East Side Children's Relief lunch counter opens
The Children's Relief Society opened the first East Side lunch counter at Canal and Forsyth to feed underfed children. About four hundred, plus weary mothers with babies, received a two egg breakfast, sterilized milk, and rolls with butter. Tickets priced five cents each allowed some children to pay, others to be served as aid. Community leaders and volunteers from multiple charities attended the event and discussed broader hunger issues and possible citywide relief strategies.
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Children’s Relief Society
Canal
Forsyth Streets
Isidor M. Levy
Children’s
Eldridge Street
Ayler
Forsyth Street
Nurses
Henry Treet
Charity Organization Society
United Hebrew Charities
The
Sage Foundation
University Settlement
Nurses’ Settlement
Brooklyn Charity Organization
Women’s Protective Health League
Board of Health
Board of Education
Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Charles C. Burlingham
Thomas J. Higgins
Higgins
East Side
Lee K. Frankel
John B. Devins
Robert W. de Forest
City charity convoy begins at Broadway and 57th street
Two miles of automobiles from the city's charitable institutions started from Broadway and 57th street at 4:30 PM yesterday morning with every horn and siren blowing. The event showcased the city’s aid programs and drew a large crowd along the route.
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Broadway
57Th Street
Children Parade to Coney Island with City Officials
Deputy Commissioner Bugher and Inspector Schmitthberger led a police squad and bicycle riders as a juvenile band from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum played by an auto caravan. The fourth annual outing drew over 150 children, many sent by train when car space ran out, with yards of volunteer cars from the Automobile Club of America and Luna Park’s Frederick Thompson providing free access.
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Bugher
Schmitthberger
Police Department
Coney Island
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Williamsburg Bridge
Automobile Club of America
Hamilton W. Cary
Frederick Strauss
Frederic Thompson
Luna Park
Coney Islanders
Deaf and Dumb Pupils Celebrate Ninetieth Commencement
At the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb a crowd of about fifteen hundred gathered on the lawn beside 168th Street and Lafayette Boulevard for the ninetieth commencement. Rev Dr Chamberlain opened with prayer, and Rev Charles A Stoddard welcomed Major Enoch H Currier, the principal, praising pupil progress. Miss Catherine Peterson delivered the salutatory in speech while Principal Currier signed for the audience. A minuet featured four young dancers in court costumes, who kept time by visual signals from an instructor. The ceremony underlines achievements of deaf and blind students from the school.
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New York Institution For the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
Lafayette Boulevard
Chamberlain
Charles A. Stoddard
Enoch H. Currier
Catherine Peterson
Currier
Gifts for Princeton University Adds Faculty and Alumni News
Princeton records gifts totaling 447 three hundred seventy one dollars with 265 thirty eight from the Princeton committee of fifty. New appointments include Henry Ford, Henry Russell, Raymond Dugan in science and politics and economics. Phi Beta Kappa elects new members. President Wilson outlines graduate school plans and a Nassau street campus gateway is gifted by Mrs. Lippincott in memory of J. D. Lippincott.
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Tribune
Princeton
Princeton University
Board of Trustees
Henry J. Ford
Baltimore
Henry N. Russell
Raymond S. Dugan
Royal Meeker
Gilbert van Inden
Edwin W. Pahlow
John G. Hun
Charles H. MacInnes
Carl E. Stromquist
John Harron, Jr
C. E
Charles D. Mahaffie
St. John’s College
Oxford
Frank Irwin
Phi Beta Kappa Society
D. C. Coyle
Massachusetts
J. F. Dulles
New York
M. B. Magoffin
Pennsylvania
A. S. Swartz
Henry J. van Dyke
New Jersey
Co. H. Weelan
C. C. Woolforth
G. Loomis, Jr
Kentucky
Wilson
Nassau Street
University
Lippincott
Philadelphia
J. D. Lippinwott
House of Refuge Boys Exhibit At Randall's Island Parade
At the New York House of Refuge on Randall's Island the boys staged a martial parade at 4 PM with a drum major and a band from among the residents. Visitors praised the fine school work despite last winter’s diphtheria quarantine interrupts.
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New York House
House of Refuge
Miss West
Graduation exercises at the school in five and eight year courses
The program opened with the manual of arms and band music as graduates were announced. Miss Edna Bennett delivered a graduation essay and Max Weisberg gave the valedictory in sign language translated by the principal, with Miss Sarah Rubien also presenting an essay. Nineteen earned diplomas for the five year course and eleven received certificates for the eight year course. Dr. Charles A. Seale, director, presented diplomas and Archibald D. Russell presented the medals.
