National Congress of Mothers to Meet in Denver City
The National Congress of Mothers convenes in Denver from June 10 to 15 drawing 32 states for its fourteenth annual gathering. Key topics include child safety after dark, education in early years, home school church and street life, citizenship training, and a proposed national department for home and child. Notables listed include Mrs. Theodore W. Birney founder and advisory council members such as Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Roger B. McMullen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Congress OF Mothers
Frederick Schoi
Denver
City of Lights
Government
Theodore W. Birney
Frederic Schoff
Philadelphia
David O. Mears
Albany
Jefferson D. Gibbs
Los Angeles
Cal
Roger B. McMullen
Evanston
Ill
James S. Bolton
New Haven
Conn
James McGill
Washington
Louis K. Gillson
Wilmette
Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Collyer
D.C
New York
Josiah Strong
Chicago
William P. Wilson
Elmer Ellsworth Brown
George E. MacLean
Iowa
Newell Dwight Hillis
Brooklyn
Charles R. Skinner
Arthur A. Birney
George KE. Johnson
Fashions and Fabrics Highlight Summer Attire Trends
The article surveys plains foulard mixed with dotted or striped materials for afternoon dresses, canvas linens for morning wear, and bright brass button accents. It notes ostrich plumes, patent leather belts, two tone combinations, suede shopping bags, and evolving hat styles. Embroidery, lace, veil trends, and linings for mousseline and chiffon appear, alongside practical notes on wrinkle resistance and lingerie detailing.
Household notes for summer meals and care tips
A garbled household article offers tips for a summer luncheon salad with lettuce and salted nuts, keeping cut flowers fresh with water changes and salt, repurposing soap as a shaker, ironing board prep with starch water, and a pie crust sealing method with oil. It also covers cleaning baby booties with ammonia, a simple hard sauce recipe, a pineapple salad mix, and kid friendly juice options.
Culinary and cleaning tips from a vintage guide
A compact set of household instructions covers making a dairy free white sauce for asparagus, thickening soups with a butter flour blend, ivory cleaning using soap and sun, and a method to prepare and store lemon juice with sugar for later dilution.
Newest Notes of Science Highlights Global Inventions
A survey of curious advances from around the world includes violin making in Markenenkirchen Saxony, California oil outpacing gold, long distance trout transport to Paris in glass tanks, a rubber bulb eraser with blown dust removal, the world’s largest clay pipe factory in Appomattox Virginia, an electric flat iron with automatic cut off, and an English hot water car heater. Additional items describe a factory fiber glass imitation ground glass, Austria’s record rug, German bayonets with wire cutter and saw teeth, crowd weight estimates for stands, automatic livestock disinfectors, ancient gold leaf on mummies, a ring for divorced persons, and a combined currycomb with brush for horses.
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Markenenkirchen
Saxony
California
Paris
Appomatox County
Ee Motor
England
Austria
New York
B.C
Local ads tout seafood and shops on Water Street
Hayes Fish Co offers fresh sea fare including blue fish sea trout sea bass and more at 629 Water Street. Parker the Jeweler promotes rare bargain watches at 9 P O Arcade. Also Crawford Laundry promises prompt pickup delivery at 435 Fairfield Avenue. S. B. Thing & Co advertises hosiery with premium coupons and proper shoe sizing. Waldorf Lunch adds table service at 1133 Main Street. Corper Bros showcases a two week cigar window demonstration at Main and State streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayes Fish Co
Water Street
Tel
Parker
P. O
Crawford
Fairfield Avenue
Thing and Co
S. B. Thing & Co
Main St
Waldorf Ladies and Gentlemen
Main Street
British Naval Drill Delivers Timed Net and Boat Evolutions
A British battleship's forenoon drill morning unfolds with netting out and retracted as crews race to man and lower boats. The flag signals “In nets” and “Away all boats,” then a fleet-wide boat race ensues, culminating in the flagship approving the evolutions as smartly performed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bngle
London Globe
New York Wholesale Prices List Packaged Goods and Produce
A dense price rundown for dairy butter eggs and produce including butter creameries 29c ex tras 28 1 2c firsts 28c eggs state and nearby whites 24 26c gathered 22 1 2 25c browns fancy 23 23 1 2c strawberries Jersey 6 1c apples Northern Spy Baldwin Green ing Ben Davis Russet prices potatoes Bermuda no 1 1 75 3 Southern 1 75 3 asparagus 75c 3 horseradish 2 3 lettuce 50c 1 mushrooms 4 lb 80c 2 40 rhubarb 1 50 spinach 60c maple sugar 11 12c syrup 75 20c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Davis
Jersey
Bermuda
Wood Harmon & Company Real Estate Note at 261 Broadway
The New York firm Wood Harmon and Company located at 261 Broadway appears in records as a real estate investor. The listing highlights property dealings and potential transactions involving the company and location.
How New York Real Estate Values Rose Over a Decade
Editorial traces how New York City real estate values climbed from $20 to $30 per Broadway lot in the past to $400 to $600 per square foot today. It notes Richmond Borough’s rise after consolidation, ferry improvements, and the city’s heavy public spending there, including plans to sell Staten Island land at $390 per lot with $5 monthly payments.
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New York
Aly
145Th Street
Third Avenue
Bronx
New York City
Board of Assessors
Richmond
Staten Island
Richmond Borough
Stapleton
Venice
Washington
Rome
Liverpool
Philadelphia
St. Petersburg
America
Married Brigham Connolly in Stamford May 29
In Stamford on May 29 W H Brigham of New York married Mrs Margaret A Connolly of Stamford. Other notices report May marriages in Hartford Norwalk Torrington and Westport including Deveroux Webb Gill Goodwin France Gray Allen Wood Lowe Platt and partners from South Wilmington Danbury Nanticoke and Norwalk many couples listed with spouses from area towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brigham—Connolly
Stamford
W. H. Brigham
New York
Margaret A. Connolly
B—Deveroux
Hartford
Louise Deveroux
South Wilmington
Frank A. Webb
Danbury
Defilhes—Walton
Torrington
Louis A. Defilhes
Frances M. Walton
Peter Walton
Nanticoke
Gill—Goodwin
Norwalk
Sarah Jane Goodwin
Ernest Gill
France—Gray
Carl H. France
Olive A. Gray- Allen
Wood
Westport
Llyod N. Allen
Minnie A. Wood
Lowe—Platt
Alice A
J. Platt
Harry Lowe
Let the Evening Farm Help Your Business Run Smoothly
A promotional note urges readers that the newspaper can act as a Central Office linking them with all creation and can help run a store office factory or house by providing information and connections. It emphasizes practical utility beyond news.
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Fletcher
Ely
Bly Brothers
Warren Street
Bridgeport
Main
State
Corper
Corper Bros
Jennie Hamilton
N. Y
Wood, Harmon & Company
Broadway
Editorial
Aru
Q. T
B. Brill and Curtis Pharmacy
Died Messinger
New Canaan
Theresa 1
Reinhold F. Messinger
Fitzpatrick
Riverside
Florence M. Fitzpatrick
Seeley
Caroline A. Seeley
Comstock
Emma A
Charles L. Comstock
Hazzard
Julia A
Charles Hazzard
Fitzgerald
Glenbrook
Sarah Fitzgerald
Waterbury
Darien
Andrew S
Williams
George B. Williams
Bates
No. Wilton
Ebenezer B. Bates
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