The Peppermint Habit at W C T U Farewell Meet
The New York State Woman’s Christian Temperance Union held a farewell gathering at Prohibition Park Staten Island for delegates sailing today on the Noordland to the world convention in London. Speakers and delegates from multiple states and Japan attended in a brisk, period-voiced program with songs, readings, and a luncheon at Prohibition Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Prohibition Park
Staten Island
Noordland
Frances W. Graham
Nettie B. Fernald
Emma Bourne
New Jersey
Ella A. Boole
Samuel Howes
Somerville
Mass
Minnesota Union
Myra A. Gillette
Medina
Brooklyn
N. Y
S. M. Westcott
Washington, D. C
E. Frances Parmalee
Japan
Carrie C. Faxon
Michigan
Anne E. Palmer
Ohio
Rose Copiey
Mary L. Hetner
Annie P. Thomas
Pennsylvania
Jamaica
Alice J. Seberry
FR. Morris
Scamwond County
A. E. Thomas
Young Women's Christian Temperance Union
Alice M. Guernsey
Faxon
French maternal schools expand in Paris system
The French extend Friedrich Froebel inspired maternal schools with over two hundred in Paris alone. They operate year round from early morning until late evening, provide meals at two cents, and offer nursing care and afternoon naps. Mothers in cities work in factories and shops, so these schools serve as a crucial substitute for home care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Froebel
Womer
Season of the Twelfth Night closes at Berkeley Lyceum
The Twelfth Night Club held its final meeting of the season with Mrs. Alice Fischer Harcourt presiding. Members collected donations for the Actors' Fund Home and exchanged goodwill as they prepared for summer. Mrs. Selena Fetter Royle plans to depart soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twelfth Night Club
Berkeley Lyceum
Alice Fischer Harcourt
Actors’ Fund
Notable Social Moves Across Homes and Resorts
Miss Louisa Man Wingate plans a cottage stay at Avon Beach while Mrs Emma Sheridan Fry heads to a Maine coast retreat. Mrs Grant Stewart visits several seaside resorts as Miss Minnie Wheeler spends the summer at Portchester on the Sound. Mrs Sallie Williams Riegel relocates to Syra cuse suburbs, Maude Monroe embarks on a yachting cruise, and Mrs Harcourt the president returns to Terre Haute for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avon Beach
Louisa Man Wingate
Twilight Park
Catskills
Emma Sheridan Fry
Maine
Grant Stewart
Minnie Wheeler
Portchester-on-the-Sound
Sallie Williams Riegel
Syracuse
N. Y
Maude Monroe
Harcourt
Terre Haute
Women Club Convention Opens With Welcomes and Protests
The fifth biennial convention of the Federation of Women's Clubs of the United States opens at the Alhambra Theatre Milwaukee. Mrs Lowe president delivers address amid applause. speakers from National Congress of Mothers and National Woman Suffrage Association offer remarks. Delegates read greetings and discuss women’s rights, race politics, and duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Federation of Women's Clubs of the
United States
Alhambra Theatre
Lowe
Ellen C. Sabin
Rose
James Sidney Peck
Women's Clubs of
Arthur C. Neville
Philippines
Theodore W. Birney
Washington
National Congress of Mothers
Lucretia Longshore Blankenberg
Carrie Chapman Catt
National Woman's Suffrage Association
C. J. Gaffney
New York
National Council of Women
Federation
Zurlina Tafgarland
West Salem
Wis
Low
Mrs John Sherman Dies at Mansfield Home
Mrs John Sherman widow of former Secretary of State John Sherman died at her Mansfield Ohio home after a two day stroke illness. Born Margaret Cecelia Stewart she married Sherman in 1880 and lived in Washington two decades of civic life, with no children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sherman
Mansfield
Ohio
Sherman
James Stewart
Margaret Cecelia Stewart
Mans
Washington
Senator Sherman
Twin Adoption Scarletts Daughter Miss Mary Sherman Marries James McCallum
A couple adopted two infant children, a boy and a girl who grew to be their daughter Miss Mary Sherman. The girl, Mary Sherman, married James Ivers McCallum a few years ago. The record notes the twin boy died in infancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Sherman
James Ivers McCallum
Tiny Things That Heal A Hidden Ministry
A poem by Kate B. Wyning from Christian Herald reflects on small acts of kindness. It compares memory, fragrance, smiles, tears, a gentle touch, and comforting tones to quiet ministry. The verse suggests these tiny gestures offer profound healing when the heart is overwhelmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate B. Wyning
Christian Herald
