Clever Indian Women and the Sorabji Sisters
The article profiles Cornelia Susie and Alice Sarabil and other Sorabji sisters, highlighting their historic education achievements in India. It notes Mary and Pheroze Sorabji sending daughters to Empress or English schools, their roles in Poona training colleges, and Cornelia’s Oxford law degree and professorship. Alice earns a London doctorate and may head a Dufferin hospital unit. The family funded four Poona schools for Parsis, Hindoos, Mahometans, and English, with Susie Sorabji advocating to expand the Parsees’ access and noting the religious tensions around education and conversion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelia
Susie
Alice Sarabil
India
Saste Sorahit
America
United States
Poona
Mr. Scimbil
Sorebjl
Mary
Pheroze
Susie Sorabi
Emg Jas
Akmeiated
Gigerat
Hag
Mery
Oxford
Bombay University
Bengal
Alice
London
Dufferin Hospitals
Susie Soranto
New York City
Tribune
SS Fox
Ming Susto Gorabst
Gerry
Bec
Greece
Tedin
Martha Washington
Educators blamed for child labor conditions in Milwaukee talk
Miss Addams of Hull House criticizes educators for losing interest after schooling ends. She argues factories demand more from schools while states provide costly buildings, and many children between fourteen and eighteen labor, with disastrous effects on future independence. She cites Henry van Dyke on girls in school and warns against harsh child-rearing and improper work limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Miss Addams
Hull House
Chicago
Journal of Education
Pattern Advertisement for Tissue Paper Skirt Pattern No. 502
An old classified style notice offers tissue paper skirt pattern No. 502. It lists materials and yardage needed for medium size 2 inches waist and 2% inch waist, with 10 cents for pattern postage. Requests purchaser to include waist measurement and pattern number in a sealed envelope to Pattern Department New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jace Inserlon
Beetmioner
New-York
Labins
Bevis
When the Japs Lost at Sea and Oddities of the Caribbean
Recurring oddities include a 1862 naval clash where the Wyoming under David McDougal defeated Japanese ships by the end of an hour, plus freaks from the Caribbean with eyes on stems and a long stalk, a note on wireless radio naming, a sleeping Far East acacia, and the lowest U.S. mountain Mount Cornelia in Florida. A Wisconsin chemist reports a beer-enhancing extract vastly stronger than beer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Japan
Leavenworth
Kan
David 8. McDougal
Wyoming
Joancee
Far
Mount Cornelia
Fort George Island
St. Johns River
Fla
Cape Hatteras
Key Weert
Wisconsin
Hong
Primitive fire making among Malay and American Indians
Primitive friction fire making is described as common to both Malay and American Indian peoples. A notch is cut on a split bamboo convex surface and another sharp-edged piece is drawn across it to form fine powder. After about forty five seconds of quick work the powder ignites with a touch.
Rhymer’s Luzon Lobes a Limerick Lie
A cryptic poem fragment mocks a distant Luzon maiden and rattlesnake tutor, labeled as a lie by Phil B. Pines. The Kansas City Drovers Telegram notes the verse pokes fun atclimes and travel, with a playful regional quarrel over accuracy.
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Luzon
Kansas City
Telegram
Luzzon
Phil B. Pines
Sunday School Parade Honors City Leader in Brooklyn
Mayor McClellan is named honorary member of the Eastern District Sabbath School Association of Brooklyn for promoting Anniversary Day as a Sunday school holiday. He will review the parade from a Hanover Club grandstand with Police Commissioner McAdoo and Bishop Fowler, as 20 divisions form up along Bedford Avenue and Heyward Street for the large procession through the borough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Eastern District Sabbath School Association
Brooklyn
Mc‘Adoo
Bishop Fowler
Hanover Club
Bedford-ave
Ross St
George P. Butler
Arthur Hartley
George R. Valentine
George EB. Moulton
H. Mecdowell
George Scott
W. M. Cartwright
Charles G. Tyson
Mulhall King
W. G. Murphy
Gilson I. Totten
Howard A. James
Joseph J. Geiss
John F. Christgannd
Albert Gehring
Bedford-eve
Bedford
Heyward St
Division
Aves
Henry H. Hall
Thomas M Stewart
Williamm. Cartwright
George W. Logan
Thomas ©. Stoke
Orlando B. Lewis
George Beatt
G. J. Totten
H. Macdowell
Surfmen Gather for U S Life Saving Service Convention
Surfmen and station captains from Atlantic Pacific and Gulf coasts will convene at Brighton Beach Hotel from June 7 to 10. Captain N B Rich leads the 6th district. John T Westcott is secretary treasurer. D M Push is first vice president. W H Barber is second vice president. Public drills include lifeboat maneuvers and the breeches buoy on Friday. Exhibitions show lifesaving techniques and signaling drills with Superintendent Deming of the Long Island district directing about 25 men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Life Saving Service
Brighton Beach
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
United States
N. B. Rich
John T. Westcott
D. M. Push
W. H. Barber
Deming
Long Island
Worthy Charitable Cases Appeal for Help
The Charity Organization Society appeals for funds to aid a Swedish mother in a tuberculosis sanatorium and a German widow with four children. The Danish man earns 1250 dollars weekly and struggles to support his family. Funds are requested to cover rent for six months for the janitress family and other urgent needs. Public acknowledgment will be given for all contributions to 16 East 224th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charity Organization Society
No. 16 East 224St
Ostrich Rescues Duck Amid River Debris
In Nasal South Africa along the Umgent River two ducks tangled in wires were saved when a wild ostrich rushed from the bush. The bird reached one duck and steadied it to shore despite strong currents. The article also mentions pineapple fiber ropes and a fabric called plfia, noting strong fibers from pineapple.
