PLAN CITY FEDERATION OF NEW YORK WOMEN CLUBS
New York City women’s clubs discuss forming a city federation at a planned mass meeting next Tuesday. Leaders see potential practical benefits, especially for car service and legislative work, with about ten thousand clubwomen in the city. Support comes from several clubs, including the West End Woman’s Republican Club and the Century Club, while opinions vary on details and independence from the State Federation.
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Newark City
Charlotte B. Wilbour
Augustine J. Wilson
Doré Lyon
Clarence Burns
Bello di Rivera
Brooklyn
Augustine Wilson
Allegany County
Long Island
Delmonico’s
Waldorf-Astoria
Enterprising Woman Opens Tea Room in Office Building
A young woman with a year of study in Paris devised a scheme to fund further study by renting a top floor office at noon and transforming it into a tea room. She furnished with inexpensive items, served tea coffee cocoa and light meals, and rapidly expanded to multiple rooms as patrons flocked to her enterprise.
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Aris
Cormade H
Credescend
Countess of Aberdeen Accepts Nomination for International Council Role
The Countess of Aberdeen accepts the nomination by the National Councils of Women as President of the International Council of Women to succeed Mrs May Wright Sewall. This follows an executive meeting and sets the plan for the 1903 International year with her possible chief office. The piece notes her wealth energy and social prestige as influential to the organization. It closes with a praise line about HAPPY CHILDREN and education in The Sunday Tribune.
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Councils of Women
Dian
May Wright Sewall
Uncil
Canada
International Council of Women
Silk Shirt Waist Styles Return in Spring Fashion
Silk shirt waist suits are predicted to comeback next spring with neat effects and warp print designs. Velvet costumes rise in favor with furs and laces, while simple walking outfits favor corduroys and fancy velvet blouses. Coats for children remain boxy with lace or fur accents. Belts and jeweled buckles feature heavily, with new Parisian belt tabs and crush girdles in silk or velvet. Leather falls out of vogue as fashion shifts.
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Paris
Furnishing The Home Emphasizes Harmony And Individuality
Miss Davis of Wellesley urges essential home furnishing principles shaped by usefulness beauty and personal taste. She advocates chairs for function not display, simple rugs and colors, minimal bric a brac, and furniture aligned to each room’s purpose, with fireside warmth and careful wall and wallpaper choices to reflect the hostess’s personality.
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Wellesley
William Morris
Morris
Joshua Reynolds
Orange Puddings From Bread Crumbs And Orange
A recipe paragraph describes two orange puddings. First, a bread crumb pudding with orange zest and juice, eggs, butter, and sugar baked to a firm meringue finish. second, a fresh orange milk pudding with orange segments, sugar, milk, cornstarch, and eggs cooked in a double boiler.
Orange pudding and meringue recipe steps and variations
A detailed set of orange pudding preparations, layering with milk and cornstarch, and a baked meringue topping. Includes methods for boiling, baking, and producing a firm meringue, plus two hot orange sauces and a shimmering sherry sauce to accompany servings.
Kitchen First in Housekeeping Says Miss Davis
Miss Davis urges practical home design focusing on labor saving in the kitchen. She advises ample windows, a hood, linoleum flooring, near utensils, and exposed plumbing for sanitation, noting the kitchen's priority over decorative rooms and urging patience for future adornments.
Good Cheer Pass It On From Verse Poem
A short verse urges sharing kindness across generations. It emphasizes that a kind act benefits others and later echoes in heaven. The timeless message encourages passing goodwill on to wipe others tears and keep compassion alive through the years.
Brightest and best of the dawns
A devotional verse attributed to Reginald Heber envisions the visit of gifts to the infant Jesus. The poem contrasts costly offerings with the sufficiency of heartfelt adoration and prayer from the poor, urging spiritual devotion over wealth.
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Reginald Heber
Tribune Sunshine Society address note
All letters and packages for the T. S. S. must be sent to The Tribune Sunshine Society, Tribune Building, New York City. The notice warns readers not to send communications to any other “Sunshine” group and clarifies its unique affiliation.
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Tribune Sunshine Society
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Sunshine Members Aid Poor Families Across Cities
Mrs S S Frost reports funds from a Sunshine Member to buy dinner for a East One hundred twenty fifth street poor family with a crippled eleven year old boy helping his widowed mother. Manhattan members donated coal to a poor widow with three children and Addie M Adams sent Christmas gifts to six invalids in several states. Cuba Branch warded jelly, fruit, and slippers to invalid sisters in New Jersey and a bed quilt to an aged invalid in Pennsylvania. Charlie Guild, who broke his leg collecting for sunshine, said he would pass his treasures on and the family remains grateful to the Sunshiners.
