New Year Notes and Debates in the Woman's Page
The Women's Club bulletin reviews January events including a sociology meeting led by Mrs Mary C Francis and a lecture by President Woodrow Wilson on what it means to be an American. It also discusses suffrage views, art morality debates, and comments on employment rules for women in Toledo. The piece cites Rev Elinor E Gordon and other figures in ongoing discussions of gender roles and character formation.
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Mary C. Francis
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
Board of Aldermen of
Toledo
Ces
Elinor E. Gordon
Fargo
N. D
Celia P. Woolley
Miss Gordon
C. T. Billings
Canterbury Tales lecture a vivid Chaucer portrait by Vincent
Leon H. Vincent of Boston described Geoffrey Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales to club women, tracing Chaucer’s life from a royal household page to customs official and praising the Prologue and Tales as vivid, humorous, and revealing of medieval society.
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Leon H. Vincent
Boston
Gerwok
Vincent
Mr. Vincent
Chaucer
William the Conqueror
Geoffrey Chaucer
Royal Household
London
Shakespeare
Hawthorne
St. Thomas
Madame Eglantine
Lowell
Strong Program for Watertown Meeting Adds Fourth Speaker
The State Federation of Women's Clubs in Watertown on January 14 adds Robert Woods to the speaker lineup for the mile post on Boston conditions. Woods, author of Americans in Process, will discuss urban sociology, child welfare, and the foreign population, with Lowell club women likely to gain from the insights. President Woodrow Wilson is also awaited by Middlesex Women's club members, praised for his seminar leadership and scholarly merit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Federation of Women's Clubs
Watertown
Robert Woods
Boston
Woods
Lowell
Lowell Club
Middlesex Women's Club
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
Boston Transcript
Wilson
Formal opening of New Century building in Boston
Addressing Christian college men praised on Fourth of July eve. The New Century building in Boston will be formally opened this evening with a public inspection tomorrow from 2 to 6 p m for members of Boston area women's clubs. Mrs Bennett announced the invitation at yesterday's Middlesex Women's club meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian College
Century
Boston
Middlesex Women's Club
Bennett
Raffia Work Elevates Basketry At Women's Club
The article discusses raffia and other materials used in basketry, contrasting amateur aims with ambitious replication of Indian baskets from California, Arizona, and the Northwest coast. It notes Peabody Museum's Indian basket collection, speaks with curator Charles Willoughby, and outlines new basketry classes starting January 19 with limited enrollments and raffia materials available at Swan's block club rooms.
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Madagascar
California
Arizona
Northwest Coast
W. Conway Curtis
Peabody Museum
Cambridge
Chas. C. Willoughby
People's Club
New England
Swan's Block
Very chic to lux approach in 1920s fashion accessories
The article catalogs upscale winter wear and accessories featuring a white felt hat with a silk pompon and plaid ribbon, lynx stole and muff with satin lining, steel button accents on satin belts, veLOUR coat with Persian lamb collar, silk braid trimmings, and dove gray satin lining. It highlights sheer lace hats with violets, and tips on arranging hair to suit face shapes. It notes white lace dusky evening dresses with black Cluny lace and chiffon flower details, plus a new woolen lace matching hopsack and frieze fabrics in gray green brown tones.
Cuba Treaty Ratification Risks German Tariff Demands
Washington observes growing opposition to the Cuban reciprocity treaty in the Senate. President discussions with wary senators continue as fears mount that ratification may trigger other nations, notably Germany, to press for similar tariff concessions under the most favored nation clause. The President aims for prompt ratification with minimal friction, backed by many Republican senators and broad support.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Cuba
United States
Germany
Armenian millionaire Jambarov killed by brigands in Moscow church
A Moscow despatch reports Armenian millionaire Jambarov was murdered by brigands while entering a church in St. Petersburg. He had been captured in the Caucasus months earlier and released after promising a ransom, which he did not pay, triggering the killing in revenge.
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St. Petersburg
Moscow
Jambarov
Caucasus
Lost two of crew on halibut voyage from Gloucester
Advices from St Pierre Mig report two missing crewmen from the fishing schooner Theodore Roosevelt Capt McHenry William Johnson and Joseph Brennan strayed from the vessel on a halibut trip. The Viking of Boston arrived with half mast to honor a missing crewman thought dead at sea, later learned to be rescued by the Teresa and reached Boston.
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Gloucester
St. Pierre
Mig
Theodore Roosevelt
McHenry
William Johnson
Joseph Brennan
Roosevelt
Viking
Boston
Teresa Andre
Toay
Business health as a key asset in big enterprise
A prominent meat industry leader kept his physician as a yearly-paid, exclusive attendant to preserve his health as a core business asset. The piece warns against weak cold remedies and promotes Stuart's Catarrh Tablets, citing a Pittsburg teacher who credits them with stopping colds quickly and enabling steady work with students.
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Stust
Pittsburg
Stuart
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New Hampshire
White House
Theodore
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PILAR
Count Bonis
Anna Gould
Count Boni de Castellane
Goulds
Canterbury Tales
Leon Vincent
Northfield
Frills
Smart
Crystal
Ling
Facturers
Havemeyers & Elder Sugar Refinery
New York
A. G. Pollard & Co
Palmer Street
THE
NEW York Cloak and Suit CO
John Street
Oxford
Melton
Newmarkets
Monte Carlo
Boas
Carieras
H.B. Shattuck & Son
Central Street
Prescott Street
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