Lectures and society notes in Colonial era club
Women's Club Bulletin outlines upcoming lectures by Edwin Mead and Dr. Robert Bell, notes a calendar change for Professor Griggs, and reviews Mary E. Wilkins' The Portion of Labor. It discusses temperance views, Mrs Shaw and Mrs Gardner social roles, and Atwater's alcohol theory, then recounts Miss Towne's South Carolina school work and her death, plus detailed historical kitchen recipes.
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Colonial Hall
Edwin D. Mead
Boston
Old South Meeting House
Middlesex Hall
Robert E. Bell
Lowell
Griggs
Robert Jenks
Miss Agnes Ruth Collins A Boston social figure
Miss Agnes Ruth Collins the oldest daughter of the mayor elect of Boston is noted as a brilliant, prominent member of society. She gained recognition in London while her father served as consul general and remains an influential young woman in Boston's social circle.
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Miss Collins
Boston
Mr. Collins
Lndon
America
Park
General Collins
A Noble Life of Miss Laura Towne on St Helena Island
A tribute by Charles Cowley chronicles Laura Towne born 1829 in Pittsburgh who spent four decades aiding freedpeople on St Helena Island South Carolina. An abolitionist educator physician and administrator Towne helped deliver food medical care and schooling first at the Oaks then the Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School guiding district schools as superintendent and board chair.
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Picure
Ellen Brewster
United States
Ellen
South Carolina
Penn School
L. W. Murray
Ruggles
Milton
Cunliffe
Peters
McDonald
St. Helena
Alice Lathrop
Massachusetts
M Towne
Echhool
Lovig
Laura A. Towne
Charles Cowley
Post 42
Women’s Relief Corps
Memorial Hall
Miss Towne
Pittsburg
Pittsfield
Boston
Cape Cod
Philadelphia
Newport
Lincoln
New York Association
Freedmen’s Relief Association
BE. L. Pierce
New York
Miss Ware
the Oaks
St. Helena Island
North
Pennsylvania
Relief Commission
Ellen Murray
Oak House
Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School
Wassa
A Course Luncheon Demonstration at Boston Cooking School
Miss Farmer showcased an elaborate six person luncheon costing under six dollars. The menu featured a calf brain soup with onions and curry, stuffed turbot fillets with halibut essence, a lobster butter sauce, timbales with mushroom and chicken, and a yellow bechamel. Venison Cumberland style followed.
The Club Celestial Poem About a Boston Woman
A verse by Frank J. Bonnelle from the January Club Woman tells of a Boston woman who dies and reaches heaven. St Peter weighs her ticket for a club gate but finds no color line in heaven. She is urged to fly to a club-house called A Universal Federation, glowing above in a heavenly city of streets of gold.
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Shaw
the Treasury
Washington
Frank J. Bonnelle
The
Boston Sunday Herald
St. Peter
St. Peter's
Exhibition of 130 Japanese photographs at city library
A Boston Library Art Club loan brings 130 colored photos to the city library exhibition room. The collection, open yesterday, runs until January 21 and features Tokyo city views, Nikko, Osaka Castle, Shogun shrine bridges, rice and silkworm farming, flower painting, home life, weddings, funerals, travel modes, and national festivals across Japan and its island territories.
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Japan
Library Art Club of
Boston
Tokio
Nikko
Asuka
Osaka
Kirsbir
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Women’s Club Bulletin
Mary E. Wilkins
John L. Gardner
Fens
Gardnner
W. O. Atwater
Wesleyan University
Hartford Medical Society
Professor Atwater
Atwater
Agnes Ruth Collins
the Club Celestial
Gold
San
A. G. Pollard & CO
Sterling
Aiste
Jersey
Pamer Street
Centre Risle
Linen Department
Palmer Street
Richt Aisle
Burbank & Company
Merrimack ST
Courier-Citizen
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