Which is Superior Women or Men Says Sewing Circle
A set of letters debate whether women are superior to men. Readers praise women in sobriety, childrearing, nursing, church support, and motherhood, while noting men lead in invention, politics, and industry is limited, concluding women excel in moral influence and home duties.
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Sewing Circle
Krupps
Elizabeth
Dudley
Hamilet
Faust
Capitol
Washington
Ike Columbus
Napoleon
Lincoln
Blaine
Hanna
Lilden
A Woman of Fifty and Home Making on $15 a Week
A column features letters praising women's superior role at home and a tale of thrifty living on $15 weekly. It notes a sewing circle’s letters, a small play with a new coach and stage manager, and a costume idea a reader plans to wear in the final act, a sapphire velvet hat with peach pink felt and pink ribbon details.
When Summer Fades We Wish Fragrant Farewell to Life
The speaker laments the passing of summers and the fading light across the land. Love rests by sundering streams as brown blossoms fall. They recall summers of life that fade and depart, urging a final kiss to the world as they pass like a rose.
New England Households Share Sunday Recipes
Recipes outline KONKEE NOODLE FRY with beef and macaroni bake, LEMON BREAD PUDDING with lemon custard and meringue, and CLAM PIE with clams, potatoes, pork, and rich crust. Attributions include MRS B G HAHN of Somerville and MRS HARRIS of Dorchester.
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B. G. Hahn
Putnam Street
Somerville
Harris
Seaver Street
Dorchester
The Price of a Kiss
Felicia, a society girl, hawks a kiss as charity at a bazaar, sells two dollars with a kiss for charity. Kenston, enamored, misses her. he leaves a note and a three figure check, revealing his mother’s memory and his tender vow.
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Kenston
Felicia
Indies
Charity
Poems for Your Scrapbook When Father Comes Hone
Poem recalls the return of a father, urging children to greet him with joy. It celebrates home, warmth, and the bond between father and family, inviting kids to rush to the door, welcome him with kisses, and share warmth after a long day.
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Father
Pital Injured in Police Ambulance Accident
An individual named Pital was treated after an incident involving a police ambulance, suffering contusions and abrasions to the right shoulder and head. Responders provided on scene care with no further details on the investigation or outcome.
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Pital
Brockton Phone Girls Move to Unionize
In Brockton a local of the Boston Telephone Girls Union is forming. An organizing meeting this afternoon drew 52 operators, with a first permanent organization planned for Monday to elect officers. The city has 120 New England Telephone and Telegraph Company female employees.
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Brockton
Boston ‘Telephone Girls’ Union
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Boy Stealing Auto Ride Struck By Truck On Court Street
Joseph Elam aged 14 of 2 Hudson Street South End attempted to ride on the back of a moving car on Court Street yesterday. He jumped off into the path of two heavy trucks, the pole of one struck him and he fell. He was taken to Relief Hospital.
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Court Street
Joseph Elam
Hudson Street
South End
Hos
Novena to St Teresa begins at Carmelite Convent Roxbury
Catholic notes announce a novena starting Friday Oct 6 at 5 pm in the Carmelite Convent Roxbury with plenary indulgence for five services plus confession and communion. Petitions may be sent to the superior if attendance is not possible.
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Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Roxbury
Roche on trial for stealing from fields
Allen Roche about 35 and well dressed faced a Superior Criminal Court jury before Judge O'Connell on May 9. He is accused of climbing a ladder to Edwin Fields's bedroom window on May 1 1916 and stealing a considerable sum from Fields's pockets. The trial was continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Roche
Superior Criminal Court
O'Connell
Edwin
Fields
Maybrook Street
Dorchester
Irving Cummings Feeds Studio Walk-Ins In Lunch Room Tale
A group at a Bohemian cafe recalls Irving Cummings generosity at a Peerless studio scene with Alice Brady. Cummings reportedly fed hungry extras and bought candy for children during a lunch break, amid discussions of actors’ kindness and studio life. Mary Pickford talks to appear in Daily Post and Sunday Post.
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Lottie
Irving Cummings
New York
World Film Productions
Peerless Studio
Alice Brady
Mr. Cummings
Mary Pickford
Daily Post
Sunday Post
Universalists of Massachusetts Launch Three Month Campaign
The Universalists of Massachusetts announce a three month religious campaign starting next month with sermons and addresses in all churches. State superintendent Rev George E Leighton notes the movement differs from the Billy Sunday revival and appeals to reason for a non emotional, non commercial Christianity. Dean Edward S Rousmantere leads a service in Cleveland for the Brotherhood of St Andrew before attending the Protestant Episcopal Church of America convention in St Louis. The Cathedral School and Bible classes begin fall sessions, and a Union Congregational Church service on Columbus Avenue and West Newton Street drew a strong turnout as the topic centered on planning.
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Universalists of
Massachusetts
George E. Leighton
Edward 8. Rousmantere
Cathedral Church of
St. Paul
The
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Cleveland
St. Louis
Protestant Episcopal Church of America
Cathedral
Union Congregational Church
Columbus Avenue
West Newton Street
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