Feminine News Notes and Society Items
Engagements and milestones appear among varied items. Theodora Shonts becomes engaged to the Duc de Chaulnes, New York Normal College faculty oppose a girls basketball team, and notable firsts include Berlin’s first woman taximeter driver Frau von Papp. Women attain honors from Carnegie and McGee becomes pastor in Boston.
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Theodora Shonts
Duc de Chaulnes
New York City Normal College
Frau von Papp
Berlin
Helen Gould
Florence Todd
New Orleans
New York
New York City
Paul Leicester Ford
L. R. Williams
Lucy C. McGee
Church of the Higher Life
Huntington Chambers Hall
Boston
David Beatty
Marshall Field
Melton Mowbray
William Jennings Bryan
Holy Land
Andrew Carnegie
Ida Lewis Wilson
Limerock
Newport
Anetta E. McCrea
St. Paul Road
Ten Little Indians Names at Hampton Institute
The Philadelphia Record notes the school for Indians at Hampton Virginia uses colorful Native American names like Sophia Little Bar and Laughing Face. It records that some students later adopt more Americanized names such as Thomas W. Catt after entering as Tommy Wildcat. It also mentions a proposal to grade French troops by length of atride.
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Tommy Wildcat
Thomas W. Catt
Philadelphia Record
Our Mr Crawford and the Perfection Electric Switch Co
Richard Barker Shelton relates the rise of Our Mr Crawford a stern factory superintendent at the Perfection Electric Switch Company. He replaces a popular lax leader, tightens discipline and boosts output while battling for worker pay gains. After a November illness his strength wanes yet he presses on to steady profits and reform.
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Crawford
Perfection Electric Switch Company
Powell
Jim Powell
Ciary
Mr. Crawford
Christmas Umbrella Brings Hope to Dying Factory Foreman
In a quiet winter scene Crawford, a dying factory executive, receives no comfort until a factory contingent visits with a silk umbrella as a token. The gesture stirs emotion, and the doctor approves, noting the moment as progress in a patient’s slow struggle.
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Crawford
Alice in Toyland and the Hands Off Moment
A brief fragment features Alice and Jack in a toyland exchange with the line Hands off, there. The text then shifts to a critique of dietary reform arguing that men cannot adopt a vegetarian diet without supportive women to cook the meals. The piece labels many men as stumbling blocks to change.
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Alice
Burglar Alarm Quality Questioned in Chicago Talk
A dialogue notes a burglar alarm once used but removed due to fear it would wake a baby. The exchange hints at domestic risk and caution. An unrelated line mentions Austrian government chemists analyzing margarine factory findings.
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Chicago Tribune
Two Churches in Town Prompt Revival Split
Louisville Courier-Journal notes a local religious shift with two churches present after a split, contrasting this year’s count with last year’s single church. The piece captures community reaction to the change and the notion of revival versus division.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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Monc. VA
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Bulding
Leslie C. Garnett
Middlesex
Gloucester
F. Theo. Miller
Mathews C. H
Ziohnel
Tabby
Leon Augustin I'Hermitte
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
M. N'Hermitte
Heartening the
Richard Barker Shelton
Conservatism of Women
Gilbert School of Shorthand
Dilbert School OF Shorthand
Calvin L. Fleet
N. Fremont St
C. S. Schermerhorn @ Son
Purina
Cheapside
Pratt Street
Baltimore, Md
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Mt. E. Church
Eid Pol
Edwin L. Sabin
Lippincott’s
D. P. Baldwin
Indiana Circuit Federal Court
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Sir Henry Hawins
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