Sunbeam League Aids Babies Wards At Post Graduate Hospital
The Sunbeam League, a group of young wealthy women, cares for wards at the Post-Graduate Hospital on Second Avenue and Twentieth Street. They provide kindergarten and weekly visits, supply gifts and fruit, and run summer outings and an annual fair. The league supports beds, furniture, toys, and a large music box, with over a thousand children treated last year and ongoing fundraising needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunbeam League
Second-ave
Twentieth-st
Peope
Tory
League
Twe League
Cam
House
Carue
Gossip and local notices from Beeton and Newark
Mrs Louise Chandler Moulton visits Beeton by Saxonia and plans Paris and England stays. Newark group names Humanity League aims to halt Saturday shopping after noon in July. Silver medals will be awarded to signers of the pledge. National Legislative League and New York County Woman's Suffrage League prepare for Philadelphia Republican convention on June 19 to seek removal of a women’s suffrage plank from the platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Chandler Moulton
Beeton
Saxonia
Paris
England
Newark
N. J
Humanity League
National Legislative League
New York County
Woman's Suffrage League
Philadelphia
Washington College of Law Graduation Highlights Women’s Role
The Washington College of Law marked its annual commencement highlighting its women’s focus and founding by Mrs Elon Spencer Massey Miss Emma Gillett and two others. Noted graduates include Miss Mayest Weed of Troy and Miss Helen Varick Well of this city.
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Washington College of
Columbeetown
Washington
Elon Spencer Massey
Emma Gillett
Washington Colot Law
Washington College
Ma Yest Weed
Troy
Helen Varick Well
Fashions For Boys Golf and Sailor Outfits
The article describes boy golf wear and holiday outfits including home spun or tweed knickerbockers with belted blouses and three button collars, golf caps and overgaiters. It covers jack tar sailor suits in white or navy serge with wide trousers, lanyards and nautical embroidery, and notes the Kimberley suit for ages four to ten with khaki serge or cord, knickerbockers, belted blouse and hat with a quill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fuue
Fads In Jewelry Affects Fashion In 1900s Britain
English jewelers push sport and military themed designs for both sexes. Diamonds form horseshoes and hunting pieces while constancy bracelets and jeweled cardcases gain favor. Enamel buckles, dog collars of jet, and clip and screw earrings reshape ornamentation as spurious gems spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Philippines
League for Political Education schedules ethics talks
The League for Political Education at No. 23 West Forty fourth street begins a season with Saturday morning ethics lectures from January 6 to February 9, led by John Graham Brooks and titled A Study of Social Unrest. Early November will feature six lectures on city departments by Commissioners and officials. Later February through April will host talks on economic and sociological topics and lectures on Social Economics at the End of the Century and Famous Cities and Their Governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bix
League For Political Education
West Forty-fourth-st
John Graham Brooks
Barnard Class Day Exer cises Highlight Social Life Trends
Barnard College hosts class day activities with speeches songs and a farewell note from seniors. The piece notes shifts in student life including dormitory use rising fraternities Kappa Kappa Gamma and Kappa Alpha Theta presence and growing class plays and social events reflecting changes in external conditions and student aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnard College
Barnard
Evelyn Osborne
Helen Cole
Florence Leslie Kyte
Virginia Newcomb
Florence Miller Sill
Katharine van Horne
Julia Cooper Watkins
Mary Loockerman Goldsborough
Hilda Newberg
Julia Wurzburger
Ellinor Ten Broeck Reilley
New York
Columbia
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Alpha Theta
Bernard
Mortarboard
College
Ife
Mortarbourg
Young Woman of Seventy Praises Preserved Sight and Care
The piece lauds unimpaired vision as a youth aid and offers eye care tips such as proper lighting, rest, and gentle routines. It expands to hair and hand care, noting shampoo effects, a monthly hair wash, and simple hand exercises plus glove fit guidance. An aside contrasts a hostile umpire with a biting catcher in a Chicago News quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Pass kindness on and judge by opportunities not people
The passage urges sharing acts of kindness and passing good deeds along through the years. It says to assess people by their environment and opportunities, not by individuals, to foster happiness and charitable impulse. It quotes Horace Fletcher and Gerald Massey on joy arriving unexpectedly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Fletcher
Gerald Massey
Flowers Arrive Expressly From B H T for Sunshine Members
A box of red roses and syringas pleased ten Sunshine members. The sender soon departs for Europe with best wishes from the Tribune Sunshine Society. Other gifts included items from Mrs S J Allen Mrs C McLean E 3 Young M R Beck Mrs A Bosworth and Miss McLain.
