Women Entering Workforce Linked to Higher Death Rates
A Manhattan and The Bronx mortality table by Dr. William H. Guilfoy shows higher death rates for women aged 45 and older between 1868 and 1907, despite gains against tuberculosis. The study notes increases in circulatory, cancer, and respiratory deaths tied to sedentary employment and influenza.
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Manhattan
Bronx
William H. Guilfoy
Health Department
Lfe
Galilfoy
Guilfoy
Wedding Riot Ends in Gangs Battle at Williamsburg nuptials
Rival East Side Manhattan and Williamsburg gangs clash at a wedding on Saturday and continue into Sunday morning. Ambu lance surgeon treated many injuries as the home was wrecked with chairs used as clubs. Police arrested two from each side after stage street station reserves intervened. Magistrate Higginbotham fined both defendants $2 each.
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Manihattam
Williamsburg
Decia Toplitsky
MaeHibben Street
Samuel Themashefsky
Stage Street
Higginbotham
Suffragette Leader Calls London Meeting Disorder Trifle
Mrs Snowden, British suffragette staying with Rev Dr Aked, termed the London suffrage meeting disturbance a trifle foolish. She defended the women who disrupted proceedings and chained themselves to chairs, noting Cabinet delays on granting votes and reporting brutal treatment of protesters.
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Philip Snowden
Aked
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
London
Women's Liberal Association
David Lloyd-George
England
Mrs. When
Ynden
Sunshine and coal fund donations in London and Gloversville
Mary Scott Rowland sent funds for sunshine. J. W. Judd contributed toward the coal fund. Miss S. B. Cox of Switzerland gave for Christmas and a birthday gift to T. S. S. in 1909. Austin from Gloversville’s First Baptist Sunday School memorial gifts support a lonely family’s birthday cause. Various others gave for coal, badges, and dues.
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Mary Scott Rowland
London
J. W. Judd
Cox
Switzerland
Miss Austin
First Baptist Sunday School
Gloversville
N. Y
Alfred R. Hazzard
Coal Fund
John B. Mead
Arlington Juniors Put On A Jubilant Thanksgiving Entertainment
Mrs Belle G Dutcher leads Arlington Juniors in a varied program of tableaux dancing and a comedy, featuring Stewart Ross Marion Huff and a cast of thirty young girls. The event drew praise from many friends and prompted calls for Christmas gifts to aid needy families and distant stations through the T S S.
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Belle G. Dutcher
Arlington Juniors
Stewart Ross
Lady Washington
Marion Huff
Pimitly Newberry
Queenie Ringgold
Mathilda Peters
Ilda Cornwall
Gladys Gilgore
Florence van Zile
Ethel Jeffreys
Gertrude Goldstein
Ursula Odendahl
Mildred Platt
Jessie Jordan
Edward Jewell
Edwin Frobisher
Ferdinand Sorbonne
Harold Phyliky
William Latham
Frank Holzer
van R. Dutcher
Mrs. Dutcher
Bessie Shepherd
John Gowell
Miss Gertrude
van Reneselaer Dutcher
Dencing
Nelson Battie
Emory Gilgare
Conrad Odendahl
Robert Miller
Howell Rieck
Carling
Miss Kennedy
Chase
Joseph Gowell
Mr. King
Maillard
Arlington
Illinois lawmaker thanks supporters in darkest time
The Mlinois member losing her eyesight expresses gratitude for the cheering messages she received during a period of sadness and discouragement. She notes a heart full of thanks as she faces this challenging time.
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Mlinois
Charity Requests and Personal Reflections From the Bahamas to Montana
A letter thread recalls Miss Mary Wilson seeking small Christmas gifts for island children left destitute by a hurricane and lists a December 14 steamer deadline. In Montana Grace KE writes of blindness after years of illness and hope for regained sight while knitting mittens. Mrs George Perkins Lawton, Geratoga branch president, plans to send twenty five Christmas gifts to isolated shut in members across states, per the general secretary.
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Makinson
M. E Saunders
Yonkers
T. S
Lttle Village
Idaho
Washington
Kansas
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Jerome
Seton Hospital
Mary Wilson
Eyed Island
Bahamas
Montana
Grace KE
George Perkins Lawton
Geratoga
General Society
Lst
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Brooklyn
Thanksgiving baskets bring thanks from grateful families
Letters express deep appreciation for holiday baskets helping needy households. A mother of eight from New York area credits the meal with saving their Thanksgiving, noting warm dinner and heartfelt thanks. Recipients include widows and families with absent or unemployed fathers in Brooklyn, The Bronx, and the East Side.
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Fivery Mall
Brooklyn
Bronx
East Side
Alness
Abe Mide
Christmas gifts and requests from a New York area paper
A branch president seeks a primate secretary for a refined, educated woman while another woman needs sewing work urgently. Gifts arrive from Misses Dutmas of Brooklyn. Mrs Louis Bossert of Long Island sends clothing. Mrs Bock provides underwear. handmade items from multiple locals. a doll bed and furnishings delight a child. more donations from Mrs Manson, S M Hull, Ziegler Company, Miss Ward of Newark, and others.
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Primate
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MFG. CO
Fifth Ave
Alvin Sterling
N. J
U. S
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Chickering & Sons
Chickering Hall
Mous Chickering Pianos
New York
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Emerson
Kurtzmann
J. C. Camp
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KNABE
Wilcox & White
Fifth Avenue
Angelus
Knabe-Angelus
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the Targest
The
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Broadway
Fourth Avenue
Eighth
Tenth Street
Newcastle
R. S. Minturn
East 22Nd Street
R. Fulton Cutting
N. Y Association For Improv A. I.C. P
M. Fielder
Cambridge
Mass
G. W
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Sharon Sanatorium
Sharon
Phebe Boughman
Cuba
Mira Lloyd Hornbaugh
Baltimore
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Greenwich St
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East 12Th Street
A. W. Malloy
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Norwich
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