Anti Polygamy Crusade Moves Across the Nation
Speakers denounce polygamy as treason to the nation urging public sentiment to confront Mormon practices. The Anti-Polygamy League plans mass meetings including a Brooklyn event at Historical Hall. Claiming Mormons wield political power in Utah Idaho Wyoming and other states, organizers push for an anti polygamy constitutional amendment.
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Burrell
Deseret
Congress
Strong
Mormon Church
Brooklyn
Historical Hall
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
Various Charities and Meetings Across City Listings
A dense list of upcoming events includes a Continental Chapter fundraiser for Valley Me Fund, a New York City Legislative League meeting at 320 West Seventieth Street, a dramatic recital by Gertrude Bennett at Wal-Gort Astoria, and a decorative arts exhibition at No. 14 East Thirty-fourth Street. Additional items cover tea services, prayer meetings, a West End Woman's Republican Association gathering, a Carrie Jud Montgomery talk at Door of Hope, a Riverside Day Nursery fair, a Brooklyn Needlework Guild reception at Sterling Place, and a vegetable cooking lecture at the Y M C A Building in Brooklyn with a fruit distribution for poor children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley Me Fund
Cal Hall
Genealogi
Plley
Ongst
New-York City
East Thirty-fourth
Carrie Jud
Montgomery
Brooklyn
Mise Helen Louise Semeen
Neon
Young Men's Christian Association
Fulten E
Moderation Society
Mulberry Bend
Arcede
Anti polygamy amendment rally cited giant evil threat
Interdenominational council women hosted a packed Assembly Hall meeting in the Charities Building to press for a constitutional anti polygamy amendment. Speakers including General John Eaton Dr Sarah J Elliott and Dr Josiah Strong warned that Mormon polygamy corrupts education and society and that national action is needed to curb it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assembly Hall
Charities
Congress
Interdenominational Council of Women For Christian and Patriotic Service
Susan H. Wood
C . Woodruff
F. C. Morgan
Atlantic
Eaton
Harvard
Cornell
Christ
Mary
Marsha
Mary Magdalene
Elliott
Utah
Successful Bazaar Delights Suffragists At Madison Square Garden Hall
The Women Suffrage Bazaar continues through the week in Madison Square Garden Concert Hall drawing suffragists from across the country. Delights include porker sales of $300 to $400 expected, Miss Laura Clay contributing $15, Kansas wheat demonstrations, and Turkish embroidery valued at $250. Massachusetts booth features Alice Stone Blackwell and photos of Lucy Stone, while afternoon acts include monologues and singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Square Garden Concert Hall
Booth
Iown
E. C. Stockman
Laura Clay
Cassius Clay
Lexington
Kansas
Kansas Booth
Helen Kimber
Parsons
Kan
William
Hannah Penn
Pennsylvania
Rudolph Blankenburg
Philadelphia
Utah
Little St. Josephs
Siana
Michigan
Alice Stone Blackwell
Massachusetts
Lucy Stone
Alo
Martha's Vineyard
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Miss Cummings
Charlotte Suliey
Viviin
Mme
Alice Cereseto
Handsome Prizes at a Euchre for Army and Navy Aid
Arrangements for a progressive euchre party by the Army and Navy Aid Association at Sherry's on Friday December 7 at 2 o'clock progress well. Officers met at headquarters No 156 Fifth Ave to discuss gifts including a Favrile vase a grand piano a sterling bowl and a Columbia gramophone. The event aims to aid returning veterans with limited funds and large demands while a bugler on Governors Island will announce changes during the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euchre
Army and Navy Aid Association
Sherry's
Fifth-ave
Metropolitan Opera House
W. F. Thomas
Th Infantry
Philippines
Cuba
Governors Island
Mrs Sage Attends Salvation Army Bazaar at Memorial Halls
Mrs Russell Sage visited the Salvation Army bazaar in Memorial Halls on West Fourteenth Street. The event featured a model of the Industrial Home for Children at Amity Col for which proceeds go. Key speakers included Consul Booth Tucker and Major Parker with entertainments by Cherry Tree Home children and Army officers. A donor contributed £50, and Miss Helen Gould could not attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Sage
Salvation Army
West Fourteenth St
Army
Amity
Col
Heaven
Booth-Tucker
