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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1902
Page
14
A dressmaker and client discuss adjusting a skirt as the owner contemplates fashion’s grip. The woman urges drastic alterations while the shocked dressmaker yields, highlighting the power dynamics and the era’s view of women and clothing.
Sefiorita Clemencia Lopez describes social conditions in the Philippine Islands to the New England Woman Suffrage Association. She notes innate equality for women, pre colonial refinement, duties in needlework and commerce, equal guardianship in war, and contrasts with American freedoms and limited higher education for women.
A poem about kindness travels through time while aCosmopolitan item notes a box luncheon party hosted by Mrs Charles Rathbone at 584 Davis Ave Arlington NJ on June 26. New York and New Jersey members are invited with specific boat trains from Chambers Street and Twenty third Street. A relief corps secretary seeks addresses to aid a Manhattan aged couple with a $1 donation.
Mrs John Northrop the botanist extols terrariums over aquariums for invalids and curious minds. Her two cases house a De Kay snake lizards hylas wood frogs snails toads and lairs with moss and live plants. The article details feeding habits temperaments and notable inmates including a patient snake that tolerates companions, a tame wolf spider and a mourning cloak butterfly colony emerging after chrysalis experiments.
A tall slender woman confronts a dressmaker over a summer skirt length. The dressmaker, cool and controlling, urges practicality while the woman insists on defying fashion. The scene ends with renewed determination as she demands a shorter hem despite consequences.
Public School No 153 Morris Heights received a bronze Washington statue from Park Commissioner Eustis of the Bronx with a presentation speech. The event included commencement exercises at multiple schools, diplomas awarded to dozens of graduates, and remarks by officials such as Dr Thomas Iton and Commissioner Frank Wilsey.
The Happy Hour Club hosts an evening of entertainment at No. 236 Second Ave at o o clock to raise funds for a day in the country for the Little Mothers. Miss Louise E Daniels presents costume character sketches along with musical numbers.
The Woman's National Sabbath Alliance awarded its 5 prize to Rev Teu S Hamilton of Washington for his sermon topic How Shall the Young Be Taught the Proper Observance of the Lord's Day. The prize recognizes efforts to promote Sabbath observance and religious instruction.
A generous Miss A Delmar aided a destitute Italian family after the husband’s arrest by insolvent lenders left a wife and four children in need. Contributions were sent promptly. Donations also include silk pieces from Mrs Lovell’s collection and T. SS. contributions for five invalid members.
The Board of Aldermen debated a proposed ordinance to widen Fourth Ave at Ninth St, amid concerns it favors a local business. President Cantor pushed for related plaza, saying delays trigger condemnation by Rapid Transit and benefitting the Subway Construction Co. The plan would cost about 350000, requiring seven building acquisitions, and was sent back to the Streets and Highways Committee. Cantor also won approval for a 25000 City Hall improvement, and stock-authority measures passed for the Criminal Courts Building and Dock Department dock works. A sign-height limit bill for roof signs was split and postponed.
Fifty four graduates of the New York Training School for Teachers were honored at the Board of Education hall on Fifty ninth street and Park Avenue. The program featured music and essays by Edward J. Kavanagh and Henry Amster, with an address by Board President Charles C. Burlingham urging merit over politics and advising graduates to serve East Side children to ensure a successful career.
In a Special Term decision Justice Steckler held that all easements appurtenant to a parcel of land pass with the land to a purchaser. A sale of such easements to the elevated railroad after the bill of sale and before deed is deemed a fraud on vendees. The suit by Alfred H. Marvin against Simon E. Bernheimer arose from a 1898 contract for five lots on Columbus Avenue. The court ruled the owners of the land were the vendees from the contract date, and the vendors held for their benefit, so the easements must accompany the property.
A list of dishes including shirred ex New potatoes with chives and parsley, strawberries and cream, broiled tomatoes, creamed potatoes, brown and white toast, baked apples with cream, cold French artichokes, chicken hashed on toast, fried bacon, and coffee. Multiple items repeat or garbled names reflect OCR errors but indicate a mid century breakfast or luncheon menu.
The jury found for defendant in the Carnes versus Hansen case granting 25000 dollars damages for alleged alienation of Mrs. Carnes affections. The ruling ends that suit but leaves Mrs. Carnes to face a divorce suit from Frank M. Carnes in New Jersey and maintains ongoing litigation over the partners' dissolved fluid extract business.
A sewing notice advertises a tissue paper pattern for misses waist, No 4.162, offered at ten cents. The item is presented as a single short price note for a garment pattern.
John Mooney sixty of 44 Reid Ave Brooklyn dies from skull fracture after falling from an uptown elevated train near Reid Ave station. Conductor Mark Nelson twenty eight of 914 Jefferson Ave dragged off platform and injured while helping. Mooney had attended Ulmer Park celebration and was intoxicated before the fatal plunge.
Alderman John T McCall blocked further city spending on the Rapid Transit subway until a tunnel for the East Side is funded. He argued current plans favor the wealthy West Side, citing crowding on Third Avenue and the need for East Side relief. The resolution to widen Fourth Avenue and build a Lafayette Place station was defeated 48 to 16.
American Ladies visiting London for the Coronation are invited to view Paquin designs and a special corset created for simultaneous display at London and Paris Salons. The collection includes gowns jackets blouses tailor built garments millinery and lingerie with new creations shown daily during the season by Paquin Ltd London and Paris.
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