Mothers' Sunshine Club May Party Reimagined in June
The Mothers Sunshine Club of the Church of the Saviour staged a May Party in June after a delayed May event. Queen Alice Gallagher arrived late due to streetcar mishaps, while Walter Becht reigned as king. The procession along Lexington to Fifth AvenueViewed by Mrs. Elizabeth Mortimer, the parade ended at North Meadow for noon luncheon and games led by Miss Nellie Hay and William Bergmann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ff. S. S
Mothers’ Sunshine Club
Church of the Saviour
111Th Street
Lexington Avenue
Walter Becht
Tribune Sunshine Society
Dorothy Bower
Sunshine
Marjorie Beyerkobbler
Ralph C. Louden
Sarah Frost
J. Sumner Stone
Alice
Gallagher
W5th Street
Fifth Avenue
Elizabeth Mortimer
Nellie F. Hay
Wiliam Bergmann
Sunshine Circle
Manhattan
P. F. Frost
Central Park
New Zealand Domestic Workers Union Sets Labor Rules
The Domestic Workers Union in New Zealand advocates a 68 hour week limit, 30 o’clock starting time, an afternoon break, two hours Sunday morning for church, and early endings on Sundays and Thursdays. Extra pay for Christmas and statutory holidays is proposed, with a move toward businesslike relations between employers and workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Domestic Workers’ Union
Perehy
Becka
Becky
George Biot
Saris
Dorothea
Romon
Women Cut Diamonds In Amsterdam Factory
Reports from Amsterdam via Frank D. Hill show a diamond cutting factory where women handle the most delicate work. After starting with men in 1875, women now perform the crucial cutting stage, processing thousands of gems yearly from South African roughs into flawless stones.
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Amsterdam
Frank D. Hill
South Africa
Smith College Commencement Opens With Much Ado About Nothing
Northampton June 16 The Smith College commencement begins with seniors presenting Much Ado About Nothing in the Academy of Music. Tomorrow the ivy procession and ivy day ceremonies will feature speeches by Marlon Savage and other students. A class of 258 will receive diplomas Tuesday as Rev Samuel M Crothers of Cambridge delivers the address. The senior play has been a yearly feature since 1889, with the 67th class presenting Much Ado Tonight, the Academy of Music hosting three performance nights to alumni, students, and guests. The college orchestra, led by Miss Holmes, supplies music with student arrangers and performers contributing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Northampton
Mass
Smith College
Academy of Music
Seelye
Edwards Church
Marlon Savage
Medfield
Louise Hyde de Forest
Sendai
Japan
Eleanor Little
Newburyport
Katherine Collins
Cortland
N. Y
Agatha Gruber
New York City
Morley Sanborn
Nan
Edithie Waiters
Wyoming
Ill
Helen M. Dean
Minneapolis
Katherine M. Collins
Helen B. Maxcy
Gardiner
Eleanor J. Little
Dorothy Evans
Pittsburg
Edith €. Gallagher
Milton
Samuel M. Crothers
Cambridge
Smith
Bigtechae
Beatrice
Benedick
Don Pedro
Prince of
Arragon
Sophie Z. Wilds
Don John
Mary F. Hardy
Claudio
Fiord
Flore
Helen V. Curtis Benedick
Pade
Laura C. Ge Leonato
Mes
Isabel Prodri
K Antonio
Julia
Holder Balthasar
Leola Sexton Borachin
Hamilton
Francis
Verges
Nettie Shrobhar
Ina Wood Sexton
Sidin
Sacred Scrolls Buried With Solemn Jewish Rites in Brooklyn
Eighteen sacred parchments from several synagogues once housed at New Irving Hall were buried yesterday in Washington Cemetery Brooklyn after service at Zirchru Toras Moses on East Broadway. Rabbis explained Genizah duties and mourners paid for transporting the coffin to a waiting carriage.
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Washington Cemetery
New Irving Hall
Broome Street
Zirchru Toras Moses
East Broadway
Williamsburg Bridge
Brooklyn
Old Country
Zirehru Teras Moses
Dr Aked Sermon Draws Big New York Audience
Reverend C F Aked attracted over a thousand listeners at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church with a morning sermon filled with song and praise for Psalms while criticizing modern church ritual. John D Rockefeller Jr and John D Rockefeller Sr attended briefly, greeting attendees before departing.
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C. F. Aked
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
John St. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Aked
Newell Dwight Hillis
Brooklyn
Patrick Henry
Williamsburg
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg
Wendell Phillips
Brouglar
Chatham
D Burke
Warren Hastings
Hillis
Veterinary Dies from Glanders in New York Hospital
Daniel H. McDornan a forty eight year old veterinary surgeon of 522 West 22d street died in New York Hospital on Saturday night from glanders or acute farcy contracted while treating a horse. Glanders is a disease of a horse’s nostrils and air passages with pustular symptoms.
