Magyar Tea Fair Aids Young Musicians At Vendome
The Beneficent Society annual fair in the Vendome attracted many notable guests led by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore with Julia Ward Howe and other vice presidents. Hungarian themed tea featured cognac dipped sugar drops as Harvard students and Hungarian dancers performed. funds from tables and decorations supported the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Vendome
Beneficent Society
New England Conservatory of Music
Mary A. Livermore
Julia Ward Howe
Ole Bull
Edna Dean Proctor
Frances E H. Willard
Abba Goold Woolson
Louise Chandler Moulton
Oliver Ditson
Richard H. Dana
Kate Gannett Wells
Joseph Cook
Daniel Lothrop
Livermore
Howe
Dana
Neiswanger
French
Cowan
Wait
Reese
Ware
Harvard
Messrs. Waterman
Bigelow
Stuart
Arnold
Hawes
Edes
Bruce
H. Gittus Lonsdale
Augustin
Buda Pesth
Charles H. Bond
Commonwealth Avenue
Lady Henry Somerset Speaks at Cambridge No-License Rally
Lady Henry Somerset urged suffrage and no-license goals at Trinity Church Cambridge last night. Mayor Bancroft welcomed her as Mrs Coburn led the Cambridge W C T U with a full house. She critiqued temperance rhetoric, praised labor leaders, and argued open saloons hinder working-class progress and that home protection ties to a sober England and America.
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East Cambridge
Henry Somerset
Trinity M. BH
Union
Coburn
Bancroft
Cambridge
Lady Somerset
Somerset
John Burns
England
Young Men to Aid Young Ladies Formation Meet at Lyceum Hall
Young men interested in forming a young men's auxiliary to assist the Young Ladies' Charitable Association will meet at Lyceum Hall Boston College Thursday at 8 o'clock to support the Free Home for Consumptives in Dorchester.
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Young Men’s Auxiliary Association
Young Ladies’ Charitable Association
Dorchester
Lyceum Hall
Boston College
Curtis Guild Recommends Honor For Dr. Smith
Curtis Guild extols Dr. Smith and urges a nationwide tribute including a medal with diamonds and a verse from America. Discussions note a public testimonial, favorable plans for a concert, and a large ticket-driven gathering at a suitable venue to honor the venerable clergyman and author.
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Smith
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Curtis Guild
America
Dr. Holmes
Longfellow
Holmes
Bryant
Guild
Woman Suffrage Fair entertains with readings and music
Mrs. Abby Morton Diaz hosts this evening's readings from The Henry Letters and other works with instrumental music between 8 and 10. Mme. Sigrid Magnussen of Iceland speaks on educational facilities, performs Icelandic songs, and showcases native jewelry. The fair at Horticultural Hall features souvenirs, embroidery, and various articles for the home and Christmas shoppers.
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Abby Morton Diaz
Horticultural Hall
Mme
Sigrid Magnussen
Iceland
Cambridge League
Carever
Lasell Seminary Girls' Fashion at Melba and Sousa Concerts
The Lasell Seminary girls drew praise for their attire as the entire front balcony row at the Melba concert showed uncovered, well dressed heads. At the Sousa concert nearly a hundred girls in the audience similarly had uncovered heads, creating a striking visual contrast in the house.
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Lasell
Pekin in Terror as Japan Presses SeKer Peace Talks
Pekin is terror struck by news from Port Arthur as the Emperor accuses ministers of deception. China will resist Japan’s terms and may seize any offer to discuss peace while a Japanese army looms before Pekin. Li Hung Chang retains power amid mass levies and fragile military discipline. The Chinese navy is crippled while Japan consolidates command of the Gulf of Pechili.
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Shanghai
Pekin
Port Arthur
China
Japan
Moukden
JdJapan
Chan
Board of Punishment
Kin Chow
Li Hung Chang
Cheng Kwan
Gulf of
Pechili
Navy dispatches announce ships reaching distant ports
Secretary Herbert received a cablegram from Admiral Carpenter reporting the Baltimore arrived at Che Foo and a report from Commander Newell that the Detroit reached Gibraltar.
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Washington
Herbert
Carpenter
Baltimore
Che Foo
Newell
Detroit
Gibraltar
Marrying a Widow Does Not Impose Support Duties
Supreme Court full bench opinion in Livingston v Hammond holds a husband is not bound to support children from his wife’s prior marriage. He may aid them as a parent, but the law will not imply a contract for payment for services or maintenance absent another agreement.
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Supreme Court
E. H. Livingston
E. A. Hammond
NORCROSS' TOILET GOODS PRICE PROMISE
An advertisement boasts Norcross' toilet goods with defiance of competitors and claims of wide stock. It notes cold weather increasing demand for creams and similar items and invites customers to compare prices, stating they carry a full range of products.
American liberty and liquor limits echo in Somerset address
Lady Somerset urged Americans to govern wisely, arguing that true national strength lies beyond liquor control. She warned that the nation’s greatest foe is not foreign threats but the bondage of the liquor traffic and urged the U.S. to adopt sober leadership.