Cherry Tree
Norma Thompson
Brass Band
National Singing Brigade
Midsaps
General Merritt
Philippines
Booth Tucker
India
Parker
Scotland
Ireland
Helen Gould
Evening Uniform Advocated At Rainy Day Club meeting
Miss Dora Goldthwaite proposed an evening wear uniform for the Rainy Day Club at Carnegie Hall. A black or white dress with a violet corsage was discussed as club colors, with a committee to study the idea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Goldthwaite
Rainy Day Club
Carnegie Hall
Miss Goldthwaite
Sara A. Palmer
George B. McAuliffe
H. Klingerfeld
Miriam Church Griswold
Matilda Agan
Frederick Eaton
Rone
Karline Holmquist
A Hurrah for St Nicholas Feast Across France
The feast of St Nicholas is celebrated in France with children eager for gifts and a tale of a black Moor escorting a mystical figure who rewards the good and punishes the naughty. The saint is described as beloved, patron to many trades, and invoked for protection, with Lorraine boasting a relic finger said to belong to him.
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St. Nicholas
Myra
France
Tsa
Nicholas
Lorraine
Diana
Christmas Cheer Aids Fund Amid Personal Sorrow
A T. S. S. member, recently struck by severe affliction in the death of a beloved child, cannot provide planned Christmas cheer but sends a contribution to aid the work and 50 cents for a silver badge. Mrs. Ashley contributes to the special fund and Annie C. Pond initiates a new member with a donation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashley
Annie C. Pond
Sunshine gifts brighten Christmas in Jersey City
A Jersey City girl will receive free piano lessons from Miss Elizabeth Mayo of 140 Academy St as part of Sunshine dues. The T. S. S. society reports numerous donations from Mrs. Ashley, Miss Broome, and others forming Christmas packages with books, clothing, and gifts for Little Mothers and Sunshine pupils. Florence Victor signs off with a charitable pledge and holiday wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey City
Elizabeth Mayo
Academy St
A 8 S
The
Florence Victor
Express
Lottie E. Broome
Elinor Valentine
Es H. Pratt
Winter's bleak dawn over a lonely shore
A desolate meditation on winter's grip. A naked landscape with bare trees and a silent river frames a worn figure rising in a cold morning to glimpse the earth and sea. A crow on a treetop highlights the stark cold and thinning life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Russell Lowell
Rector to Testify in Annulment Hearing in Court
The Rev. Victor C. Smith rector of the Prot will appear before Justice Abraham R. Lawrence in the Supreme Court next Wednesday to testify in the annulment case of Mrs. Annie Castka and Frank Castka. Castka allegedly compelled an unwilling 18 year old bride with threats from her father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor C. Smith
Abraham R. Lawrence
Supreme Court
Annie Castka
Frank Castka
Castka
Church of the Holy Faith
Mr. Smith
Wounded by Stray Bullet On East Side Street Crossing
Charles Thompson, a contractor living on East Seventeenth Street, was shot in the calf yesterday while crossing near East Eighteenth Street. He suspects the shot came from a fence at East Eighteenth Street. no shooter was found. Ambulances from Bellevue and Presbyterian hospitals treated and transported him. the bullet was removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Thompson
East Seventeenth-st
East Eighteenth-st
Thompson
East Eighteenth St
Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue
Presbyterian Hospital
Molineux Appeal Measures Take Shape in Meeting
A Saturday meeting between Bartow S Weeks and George Gordon Battle, counsel for Roland B Molineux, and Recorder Goff targets a formal examination of the case record. They aim to preserve disputes and arguments in the record for submission to the Court of Appeals, despite a prior motion to strike them. The parties expect the appeal to reach the Court of Appeals before next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartow S. Weeks
George Gordon Battle
Roland B. Molineux
Goff
Molineux
Court of Appeals
Messrs. Battle
Weeks
Osborne
Fund drive total and gifts to India cited in report