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Daniel H. McDornan
West 22d Street
New York Hospital
Diamond Cutting Women at Amsterdam Factory
An 1890s profile describes women in Amsterdam earning 8 to 20 guilders weekly cutting and polishing rough diamonds. They work eight hours daily in a bright quay-side shop, with loss of gems requiring repayment. The factory handled famed stones like Victoria, Mogul, Regent of France, and Kohinoor, while men perform polishing duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving
Amsterdam
America
France
Louvre
Barroom Fatal Fight In Brooklyn Over Decked Skull
A Boston street brawl in Brooklyn began with drinking and arguing between Charles Carmody Jeremiah Crowley and George Page and David Donnelly. Donnelly struck Carmody on the sidewalk fracturing his skull and Carmody died en route to Long Island Hospital. Donnelly was later arrested for homicide. Crowley Page and McGreal were detained.
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Warren
Columbia Street
Brooklyn
Charles Carmody
Baltic Street
Jeremiah Crowley
George Page
David Donnelly
Hicks Street
Carmody
Donnelly
Long Island
Crowley
Page
Thomas McGreal
Opened with prayer at Roosevelt Hospital operation
A Roosevelt Hospital patient facing appendicitis requested sending for his pastor before surgery to be “opened with prayer.” The note appears in American Medical Journal reflecting on religious practice in medical settings.
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Roosevelt Hospital
American Medical Journal
More Milk Stations Open for Fifteenth Summer Season
The Nathan Straus pasteurized milk depots extend to eleven new booths in parks and piers, totaling seventeen. Certified milk is processed at No. 151 Avenue laboratory by Dr. A. R. Green, pasteurized at 167 degrees for twenty minutes, with high demand from mothers nationwide and international adoption of the infant milk depot plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Straus
Recreation Piers
Park and Pier
Avenue
Monroe Street
W Rd Street
East 5Ith Street
E7th Street
Macdougal Street
Battery Ff City Hall Park
Tompkins Square
Central Park
Mount Morris Park
Hebrew Educational Alliance
East Broadway
Jefferson Street
Recreation Pier
East 34 Street
East 4Th Street
Barrow Street
West Th Street
Mr. Straus
No. 151 Avenue
A. R. Green
Purity of Foods and Drugs Reform Sparks Trade Debate
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture rejects manufacturer guarantees for purity. A product’s serial mark proves inspection, but only the seller’s guarantee protects against enforcement. Regulators plan new rules, pushing jobbers to demand guarantees from all suppliers.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Tablet to Smith L. Russell Highlighted at Duane Church Anniversary
The one hundred tenth anniversary of the Duane Methodist Episcopal Church cornerstone laying in Hudson Street featured the unveiling of a tablet honoring Smith Lafayette Russell whose bequest sustained the church. A tablet to Abraham Russell, his grandfather and a former trustee (1776 to 1823), also hangs at the altar. The Rev. Dr. J. G. Oakley delivered the anniversary sermon, recalling years of service at the church once tied to John Street.
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Duane Methodist Episcopal Church
Hludson Street
Smith Lafayette Russel
Abraham Russel
Smith Russel
Duane Church
John Street
Triangle
Hudson and
Greenwich Streets
J. G. Oakley
Oakley
Early Morning at Battery Park Scene on Dewy Grass
A tranquil Battery Park morning shows a 5 o'clock scene with dew on grass, fog lifting to reveal a passing ocean liner and ferry, birds and park visitors, a painted warning on Ericsson monument, and the Statue of Liberty in a crimson dawn as ships rest offshore.
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Battery Park
Aquarium
Battery Promenade
Ericsson
Governor's Island
Statue of Liberty
Boy Run Down By Automobile In City Intersection
Five year old Fred Seaman of 1452 Second Avenue was struck by a New York Transportation Company car at 7th Street and Third Avenue. He was treated at Presbyterian Hospital and sent home after dressing. Chauffeur Cornelius Mittnacht was arrested on assault charges.
