Chatterbox and Familiar Nursery Jingles Review
A literary column surveys Christmas juvenile books from Dana Estes and others, noting that many so called artistic works feel adult aimed and not truly suited for children. It highlights color plates, illustrations by Betts Greene Smith and others, plus numerous titles from Stokes Duffield and Houghton Mifflin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dana Estes & Co
Chatterbox
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Mother Goose
Ethel Franklin Betts
Riley
Josephine Preston Peabody
Houghton Mifflin Company
Elizabeth Shippen Greene
Mrs. Peabody
Abbie Farwell Brown
Aileen Cleveland Higgens
Duffield & Co
Jessie Willcox Smith
Ethel C. Dew
Edward Stern & Co
Nelly and
Louise F. Gregory
Stern
Chrissy
E. P. Dutton & Co
Herper & Bros
Mr. Howells
E. Boyd Smith
Santa Claus
Stokes
Mr. Smith
Eva Dean
R. F. Fenno & Co
Wee-Wee
Pooh-Pooh
Harrison Cady
Happychaps
The
Century Company
Carolyn Wells
Bill
Frederick White
Moffat, Yard & Co
Teddy B
Teddy G
Roosevelt
Seymour Eaton
Harpers
Peter Newell
Tommy Potts
Alice B. Woodward
City Federation to Seek Auto Club Action on Pedestrian Safety
The City Federation of Women's Clubs public safety committee met at the Cumberland Hotel to push for measures protecting pedestrians from motor cars. They plan to urge the American Automobile Club to draft a bill for the Legislature, adopting Commissioner Bingham's speed limitsless approach and police issued licenses with chauffeur photos. Sergeant Mallon spoke on enforcement challenges and the need for conviction success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Federation of Women’s Clubs
American Automobile Club
Public Safety Committee
Robert Francis Cartwright
Hotel Cumberland
Cartwright
Binsham
Bingham
Bureau of Licenses
William Cumming Story
City Federation
Automobile Club
Story
Public Safety Ittee
Bent Club
Benjamin Mallon
Malion
Mallon
Interborough Rapid Transit Committee
Christmas Bazaar of Blind Opens at New York Association
The Christmas bazaar of the New York Association for the Blind opened yesterday at 118 East 59th Street. The event showcases broadened work including a handicraft department. Blind girls weave rugs, knit stockings, sweep portieres, hemmocks, baskets and more under Miss Griswoll, with a power machine to learn. A notable sight features blind girls playing games with specially made cards and checkerboards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Association For the Blind
East 59Th Street
Miss Griswoll
Undergraduate Tea at Barnard Brightens Freshmen Day
Crowded Brinkerhoff Theatre hosts Barnard freshmen and guests for first undergraduate tea. Seniors in caps and gowns guide visitors through decorated class studies in green white blue and yellow. Glee Club buzz begins as rosy lights and carnations frame the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brinkerhoff Theatre
Barnard
Smith
Mrs Brown Nominated for NYC Women's Clubs Presidency
Mrs William Grant Brown, president of the West End Woman's Republican Association, is nominated as the federation's candidate at a recent meeting. Mrs Arthur S Wilson, the corresponding secretary, announced the bid and urged honorable effort from all members. Brown warned members to avoid discrediting actions as they support her. She read a prayer for truth and honor before continuing. See further in Sundays Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Grant Brown
West End
Mrs. Brown
Public Schools Debate by New York District Leader
Edgar Dubs Shimar districts superintendent told the West End Woman's Republican Association at the Hotel Astor that critics should visit schools before judging. He urged constructive feedback, praised gains under Dr Maxwell, and urged simpler, cleaner, dustless schools with fewer decorative features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Dubs Shimar
New York
West End Woman's Republican Association
Hotel Astor
Society For Political Study
Mr. Shimar
Board of Estimate
Christmas Plea From Relief Servants Faces Winter Shortfall
Mother Alphonsa Lathrop leads the Servants of Relief as admitances to two homes for incurable cancer patients rise and winter bills threaten. Treas ury sits near the hundred-dollar mark, coal remains at Rosary Hill Home Hawthorne, but fuel needs, feed for livestock, and wages for an engineer, male nurse, and outside workers demand donations amid ongoing hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Servants of Relief
Alphonsa Lathrop
Rosary Hill
Hawthorne
Mother Alphonsa
Sisterhood
Destitute Aid Groups Operate Overloaded Homes
The Servants of Relief run two crowded facilities at 426 Cherry Street and Hawthorne New York, with St. Rose's Free Home in Cherry Street housing twelve to fifteen patients and Rosary Hill maintaining about forty five patients. Mother Alphonsa notes a rising tide of cancer victims and insists on accepting all presented cases despite scarce space, as deaths are frequent but incurable patients are still admitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Servants of Relief
Cherry Street
Hawthorne
Westchester County
N. Y
St. Rose's Free Home
Alphonsa
Rosary Hill
Jewels of Mrs Cowper spark bazaar at Waldorf Astoria sale
