DAR chapter plans summer work and October monster bazaar
The New York City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution led by Mrs. Donald McLean convened at Sherry's to close the season. They scheduled a June 9 gathering at Grand Central Station to tour to Tarrytown for unveiling Avery house tablet and discussed an autumn bazaar to support Barnard College with Mrs. Harrier urging a grand event. Mrs. McLean expressed appreciation for the group and summer wishes. A Boston DAR event on June 14 at Old South Church will feature remarks by Mrs. McLean and Harvard President Eliot.
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New York City
Daughters of the American Revolution
Donald McLean
Sherry
McLean
Grand Central Station
Tarrytown
Avery
W. F. Chockran
Thaddeus Avery
Ogden Doremus
Leon Harrier
Barnard College Fund
Rints For The Housekeeper And Care Of Linens
Household tips on drying rib bons and laces on a marble surface to avoid wring stresses. Ribbons should be stretched and brushed to remove creases using a nail brush. Avoid hot water for ribbons and laces and use lemon juice with borax for straw hats. Clean brass and copper utensils with salt and vinegar. Hot bread cuts better when the knife is heated.
Strawberry Festival and Dance at Lexington Opera House
The Ladies' Fuel and Aid Society invites the public to a June 7 strawberry festival and dance at the Lexington Opera House. The charity group, long aiding poor families, aims to net a substantial sum from the event and notes a single male secretary has led since 1888.
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Ladies’ Fuel and Aid Society
Lexington Opera House
Baas Bros Tailors Offer Exclusive Gowns and Garments
Baas Bros high class tailors offer tailor made gowns in imported material lined with silk for 45 dollars, down from 75. Also shirt waists at 4 dollars and duck suits at 35, usual prices 87 and 55 respectively. ParIs fashions available, with G Haas professionals noted for quality. Rich patrons among their clientele cited. a capital chance for first class work at low prices.
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Baas Bros
Fifth-ave
Paris
G. Haas
Cuban Summer School visits Cambridge with 1500 attendees
Fifteen hundred Cubans are expected this summer in Cambridge Mass for a school program. Six hundred men will room at Harvard University dorms while women stay in boarding houses with meals provided. Forty teachers, all Spanish speakers, will lecture on stage history and physiography.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard College
Memorial Hall
Santage
Sanders Theatre
Lane
Chicago
Quincy Shaw
Alice Freeman Palmer
Eliot
Crothers
Alice Gordon Gulick
International College For Girls
Spain
Palmer
Lend-a-Hand Society
Bernard Whitman
Whitman
Cuba
South America
Gulicko
S N
Lontland
Laura D
Contributions For St Rose's Free Home For Cancer Patients Rome
From St. Rose's Free Home for Cancer Patients at 426 Cherry Street comes a report of money received since May 15. Donors include Mrs. Anne E. Dibble $25 and Miss Barnes $10. The roof garden is being made convenient with an awning for shade and seating. Sister M. Alphonse notes a visitor donated $1,000 for future needs of male patients, who are now present.
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St. Rose's
Cherry St
Anne E. Dibble
West End
Woman's Republican Association
Miss Barnes
Mary 8. Lee
M. Alphonse
The Lion Corner Fad Celebrates Notable Figures
A lion corner honors a celebrated poet author artist actor or composer by placing a late portrait, surrounded by period pictures. An autograph letter or reproductions, plus favorite books for authors, enhances the display and value of the corner.
Education in Alabama Examiners Report on Teacher Certification
A Federation of Women’s Clubs report notes widespread ignorance among Alabama teaching certificate seekers under the old system, praising a new State Board of Examiners that requires normal school graduates but warns Harvard or Yale graduates face extra tests. Examples show wide gaps in anatomy, geography, grammar, and history, with odd misstatements and confused textbook views.
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Alabama
State Federation of Women's Clubs
Federation Committee
Harvard
Yale
Mother of the Hero of Mafeking Descends from John Smith
The mother of Major General Baden-Powell, famed for Mafeking, is descended from Captain John Smith who helped shape early Virginia history. Her daughter Miss Maud Kirkdale Baden-Powell is noted for repoussé work and owns a prized piece once owned by Princess Louise. Her Hyde Park home features a large apiary with two beehives in the window and glass panels showing the hive activity.