Flowers from Lakewood Plant brighten Tribune Sunshine Office
A bouquet of roses syringas daisies and clover arrived from Lakewood Plant Flower and Fruit Guild of Lakewood New Jersey. Donations and reading material followed from various supporters, with thanks extended to contributors including Mrs. E D Fisher Fredrika Bertch E L Meriden Conn B H T Pennsylvania and a Jersey City friend aiding Sunshine work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakewood Plant
Flower and Fruit Guild
Lakewood
N. J
Tribune Sunshine Society
E. D. Fisher
Long Island
Fredrika Bertch
Michigan
E. L
Meriden
Conn
Pennsylvania
Sunshine
Prophecy and mockery echo in a weary rumor
A hair‑ed matron nods and sighs as a troubling prophecy lingers. On recounting the tale to a friend, the response is ridicule and sharp wit. The friend says the proverb of the ungrateful child and the serpent’s tooth has echoed since Solomon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon
Rose Luncheon Honors Roses At Country House Gathering
A Rose themed luncheon yesterday near the city hosted by a private uptown school class. Guests wore pink gowns matching their roses and received rose decorated bonbonnieres. Quotations from Browning to Keats were shared as prizes, with a rose framed class photo awarded to the top reader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maréchal Niel
Lydia Wadleigh Association Seeks Namesake High School
Mrs Susan K Bourne president of the Lydia Wadleigh Association filed a claim two years ago to name the new Girls High School under construction at 114th Street and Seventh Avenue after Miss Wadleigh. The group feels confident the request will be granted and invites members to a farewell gathering for president Bourne at the Berkeley Lyceum on Saturday June 9 at 3 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan K. Bourne
Lydia Wadleigh Association
Seventh-ave
Wadleigh
Twelfth Street
Normal College
Mary L. Hawkins
Grey Es
Berkeley Lyceum
Mrs. Bourne
Exceedingly attractive Uttle French dresses for children
The Tribune Pattern describes ivory white silk dresses for young girls with long waisted bodies and short skirts. It details construction, tucks, lace trim, belts, and a broad sash, with patterns in sizes two four and six years and material needs of about three and a quarter yards of thirty inch fabric.
Tribune Sunshine Society Adds New Members Names
The Tribune Sunshine Society announces additions to its membership list including Lambert Huntington Pansy Greene Mrs W L Moore Miss Addie Mills Mrs D Fisher Maria Van Alen William W Skidmore Mrs Helen Van Pelt Goodwin and Miss A Havens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune Sunshine Society
Lambert Huntington
Pansy Greene
W. L. Moore
Addie Mills
D.fisher
Maria van Alen
William W. Skidmore
Helen van Pelt Goodwin
A. Havens
Sunshine Rays Reach Shut In And Aid Society News
A Newburg New York resident receives cheerful parcels while Sunshine Society members forward silk, calendars, clothing and reading matter to isolated individuals in New Jersey New York Manila Florida and Pennsylvania The American Army and Navy Aid Society may select a boy eight years old to join Charlton Industrial Farm School and T S S volunteers will assist The Fox terrier from T S S reaches Miss Mae Mil holland in Brooklyn and Miss M E Crouch organizes rays of sunshine from her invalid corner Georgia Smith William Bennett and Robert Rennie are named new beneficiaries
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Army and Navy Aid Society
Charlton Industrial Farm School
The
Tribune
Sunshine
Army and Navy Aid Society
United States
Aid Society
M. E. Crouch
Georgia Smith
William Bennett
Robert Rennie
Plea for Sunshine from Bengal Branch President
A letter from Mrs Helen Jackson, president of Bengal Branch of The Tribune Sunshine Society, thanks for Easter greetings and silk pieces from headquarters. She requests stamped or unfinished fancy work and any needlework materials, noting isolation four hundred miles from English stores and high import costs. Parcel post between India and the United States could help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Jackson
Bengal
The
Tribune Sunshine Society
Jackson
India
United States
The Thankless Child at Old Ladies Home
An unnamed woman recalls touring an old ladies home and learns only childless women qualify for admission. She hears stories from residents about family loyalties, sons and daughters, and the uneven care from sons in law and daughters in law. The piece contrasts affection with practical expectations in aging and filial duty.
