Priests Denounce Rag as Degenerate Animal Dance
Denver reports three Catholic organizations face harsh censorship from priests and the Catholic Register over rag dances at social events. Fathers McMenamin and McDonough criticize ragging as vulgar and immoral, while younger women defend it as harmless unless excessive. Also notes Walter Camp on 1912 football rules.
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Denver
Sacred Heart Ald Society
The
Queen's Daughters
Good Shepherd Ald Society
Catholic Register
Catholicn of
Benny
Good Shepherd's Tanner
Sacred Heart
Fathers McMenamin
M@Donouiith
Clonovan
Register
Father McMenamin
Walter Camp
Yale News
Suicide pact and family dagger tragedy in Oakland
Mia Kuke Kitakami a young Japanese noblewoman attempted to kill her infant and herself in Oakland because of poverty and her husband’s death. She used a family heirloom dagger inscribed to defend family honor as she awaited death before Japanese gods and ancestral images.
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Oakland
Cal
Mia
Kuke Kitakami
Thousand Dollar Tree for Babe of Fortune
Washington officials report a record Christmas celebration for Winsor Walsh McLean the three year old heir to the McLean fortune. Edward Beale McLean arranged a million dollar gift including a thousand dollar Christmas tree and ten thousand dollars in imported toys after selecting items in Europe and importing them aboard the Mauretania. A real circus will accompany the party with four clowns and trained animals plus performances by monkeys dogs and a baby elephant.
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Washington
Winsop Walsh McLean
Master Mclean
Edward Beale McLean
John R McLean
Admiral Dewey
Europe
Mauretania
McLean
New York
Christmas display and charity celebration at McLean home
The article describes moving pictures at Bar Harbor and Newport, a Grandfather's country estate Friendship display, a decorated Christmas tree with imported trimmings and new glass figures of Mother Goose, a life size Christ child topper, and a charity party for orphans in the McLean stables. It notes Master McLean sharing birthday joy and a separate party for orphan children funded by the keeper. It also advertises Comfy slippers and related gifts from Jenkins Shor Co.
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Hoat
Bar Harbor
Newport
Friendship
Qoose
Vermont
Washington
Mclean
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Cook Bros
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American Electric Shoe Shop
18Th ST
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IV Wants
Harseal
Storer
Flarvard
Wheeler
Yale
Harvard
Carey
McLean Town House
Jenkins Shor CO
Modesto & Pipitone
Capiton
Kopald’s Shoe Sale
W.7th ST
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