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Edna Bennett
Max Weisberg
Sarah Rubien
Charles A. Seale
Archibald D. Russell
President and Mrs Wilson Enter Prospect Visit
The President and Mrs Wilson were hosted at Prospect this afternoon, engaging with guests and officials during the visit. Local leaders expressed enthusiasm for the engagement as security and ceremonial activities proceeded smoothly.
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Wilson
Prospect
Class Day at Vassar draws record crowd on campus
Poughkeepsie June 9 class day at Vassar College drew an estimated five thousand attendees for daisy chain sophomores in white leading seniors in color gowns and flowers. Seniors spoke, sang, and buried class records under the class tree as commencement starts tomorrow. Lone woman graduates at MIT ceremony in Huntington Hall. 229 men and one woman earned bachelor of science, with 12 master of science and 3 PhD degrees awarded.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Vassar College
Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Huntington Hall
Butcher Offers Reward in Horse Tongue Slashing Case
Leopold May a Williamsburg butcher at 18 Grand Street offers a reward for information on the Monday night attack that slashed both sides and the end of a horse’s tongue valued at 400 dollars. Veterinarians say the horse was ruined and must be destroyed. Bedford Avenue police and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are investigating.
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Leopold May
No. 18
Grand Street
Williamsburg
Bedford Avenue
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Italian boy’s escape ends in House of Refuge tale
The piece recounts a Genoa born Italian youth who fled to sea, found work in Long Island, was unpaid and stole from his employer, then sent to the House of Refuge. Miss Arnold calls him a bright scholar eager to read American, noting his defiant insistence on learning and a furious father labeling the institution hell after being denied access to his son.
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Genoa
America
Long Island
Francesco
House of Refuge
Miss Arnold
Fete of Club Women Planned at Hotel Astor Roof Garden
The New York City Federation of Women's Clubs with over forty thousand members will host a fête champêtre Monday evening June 15 at the Hotel Astor roof garden. William C. Muschenheim will sponsor music and refreshments with a 25 cent entrance fee benefiting federation philanthropy.
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Hotel Astor
William C. Muschenheim
New York City
Federation of Women's Clubs
Federation
Mrs. John Francis Yanager Handles Tickets
Mrs John Francis Yanager at 403 West 146th Street is in charge of the tickets for the event.
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John Francis Yanager
West 146Th Street
Appeal to Flower Growers for Help from Mission
The New York Flower Mission seeks more flowers and related items to aid sick people in tenements hospitals and nurseries. Doors at 104 Eastth Street are open Mondays and Thursdays for donations with free city shipping within 100 miles by Adams Express. Write to Miss Frances Rufelt for details.
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New York
Adams Express Company
Frances Rufelt
Missis
Child Drudges in Georgia And Other States
A historical overview condemns child labor across U S states noting Georgia allows orphans to work in cotton mills from age ten while full orphans are used sooner. South Carolina and North Carolina have varied rules. The piece cites England era apprentices and points to Pennsylvania mines and New York department stores as wider examples. It ends by invoking Elizabeth Barrett Browning with a modern Cry of the Children image.
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Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
England
California
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
New York
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
America
Puzzles Draw Minds From Officials to Professors
Puzzles dominate interest at the Women’s Exchange at No 24 Madison Avenue as professors judges and public officials buy and share the cut up picture puzzles. A Columbia professor praises puzzle therapy and sends puzzles nationwide. Shoppers arrive early and late seeking the latest puzzle diet.
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Madison Avenue
Insomnia
Mit
Columbia
Pumples
Atlantic City
Edith Gould's Early Thespian Dreams Remembered
The piece recalls Mrs. George J. Gould, famed actress, whose childhood ambition to act faced a mother's stern stance. She staged Juliet and Pauline in imagination, even practicing Tybalt’s lines in a garden while an old carpenter interrupted with a booming quip. Edith Gould's budding talent emerged amid quiet domestic scenes.
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George J. Gould
Weill High
Diamm Huneker
New Idea Woman's Magazine
Juli
Juliet
Edith
Shakespeare
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Tribune Office
Wildungen
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Hotel DE Luxs
Dusseldorf
Royal Hotel
Beettm
Lucerne
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Loja
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Gisomtoketiad Bowne Srsr
Bellevue & Pension DU Parg
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