Grandma America Contest Headlines Baytown Entrant
A Baytown woman may be named Grandma America in a national contest held June 20 and 21, 1900 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. George Arons announces a $5,000 prize package, with a week’s vacation, portrait, and a U.S. Government prize.
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Grandma America
Baytown
America
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New York City
George Arons
U. S
Ian
Lexington Avenue
New York
122
N. Y
Male Expert Says Women Could Be Boss
A Penn State sociologist states women could run the world if they chose to. Dr William G Mather notes longer female lifespans and inheritance patterns give women potential power to outnumber and control many sectors of society.
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University Park, Pa
William G. Mather
Pennsylvania State University
Velvet Painting Revival by Former Air Stewardess
AMA Hollywood reports former stewardess Carol Eytinge revives velvet painting a craft tied to oil on velvet rather than canvas. Dr. Mather credits women with focus and detail, noting education and leadership potential, while Eytinge paints portraits inspired by figures like Einstein and Churchill. She learned from Edgar Leeteg’s Tahiti works and renders shading by leaving velvet background exposed, stressing velvet as a challenge and a path to community engagement. Family dinner noted in separate item.
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AMA
Hollywood
Calif
Mather
Carol Eytinge
Penn
State Department of Sociology
Eytinge
Istic
Frank Lloyd Wright
Bertrand Russell
Winston
Churchill
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Einstein
Baldwin
Long Island
Miss Eytinge
Honolulu
Los Angeles
Japan
Edgar Leeteg
Tahiti
Hawaii
Nerses
Wedding Vows Uniting Helen Geaslin and William Booker
Miss Helen Joyce Geaslin and William Chaffe Griggs Booker wed at St Mark's Methodist Church with Rev. Wayne H. McCleskey officiating. The couple, both from Texas families, will reside in Houston after a wedding trip. she is a Lee College and UT alumna employed by Prudential Life Insurance, he a UT and Lamar Tech graduate.
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St. Mark's Methodist Church
Helen Joyce Geaslin
William Chaffe Griggs Booker
Wayne H. McCleskey
C. L. Clark
Virginia
Don Booker
Cypress
Orange
Janice Taylor
Bay
Booker
Robert E. Lee
Town
A. R. McCarty
Montrose
Calif
Lee College
Don Booker Jr
Texas
Beaumont
Prudential Life Insurance
W. C. Eamon
America
Houston
Susan Wooten
Luthher and Wooten
Stark High School
L. Geastin
Leon Nunley
Lamar Tech
Sand
Galveston
al Guidance Service
Give Flowers Perennials Adequate Soil Preparation
University of Illinois floriculture specialists urge planting soil one foot deep for flowers and two feet for perennials. Deeper soil promotes root penetration, better water and nutrient uptake, and reduces disease from shallow roots. They also advise adding organic matter like peat moss to prevent compaction and waterlogging.
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Champaign
University of Ilinois
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Thad Felton
West
W. Travis Porter
Bayshore Drive
Curt Welgahausen
Olga Welgahausen
A. J. Swartz Jr
A. J. Swartz Sr
Shreveport
Ollen Bailey
A. 5. Bynum
Bay- Town
Mrs
Double Ring
Ara Read
Sheaffer
Bob
Pountain
Le 1
Sds Arts
Ge Mo
Main Market St
Behaeee
Eac
Bernhard Altmann
Texas Avenue
W. C. G. Booker
Leif Neuerburg
Francis MacBlain
Elizabeth Holdsworth
Kerrville
Charles Warren
Staunton
David Journeau
Cecil Coale
O. C. Eamon
Perry Cape
David Hyde
Seguin
Kathy McCarty
Johny McCarty
KOVAR
W. E. Kerr
Kerr-Bond
Agency
Jim Bond
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