Christmas Party Marks Woman's Research Club Meeting
The Woman's Research Club held its annual Christmas party at Mrs. J. M. Dalrymple’s Park Avenue home. Members enjoyed a bright program with readings, songs, a vaudeville segment, and a Santa distribution of gifts from a tree.
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Woman's Research Club
J. M. Dalrymple
Park Avenue
M. F. Ault
Carroll B. Carr
Santa Claus
W. EB. Kilman
J. B. Smith
A. A. Young
C. E. Bacon
J. J. Brown
H. B. Burnet
Alta M. Roberts
David Ross
Sarah E. Rudisill
J. P. Smith
Margaret Stevenson
T. N. Shimer
M. W. Wiggins
Fletcher Wills
Frank Wells
J. B. Wiles
O. F. Britton
W. J
Cleves Harrison
Los Angeles
Cal
C. Newell Lodge
University Club
Carina Eaglesfield
Harrison
Lodge
N. A. Glad
Demotion Tragedy Echoes War-Era Clerk Loss
In a Washington dispatch from December 13, a former government clerk from Winchester Virginia describes how a Civil Service pensioner, once earning 1200 dollars a year in the disbursing office, was demoted to a librarian position in the Agricultural Department. The change, allegedly requested by a cabinet member’s son, left her with a reduced salary and fading protection, highlighting postwar civil service vulnerabilities for a frail, aging woman. The narrative links the Great War’s shadows to modern bureaucratic pressures and personal loss.
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Washington
Winchester
Gen. Sheridan
South
Civil Service
Agricultural Department
Is Thinness Embarrassing A Medical Weight Gain Remedy
An old article extols plumpness as socially favorable and describes digestion as key to body mass. It promotes a tincture blend with pepsin and rhubarb to add weight, outlining dosage and a regimen to use before and after meals with water.
Dr Adelaide Wallerstein Named Prominent Club Woman
New York December 18 Dr Adelaide Wallerstein is described as the most prominent clubwoman in New York and a leading figure in society and philanthropy. She reportedly holds memberships in more clubs than any other New York woman and has divorced Henry Wallerstein recently amid a separation trial marked by secret tactics. She founded the East Side clinic for the poor, gave up entertaining, studied medicine, earned her degree, and has practiced steadily since.
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New York
Dr. Wallerstein
Wallerstein
East Side Clinic For the
Daily Menu and Recipes From The Detroit Cat Show
The menu lists breakfast lunch and dinner items including croquettes and coffee sponge desserts. It includes detailed Spanish croquettes recipe with rice and currant filling and Coffee Sponge dessert with gelatine and cream. The narrative then shifts to a reminiscence about a Detroit theosophist cat connection and a Detroit cat club president Mrs. Freeman hosting twenty seven cats at a Kansas show mentioning Raffles, descendant of Gramma the famous cat.
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Detroit
Ife
Woman Once Was Cat She Asserts Firmly at Show
Kansas City born Mrs. C. L. Freeman a former Detroit resident exhibited twenty seven felines at the Western cat and poultry show. She relates a theosophist belief that she once lived as a stray alley cat and vowed to care for all cats after becoming human.
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C. L. Freeman
Kansas City
Detroit
Western Cat and Poultry Show
Mrs. Freeman
Snatched From Cab By Hook On Mail Car
Georgs de Ball head brakeman on a Union Pacific freight train near Rawlins Wyoming was yanked from the cab by a mail car thief riding a passing passenger train. The mail hook struck him with enough force to sever him in two, yet he survived with little injury and needed no doctor after reaching Rawlins Green River stretch.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Georgs de Ball
Union Pacific
Rawlies
Green River
Health and Beauty Secrets for Hair and Skin
Mrs Mae Martyn offers home remedies for scalp care and hair growth using canthrax shampoo and quinine tonic. She advises weekly shampooing for oily scalps, demurs soups for hair, and provides dosages and preparation steps. Additional reader tips cover weight loss aids, eye care, facial hair removal, complexion washes, and liver tonics to improve skin and vitality.
Thief Bolts Back Door in Dual McCoy Home Break-ins
Police report two felonious entries at Mrs. McCoy’s house with a rear-door intrusion. On the first visit a $15 gold bracelet was stolen. on a second visit the burglar attempted to break into her trunk.
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St.Mary’s-of-the-Woods
Elmer Keay
Greensburg
William Keay
Mr. Keay
Justine Stubbs
Mary Laycock
Louise Wikes
Ray Weidley
Paul Roach
Frederick Deitrich
Beli Phi Sigma
Frankfort
Ind
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William Singer
Cleveland
Minnie Houghton
H. F. Houghton
Mattoon
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Ft. Wayne
Ruth Hellekson
Smith College
J. H. Hellekson
North Alabama Street
Paul Hawkins
Dee
The
University of Pennsylvania
Edward H. Hawkins
Ruth Ready
St. Mary's College
Terre Haute
Mrs. M. 7. Ready
William J. Dobyns
William J. Dobyns, Jr
Brookville
Lawrence Ramey
Lawrence Sheridan
Mr. Ramey
Mrs. Ramey
Belle Ramey
Elizabeth Holliday
Bryn Mawr
Mrs. J. H. Holliday
Carolyn Malotte
Briar Cliff
Mrs
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Larry
Logansport
North Meridian Street
H. E. Barnard
Dr. Barnard
Anna H. Barnard
Eliot, Me
Martha Hawkins Society
First Baptist Church
Lynn B. Millikan
Helen Griffin
St. Mary's of the Woods
William J. Griffin
Pennsylvania Street
Loretta Rink
J. A. Rink
A. H. Hofer
Denver
Colo
Charles P. Trask
Talbott Avenue
Marguerite Cooper
St. Mary’s of the Woods
Smiley N. Chambers
Vincennes, Ind
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Columbus
Adelaide Wallerstein
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