, gardening, household economy, and related issues, with readers writing on one side of the paper.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Poem For Autumn From James Russell Lowell
A compact verse reflecting autumn sorrow and farewell with the refrain Auf wiedersehen. The speaker mourns a lost loved one Mrs Lowell and frames partings as hopeful longer echoes. The poem weaves images of barren trees, desolate homes, and a faith that reunion awaits beyond death.
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James Russell Lowell
Lowell
Plump and Happy Sparks Debate on Housekeeping
A Sewing Circle reply column condemns neglecting chores to avoid drudgery. Letters argue dust versus happiness, warn of marital strain when husbands work and wives shirk duties, and debate breaking vows to a dying spouse. Advice favors balanced duties, honesty, and mutual support.
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Father
New England
Mother
Old Folks Find Croxone Relief for Kidney Bladder Ailments
Aging readers are told Croxone treats sleep disturbing bladder weakness backache rheumatism and related ailments by reaching the kidneys and filtering glands. It claims to dissolve uric acid in joints and muscles and strengthen kidney function with rapid results. An original package costs a small price and druggists will refund if it fails in any case.
Incogniti Leads Philadelphia Cricket Club Match Start
Incogniti Club of London open against Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia. Incognitis scored 139 runs in their first innings while Philadelphia made 96 for 8 at day end.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Cricket Club
Incognit! Club of
London
Philadelphians
Infatuation and the path to true love in a sewing circle letter
A reader in her 30s argues that youths should not confuse infatuation with love and that God guides marriages. She recalls her own three infatuations, insisting the right partner is chosen by divine matchmaking and that genuine love recognizes goodness and nobility.
The Lavender Ribbon ends in the light of love
In a Maine estate, Justin Mayberry pursues Linnet McCleod despite the danger of Mrs Arkwright a conspiratorial paralytic. A lost five dollar bill exposes truth as the couple confronts fear and hardship and walk into the light together.
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Polly
Justin Mayberry
Linnet McCleod
Justin
Linnet
Mrs. Arkwright
Dedaly Ditty A Song for Autumn
A poem reflecting on seasonal labor and hardship. The speaker contrasts summer’s toil and abundance with winter’s approach, noting fields left as stubble and the transformation of effort into harvest. It speaks of pain seeded in gardens of pleasure and a renewed sense of duty as autumn arrives.
Cost of Children 40 Percent Higher
Chicago report from the Chicago nursery and Half-Orphan asylum shows the cost to rear a child rising forty percent in ten years. It costs $101 a year for 1894 to 1900 and $140 from 1904 to the present. Earlier, 1874 to 1888, the annual cost was $80.
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Chicago
Over 200 Quit Drinking in St Jerome Quebec
W H Scott postmaster reports a public affidavit from Renova curing over two hundred habitual drinkers in St Jerome Quebec. The remedy is promoted as tasteless and harmless and available via Riker Jaynes with a money back guarantee. A free sample offer is extended by the Renova Company at 204 Broadway New York.
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St. Jerome
Quebec
W. H. Scott
Scott
Renova
Riker- Jaynes
Renova Co
Broadway
New York
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Radcliffe
Thibaut
Thibaut’s Wall Papers
Federal Street
Awell
Solk Just Cant
Parlomess
The
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Angeline
Eo i
Id Ek
Qin
Oriole
Soath
Incogniti
Fletcher
Oserate
Chas. H. Fletcher
Centaur Company
POST
Florence Phinney
Central Avenue
Lewiston, Me
Miss Linnet
Washington Street
Standard Patterns and Publications
Houghton ‘& Dutton CO
Tremont Street
Standard Fashion Company
Dedaly Ditty
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