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Umgent
Duroan
Nasal
South Africa
Wales
Image of Virgin Mary in Antipolo Jewel Value Hanoi
Article describes a Philippine household relic with a jeweled Virgin Mary statue in Antipolo valued at $1,000,000 formerly owned by a Rajah. It notes Palanca in Manila as a millionaire and Mandarin of Spain by inheritance and mentions tobacco, cigarettes, and schooling in English for Filipinos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antipolo
Philippine Islands
Ue Rajah
Tondo
Palanca
Manila
Spain
bin Quast
Sunday at State Camp Camp Services and Drill Updates
Quiet Sunday at State Camp Peekskill New York features church services in old mess hall with Gartland's Band and Father Paul open air talk. Major drills planned include company battalion formations and new regulations plus signal corps training and acetylene lanterns. Visiting officers and staff report on next day activities and guard duties.
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Peekskill
N. Y
A. F. Kenney
Gartland
Tenney
Young Men's Christian Association
Paul
Graymore
Deneke
Signal Corps Eecelales
Hest
Henry Haydn ‘Treadwell
Prac- Fete Sth
Tee Oene Hoon Efe
John Stith
7Th
Brith
Door
United States
Albany
Gaver
White Plains
1St
Ztegiment
Fg Lst
Chaves Walsh
Charles “Albane
Liewene Gong
Dean
24 Regiment
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Ssive Women OF India
Nelia Sorabii
Daughters of the Orient
Andirons
WYH Jackson Company Union Sq.North
Alice Borabit
Susid Sorabjt
Womanhorper's
Henry van Dyke
College
Mason
Mann
Cynic
Ashdran
CW. J. Henderson
Trhnne Sunshine Society
Trihone Building
Tribune Sunshine Society
Soy Giher
Mothers
Sunshine Circle
Sind
P. F. Frost
Lasch
Ballard
Vermont
Agneselly
Manhattan
No. 6
No. 1 Ranch
Lower East Side
Mia
Willets
Outing Fund
Connecticut
T. 8.8
Virginia
T. S
Margaret Pascal
Pascal Institute
Pierrepont Green
Chelsea
Dorr
Glenmont
Providence News
Nellie Burrill Paine
Riverside
Irvington
Tadio
First German Baptist
Farrison Avenue
German Erangelical
Church of the Redeemer
United Congregational
First United Presbyterian
South Second Street
Methodist
Epicopal
North Fifth Street
Ainslie Street Presbyterian
All Souls
Universal Union Mission
South ‘Third Street
Methodist Episcopal
Zion
African Methodist Episcopal
St Paul's
Grs
Ostrich
Duck
The
Philippines
Upper ST. Regis
Pearlsland
J. W. McCulloch
William St
Adirondacss
4Th Lake
Fulton Chain
Iit
W. Cogden
Eamercia Ave
Binghamton
Aloe
Cron
Meriden
Grand View
Conn
Salou
Spocher & CO
West
Sor Sali
XE Baldwin
White Pinina
A. C. Todd Aralty CO
PaScit
Bellmore
East Elmha
Ruscrean
Bankers Land & Mortgage Corp
Munkutter Ave
Court St
Brooklyn Property
Brooklyn Manor
Gama
Ica
Woodhaven
Richmond
Frank T. Fitzgerald
New
Theodor Woue
David de Allentor
Persora Nari Fay
Borough of Manhattan
City of New York
New York
Fred E. Himbod
Richard B. Kelly
Bradway
New York Cay
Abner C. Thomas
County of
Herman H. Jantzen
County of New York
Lushera
Sixth Avenue
Mazerattan
City of
Louis Jantzen
William c. Jantzen
Andreay Gilhoust
Beek— Men Street
Manhattan Borough
Hen
Daniel Sermaur
Walleate
Steevick
Edwin
Wm. B. Ogden
Whitehouse
Seymour
N.Y. Ci
Pacer
John
Tae Euberben
Fm Sas
Sora
Sean Fur Vai
Baeas
Sencary
Wall Street
Rae Societe Eaneadee
Sew
Sane
ROD ‘Browierr
New-York City
Pee
Fitzgerald
See
Tank
Perross Bay
Broadway
John V. Irwin
C. Thomas
New Fort
Frances Elle Tupper
New Tork
Jonas
Tupper
Plandy
Daniel Eo Apeteten
New See
Aiden
York
James W. Appleton
Lmlks Wood
Hos
Irank T. Fitegerald
Tani Iter
Aman Paotneae
Aeoleh
Seany Et Maron
Lovie
Gas
Franklyn Peideck
Yacos
Marshall
T. Pizgerald
Hon. Thomas
Teraemuer
Atzoter
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