Women Inspect Blackwell's Island Charities Facilities
A delegation from the Women's Municipal League toured Blackwell's Island visiting the city hospital almshouses Metropolitan Hospital and tuberculosis tents. They noted improved conditions under the current administration including graded diets new hospitals and a breadmaking plant while reporting ongoing issues and campaign implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellison
Department of Charities
Sadie American
Belnson
Folks
W C T U Convention Hears Lady Henry Somerset Address
Geneva hosts a two day World Woman's Christian Temperance Union session led by Mrs. Lillian M N Stevens. Lady Henry Somerset predicts eventual total victory over liquor traffic while praising the US youth and urging home life improvement. Loyal Legion report cites 300000 members and a biannual convention plan. next meeting likely in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Lillian M. N. Stevens
Portland
Henry Somerset
Henry
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Great Britain
Russia
France
Sweden
United States
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Frances Willard
The
Loyal Legion
Boston
Nurses Hold Sixth Annual Convention in Boston
The National Society of the Nurses' Associated Alumni opens its sixth annual convention in the New Century Building Boston with Rev Edward Everett Hale giving the invocation and Mrs Ednad D Cheney delivering the welcome. The amended constitution faces a final vote on affiliating all State societies and reports from five new States Illinois North Carolina New Jersey New York and Virginia are expected. Attendees include Miss M A Nutting Johns Hopkins Hospital Mrs Hunter Robb honorary president Miss L L Dock New York City Nurses' Settlement and Miss S F Palmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Society of the Nurses’ Associated Alumni
New Century Building
Boston
Edward Everett Hale
Ednad D. Cheney
Illinois
North Carolina
New Jersey
New York
Virginia
M. A. Nutting
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hunter Robb
L. L. Dock
New York City
Miss Cranston to Study Abroad for Social Research
Miss Mary R. Cranston librarian at the American Institute of Social Service will study social conditions in London Paris Brussels Berlin and Rome. Known as a social engineer she is the third representative sent abroad for special sociological studies with backing from Miss Helen M. Gould Dr Josiah Strong Spencer Trask and presidents of Wellesley Holyoke and Bryn Mawr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary R. Cranston
American Institute of Social Service
London
Paris
Brussels
Berlin
Rome
Cranston
Helen M. Gould
Josiah Strong
Spencer Trask
Wellesley
Aunt Holyoke
Bryn Mawr
The Adventures of Harry Revel Parting with Miss Plinlimmon
Harry Revel recalls Plymouth days as a foundling in the Genevan Hospital. He reunites with Miss Amelia Plinlimmon at Mr Tucker's bun shop on May Day where she reveals family sorrow and her brother Arthur. They share a deep, restrained farewell promising future meetings if spared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Revel
Plymouth
Miss Plinlimmon
Mr. Scougall
Barbican
Mr. Trapp
Mrs. Trapp
Royal Marine Band
Bedford St
George St
St. Andrew's
London
Harry
Svery
Chimbleys
Jack
Corineus the Trojan
Gogmagog
Arthur
Arthur Plinlimmon
Glendower
Wales
Tudor
Papa
East India
Archibald
Plinlimmon
York
Archie
Plinlimmon 5
Trapps
Pierce
Come June Brings Paths of Kindness and Nature’s Bloom
A poem urges kindness as a traveling gift and calls for June’s gifts of birds, blooms, and winds to heal and lift spirits. It notes a Tribune Sunshine Society mail address in New York and warns it has no link to other Sunshine organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Neesca
Maria Palmer
Tribune Sunshine Society
Tribune
Anonymous donations noted for charitable cases in Nordhoff letter
A unsigned Nordhoff California letter lists donations for needy cases including two dollars from El Paso Texas for a special cheer, one dollar toward repairing an invalid’s wheelchair, and a one dollar badge contribution from Mrs. H. B. Andrews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nordhoff
Cal
Anon
el Paso
Tex
H. B. Andrews
Sunshine at T S S East Eighty eighth street exhibit
The rippled Children branch of the T S S East Eighty eighth street school held an exhibition for parents in the school building on Thursday evening. Poor parents watched their children’s work in writing drawing sewing and crafts and many cried with pride at the skills shown. Each child would have a book made from their pieces given before summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. S .S. of the East Eighty-eighth-st. School
Children’s Aid Society
Birthday Sunshine and Letters Cheer Hearts ease Circle Leader
Mrs. M. E. Gammons, president of the Hearts ease Circle, celebrated a June 4 birthday filled with sunshine despite not using a wheelchair. She received forty letters and gifts from many friends, including Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins. An express box from Mrs. Starr of Brooklyn, plus other donations, contributed a variety of goods for distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Gammons
Heartsease Circle
Floyd W. Tomkins
Holy Trinity Church
Philadelphia
Providence
von Kieffer
Greenwich
Conn
New York
Miss Devoe
Montclair
N. J
M. B. Gray
Washington County
Miss Barrows
Massachusetts
H. B. Andrews
East Orange
Sunshine
Samuel Field
Nelson McCartney
Nedham
New Hampshire
Manhattan
Bahamas
Edith Duncombe
Komorniski
Hill
Minnie Elliott
Indiana
Shay
May Decker
Button
Deaf and Dumb Institute Commencement Highlights 16 Graduates
Enoch Henry Currier notes 98 percent of graduates are self-supporting at the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. Seventeen names listed for the 16 graduates, with awards to Berg, Zwolfe, Berger, McGirr, Kipp, and Renner. Addresses by Stoddard, Currier, and Seale. Students parade out with diplomas, families socialize, and pupils receive dismissal cards for summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enoch Henry Currier
New-York
B. Zwolfe
Minnie Kipp
William Renner
Bessie Fink
Lillian Drake
Kate Bredemeyer
Mary Brewer
Aaing
Louise Lee
Edna Lewis
Demilt
Felix M. E. Berg
Barnett Zwolfe
Cary
Frederick C. Berger
Katie McGirr
Dennistown
Minnie J. Kipp
Harriet Stoner
Holbrook
Charles Augustus Stoddard
Currier
Jes A. Seale
Felix M E. Berg
Thomas Geffres
David Kaien
Diedrich Pape
Charles T. Pightling
James J. Seeling
Everard H. Smith
Annie Bull
Dora Hi Fi Smitharine Ogre
Frederick &. Berger
Henry J. Powell
Wiliam Rerner
Alfred G. Stern
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Ruth Hanna
Joseph Medill McCormick
Cleveland
FISIT
Blackwell's
Blackwell's Island
Women’s Municipal League
Millard H. Ellison
Commissioner of Charities
Cierone
East Twenty-sixth-st @t
City Hospital
Metropolitan Hospital
Stephen Laines
Henry B. Annable
Thomas M. Dillingham
W. 8. Carter
K. T. Rhodes
Benjamin Richards
Emily Cheney
Florence Warner
E. A. Fletcher
L. E. McKinney
Albert Johnson
William M. Dudley
Edward Weldenfeld
W. C. T. U. Convention
Miss Cranston
Dover Stree Mayfair
Stccs
Afton Fur Could
New Bond St
Adventures of
A. T. Quiller-Couch
Charles Scribner's Sons
Woolland Brothers
Lownves Terrace
Knightsbridge
S. W
A Sociel
F. Butler
M. BE. Childs
A. L. Mason
Peter Stuyvesant
Ww. G Jones
Stuyvesant
T. G. Cook
Stanley
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