Weddings In St Francis Xavier Church and Various Homes
Multiple society weddings unfold in New York area churches and homes. Miss Anna Railey and William Kenly wed at St Francis Xavier with receptions at the Radley home. other ceremonies include Miss Edith Dupignac and Mortimer Flagg at Satis House, Miss Blanche Coleman and John Cady Jr at Holy Apostles, and Miss Kate Good and Charles Orcutt at the Good residence. Additional nuptials occur at St James, with Miss Maude Mersereau and Charles Howard, and Miss Mabel Leaman and Dr Fielding Robeson, among others, plus notable society guests and attendances listed.
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St. Francis Xavier
Anna Augusta Railey
John B. Bailey
Mount Vernon
N. Y
William Watkins Kenly
The
Sons of the American Revolution
Henry van Rensselaer
Society of Jesus
John J. Radley
Madeline Schafer
Marguerite Radley
Mr. Kenly
Leonard K. Prince
Walter Deming Elliott
William K. Fertig
William C. Carr
H. Emerson Roden
No. 148
West Seventy-seventh-st
Edith 3. Dupignac
Frank J. Dupignac
West Seventy-first-st
Mortimer Kennedy Flags
Thomas J. Flagg
St. Thomas's Protestant Episcopal Church
Mamaroneck
Satis House
Eleanor F. Dupignac
Mr. Flagg
George Carroll Southard
Dudley James Betts Dupignac
Robina Woodward
Edward T. Cockcroft
Edward Rush Dyer
Oscoe Conkling
Ethel Bunten
May Cady
Daisy I. Whittimore
Robert B. Ward
Howard Booker
Boston
W. T. Smith
Albert Clark
Eugene Robinson
Theodore B. Sayre
Robert W. Bunten
City
Kate Hamilton Good
Brent Good
Charles Clark Orcutt
West Fifty-seventh-st
F. Walpole Warren
St. James's Protestant Episcopal Church
A. Maude Davies
Margaret Lawler
Jessie Clapp
Charles B. Best
Frederick ©. Pollard
Alfred H. Thurston
Jumes Terrace
Washington Heights
Mabel Frances Leaman
Albert V. Leaman
San Remo
Fielding T. Robeson
Hotel Majestic
George Woolsey
Bessie Griffith
Manuela Bastnes
Ethel Garing
Caroline Heather
George Hall Smith
Alfred Seaman
Oscar Seitz
Floyd Woolsey
Daniel McGuire
Edward Griffith
Hiram Calkins, Jr
George Ross
Weddings in Glen Ridge and Princeton churches
Snatches of wedding notices from Glen Ridge and Princeton announce Miss Bertha Lee Newell marrying Moses Ellis Jr in Glen Ridge, Miss Angie Hodge wedding to Malcolm MacLaren in Princeton, with families and attendants listed and plans to reside in Massachusetts. Additional society figures and guests are noted at the events.
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Glen Ridge
N. J
Bertha Lee Newell
Herbert C. Newell
Moses Ellis
Boston
Glen Ridge Congregational Church
Elliot W. Brown
Martha Ellis
Dorothy
Alice Kelly
Gustus Clapp
Ward Andrews
New York
Clarence Wheeler
Buffalo
Herbert (. Newell, Jr
Newell
Highland-ave
Ellis
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Princeton
First Presbyterian Church of
Angie Hodge
Malcolm MacLaren
Casper Wister Hodge
Hodge
Princeton Theological Seminary
Madeline Hodge
Lively eel escapes at aquarium floods visitors
An eel about three feet long leaped from a pool at the aquarium, flooding the building and forcing visitors to evacuate. Workers tore up concrete, chased the eel through piping, and finally recaptured it before placing it in a separate pool. The eel had previously entered via the water supply and was of robust condition after the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aquarium
Spencer
Croton
Bids Opened for Coal Supplies to US Transports Office
At the Army Building yesterday bids were opened for anthracite and bituminous coal to United States transports between the Atlantic coast and Manila including Gibraltar Aden Colombo and Singapore. Though six bids were received they differed so materially that no award could be made. Some bids covered coal placed beside ships some on shipboard and some on barges or shores. Officials would not reveal bidder names or amounts.
