Sunshine Society spreads kindness across nations and states
The Sunshine Society began from a New York newsroom, expanding to every state with branches in England and Asia. It promotes acts of kindness as a membership duty, funds charity through deeds rather than dues, and supports projects from libraries to crippled care. The movement gains press support and faces counterfeit imitators while honoring founder Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine” Society
United States
England
Japan
India
France
Germany
Henry Burton
Lytham
Burton
Sunshine Society
Lytham Episcopal Church
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Sunshine
Sunshine Bulletin
Alden
Cynthia Westover Alden
International Sunshine Society
Fire at J Pierpont Morgan mansion ends with no damage
A telephone warning from Herbert L. Satterlee, Morgan’s son in law, sparked a rapid fire response to 219 Madison Avenue. Fire crews used hand grenades and salt to extinguish a chimney blaze that produced only a slender flame. Policeman Daniel Kelleher helped by dropping salt and nearly put out the fire. There were no injuries or substantial damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Pierpont Morgan
Herbert L. Satterlee
Mr. Morgan
Madison Avenue
Mr. Satterlee
Daniel Kelleher
Quick Encounter With a Bullet-Proof Army Coat
A colonel known as a military affairs authority dismisses an inventor with a bullet-proof army coat. The inventor presents the coat and requests adoption, but, after a tense moment, excuses himself and departs, leaving the sergeant instructed to test the device.
Arrangements Underway For Chinese Military Rifle Factory
Arrangements are being made to construct a large military rifle factory in China. The text notes the project and mentions the required eye distance as a measurement reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Bull Run Bridge and Civil War Battle Narrative
A historical note on the Bull Run bridge over the eponymous stream near Warrenton Virginia. It recalls the Warrenton turnpike crossing and Civil War fighting along the river, mentioning Tyler's Union division and Evans's Confederate brigade as well as guns heard from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bull Run
Bull Creek
Warrenton
Virginia
Potomac
Rappahannock
Tyler
Evan
National Soldiers' Home in Washington DC details
The National Soldiers' Home in Washington DC is a unique institution founded March 3 1851. It is funded by 12 1 2 cents monthly from enlisted personnel and officers, fines, and deserter money, with over two million dollars held in Treasury. It houses about 1200 veterans many from Civil War era and overseas campaigns, with inmates performing farm, dairy, road maintenance, housework and cooking for pay from the Home fund.
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National Soldiers’ Home
District of Columbia
United States
Winfield Scott
Mexico
Scott
Congress
Washington
Navy
Army
Treasury
West Indies
Philippines
National Soldiers
Thome Scott Hall
Hair as a profitable crop imports to London and Paris
The report notes human hair as a lucrative crop with five tons imported annually by London merchants. Parisian harvests exceed 200000 pounds, valued at about 400000 dollars per year.
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London
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W. H. Chase
Brooklyn
Select
Newspaper Aid
the Beggar Trust
Oritnt Seggar
Egypt
Italy
Austria
New York
Park Row
Nye
Fur
Bach
Bull Run Bridge
OLD Veterans’ Home
Hawkins
Government Hospital For
General Hospital
Fort Bayard
New Mexico
Scott Hall
Ole
Success Magazine
Great Home Magazine of America
Bat
Ros
Ry Ae
Yolye
Rae PE
TNC Pesta
Bon Pedla
Charles Leovand-Stewart
Encyehorha Americana
International Encyclopadia
Pecanary
Panama
the Success Company
Washington Square
Ierewich
Continental Encyclopedia Express
BIG Fur Sgare
Laltie Beal
Adil
Nichel
Busey
N.P. C.C
Metol-Hydro
N. P.C
National Photographic Chemical Company
Washington, D.C
H.D. Hemenway
Hartford School of Horticulture
Doubleday, Page & Co
America
I. D. Hemenway
Hartford
Connecticut
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