The record notes William F. Dodge as chairman and John Crosby Brown as secretary. It lists a total raised of 252983 42 with an estimate of gifts from the United States to India approaching 1,000,000. Mr Brown reported subscriptions of 2,0837 since the last meeting and numerous resolutions thanking individuals, corporations and committees for their fund efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Dodge
John Crosby Brown
U States
India
Mr. Brown
Slater Accuses Woman of Extortion in Jefferson Market Case
State Senator-elect Samuel Slater files charges against Mrs. Alice Courant of West Twenty-sixth street for attempting to extort money by threatening to reveal alleged bribery during Slater's XIXth District campaign. Courant denies the allegations and is held for exam under $6 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel
Slater
Jefferson Market
Alice Courant
West Twenty-sixth St
Courant
Albany
Alice Flower
Death of Counsellor Nolan Irish Barrister Famed in City Politics
Thomas Nolan assistant corporation counsel died in St Thomas's Hospital after five weeks of paralysis. His funeral is at the Church of the Holy Redeemer this morning. Born in Ireland he earned a legal education, stood six feet three, and was famed for a distinctive antique silk hat, high collar, lawn tie, and wide shirt front adorned with three studs. He was a popular, gravityful figure known for sharp wit before judges and politicians alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Nolan
St. Thomas's Hospital
Father Lynch
Church of the Holy Redeemer
Third St
Nolan
Ireland
Newfoundland
Richard
Death by self inflicted in hotel room shock path to legacy
George E Maltby Jr thirty awoke in Grand Union Hotel to shoot himself in the head shortly before midnight He died three hours later at Bellevue Hospital He left a wife and two month old baby He had recently inherited ten thousand dollars from his father's estate and squandered it on theatre boxes late dinners and a sporting life. Cornerstone laid for Boys Club home at Avenue A and Tenth Street President Harriman presided Two thousand boys attended and ground cost listed for land and construction. opening planned early next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Maltby, Jr
Morton Sr
Grand Union Hotel
the Tribune
Bellevue Hospital
Consolidated Gas Company
Hester and
Elizabeth Its
Meltby
St. Mary
Stamford
Lucius
George
Boys’ Club
Avenue A
Tenth St
Harriman
Sfe
Tompkins Square
H. O. Taylor
H. 8. Brooks
P. T. Dodge
Finis
Anti-Conductors League Criticised Letter to the Editor
A New York City reader defends conductors against a so called Woman's Anti Conductors League. The writer praises conductors for politeness and helpfulness, noting their patience with passengers and occasional courtesy to the elderly and mothers. The letter dismisses the league as illogical and argues conductors are humane despite fatigue and bad behavior from some riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Arma
Metropollitan
New York City
Methodist Episcopal Education Board Reports Aid to 1830 Students
The annual report to the Board of Education shows loans to students totaling 817,7942 with 1,830 beneficiaries across 21 nationalities. Legacies totaled 97 dollars, and sources include children's collections and invested funds, while church schools now hold over 30 million dollars in permanent education funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Fifth-ave
Bishop Andrews
New York
Bishop Hurst
Washington, D. C
L. R. Fiske
Albion
Mich
J. W. Lindsay
Boston
W. F. King
Cornell College
Iowa
John D. Slayback
H. C. M. Ingraham
Brooklyn
W. F. Anderson
Sing Sing
George P. Hukill
Oz City
Enn
Joseph S. Stout
New England
Middle States
J . A. Sam Goldthorp
William F. McDowell
Ap Fowler
Methodist Church
Street Paving Resolutions Adopted in The Bronx and Manhattan
The Board of Public Improvements adopted resolutions authorizing paving Mount Hope Place between Jerome and Anthony Avenues with telford macadam at an estimated cost of 10000. It also authorizes granite block paving of Forest Avenue carriageway between Home Street and East One Hundred Sixty Eighth Street in The Bronx at 2700 and grading of Kingsbridge Avenue from Terrace View Avenue in Manhattan with curbstones and flagging sidewalks at 1. The summary notes the actions and estimated costs for these street improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Public Improvements
Telford
Mount Hope Place
Jerome
Anthony Aves
Bronx
Forest-ave
Home-st
East
Manhattan
No Bids At Auction For Steamship Saale
