American woman sees England and Vienna for interior style
Amy Ferris, a Smith College graduate and nurse turned interior decorator, traveled to England and Vienna to study elite homes. She gained access to dukedoms and halls by polite requests, then opened a New York shop decor uproots for churches, suffrage offices, and private homes, becoming a leading figure in adaptive, modern decorating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osborn Marshall
McClure Newspapaper Syndicate
Amy Ferris
Europe
Old Country
America
London
England
Miss Ferris
Smith College
St. Luke's Hospital
New York
Seon
Hartford
Conn
Women Workers
New York City
Oil saves lives at sea on Volturno rescue
The British government awarded Captain J I Johnson of the Lackawanna for aiding Volturno survivors after the Narragansett used oil to calm rough seas aiding rescue. Captain Harwood also received a plate and other crew gifts from the board of trade for the rescue effort.
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Liverpool Marine Department
Board of Trade
J. I Johnson
Lackawanna
Narragansett
Anglo-American Oil Company, Limited
Stamship
Volturno
North Atlantic
Pall Mall Gazette
Carmania
Harwood
T Rade
Home Making Tops Employment in U S Says Bulletin
Mrs Iris Prouty O Leary reports in a United States bureau of education bulletin that 24 000 000 of 31 000 000 females over ten in the United States are engaged in home making. She notes that wage earning is temporary and girls will seek permanent positions in their own homes and urges cooking be taught as a science in new vocational schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iris Prouty O'Leary
United States Bureau of Education
United States
O'Leary
Quake Proof Homes and Japan Seismic Rules
The London Chronicle notes Japan uses seismology to build quake resistant bridges embankments tall chimneys and villas. New anti-earthquake structures resisted frequent tremors though past failures like Avezzano and San Francisco showed destruction where buildings did not follow these methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Avezzano
San Francisco
London Chronicle
Method In His Madness
Hyker reveals Graspit funds a petition to raise rent for a poor widow. Pyker notes Graspit owns the house the widow lives in and supports his charitable move with savvy know how.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyker
Old Graspit
Pyker
Graspit
End of an Era for New York's Hoffman House
The Hoffman house and its Het Albemarle annex on Broadway near Twenty-fifth Street are slated for demolition to make way for a 16 story office building after a sale valued at about 3.5 million dollars. The property recalls a bygone era with ties to Grover Cleveland Benjamin Butler Winfield Scott and the Amen Corner of newspaper men and politicians.
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York
Hoffman
Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Bartholdi
Twenty-third
Broadway
Hofman House
Sore
Stem
Madison Square Garden
Twent- Third Street
Great White Way
Martin's
Twenty-fifth Street
Albemarle
Hoffman House
Twenty-third Street
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Butler
Winfield Scott
Amen Corner
Gridiron Club
Washington
Senator Platt
B. B. Odell
Mark Hanna
Sam Blythe
Eddie Riggs
Four-Year-Old Curtain Pole Quest Ends Safe in West Philadelphia
In West Philadelphia two exhausted four-year-olds, John Young Jr and Thomas Griffin, wandered after a curtain pole errand and spent hours near Lancaster Avenue and Thirty eighth Street. They were found by a passing ten-year-old, scolded and then returned to their mother via a friend who notified the Young family. Special police aided in the search but the kids were ultimately safe.
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Hiladelphia
West Philadelphia
John Young, Jr
Baring Street
Junior Young
Lancaster Avenue
Thirty Eighth Street
Thomas Griffin
Roseboro
Farmer
Sixteenth District
Cameron
Forty-ninth Street
Chester Avenue
Thomas Dickson
Thirty-eighth Street
Making Money With Sheep in Farm Practice
This article discusses sheep farming costs and breeds for profit. It weighs Lincoln and Hampshire types for market readiness, notes feed needs, winter care, and the challenge of legal enforcement and labor shortages. It counsels starting small, scaling as profits prove viable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coisweld
Leifet
Lincoln
Hampshire
Athletic schoolgirl defeats burglar in Los Angeles room break in
Gladys Campbell, a teenage student from Los Angeles, uses boxing power to subdue burglar Joseph Hamlin after he climbed through her room transom. An alarm clock, hairbrush, tennis racket, and dumbbell injure Hamlin before police arrive. She then binds him and ejects him to the front yard. Hamlin is jailed awaiting swelling to subside.
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OS Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles
Gladys Campbell
Maple Avenue
Joseph Hamlis
Miss Campbell
Hamlin
Land of Dreams
Indianapolis mother writes to navy orphans letters to cheer sailors
Mrs Emma Ellis of Indianapolis writes to Navy training-station officers to pair mothers with ship boys who have no mothers. She selects Christians who write well and can inspire each boy. The program has grown with letters from Atlantic and Pacific commands praising the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ndianapolis
Ind
Emma Ellis
Navy
Indianapolis
Proper Time to Wean a Colt
A guide on weaning a young colt from its mare recommends keeping the foal with the dam until it learns to eat grain and bran. Feed the mare for several weeks to dry up milk and provide a roomy stall. Give the foal grass, clover pasture, and ground oats with wheat bran to promote bone growth and health.
Feeding alfalfa to swine in a rack method
A fragment discusses grinding hay for bees and feeding alfalfa to swine. It mentions a past story about a so called tea that supposedly extracts animal food from alfalfa while preserving plant nutrients and suggests feeding stewed alfalfa to hogs, then relates to a publication from the East.
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Worsley Hall
Manchester
Earl of Ellesmere
Duke of Bridgewater
Countess of Wilesmere
Raphael
St. A. Vandyke
Lawrence
Countess of Ellesmere
U. S. Navy
Colt
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