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Army
Siz
United States
Atlantic Coast
Manila
Gibraltar
Marian Borm
Aden
Colombo
Singapore
Lisher and Charity Society Clash Over Tipaldi Children
Magistrate Flammer postponed commitment of three Tipaldi children to July 6 after Emanuel Lisher of the Charities Department and Pisarra and Murphy debated whether the Charity Organization Society could support the family. Tipaldi, a bootblack, sought institutional care for his offspring due to alleged poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flammer
Dominick Tipaldi
Thompsenst
Emanuel M. Lisher
Charities Department
Pisarra
Murphy
Jefferson Market
Tipaldi
Mr Lisher
Charity Organization Society
Amherst graduate at Fort Slocum deemed insane under Army hope
G H Culver a Amherst College graduate is described as hopelessly insane at Fort Slocum two months after enlisting with a special permit from Adjutant General Corbin. He believes himself a regiment colonel, issues daily killed and wounded reports to attendants he orders imaginary soldiers and faces transfer to Manila as a trooper before possible transfer to an insane asylum in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. H. Culver
Amherst College
Fort Slocum
Culver Long
Army
Corbin
Washington
Manila
Woodruff
Armyington
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Ponts
Rebecca Douglas Lowe
General Federation
Emily E Williamson
New Jersey State Federation
General Federation OF Women’s Clubs
Sarah Platt Decker
Absinthe
the Tribune
Dover Street
Mayfair
London
Paquin
Ilmery
Cowes
Jersey City
Mrs. Browning
Rossetti
Bryant
Moore
Keats
Milton
Dresden
NO. S
T.S. S
Tarrytown
Mae Milholland
Petrina Burns
Colgate & CO
O. Haas Bros
Fifth Ave
Haas Bros
Haas Bros. CO
Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel Westminster
Cuisie
Christien
Braver Meneame
Maude T. Merserean
Charles Case Howard
Israel P. Mersereau
West One-hundred-and-twenty-third St
Cecelia O. Mersereau
Howard Hall
Elizabeth Josephine Wilder
George M. Ehrgott
St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church
Fifthave
Lewis Rutherford Morris
Katherine Clark
William A. Clark
Montana
Halifax
Hermann Oecelrichs
Europe
Newport
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Sidney Webster
Hamilton Fish Webster
W. W. Dudley
C. F. L. Robinson
Theodore A. Havemeyer
White Mountains
Elizabeth Gough Hancock
William T. Hancock
West Eighty-seventh-st
Frederick Fairchildichardson
St. Matthew'’s Protestant Episcopal Church
West Eightty-fourth-st
George Lynde Richardson
Glens Falls
William Ormiston Richardson
James H. Falconer, Jr
Helen Denison Ludlam
Gertrude de la M. Ludlam
Herbert F. G. Ashenden
Kent
England
West Sixty-ninth-st
Marie Louise Maher
Edward A. Maher
James V. Geraghty
St. Thomas the End
Eith Sr
Steines Rol
Tomund E. Wise
West Pifty
Frances Arene Bald Reilly
Miana
Edmond Joan Curry
Lessed Sacrament
Nanette M. Con
FB. Crompton
Sherwood Riker
Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church
Lenox-ave
Pamiine Loss Doyle
Louis F. Doyle
Johns Merriken Carter, Jr
Baltimore
Church of the Heavenly Rest
Margaretta Corning Ce
George F. Stone
Bair Oakstown
Frederick Oakley Spedden
Edgar Spedden
Morristown
Francis Burrall
Brookhurst
Lenox
Mays
Atlantic City
Adirondacks
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Garrisons-on-Hudson, N
Lisher
Gerry Society
Charities Examiner
Amherst
Wickless
Standard Oil Company
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