Excitement surrounds the Professional Woman's League bazaar as jewels donated by Mrs. Eleanor Merton Cowper, following her death, are claimed for her aged mother. A legal review is underway while sealed bids are planned for asset disposal. The event features Edna Wallace Hopper, Lillian Russell, and other notable attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's League
Waldorf-Astoria
Eleanor Merton Cowper
Hotel
St. Regis
Art Booth
Annie Yeamans
Edna Wallace Hopper
Lillian Russell
Maida Craigen
Miss Bingham
Simon Nahm
Mortimer Brown
Philadelphia
Cushman Club
Emma Eames
Geraldine Farrar
Zeke de Lussan
John Drew
Ruth
Fire Insurance Rates Cut in Lower Manhattan Districts
High pressure fire mains prompt the New York Fire Insurance Exchange to cut district charges in lower Manhattan. The zone north of 14th Street to the Hudson River drops from 15% to 5% with exceptions. A second zone from 2nd Street to the Hudson River falls from 10% to 5%. A third zone near 23rd Street, Broadway to 14th Street, Third Avenue, Bowery, and Oliver Street sees restored pre May 196 rates with mercantile, stables, and theatre/busines s ratings lowered by 10%, 10%, and 2% respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower Manhattan
New York Fire Insurance Exchange
San Francisco
14Th Street
Third Avenue
Bowery
Oliver Street
Chambers
New Chambers Street
Hudson River
2D Street
Broadway
23D Street
Bank of Bombay Raises Discount Rate to Six Percent
The Bank of Bombay increased its discount rate today from five to six percent. The move was announced from Bombay on December 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank OF Bombay
Bombay
Dez
Business Troubles in City Bankruptcy Filings
Petitions filed in the U S District Court list cases against The Spiro Company of 114 East 14th Street with liabilities of 12 89285 and assets 6 8576 including stock and machinery The Goldberg Printing Company seeks a bond for 2500 claiming assets about 7 7 and liabilities near 11 000 Emanuel Spiro and Sigmund Moretsky face separate liabilities while Hyman Levy at 322 St Nicholas Avenue shows 2034 84 in liabilities and 330 in assets Jerome Peavy of 126th Street reports 224746 liabilities with no assets and other creditors noted Weigert Meyer Gross Co and Bernheimer Schwartz are listed among debtors and secured obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District Court
Spiro Company
East 14Th Street
General Electric Company
Church Street
John W. Dixon
Holt
Goldberg Printing Company
Emanuel Spiro
Sigmund Moretsky
Hyman Levy
St. Nicholas Avenue
Weigert
Involuntary Petitions and Receiverships in New York Firms
The filing lists multiple involuntary petitions against Abraham A Levin trading as New York Mat and Picture Mounting Co and others, with debts totaling thousands. Receiver appointments include Are Dougall Hawkes and Walter Cook Jr. with bonds. Schedules show assets ranging from stock in trade to accounts receivable and bank deposits, with creditors including Louis Dejenge & Co, DL Briggs Co, Jefferson Bank, and the Coal and Iron National Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Shea
West 139Th Street
Max Cohen
Bowery
Abraham A. Levin
New York Mat and Picture Mounting Company
Manhattan Straw Board Company
Louis Dejenge & Co
John Loyd Company
Louis Weinstock
Abrams Brothers Jewelry Company
Broadway
DL. K. Briggs Company
Attleboro
Mass
Jefferson Bank
Canal Street
Benjamin Feldman
Brook Avenue
The
Bronx
Sherman, Brown, Clements Company
Murray Street
William C. Popper & Co
Russell & Erwin Manufacturing
Cohen & Wolfson
Bleecker Street
Heilman, Mandell & Co
Walter Cook, Jr
R. Landau & Co
East 17Th Street
Isaac Chartin
Thomas D. Hewitt
William D. Coles
Th Street
Edwin C. Hahn
Sixth Avenue
Siegel & Darter
Corn Exchange Bank
Astor Place
Henry Kupfer & Co
Greene Street
American Woollen Company
Fifth Avenue
Flettman & Co
Broome Street
Hudson Woollen Company
East 4Th Street
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Holland
Estelle M. Kerr
Sam
Volendam
George M. Brill
Rand-Mc-Nally Company
Elizabeth B. Brownell
M. G. Edgar
Louise Ayres Garnett
Rand, McNally & Co
Hope Dunlap
Mary Dickerson Donahey
Floria
A. A. Green
Small, Maynard & Co
Dorothy
Adah Louise Sutton
Toyland
Saalfield Publishing Company
Elinora
Toodles
Virginia Bennett
S. S. Paquin
Lalla Browne
Lyman Abbott
Association
Christmas Bazaar OF
Parisia A. F. James
Barnard College
West End Club
City Fed
Campbell MacCulloch
Tribune
E. D. Shimar
Charlies
Tom Andy Bill
Chicago Tribune
St. Louis Post-Dispatche
John R. Spears
New England
Chicago
Herod
Cioth
James Morgan
Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Morgan
Boston Transcript
Red Cap Adventures
S. A
Treasure Chest
Wizar Crockett
Mr. Crockett
Scott
Churchman
W. S. Gilbert
the Macmillan Company
Fifth Ave
United States
Burr McIntosh Monthly
Woman’s Home Companion
American
Cosmopolitan
the Book and Print Shop
West 39Th Street
Philadelphia Record
Thomas Nelson Page
Tommy Trot
Baltimore Sun
Springfield Union
Charles Scribmer
Soms
Caller New New York Cin
TOG
Mr. Blackborne
Merous
Arthur Blackborne
Thomas FE. Kirby
American Art Association
St. Madison Square South
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