Delegation Tours Blackwell's Island Charities Hub
A Women’s Municipal League group toured Blackwell's Island visiting the city hospital almshouses and Metropolitan Hospital. Millard H. Ellison led discussions on improved dietaries, new hospitals, and a breadmaking plant while inmates received better care and dignity. The visit aimed to influence voters ahead of taxes and governance.
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New York
Blackwell's Island
Women’s Municipal League
Department of Charities
Millard H. Ellison
Commissioner of Charities
Cicerone
Perty
East
City Hospital
Mr. Elson
Ess
Sadie American
Ellison
Folks
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 Johnnyn
William M. Dudley
Edward B. Weldenfeld
Womans Christian Temperance Union Convention Hears Lady Henry Somersets Address
At the two day Geneva session of the Worlds WCTU Mrs Lilian M N Stevens read Lady Henry Somer set s presidential address praising a future victory over traffic and calling for home exaltation The Loyal Legion reports 390000 members Boston likely next convention and a constitutional amendment allows biennial conventions with meeting place choice.
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Geneva
Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Lilian M. N. Stevens
Portland
Henry Somerset
Henry
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Great Britain
Russia
France
Sweden
United States
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Missances Willard
The
Loyal Legion
Boston
General Officers
Nurses Meet in Boston for Sixth Annual Convention
The National Society of the Nurses' Associated Alumna opens in the New Century Building Boston with Edward Everett Hale to give the invocation and Mrs Ednad D Cheney welcoming. The amended constitution faces a final vote on affiliating state societies and initial reports from five new states Illinois North Carolina New Jersey New York and Virginia. 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 Ss F Palmer.
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National Society of the Nurses’ Associated Alumna
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
Ss. F. Palmer
Miss Cranston to Study Abroad for Social Research
Miss Mary R. Cranston librarian of the American Institute of Social Service will study social conditions in London Paris Brussels Berlin and Rome. She is called a social engineer for expert sociological opinions and is the third representative sent abroad for comparative study with support from Helen M Gould Dr Josiah Strong Spencer Trask and presidents of Wellesley Aunt Holyoke and Bryn Mawr.
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Mary R. Cranston
American Institute of Social Service
London
Paris
Brussels
Berlin
Rome
Cranston
Helen M. Gould
Josiah Strong
Spencer Trask
Wellesley
Holyoke
Bryn Mawr
The Adventures of Harry Revel Chapter Four Teases Romance
Harry Revel recalls Plymouth days and Miss Plinlimmon in a letter filled tale. The pair share May Day birthday plans, a kiss, and growing affection beside the Barbican as armies, press gangs, and town life frame their bond. The chapter ends with a year’s separation but hints at a meeting to come.
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Harry Revel
Plymouth
Miss Plinlimmon
Scougall
Barbican
Mr. Trapp
Mrs. Trapp
Royal Marine Band
Redford-st
George-st
St. Andrew's
London
Mutley Plain
Mr. Scougall
Svery
Mr. Tucker
Bedford St
Amelia Plinlimmon
Chimbleys
Jack
Harry
Corineus the Trojan
Gogmagog
Arthur
Arthur Plinlimmon
Glendower
Wales
Tudor
Papa
East India
Archibald
Plinlimmon
York
Archie
Trapps
Come June Brightens Nature and Night in Poetry
The piece urges June to arrive with nature’s gifts including birds and blooms. It envisions fragrant robes and lunar light, promising nights of silver sheen and a dreamy paradise as earth reaches for the skies. It also includes a notice about Tribune Sunshine Society mail handling for New York City.
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Earth
Maria Palmer
Anonymous letter from Nordhoff funds aims at genuine need
A Nordhoff California unsigned letter requests use for investigated genuine need cases. Anon of El Paso Texas donates 2 dollars for a case of special cheer. G. A. C. contributes 1 dollar to help repair an invalid's wheelchair. Mrs H. B. Andrews gives 1 dollar for a badge.
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Nordhoff
Cal
Exhibition by rippled Children’s branch of East Eighty eighth street school
The rippled Children’s branch of the T S 8 of the East Eighty eighth street school held an exhibition in their building on Thursday evening. A large crowd of grateful parents saw their children’s work including writing, drawing, sewing, embroidery, millinery, pyrography, raffia and more.
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East Eighty-eighth-st. School
Children's Aid Society
Birthday Sunshine Amid Gifts From Hearts Ease Circle
Mrs. M. E. Gammons, Hearts ease Circle president, celebrated her June 4 birthday with sunshine and forty letters of greeting. Notable messages came from Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, plus gifts from Greenwich to Brooklyn. Dozens of items and kind acts arrived, lifting her from pain and filling day and night with cheer. Summer plans teased by a Tribune resort guide promotion.
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M. E. Gammons
Heartsease Circle
Floyd W. Tomkins
Holy Trinity Church
Philadelphia
Providence
von Kieffer
Greenwich
Conn
New York
Graduates of Deaf and Dumb Institute Boast Self Sufficiency
Ninety eight percent of the graduates at the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb are self supporting, said principal Enoch Henry Currier at yesterday afternoon's commencement. The small class of sixteen is praised for high individual excellence matching previous years as diplomas and prizes were awarded.
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Enoch Henry Currier
New-York
Demilt
Felix M. E. Berg
Barnett Zwolfe
Cary
Frederick C. Berger
Katie McGirr
Dennistown
Minnie J. Kipp
Stoner
William Renner
Charles A. Seale
Thomas Geffres
da Kalen
Diedrich Pape
Charles T. Pightling
James J. Seeling
Everard H. Smith
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Ruth Hanna
Joseph Medill McCormick
Cleveland
FISIT
Blackwell
W. C. T. U. Convention
Miss Cranston
Paquin
Dover Street
Mayfair
Bafton Fur Coll Ld
New Bond St
Adventures of
A. T. Quiller-Couch
Charles Scribner's Sons
Chapter
Woolland Brothers
Lownpes Terrace
kNicuTssrince
S. W
Fy Society
TY. S. S
Tribune Sunshine Society
Tribune
Sunshine
Devoe
Montclair
N. J
Samuel Field
Nelson McCartney
Nedham
New Hampshire
Manhattan
Bahamas
Edith Duncombe
Komoritski
Hill
Minnie Elliott
Indiana
Shay
Button
S Tribune
Peter Stuyvesant
W. & Jones
Stuyvesant
B. Zwolfe
Minnie Kipp
Bessie Fink
Lillian Drake
Kate Bredemeyer
Mary Brewer
Tressmaking
Louise Lee
Edna Lewis
Stanley
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