Sunshine Society aid reaches struggling families across states
Articles detail T S S aid to a Wilkes Barre family at No 8 Plymouth Ave Firwood with grateful letters from multiple regions. Donations include coal funds Easter cards Sunshine boxes and gifts from New Haven Chelsea Easter sale profits and volunteers across New Jersey New York and Vermont.
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New York
McChesney
Boulevard
Jersey City
Junction N Ave
Bleeckerst
Ports on Mondays Sunshine column urges gifts for the needy
The Sunshine column outlines weekly Monday reports and Easter lists seeking donations for shut ins and needy patients. Neighborhood Circle members at Falls Connecticut organize cheer work, an all day Sunshine picnic, a branch sale, and donations of footwear, garments, stationery, and stamps for the Adirondack state hospital patient Miss F. They request support to brighten Easter for the ill and poor.
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Chelsea
Hotel Chelsea
Sunshine
Falls, Conn
New England
Branch Treasury
Adirondacks
Miss F
Saranac
Annie M Trler
Idaho
Mullan
Tyler
Death Of An Invalid and Other Charity Notices
Miss Kete Hawkins of Susquehanna Pennsylvania dies after a long illness as a T S S shut in. Miss Hawkins' mother Mrs Lorena Hawkins expresses gratitude for kindness received and reflects on the daughter’s happy, limited life. The record also notes a blind destitute woman with possible cancer and potential partial sight restoration through medical help. Several letters from Idaho, New York, and Connecticut request aid and items for the needy, including shoes clothing and instruments, plus birthday and holiday cheer for shut in members in Clinton Connecticut and other branches.
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Brooklyn
John Church
Coldbrook Station
Nova Scotia
Florida
Pennsylvania
Owego
N. Y
Seaman
Glen Cove
Long Island
New Jersey
W. W. Hill
Rutherford (No. J
E. T. Galloway
Vermont
Lorena Hawkins
Susquehanna
Penn
Kete Hawkins
Miss Hawkins
Simple blouse for young girls in open square neck style
The Tribune describes a versatile blouse for young girls with an open square neck suitable for lingerie fabrics and delicate cotton voiles. It can be worn with a chemisette to raise the neckline if desired, giving two styling options.
No. 698 Tissue Paper Pattern for Misses Waists
Pattern No 598 is offered by the Pattern Department New York Tribune for 10 cents with sizes for girls fourteen and sixteen years. Requires 3 1 4 yards 16 inch fabric or 2 3 4 yards 32 inch and 1 1 2 yards 44 inch wide plus 2 1 2 yards banding and 1 2 yard 18 inch wide chemisette. Mail to any address with clear age and pattern number.
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New-York Tribune
Woman Jumps at Pearl Street Fire Rescue
Fire broke out in a four story tenement at 470 Pearl Street after 2 am. A woman jumped from a window. Fireman James Wood of Truck 1 rescued three year old Charles Morgan badly burned on face and hands and carried him to J Murphy’s undertaker stable across from 467 Pearl Street. Basement first floor and rear stable also burned before firefighters arrived.
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Pearl Street
James Wood
Truck 1
Charles Morgan
J. Murphy
Pear Street
Michigan Liquor Fight Moves to Local Option Vote
Detroit April 5 Fourteen Michigan counties including Cass St Joseph Kalamazoo Clinton Barry Gratiot Midland Gladwin Oakland Osceola Wexford Missaukee Grand Traverse and Oceana will vote on local option tomorrow. Kalamazoo and Pontiac are the largest cities among them with strong wet sentiment raising registration in Pontiac and elsewhere.
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Detroit
Michigan
Cass
St. Joseph
Kalamazoo
Clinton
Barry
Gratiot
Midland
Gladwin
Oakland
Osceola
Wexford
Missaukee
Grand Traverse
Oceana
Kalamazoo County
Pontiac
Oakland County
Public Schools Facing Teacher Shortage and Pay Debate
A letter to the editor argues New York City schools suffer from crowded classes and many vacancies in 1907–08. It cites Superintendent Maxwell on class sizes, compares salaries and career prospects for women teachers, and questions policy shifts under the Hughes administration and a proposed four mill tax.
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The
Tribune
New York
Albany
Wadsworth
Hughes
Committee of the Assembly
Maxwell
Board of Education
Joseph M. Rogers
Lippincott
New York City
Teachers and Taxes Letter Questions Shumway’s Role
A New York letter by Edgar S. Shumway of the Male High School Teachers Association questions his authority to speak for taxpayers. It asks whether he has a commission and its terms, and why he is concerned with taxpayers amid perceived unequal tax shares.
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Francis
City of
New York
State of
Shumway
Lena E. Gano
Wadleigh High School
The
Tribune
Edgar S. Shumway
Ownership of Ju. S. Embassies in Foreign Capitals
Frederick W. Jackson argues for the United States to own official embassy quarters in major capitals including Berlin Paris London and St. Petersburg as a matter of national dignity and democratic equality. He notes Berlin already hosts an ambassadorial residence and cites Japan’s interest in purchasing it. He recalls Franklin and Jefferson and warns against royal ostentation, urging modest housing to enable men of small means to serve. New York April 3 1908.
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the Tribune
Dr. Hill
China
Berlin
Paris
London
St. Petersburg
America
Franklin
Jefferson
Diogenes
Alexander
Frederick W. Jackson
New York
Burglary Foiled at Hotel Manhattan Cigar Store
John J. Cassidy, the store clerk, fought off three burglars who beat him while attempting to steal 900 from the cash register. Two assailants Edward Haywood and Fred Griffin were arrested after patrolmen arrived. they were arraigned in Yorkville court and remanded for a hearing tomorrow.
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Manhattan
John J. Cassidy
East 7Th Street
Cassidy
Edward Haywood
Fred Griffin
Yorkville
Proposals for Life-Saving Service Supplies 1908
Sealed proposals are invited by the U S Life-Saving Service for annual supplies for the fiscal year ending June 30 1908. Items include beds bedding furniture hardware household goods lamps medicines paints ships chandlery tools and miscellaneous articles. Bids due April 28 1908 at 2 p m Pacific time or as specified.
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Treasury Department
U. S. Life-Saving Service
Washington
D. C
New York City
Grand Haven
Mich
San Francisco
Cal
Washington Street
Twelfth Life-saving District
Thirteenth Life-Saving District
New
Washington, D
S. L Kimball
EALED
Tompkinsville
Lyop
Tompkinayille
Board of Water Supply
Broadway
New York
City of
U. S. Military Academy
Quartermaster
West Point
N. Y
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Nelson Ave
Bleecker St
A. R. Allen
Bentley Ave
Borough of Queens—Real Estate
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Beckie Cohen
People of the State of New York
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Tenement House Department of the City of New York
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Michael J. Saitzer
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New York Supreme Court
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Office of Conisioner of Immigration
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Barge Office Dock
Robert Watchorn
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Panama Rail Road Company
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