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Express
Sunshine
Europe
Beppintes
Tribune Sunshine Society
S. J. Allen
C. McLean
E. 3. Young
M. R. Beck
Madonna
A. Bosworth
Miss McLain
Tribune Sunshine Society Dime Fund Gift
Mr and Mrs Whitman of Manhattan Branch No 8 send 2 to the special dime fund. The fund aids a Tribune Sunshine Society member in need due to illness or misfortune, with a dime from each member providing rays of sunshine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitman
Manhattan Branch No. 8
William Jeff
Tribune Sunshine Society
Sunshine Society Membership Granted by Tribune
The Tribune grants membership in the Sunshine Society to Frances M. Austin Anna Howell Mrs A W of New Jersey Mrs William F Bailey Miss E M Partridge Miss Delia C Fitch Oliver Clinton Organ and Mrs J J Laphem.
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The
Tribune Sunshine Society
Frances M. Austin
Anna Howell
A. W
New Jersey
William F. Bailey
E. M. Partridge
Delia C. Fitch
Oliver Clinton Organ
J. J. Laphem
Sunshine Society Delivers Yearlong Wardrobe to Hoboken Family
Mrs Pauline Eppens president of the Hoboken T S 8S branch thanks Sunshine members for clothing gifted to a mother and her baby. The wardrobe now lasts a year and the older boy also receives items. The family expresses happiness and praise for The Tribune Sunshine Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Eppens
Hoboken T. S. 8S
Sunshine
Sunshine Society Luncheon Hosts Bahama Branch Leader
Mrs. Clarence Burns hosted Miss Virginia McLain president of the Bahama branch at luncheon on Saturday. Miss McLain plans a Adirondacks summer and will return in September for meetings with Sunshine members in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Clarence Burns
Tribune Sunshine Society
Virginia McLain
Bahama
Miss McLain
Adirondacks
Sunshine
Manhattan
Brooklyn
General Office
Burns
Mildred Reid
No. 3
Edith Lane Jones
Massachusetts
J. L. Murray
A. Boswith
Coffey
Betty Hobart
Owego
Sunshine Society notes cheerful gifts and letters
A Rose Hawthorne Lathrop letter praises peonies sent to St. Roses Free Cancer Home by Minnie and Petrina Burns of Long Island. Other donors include Mrs Burns and several society members from Manhattan and Massachusetts. Messages urge cheery letters for ill members and mention tribune Sunshine Society activities and a poetry engraving request.
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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
St. Rose’s Free Cancer Home
Minnie
Petrina Burns
Long Island
New Rochelle
Temperance Congress Opens in London With Archbishop
The temperance congress opened in London with Archbishop of Canterbury Frederick Temple delivering the annual address. Delegates from around the world attended as J L Bailey of Philadelphia was elected vice president and papers were read on U S and South America and on intemperance and delinquency. Temple urged action against the indifference of men to helping others resist temptation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Temperance Congress
Thomas Wallace Russell
M. P
J. L. Bailey
Philadelphia
United States
South America
J. B. Dunn
J. H. Barney
Providence
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Canterbury
Frederick Temple
Aristocratic Women in Politics Stir Primrose League
The Primrose League shows strong aristocratic support in Britain and Ireland with many high ranking ladies active in Scotland. Notable workers include Lady Blythswood Julia Tweedale Margaret Strathallan and several countesses. The Scottish branch counts 83,257 members led by A. J. Balfour as grand master.
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Great Britain
Ireland
Primrose League
Scotland
Lady Blythswood
Julia
Marchioness
Tweeddale
Margaret
Strathallan
Countess of
Ancaster
Buchanan
Alaric Grant
Montagu Forbes
League
A. J. Balfour
M. P
Circulating Picture Gallery At New York University
About thirty five schools in the state used the circulating picture gallery from the University of New York this year. The collection holds about four thousand photographs and a dozen lanterns with over seven hundred slides. Transportation is paid by the university and schools pay a nominal subscription.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of New York
Wedding Bash At Church Of The Ascension In New York
A society wedding held yesterday at the Church of the Ascension Fifth Ave and Tenth St joined Miss Myrtis Willmot Barton and Stephen Lathrop Butler in marriage. The bride wore white lace, was given away by her father, with no bridesmaids or maid of honor. The rector Rev. Percy Stickney Grant officiated.