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Fred Seaman
Second Avenue
New York Transportation Company
Harlem Raid Swamps Court As Hundreds Are Arraigned
In Harlem a mass arrest sweep sent hundreds of prisoners before Magistrate Finn in a single day. Deputy Commissioners Hanson and Bugher led the operation with police and plainclothes officers, while Senator Jimmy Owens and other politicians watched. Justice Zeller granted bail to all detainees as the raids spread from West 134th Street to East 126th Street, stirring clashes with Frank Buchanan and other officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem
Finn
Hanson
Bugher
Dan
Union League Club
West 134Th Street
Percy Nagle
East 126Th Street
Jimmy Owens
Justice Zeller
Buchanan
East Stn Street
Dillon
Jamaica Farmhand Recounts Robbery by New Friends
Thomas Tomasko of Jamaica Long Island after three years on a farm and saving one dollar travels from his home in Russia to Williamsburg where two men befriend him in a saloon They alight with his dollar and some clothing after rounds of drinks Tomasko reports the loss to police and returns home to restart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Tomasko
Jamaica
Long Island
Russia
Williamsburg
Tomasko
Two Horses Die In Runaway Crashes On Williamsburg Bridge
Two runaway incidents on the Williamsburg Bridge end with two horses killed and their drivers narrowly escaping serious injury. William Evans, riding a delivery wagon for Williamsburg News Co, was almost crushed when his horse bolted and fell under the wagon as it struck a bridge gate. He escaped with minor injuries. A second driver, Herman Rosenbloom, faced a frightened horse crossed across the bridge, which was killed by the gate at the Brooklyn end. he escaped with slight bruises.
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Williamsburg Bridge
Williamsburg News Company
William Evans
Hamilton Avenue
Brooklyn Plaza
Evans
Herman Rosenbloom
Montgomery
Madison Streets
Manhattan
Brookelyn
Protests Over Heavy Bail Set in Street Car Case
Motorman Adolph Pollock was held in 5000 bail for an inquest after striking George S. Schamberger at Third Avenue and 79th Street. John Beaver of New York City Railway Company protested to Coroner Harburger, arguing the bail is too high for poor defendants. The coroner defended the amount, saying the bail protects the poor from being exploited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDornan
Harburger
Board of Health
Philip O'Hanlon
New York Hospital
Adolph Pollock
George S. Schamberger
Third Avenue
79Th Street
Hart Durger
John Beaver
New York City
Magistrate Butts Begins Reform at West Side Court
Magistrate Butts, appointed by Mayor McClellan, sat in the West Side court and announced new rules. Only prisoners whose cases are being considered will be brought into the courtroom, keeping others in the pen until arraignment. All nonparticipants including the public must be seated.
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Butts
McClellan
West Side Court
Carl Schurz Memorial Reaches Seventy Four Thousand
The Carl Schurz memorial committee reports 74649 in subscriptions from individuals and organizations nationwide. A letter from Harvard President Eliot to Isaac N. Seligman, the committee treasurer, praises Schurz as a high example for American youth and endorses the memorial project. All funds should be sent to Mr. Seligman at 11 Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Schurz
Eliot
Harvard
Isaac N. Seligman
Mr. Seligman
No. 11
Broadway
Last McAdoo Caisson Finished in Fulton Street
The last caisson of the McAdoo tunnel at Fulton street about 30 feet west of Greenwich street was completed yesterday. The shield for pushing the tunnel is nearly ready and will be partly installed today. Building progress is rapid and Mr. McAdoo expects completion by May 18.
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Fulton Street
Greenwich Street
Jersey
McAdoo
Nearly Murdered Hangs To Quarry by Patrolman Senff
Patrolman Herman Senff of the Bedford Avenue station in Williamsburg arrested a crowd of Italians at Havemeyer and North Sud streets. He was knocked down, kicked, robbed of his club, and slashed with a razor. An Italian stabbed him in the back. He held on to his prisoner until reinforcements arrived and the attackers fled. He was hospitalized then sent home.
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Herman Senff
Bedford Avenue
Williamsburg
Havemeyer
North Sud Streets
Senff
Sen Ft
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Sunshine Club
Mothers’ Club
Ivy
Miss Holmes
Miss Hayden
Snow
Sleeper
Michigan
A. E. Dibble
Waterbury
Conn
All Street
Rahway
N. J
Pawling
New Jersey
Stamford
Dexter Savings Bank
DR. Aked
Mr. Rockefeller
Helen Read
Hero
Ethel Curry
Helen V. Curtis
Leonato
Isabel Brodrick
Laura C. Geddes
Sophie F. Wills
A. H. Bosworth
New Haven
G. W. Marler
X. L. M. Branch
Faith Williams
Utica
New Mexico
X. L. M. Club of
X. L. M. Manhattan
Little Mothers’ Aid
T. A. Smith
Sophie Moebus
Gertrude Mallory
Miss C. Sullivan
Sterling Silve
Wes
BBING
Reed @ Barton
Sterhing
32Nd St
Smith L. Russel
Duane Methodist Church
Big Harlem
Ats
City Railway
Magistrate Butts
Adoo Caisson
Quarry
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