Lillian Morton Urges Free Musical Education for All
New York vaudeville singer Lillian Morton calls for free musical education for talented children. She credits Henry Street Settlement training for her success and argues music should be offered alongside domestic science and typing in girls’ schools. Morton notes many cannot afford lessons but can sing with proper support. Her song My Cradle Days has gained national praise.
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New York City
Nore
Lillian Morton
Wellmounginger
Miss Morton
Henry Street
Miss Marton
Sne
Industria
English designed Purde home model on Sibley estate
An English design by Z. W. Purde is shown as a model home by the owners on the Auburn estate. The steep roof, carved eaves, iron railing, and stone chimney give an attractive exterior while the interior features a broad living room, kitchen, large second floor chambers, well-ventilated baths, and hard wood floors. Plans show brick at grade with cement plaster and shingles, with prices around 7000 dollars.
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Organeal Estate
Aublerba
Wits Cement
Tahiti Seeks Stable Local Currency Amid Franco Fluctuations
Paneate Tahiti reports revived talk of establishing a local currency independent of France. Tahiti, remote with a favorable trade balance, believes a fixed money system would boost prosperity as vanilla and copra yields rise. The colony currently uses a locally issued paper by the Tahiti branch of the Bank of Indochine, fluctuating with the franc.
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Paneate
Tahiti
France
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Yorktown
Tyor Strovsky
Boston
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Tillian Morton
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Pete
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Linton Wells
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Nancy Bowes-Lyon
Earl of Strathmore
St. Antoine
Midway
Tours
Neuilly
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Fellehen
Isle OF
Ohio
Vermilion
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