Theatre in a Church Lets Stage Be Church Aid
The Reverend Walter E. Bentley transforms the Church of the Holy Sepulchre basement into a planned theatre space seating about three hundred. He envisions a proscenium stage, professional dressing rooms, and a varied program with plays from Rachel to Joseph and His Brethren, inviting church members and the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter E. Bentley
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Bentley
Everyman
England
Rachel
Joseph
Church of England
Pharaoh
Epouse
the Eleven Brothers
Cost of living slips while public life discussed
Dan's Review notes a 1 percent drop in living costs from a year prior with some items rising and others falling. Commentary on women entering public life cites Hannah G. Solomon. Observations compare modern English society unfavorably to mid century norms and a Royal Letter on a Madison Square disaster. National Consumers' League markets 1993 calendars with monthly mottos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah G. Solomon
General Council of Jewish Women
Baltimore
George Russell
Russell
London
Cape Town
Cairo
Delhi
Fashionable youth cloaks and dresses described in fabrics and trimmings
A period notice details a fourteen year old girl’s dark bie cloth cloak with double breasted front and red velvet collar, a Norfolk jacket in blue cheviot, a camel’s hair coat with satin trim, a black velvet coat with quilted medallions, and several blue broadcloth dresses with velvet cords and white lace appliques.
Mary of Magdala Describes Spectacular Eastinspired Costumes
The Manhattan staging of Mary of Magdala showcases Mrs. Fiske in ornate Orient inspired gowns. Costume details span wine red silk with gold trim and jeweled breastplates to heavy gold cloth robes with rhinestones and turquoise crowns. Simpler Act III gowns expose a penitent Mary in black crepe and blue cloak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary of
Mary
Flavius
Magdalen
Old Time Pumpkin Pie Receives Sage Home Tips
An article extols pumpkin pie over squash, detailing a Connecticut field pumpkin recipe cooked slowly in its juices. It also offers decorative table centerpiece ideas, German New Year food displays, and simple fixes for marble and china repair with household hints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Simple Useful Handwork Ideas for Home Crafting
Plain towels become unused toilet articles. Make bathing shoes from old shoe uppers and cork soles, edge with braid and rings. Create a dressing cape from a towel split in half, and craft a sponge bag and toilet case from towel strips with oil silk lining. Decoration allowed on every piece.
Festus Poem Echoes On Deeds Beyond Years
The piece notes Philip James Bailey who died at eighty six and whose poem Festus, once widely printed, lives on through four lines about living by deeds thoughts and feelings rather than clocked time. It warns readers about misdirected mail to the Tribune Sunshine Society at The Tribune Building New York City.
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Bainbridge
New York
Church Dramatic Society
Consumers’ League
Philip James Bailey
Festus
Tribune Sunshine Society
Tribune
Christmas cheer fund donations from Mrs Thomas and others
Mrs B H Thomas of Pennsylvania sends 3 for the Christmas cheer fund from C T of Flushing Long Island and Mount Vernon N Y with amounts indicated as a Christmas ray of sunshine to a needy member. The donor asks that the recipient prays for her happiness during the coming year.
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B. H. Thomas
Pennsylvania
C. T
Flushing
Long Island
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Sunshine Fund
Money gifts boost local branch memberships ad hoc
Miss Sarah Osborne of Public School No.6 sends 3 for badges indicating a hundred new members for Manhattan No.10. Fifty cents pays badges for seventeen new members. Mrs B. Wyman contributes for expressage on a clothes bundle for a poor family. Mrs Gene Marler of Roselle New Jersey sends 1 for a special advertisement.
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Sarah Osborne
Public School No
Sun King Santa Claus urged to send dolls to needy children
The Sun shine Santa Claus is asked to bring dolls to two little girls in distress and many East and West Side Manhattan children who would otherwise have no Christmas cheer. One child in Troy Idaho has an invalid mother. another orphan girl in Wisconsin was taken from the State School by an elderly woman and her crippled daughter. The plea emphasizes generous generosity to ensure a merry Christmas for these neglected youngsters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine Santa Claus
Troy
Idaho
Wisconsin
Santa Claus
Sunshine members aid sale for invalid members
Members and friends may buy Christmas novelties and fine work from invalid members to help them financially. Write to the office for addresses and participation details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine
Office
Wide Gift Packages Arrive From Various States
A large assortment of charitable gifts arrives from multiple correspondents including H. R. V. of Freehold New Jersey with clothing, shoes, stockings, and quilt pieces. Mrs. H Charles Ulman with sewing materials and a work box for a young mother. A. M. W. of Schenectady with mittens and washcloths. 8. C. C. of Manhattan with Christmas cheer. Mrs. Charles E. Grant of Plainfield with baskets and cards. Miss Minnie Kreskey of Huntland Tennessee with infant wear. Mrs. C. W. Hedges of Norwich Connecticut with books and Christmas items. Mrs. Thomas Nicholson of Jersey City with a book. A. C. R. of Rhode Island with pictures. Mrs. Jane Lyle of Farmdale Florida with Sunshine material craft. Frances Hi Galpin and I. R. of Manhattan with care packages. Mrs. Annie Brown of Tuckerton New Jersey. Mrs. Power of Long Island with underwear. B. L. Young of Long Island with gifts. and Mrs. H. Lindsley Washington noting an address for Sara White in Mount Airy En.