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Baden-Powell
Mafeking
John Smith
Virginia
Maud Kirkdale Baden- Powell
Princess Louise
Miss Powell
Hyde Park
London
June rose of the world in Mary E Blake verse
A poetic celebration compares each month to a flower, praising June as the red, red rose of the year. The piece contrasts other months like trumpet flower March and crocus April with vivid natural imagery of birds, deer, children, sunset, and music.
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Mary E. Blake
Contributions Received For Sunshine Room Gifts
A trunkful of books games music pictures and miscellany arrived without a sender name. Items include magazines children’s books two pairs of bed shoes mittens silk pieces invalid reading material from various donors in Washington Lockport Morristown Cleveland Michigan Philadelphia and New Jersey. A tea rose and a poetic legend engraving were forwarded to cheer a Sunshine girl and the composer is thanked.
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T. K. Jones
Washington
K. H
Lockport
N. J
Cleveland
Ohio
Tribune
Morristown
J. B. Camp
Michigan
Pansy Greene
Philadelphia
Sunshine Room
M. Kniicksieck Laurent
Sunshine sends gifts to mothers and children across states
Good cheer from Sunshine headquarters on Saturday sent birthday greetings to Mrs Gammons of Rhode Island and clothing and silk pieces to Mrs Evans of North Carolina, Mrs Benton and Charity Wineyard of New York, a baby's afghan to a young mother in New Mexico, sea mosses to Mrs Harrington of Vermont, and magazines and music to ten members in Jersey City and Brooklyn. Boxes also went to the Little Mothers' S S branch in New York and Home Garden T S S branch in Pleasantage with toys, books, games, and sewing materials, followed by a Riley couplet about sunshine and smiles.
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Sunshine
Gammons
Rhode Island
Evans
North Carolina
Benton
Charity Wineyard
New York
Seymour
Manhattan
New Mexico
Harrington
Vermont
Jersey City
Brooklyn
Little Mothers
S. S
East Twenty-first-st
Home Garden T. 3. S
Pleasantage
Sunshine Society Notes and Dues Donation
Two Friends remit June endowment dues of 1, 10 cents contributed by Mrs. A. M. Palmer and Mrs. John K. Wood. Genevieve Frost, a Sunshine Girl of Manhattan, is ill at home awaiting cheerful greetings. Mrs. James Fairman, an invalid member, receives floral tokens and potted plants from Mrs. M. A. Stone along with tulips and lilies.
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A. M. Palmer
John K. Wood
Genevieve Frost
Madison Ave
Manhattan
Genevieve
James Fairman
M. A. Stone
Birds Free in House Not Confined by Powell Family
Miss Powell keeps numerous birds roaming freely about the house with no confinement, allowing them to fly at will throughout the rooms.
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Powell
Nightingale Turns Eighty Still Guides Hospitals
Miss Florence Nightingale, now eighty and confined to her room, remains engaged in England’s efforts to supply hospital care for front line troops. Her enduring popularity is shown by the gifts and letters she receives, including a donation to the South Africa Hospital run by the North and East of Scotland.
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Florence Nightingale
England
Miss Nightingale
South Africa Hospital
Seculand
The New Elocution Trend for Modern Women
The up to date woman studies elocution as a necessary skill for club duties. Training focuses on precise emphasis and meaning rather than dramatic theatrics. Instructors guide reading aloud line by line and craft speeches around three or four core ideas. Some teachers specialize and offer small group classes.
Domestic science instructor named director of Chicago Institute
Mrs Alice Peloubet Norton supervisor of domestic science in Brookline Massachusetts has been chosen director of the Chicago Institute opening in October. Funded by Mrs Anita McCormick Blaine the institute will educate children from kindergarten through academic grades and train teachers with emphasis on household economics linking home and school.
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Alice Peloubet Norton
Brookline
Mass
Chicago Institute
Anita McCormick Blaine
Gifts of flowers arrive for Sunshine invalid at care home
Mrs James Lyon of Steuben County New York sends a valley in fine condition a bouquet others include a box of violets and lilies of the valley from Mrs G A Fountain New Jersey a box from four Sunshine girls of Canajoharie N Y and a box of pansies from Miss Brockett East Orange N J The gifts are warmly received by the Sunshine invalid and gratefully noted for their beauty and thoughtfulness.