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Church of the Ascension
Fifth-ave
Tenth-st
Myrtis Willmot Barton
Stephen E. Barton
Washington Square North
Clara Barton
Stephen Lathrop Butler
Northampton
Mass
Percy Stickney Grant
Mr. Butler
Walter C. Kingsley
Harold R. Butler
Frederick N. Wilson
Frank W. Kingsley
Marbelle George Bogart
William Franklin Bogart
Louis E. Hatzfeld
St. Luke’s Church
John T. Patey
Grace D. Bogart
Elizabeth Braine Burt
Josephine Hatzfeld
Charles Bell
Henry G. Sidford
Frederick A. Donnell
Washington Heights
Baltimore
New York
Mary Coleman Herbert
James R. Herbert
Humphrey Warren Buckler
Riggin Buckler
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
J. Houston Eccleston
Frank Outerbridge
C. A. Kilvert
Providence
Frank Riggs
Harry Riggs
Thomas
Louis Lehr
Harry Marshall
William Whitridge Williams
Kennedy Boone
J. Hall Pleasants
Buckler
Zionist Federation Convention Closes With Leadership Elections
The third annual Federation of American Zionists meeting at Educational Alliance Building elected officers for the year and delegates to the International Congress in London. Officers include President Richard Gottheil and Treasurer K K Sarasohn with a large slate of regional vice presidents and delegates. The convention kept a 3 cent member tax for propaganda, rejecting attempts to change it, and approved continued federation finances and planned publication.
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Federation of American Zionists
Educational Alliance
East Broadway
Jefferson Sr
Central Committee
International Congress of Zionists
London
Richard Gotttheil
Columbia University
K. K. Sarasohn
New York
Isa
Chicago
Gottheil
Vienna
Federation
Home for Incurables Celebrates Thirty-Fourth Anniversary
The Home for Incurables on Third Avenue between 180th and 184th Streets marked its 34th founding anniversary with a sun room concert for 20 patients by the Richard Helms String Band with several soloists. Principal exercises followed in the chapel with prayers by the home chaplain Reverend Derbyshire, a Board report read by Martin E. Greene, and an address by Thomas L. James urging expanded support for the institution.
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Home For Incurables
Third-ave
Fordham
Richard Helms
Elsie Helms
Alga Fischer
R_ Pullman
Frith
Princeton Class Day Exercises Crown Ivy Planting
Principal events at Alexander Hall along with the Ivy oration from Nassau Hall steps. Student speakers include William H. Edwards and David L. Chambers. The class history, ode, and roll call followed with 28 seniors and 142 members in literary societies. Careers listed span law, business, ministry, teaching, and civil engineering.
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Princeton
N. J
Alexander Hall
President Pattern
Willam H. Edwards
Lisle
N. Y
David L. Chambers
Washington, D. C
Baldwin G. Huntington
Columbus
Ohio
Nassau Hall
Joseph Addison Jones
Passaic
Killarney Lake
Charles Yeomans
Charles Herbert Stuart
Brown
Frederick Paul King
Nassau Herald Committee
Kian Society
St Paul's Society
Ness
Ministry
Columbia College Holds Class Day Exercises in Gym
About three thousand seniors attended the Columbia College class day in the university gymnasium. At 2 p m they entered in cap and gown, the hall adorned with banners and trophies from field and stream. Henry Starr Gkidings, president of the alumni fist, delivered an address of welcome.
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Columbia College
University Gymnasium
Henry Starr Gkidings
Dlam Fist
College Class Dedicates Yearbook With Gifts and Song
The ceremony marked by farewell cheers featured a roll call by Secretary Wallace Smyth Turmnen Melville Cane and an oration by Joseph Diehl Fackenthal. The class book The Nation highlighted portraits and autobiographies, with voting revealing Best Dressed Loudest Dresser and other characterizations among the members of Columbia College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Smyth Turmnen Melville Henry Cane
Columbia
John Erskine
Clarence H. Young
Phi Beta Kappa
Roelif Hasbrouck Brooks
Joseph Diehl Fackenthal
Lumbia College
C . Ogd Grouchiest
G. P. Quackenbos
E. J. Waites
J. J. Finnegan
H Dison
L. D. Newbors
H. Dixon
M. J. France
J. Muirhead
George Edwerit Woodberry
Revenue stamps rule change for steamship tickets
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue revises guidance to stamp tickets for voyages from U S ports to foreign destinations at the rate for individual passengers. Previously families or groups on a single ticket used one stamp. the new ruling requires a stamp for each named passenger, affecting tours abroad and parts of group travel.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Charles HL Treat
United States
Wisen
Seaiity
Census Work Nearing Completion Under Supervisor Wilbur
Census work progresses with about two hundred enumerators reporting completed forms. Wilbur says the census is going smoothly with Hell's Kitchen among the easiest areas for information. A letter from Milwaukee signed by Emma Depper seeks help in finding a sister Ella Deaper lost twenty-two years ago.
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Charles S. Wilbur
Washington
Mr. Wilbur
Wilber
Waukee
Milwaukee
Emma Depper
Sai
Ella Deaper
Wilbur
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