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Freehold
N. J
H. Charles Ulman
Schenectady
N. Y
Manhattan
Charles E. Grant
Plainfield
Minnie Kreskey
Huntland
Tenn
C. W. Hedges
Norwich
Conn
Thomas Nicholson
Jersey City
Rhoda Island
Jane Lyle
Farmdale
Fla
Frances Hi. Galpin
I. R
Annie Brown
Tuckerton, N. J
Mrs. Power
B. L. Young
Long Island
M. B
Letters of thanks from Sunshine invalids grateful for Thanksgiving cheer
Residents across Pennsylvania Connecticut New Jersey Maine Illinois and New York express gratitude for a Thanksgiving cheer from the Sunshine list. Recipients include Mrs Sprague Ulrich Cary Miss C Spiro and others who sent gifts such as books underwear and gowns to aid invalids and children.
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William Smith
Pennsylvania
Sprague
Ulrich
Connecticut
Cary
New Jersey
Nelson McCartney
C. Spiro
Eliza A. Shter
Landrum
S. C
Maine
Illinois
Sunshine thanks from Algoma forest home in Canada
Mrs S C Gardiner of Iron Bridge Ontario expresses gratitude to Sunshine friends for magazines sent to her twenty mile distant home deep in the Algoma forest. She says the readings cheer them in isolation and asks for The Christian Endeavor World or Sunday school lesson papers, offering to share them with others.
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The
Algoma Forest
Christian Endeavor World
S. C. Gardiner
Iron Bridge
Ontario
Canada
Maid's Apron Pattern from The Tribune
The Tribune advertises No 4.298 Maid's Apron pattern with cambric fabric and embroidery trim. Medium size uses 34 1/2 yards of material 35 inches wide plus 2 yards embroidery and 2 yards insertion. patterns come in small medium and large bust measurements and cost 10 cents plus 2 cents for a stamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New- York Tribune
Pleads For Shopgirls In New York Prodding Early Shopping
A morning appeal from metropolitan pulpits urged New York shoppers to finish buying before 5 pm to ease a post five o clock rush. Rev. Dr. G C Houghton of the Little Church Around the Corner urged parishioners to complete expeditions early, noting store workers fatigue and shortages from last hour purchases.
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New York
G. C. Houghton
Lotus Buds Escape Detention for Travel to Raja Yoga School
Eleven Cuban children known as the Lotus Buds were released from Ellis Island and moved by private tug to Jersey City then put aboard a train to Point Loma California. They travel guarded by private detectives toward Mia Katherine Tingley’s Raja Yoga School as secrecy remains tight.
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Raja Yoga School
Potit Loma
Cab
Mia Katherine Tingley
Ellis Island
A. G. Spalding
Jersey City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Point Loma
Spalding
James E. Sullivan
Olaf Tyberg
E. Vilas Beckwith
Tingley
Sullivan
Mr. Spalding
John E. Moore
Myrtle
Tybers
van Pelt
Gerry Society
California
New York City
Jersey Shore
Express Company
Tyberg
Parish Shopping Hours Advice to Women
A Victorian era notice urges parish women and shoppers to complete their purchases before 5 o'clock in the afternoon to ease the burden on shopkeepers and serve the latecomers.
Trachoma Epidemic Ravages New York East Side Children
Dr. John C. Lester reports 40 to 60 percent of East Side children from the Brooklyn Bridge to Twenty third Street show trachoma or granular lids. He notes hospitals are flooded with cases, emphasizes need for early operative treatment and a healthful environment to halt spread, and cites historical and international context.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Twenty-third-st
Board of Health
New York
Richard H. Derby
Lederle
Lester
Napoleon
Egypt
Russia
Hungary
Belgium
Prussia
Posen
Switzerland
Tyrol
Rockefeller Jr Explores Prayers And Suffering Lesson
J D Rockefeller Jr spoke to his Bible class on the Agony of Gethsemane. He urged faith in prayer and said God may answer in His time. He noted Jesus sought human sympathy in suffering and urged leaving prayers to His judgment.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Gethsemane
Mr. Rockefeller
Christ
Jesus
Services of Elks for Dead Comrades in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Brook lyn Lodge No. 22 Elks held a memorial service at Plymouth Church for members who died in the last year. Exalted Rulers William J. Buttling and C. S. Andrews spoke. Thomas T. Hayden recited Thanatopsis. A quartet sang Lead Kindly Light with solos by each member and organist General Jie C. King played Marche Funebre as postlude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Lodge No. 22
B. P. O. Elks
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
William J. Buttling
C. S. Andrews
New-York
Thomas T. Hayden
Jerome Like Carrie Nation Morals Sermon on Jerome Raid
The Rev. Dr. Louis Albert Banks compares New York gambling busts and Jerome’s public raids to a Monte Carlo scene. He argues the axed doors bring attention but rarely punish gamblers, condemning gambling as a source of sorrow and political corruption while wishing Jerome luck in pursuing the effort.
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Louis Albert Banks
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
West One Hundred-And-Fourth-St
New York City
Monte Carlo
Jerome
New York
Paradise
Unsettled Weather With Fog and Light Snow
The day started with a clear night followed by dense fog at 7 am that lingered into late morning. Light snow then fell fitfully from around 9 am until nearly 3 pm, with a low of 25 degrees reached just after midnight and a high near 37 degrees mid-morning.
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Dan
Lady's Pictorial
Madison Square
Guy Fawkes
Congress
America
United States
Europe
National Consumers’ League
Gibson
Magdala
Orient
Pomona
Paris
Sunshine Dolls
Island
John C. Lester
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
St. Bartholomew's Clinic
Vernon M. Davis
Lenoxave
Washington
General Sargent
Treasury
Taylor
Sargent
J. D. Rockefeller, JR
God
Services OF Elks
Carrie Nation
Dr. Banks
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