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N. Y
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Charlie Guild
Woollen gloves sought for two elderly men in need
A sympathetic reader reports two men well into old age endure freezing weather while begging and sheltering outside. One man has hands covered in old stockings and no gloves were available at the office to provide warmth.
Industrious Grandmother Supports Orphan Grandchildren
Community notes the hardship of a diligent grandmother who brings cheer to three orphaned grandchildren. After a daughter and one child died two months following the son-in-law’s death, she now raises four children with resilience and steadfast devotion.
Delayed Holly Shipment Reaches Camp Hill Institute
The Camp Hill Industrial Institute for Sunshine reports a late holly consignment from the steamship company, missing the Christmas distribution but expected to brighten the New Year. Principal Lyman Ward extends thanks for the cheer brought by the society through the T. S. S. effort.
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Alabama
Industrial Institute For Sunshine
Steamship Company
Lyman Ward
Sunshine charity actions during Christmas week in Manhattan and beyond
Boxes for overflow kindergarten on Thompson street were sent for Christmas. A Potsdam package went to a hospital ward. An express box of clothing and toys reached a poor family on West 155th Street. Ten T S S members distributed supplies in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Eighteen poor women who scrub downtown offices and restaurants received gifts. Many greetings mailed with more to come as Santa’s gifts arrive late. A box of trifles went to Arlington juniors for Sunshine work. A request sought a copy of Autocrat of the Breakfast Table for Mrs. Sydney Evans. The poem excerpt by James Russell Lowell closes with holiday wishes and the Prince of Peace.
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Potsdam
Post Graduate Hospital
West One
Santa Claus
Arlington Juniors
Skirts Tucked Horizontally Fashion Pattern No 4315
The pattern No 4315 offers a chic tucked skirt style for slender figures. It describes fabric options from black canvas to soft materials, with tucks held by stitching or trim, and notes yardage for sizes waist 20 to 26. Requests include 10 cents and waist measurement details to Pattern Department, New York Tribune.
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New-York Tribune
A Christmas Masque Part II The Earl's Return and Intrigue
A London nobleman Herbert D Avrancourt returns from exile to wealth and power. His past battles with love and loyalties unfold as a countess schemes and a masked rendezvous prompts a risky masquerade plot. A dangerous affair tightens around Lucile Vanstone and the marshal of the court.
Explosion at East Tenth Street Fire Sends Firemen Downstairs
Six firefighters from Engine Company No. 72 narrowly escaped serious burns in a gas explosion on the two upper floors of a six story building at 53 East Tenth Street. The blast blew them down stairs as they attempted to fight the blaze, with a later explosion on the fifth floor prompting extra hose lines. Despite pressure issues, single lines and a water tower were brought into service and the blaze was controlled. The first floor housed Samuel Sachs the fur dealer, and other tenants included A Rosen cloaks and Charles E Hyman embroideries. Damage totaled about 50 000. William Taylor proprietor of the St Denis Hotel and his son woke guests and prepared for evacuation, but wind prevented ignition of the building"}
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Purroy
Samuel Sachs
A. Rosen
Cloaks
Charles E. Hyman
No Warning Needed as Fire Threat Passes Hotel
Acting chief notes firemen protected guests as flames roared behind the burning building. Fire escape hose remained ready on the rear, wind kept sparks away, and guests were calmly watched by firefighters while one guest closed a window on a fireman’s instruction.
Week of Prayer Reminders From Evangelical Alliance
The Evangelical Alliance led by President William E. Dodge issues reminders for a week of prayer from January 4. The eight day plan features topics on Church Militant, foreign missions, home missions, youth work, families, Nations and Their Rulers, and the ministry of the Gospel including pastors teachers and evangelists with sermons scheduled each day.
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Evangelical Alliance
William E. Dodge
The New Kentucky Coal Deal
The Courier Journal reports an Eastern syndicate has gained control of nearly all Kentucky coal mines except St Bernard, with total value about 3 million dollars. J Pierpont Morgan not part of the syndicate but may finance the deal.
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Courier Journal
Eastern
Kentucky
St Bernard Coal Company
J. Pierpont Morgan
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Artistic Hairdressing and Worthy Adornments at 13 West 29th
RTISTIC HAIRDRESSING. e ANDRE, 13 West 29th st., adjoining Gusey House Expert ladies' hairdresser, specialists in hair coloring, imported hair ornaments, shell goods, wigs, transforma tion, pompadoura, front pieces and wavy switches.
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