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England
Somerset
America
President’s claim on clock accuracy made at Waltham
A quoted sentence “WARRANTED to vary less than six seconds a month.” attributed to the President, noting it was made at Waltham. The brief item cites the claim as a key point in a report on timekeeping or related technology.
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Waltham
Chicago plan for purity proposes seven graded home for women
Chicago activists outline a winter crusade to purge vice, aiming for a national purity league. Isabel Wayne Lake leads a plan to build a ten acre seven grade settlement with homes for pure girls, rescued women, and former workers, followed by a maternity, addiction, and elderly care dwellings.
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Chicago
Isabel Wayne Lake
Illinois Centre
Civic Federation
Lake
Dilkhush fair lights up Newton Street hall with a world display
The East Armory on Newton Street hosts a dazzling charity fair by the Young Ladies' Charitable Association. Forty national booths compete for prizes, featuring Mexican signora, Italian peasant girls, a Turk fortune teller, Irish green, the Tower of London, Scottish thistle, and many more. A Polish booth offers a diamond ring on shares. Proceeds aim to lift the mortgage as the fair runs daily to December 15 with music and attractions each evening.
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East Armory
Newton Street
Young Ladies’ Charitable Association
Dilkhush
Mary A. Cassels
North End League
Tower of London
St. Matthew’s
Minnie Sullivan
Scotland
Medford
Harriet A. Wells
Woburn
Boston
Ninth Regiment
Katharine A. Kiley
Alice Murray
William McCarty
Roxbury
West End
Blanche O’brien
Longfellow House
Cambridge Booth
Longfellow
Evangeline
Somerville
Nellie G. Manning
India
Brookline
Susie A. Duran
Norway
Charlestown
William B. Bass
Egypt
City Point
Sarah F. Connelly
Tunis
Dorchester
Thomas H. Keenan
Japan
Quincy
Lenaany
Holland
Wiliam McCarthy
Austria
South Boston Central
Annie
Noonan
Sweden
Waltham
Charles J. McCormick
Canada
Watertown
Thomas F. Hackett
China
West Broadway
South Boston
Sarah J. M. Gilbride
Italy
Winter Hill
Martha A. Rower
Toys
Celia A. Reade
Board of Government
Blunder in Love On Narragansett Beach Aboard the Bay
Mr Man recalls a summer at Narragansett four years ago when he admired Cornelia Habberton a striking figure with golden hair and dazzling skin. A family beach stroll and a sharp exchange with Marion’s mother reveal a misunderstood moment and a rueful admission of a faux pas in love.
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Mr. Man
Narragansett
Cornelia Habberton
Atlantic City
Bar Harbor
Miss Habberton
Mrs. Habberton
Arthur
Marion
Cornelia
Smith College Debating Societies Discuss Women Proposals
At Smith College two debating clubs, Qui Vive for even-year seniors and T and M for odd-year juniors, debate whether women may propose. The recent topic urged women cannot ask men to marry, with the 9% class set to wear cap and gown in spring as the first senior class to do so.
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Vassar
Folly
Smith
Smith College
A Girls Club Tea at the South End
The South End Girls' Club Association held a pretty tea Tuesday at 50 East Springfield Street. The three rooms were decorated with palms and plants from Florist Galvin's and six tea and cake tables added color. Attendance was good and the event netted a handsome sum for the club's treasury with Mrs. John Michael Galvin Mrs. William McCarty and Mrs. Macdonald serving as hostesses.
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South End Girls’ Club Association
East
Springfield Street
Galvin’s
John Michael Galvin
William McCarty
Macdonald
Association
Wellesley Class of 1997 Noted as Most Athletic
The senior class of 1995 through spring term and the class of 1997 at Wellesley are highlighted for athletic excellence. Bryn Mawr's freshmen are actively working on basketball, with honors earned at home and abroad.
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Wellesley
Bryn Mawr
Elizabeth Osgood and John Foster Wedding in Lowell Home
A Lowell home hosted the marriage reception for Elizabeth Osgood and John Edward Foster. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. J. M. Greene with Irene Osgood as maid of honor and Arthur L. Foster as best man. Relatives came from New York, Brookline, Dorchester, Boston, Malden, Lawrence, Andover, Haverhill, Tewksbury, Chelmsford, and Derry Depot New Hampshire.
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George A. Osgood
Lowell
Elizabeth
John Edward Foster
J. M. Greene
D. D
Eliot Congregational Church
Irene Osgood
Helen Osgood
Foster Cole
Arthur L. Foster
Joseph Miller
Edward W. Trull
Frank Philbrick
Foster
Andover Street
New York
Brookline
Dorchester
Boston
Malden
Lawrence
Andover
Haverhill
Tewksbury
Chelmsford
Derry Depot
N. H
Flower Carnival at Church of Our Father in Boston
The East Broadway vestry staged a flower carnival at the Church of Our Father in South Boston. A display featured the Chonothanatoletron with conjured spirits and figures like Cornelia the Roman matron Cleopatra Queen Elizabeth Cecilia Martha Washington and Joan of Arc in costume.
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Church of Our Father
East Broadway
Boston
Cornelia
Cleopatra
Queen Elizabeth
Cecilia Martha Washington
Joan of Arc
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Susie Grace Harding
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