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James Lyon
Steuben County
N. Y
G. A. Fountain
New Jersey
Sunshine
Canajoharie
Brockett
East Orange
N. J
Sunshine Society Cheer Lifts Injured New Mexico Boy
Royce Sampson of New Mexico, injured while herding cows, says Sunshine helps him. The Tribune Sunshine Society members sent books, toys, games, and pictures, while children nationwide sent gifts and letters to boost his spirits. Royce is improving as mail and gifts brighten daily life.
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Royce Sampson
New Mexico
Tribune Sunshine Society
United States
Royce
Dr Mary Stewart Memorialized by T B S Members
Mrs Amelia L Wentz reports the death of Dr Mary Stewart of Lundys Lane Penn after years of rheumatism Ailing for long. T B S members sent loving remembrances to comfort her in the final hours and through the long illness.
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Amelia L. Wentz
Mary Stewart
Lundy’s Lane
Penn
Women as Sanitar ians Advocate Public Health Shift
From The Philadelphia Medical Journal Dr Benjamin Lee argues women are born sanitarians while men require training He credits evolution and civilization’s progress to women as housekeepers and health officers urging official roles for women in public health and sanitary management He notes millions of unemployed women could fill these roles bringing mutual benefit and advancing civilization
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Philadelphia Medical Journal
Boards of Health of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Lee
Incidents in Society Bring New Arrivals and Weddings
New York society notes arrivals at Newport villas and cottages. weddings planned for June include Mary Rogers and Robertson Coe, Leila Adams and Mitchell Depew, Grace Tully and Dr. Cramp ton. A deluxe social circuit itinerary lists rentals in Southampton and engagements of several prominent families with mentions of salons and hotels.
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Mary Rogers
William Robertson Coe
Henry H. Rogers
East Fifty-seventh-st
Leila Perry Adams
Mitchell Depew
Chauncey M. Depew
West Seventy-sixth-st
Grace Tully
Charles Ward Crampton
Henry E. Crampton
What Makes Happiness Says Dowling at St Bartholomews
The Rev Dr George Thomas Dowling preached at St Bartholomew's Church on What Makes Happiness He warned that unhappiness comes to those with nothing to do beyond seeking happiness and to those studying life purely through society activities.
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George Thomas Dowling
Christ Church, Los Angeles
David H. Greer
St. Bartholomew's Church
The Dangerous Classes and the Fox Pursuit Image
A commentary on social discontents describing hearts burned out and aimless lives as dangerous classes. The piece evokes Spurgeon’s lines about a dog chasing a fox, arguing that purpose and expectancy drive action and blur outside scrutiny.
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Charles Spurgeon
Fox
Problems of City Charity Reforms in New York Public Aid
The Arena Quarterly argues NY public charities mismanaged poor care by lumping insane prisoners and paupers. Reforms split duties, privatization curbed, and oversight improved. Proposes separate courts for child commitments, new governance, and cautious paternalism to protect destitute workers.
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Arena
City of
New York
Department of Public Charties
Black Island
City Hospital
Department of Public C
Bellevue Hosp
America
Ellevue
Department of Publifhc Charities
Department of Thi | Charities
Board of Estimate
Pudiie Monere
Finance Department
City Treasury
Department of Public Charities
Germany
New Zealand
Crotte consumption cure dropped by St Luke's Medical Board
A three to four month trial of the Crotte method at St Luke's Hospital ended without benefit. The American Congress of Tuberculosis committee and Francisque Crotta's process used a static electric antiseptic through the lungs. The hospital board, after outdoor trials with no positive results, removed the apparatus and announced cessation of the method.
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American Congress of Tuberculosis
St. Luke's Hospital
Tribune
Francisque Crotta
George F. Clover
W. Williams
Medical Board
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Milwaukee
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St. Thomas's Protestant Episcopal Church
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Maine
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Amasa Lyon
West Forty-fourth St
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Miss McAllister
Ward McAllister
Henry S. Pritchett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chevy Chase
Newlands
St. Matthew's Rectory
Margaret Sterret Matthews
E. G. Matthews
William F. Beckham
DR. Dowling
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