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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1916
Page
14
A collage of comic verse, reader letters, and small notices. Amy Lowell poetry references sit beside nostalgic urban columns about judges and editors. public transit conductors receive praise for a hat rescue while other items joke about newspapers and fashion books.
A reader recalls a Jersey ride and the end seat hog who crowded the car. The narrator describes crawling over the hog, a stormy journey, and the hog’s dripping face as rain drips through a stuck curtain. A humorous closing note asks for a check of $1.685 and a written apology.
Several weddings are listed with Miss Maury Savage Cleveland to Enos Throop Geer at Christ Church Cathedral New Orleans and Miss Gertrude Schirmer to William Rodman Fay at the Church of the Ascension. other nuptials include Reginald Banks, Doris Bissell and Lavante Bigelow, and Mrs Lillian Crimmins's marriage to Charles Hoffman.
Miss Mildred HM Hoag daughter of the late Dr William E Hoag and Mrs Moag married Charles King Morrison yesterday at St Thomas Church. Dr Ernest M Stires performed the ceremony. Morrison formerly lived at 12 Fifth Avenue, now 230 West Ninety third Street. He graduated from Harvard and Columbia 1904, and is a member of the Metropolitan and Country clubs, Society of colonial Wars, and Sons of the Revolution. The wedding was very quiet due to Mr Morrison’s father’s death.
Mr and Mrs Westey Sisson announce the engagement of their daughter Mary Elizabeth Sisson to Robert Warner Kirkland of Mount Vernon with a wedding date not fixed They plan a June 24 sailing on the Lampasas to visit Rosebank Alabama home Magnolia Springs Mrs Wolfer announces engagement of Adele Wolfer to Dr Tons Topper no wedding date set
David Belasco led a gallery opening sale at Anderson Galleries, bidding $70 for an old Spanish fan with mother of pearl sticks. He also secured a vellum manuscript from Madrid dated 1704 for $105 and additional items including a Malian face cloth and sixteenth century lace. The session total reached $5,074.50.
After a long era of dominance by George W. Quintard and his wire-haired fox terriers, the Long Island exhibitor saw his string defeated at the fourteenth annual Ladies' Kennel Association of America show in Mineola. Vickery Kennels of Barrington, Illinois, took top honors with Mapled Marvel and other wins while rival breeds like Airedales and spaniels also earned major awards. A separate feature noted a convention on dancing and brain work with reports from leaders in the field and new routines.
The 1916 class day at Vassar features a democratic daisy chain parade with 200 sophomores, led by Dorothy Cumpson of Buffalo as the prettiest soph, and alumnae reunions drawing hundreds. Senior and junior student leaders and a long procession mark the event on campus.
Columbia University appointed two women to the College of Physicians and Surgeons staff with Vera Dantschakoff as instructor and Rosalie Morton as attending surgeon at Vanderbilt Clinic. Other appointments include Spanish literature, French literature, and several council seats. Major gifts total 105,140 dollars for cancer research and allied medical studies.
Columbia College seniors spent a full day of exercises and festivities before graduation. An academic procession moved from the library building to the gym as Buford Davits Franklin opened with the president's address. Rudolph Rex Reeder won the Alumni Association prize, and Dean Keppel named the Zolker prize winner Robert Watt. Phi Beta Kappa selections followed, with 31 seniors elected, and Douglas McCrea Black gave the valedictory before ivy planting at St Paul’s Chapel.
Fragmentary OCR text references Carnegie Institute lectures at New York, mentions Arrows and dates, with scattered names and places. Content is garbled with many misspellings and incomplete phrases, yielding no coherent event or outcome to summarize confidently.
Barnard and Teachers College will stage class exercises this afternoon. Teachers College graduates host a lawn party in the afternoon. Phi Beta Kappa meets at Havereyer Hall this afternoon, followed by an oration by Professor William Allen Neilson of Harvard University in the evening.
The George Augustus Sandham oratorical contest topped NYU commencement activities with Phil Ups Carlin winning first prize of 100 dollars for Am I My Brother's Keeper. Second prize went to William Draper and Lewis Davidson. New Phi Beta Kappa members received keys: Leon Gaspariteh, Py s Carlin, Willem Darling, Harvey Felton, Wilbur Freerick, Frederick Irelan, Joseph Jame, Maurice Keesing, Louis Sif, Max Birman, David Morsend, Archibald Nichol.
During the Stevens Institute event the senior class played the faculty in baseball when Professor Charles O. Gunther was struck in the eye by a pitched ball. His glasses were broken but injuries were not serious. The forty fourth commencement exercises follow this afternoon.
Nathaniel Gidding, vice president of J. M. Gidding & Co, married Miss Frank Steinhardt at the Hotel St. Regis ballroom. The couple plans a honeymoon through the Midwest and West, with about 100 guests in attendance.
Stamford Association prepares for the June 26 and 27 horse show at Firwood-on-the-Sound near Noroton Conn. The executive committee including Cyril Crimming and others will donate part of the proceeds to the Stamford Children’s Home. Secretary Edward King reports a large entry list with 92 stalls needed. Exhibitors include J C Brady Hamilton Farms Charles D Lanier Greenwich Hunt and others.
In a will contest overseen by Austen G. Fox Executors seek probate for Amos F. Eno's will and Columbia University as residuary legatee. Testimony showed Eno, born June 13 1837, died in October 1015 at age 88. European passports reveal birth date. Witnesses described Eno's brusque manner and the letter from Bouissvain alleging senile behavior.
Rutherford N J June 5 Mrs Ida J Schultee sixty sister of actress Lillian Russell died at her Montross Avenue home from typhoid meningitis She was the second reader at the First Church of Christ.
Thomas H Norton a 47 year old paper dealer from Chase Norton died at his Fanwood home from heart disease. He served on the Borough Council and Board of Education. Joseph Broome aged 52 an architect and chemical engineer in New York died at his Roselle Park home from a stroke. He was born in London and was a member of the Society of Chemical Industry and a fellow of the Society of Arts. He leaves a wife three sons a daughter.
The New York chapter of the Knights of Mount St Sepulchre plans a pilgrimage to the Memorial Church of the Holy Lands at Brooklands on Sunday June 11. More than 1 000 participated in the May 14 pilgrimage.
A marriage notice reports Hortsen Ho marrying Dr William Charles King. The couple is identified with their respective titles and family ties, noting the bride as the daughter of the late...
Obituary notices list Rosina Millis Moneypenny McFarland wife of George Henry McFarland and Grace Rosina McFarland among mourners. Catherine Douw Townsend Morgan widow Bankson Taylor Morgan dies at 74 at her son's residence Townsend Sorgwn. Services June 6 at St Bartholomew's Chapel Albany Rural Cemetery interment. Albany papers requested for copy.
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