The steamer Saale of the North German Lloyd Line drew no bids at Burling Lip auction. Prospective buyers from Boston and other cities expected a junk price around 18000 but faced a 100000 upset price and learned the vessel was repairable. Agent Gustav H. Schwab noted plans to patch and forward the ship to Bremen for repairs. The sale advertisement drew criticism from some bidders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saale
Lloyd Line
Burdett & Dennis
Burling Lip
Boston
Gustav H. Schwab
Bremen
Committee of One Hundred on India Famine Relief Ends
The Executive Committee met at the Chamber of Commerce and virtually wound up all affairs yesterday. The final report notes the committee was organized in May of the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee of One Hundred
India
Chamber of Commerce
Missionary Society Meetings Held in Newark
Two women's societies met in Newark with the Women's Union Foreign Missionary Society holding its 30th annual session at North Reformed Church where Miss Margaret Davis spoke and officers were elected. The Newark Conference District of the Methodist Women's Missionary Society gathered at St. Pauls Church with Mrs. C L Reeves presiding and officers named for the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Missionary Societies
Newark
Women's Union Foreign Missionary Society
North Reformed Church
Margaret Davis
India
Japan
C. C. Hine
J. W. Abeel
F. L. Smith
E. D. G. Smith
Methodist Women’s Missionary Society
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
C. L. Reeves
S. Reeves
W. Dickinson
Henry Elecon
Hardson Gray
Jacobus
E. J. Corey
B. Caffin
R. M Saint
E. L Dobbins
Burnettio P. Cott
Mollie and Charlie Preview a Wealthy Christian Science Ally
In dialogue from The Smart Set, Mollie dismisses bleak prospects while Charlie asserts he has hope through a wealthy aunt who believes in Christian Science. The exchange hints at family influence and unconventional faith shaping the characters' futures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mollie
Charlie
Dinner Committee Aims Grand Third Annual Dinner
The Dinner Committee of Grammar School No 77 plans the third annual dinner at the Hotel Marlborough on Saturday evening in February next. Graduates from 1883 to 1995 are invited to send names to President John S Carroll or Secretary Van Kauer as records are scarce. Edward J , Elmer Poulson and Burtis C Magic will attend the reunion dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grammar School No. 77
Marlborough
John S. Carroll
East Eighty-fourth-st
Mr. Vankauer
East Eighty-fourth-et
Edward J
Elmer Poulson
Burtis C. Magic
Actor in Court Disturbed Charge In Boston
Frank M. Astor thirty two of Tremont Street Boston wandered into the Criminal Courts Building and behaved wildly He sang yelled and threatened violence An officer locked him up in a Centre Street cell where he beat his head against the bars He uttered lines from Inferno and referenced an Episcopal service before slipping into a lucid moment claiming to be an actor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank M. Astor
No. M2
Tremont St
Boston
Criminal Courts
Donahue
Centre-st. Police Court
Astor
Langan
Episcopal Service
City Water Becomes Purier Promib
The weekly Health Department report for the week ending November 4 shows Manhattan water at higher temperatures and poorer quality than the prior week while Ridgewood Reservoir Brooklyn water improves slightly. The board notes early tests this week indicate overall improvement despite three weeks of decline in Manhattan with a forthcoming report expected to confirm a trend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Health
Bamough
Manhattan
Ridgewood
Brooklyn
Board of Health
Miss Proctor Lectures on Other Worlds Than Ours
Miss Mary Proctor lectured at Branford Connecticut on Other Worlds Than Ours. The talk featured lantern slides and her view of solar eclipses in 18% and this year. The event was under local auspices and highlighted astronomy in Leity.
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Mary Proctor
Branford
Conn
Miss Proctor
Leity
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Poughkeepsie
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Cornerstone OF New Home
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Meetings OF Missionary Societies
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