Woman Says Marriage Service Should Not Deify Chattel
Mrs John H Judge urged rewriting the marriage rite to replace Who giveth this woman with Whom chooseth this woman arguing that in the United States the true marriage rests on romantic courtship and mutual equality. She and the Society for Political Study praised the idea, while debates over the word obey continued with Belle Gray Taylor challenging promises to love and honor.
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New York
John H. Judge
Society For Political Study
Genealogical Hall
United States
Europe
America
Belle Gray Taylor
Spurious Necklace Testimony in Niemann vs Klinker Suit
In New York a lawsuit over estate paintings jewelry and bric a brac involves James P Niemann and Mary Klinker. An expert testified a 16 000 pearl necklace was valueless while witnesses describe confidential relations and a remark about opal bracelets.
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New York
James P. Niemann
Mary Klinker
Frederick Akers
Mr. Akers
Woman Says No Cruelty in Wearing Ostrich Feathers
Mary Be. Lovell, general secretary of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, told the Women's Club in York that women are often less merciful than men and commit cruelty by wearing birds' wings on hats. She noted no objection to ostrich feathers after visiting California ostrich farms where no cruelty was found.
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York
Penn
Women’s Club
Mary BE. Lovell
Pennsylvania Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
California
First Ladies of Bay State Cities Mrs Barton of Melrose
Mrs Charles J Barton wife of Melrose mayor ranks among Melrose society matrons Born in Boston she lived in Cambridge before moving to Melrose in 1896 The Bartons have a daughter eight She attends the Melrose Woman's Club and Eastern Star chapter serves as secretary of the Melrose Horticultural and Improvement Society and goes to First Christian Church on Tyler Street.
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Charles J. Barton
Melrose
Barton
Boston
Cambridge
Bartons
Melrose Woman’s Club
Melrose Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Melrose Horticultural and Improvement Society
First Christian Church
Tyler Street
Saunders
Debutante season fills Boston society schedule
Society notes detail Miss Elizabeth Clarke’s two February dinners at the Tuileries under Colonel Sohier, with other grand entertainments. Miss Child’s cotillon at the Tuileries drew about 80 guests, orchids as decorations, and an elaborate buffet. Mrs. Roger Wolcott’s dinner for Miss Mary Amory promises a winter highlight at the Somerset, while Washington hosts mark social prominence for Boston families. Several Boston ladies will spend winter in Washington, and Charles Gibson plans readings from Among French Inns at Mrs. Thorndike’s residence.
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Elizabeth Clarke
Brimmer Street
Eliot Channing Clarke
Tuileries Ball Room
William D. Sohier
Child
East Walpole
Tuileries
Roger Wolcott
Mary J. Amory
Somerset
Boston
Washington
Carroll
Alford V. Cooley
Susan Dalton
Guy Norman
Larz Anderson
Clarence Moore
Oliver W. Holmes
Henry Cabot Lodge
William F. Draper
George Cabot Lodge
A. Lawrence Mason
Charles Gibson
Beacon Street
A. A. Thorndike
Commonwealth Avenue
Allen Ainslie
The
Jamaica
Mabel Skinner
Bessie Claire
Titchfield
Vanderbilt Relatives’ Kin Claimed Held Without Cause
New York January 10 Miss Aninie Ix Hays 28 of Yonkers said to be related to the Vanderbilts is restrained of her liberty at an unknown location. Margaret B Robinson and Louise Scattergood secured from Judge Davis a writ of habeas corpus directing Mrs Louise K Reynolds to produce her in court for inquiry into detention.
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New York
Aninie Ix
Hays
Yonkers
Vanderbilts
Margaret B. Robinson
Louise Scattergood
Davis
Supreme Court
Louise K. Reynolds
WIRE ROMANCES JUNE WEDDINGS IN JP TELPHONE OFFICE
The Jamaica Plain telephone office, once dubbed the matrimonial exchange for its many marriages from wire acquaintances, reports two operators planning June weddings Miss Josephine Carroll chief operator and Miss Elizabeth Keenan herald engagements rumors of a third.
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Jamaica Plain
Josephine Carroll
Elizabeth Keenan
Engagements of Jamaica Plain Telephone Operators
MISS JOSEPHINE CARROLL chief operator at the Jamaica Plain exchange, engaged to John Scarry a wealthy Dedham liveryman. Another operator Miss Keenan to wed Theodore Spiegel. both engaged in June. Rumor also ties Miss Ella Brown to a U S government employee. all are socially active Catholics in Brookline and Jamaica Plain. A Boston YWCA misstatement notice clarifies identity and separate status from New England branch.
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Josephine Carroll
Jamaica Plain
Miss Carroll
Dedham
John Scarry
Miss Keenan
Theodore Spiegel
A. Spiegel Company
Mr. Spiegel
Carolina Avenue
Scarry
Catherine Keenan
Brookline
Hello Girl
Ella Brown
United States
Insanity in State Grows in Seventh Annual Report
The State Board of Insanity released its seventh annual report noting Oct 1 1905 totals of 11 990 insane feeble minded epileptic and inebriate persons under care, up 416 in the year with 5966 men and 6024 women. Public institutions rose 4422 to 9061 over 15 years, an average annual increase of 309 while general population grew 34 percent.
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State Board of Insanity
City Fire Department Receives Three Compliments
Letters to Commissioner Wells praise the department for swift fire response near Curtis & Pope lumber yards and saving the office building of the plant. Other notes thank Brookline firefighters for assistance, and Cornelius Curran of Franklin is arraigned for sending objectionable letters and held on $500 bond with case continued to January 12.
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Wells
Fire Department
A. Shuman
Curtis & Pope Lumber Yards
Cornelius Curran
Franklin
Hale
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Winter Street
Temple Place
Ieee
Atuwa
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Marseilles
SBC
Bay State
Jamaica Plain Telephone
Boston Young Women’s
Christian Association
Boston Young Women’s Christian Association
Young Women’s Christian Association
Boston Association
New England Committee of Young Women’s Christian Associations
Warrenton Street
Berkeley Street
American Committee, National Association
Chicago
Houghton & Dutton
Impro. WY
Dolies
Inc
Sia
Prive
Morris
National Springs
Dot
Harvard
Itea
Ny Salt
Buster
Begvn
Kristy
Brighton
Jzpanes
Smyrna
Duchess
St. Ferrie
Hin
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OIC
Winslow
Rollo
Valraan
Maine
Fruit Department
Naval
City Fire Department
Willard W. Estabrook
Franklin Man
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