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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
24
Bishop Potter recounted his father’s fall in the gutter and stressed that personal responsibility, not the watchman, must aid those in need. He noted his family’s work aiding working girls, including a holiday house for orphans, and praised the Settlement’s role in bringing civilized comforts to a crowded East Side district. Mrs. Grover Cleveland attended briefly.
The New Yorkers club society launched by about fifty women at the Waldorf Astoria aims to welcome Iowa born or Iowa educated members within a hundred miles of New York. Membership reached forty three with talks on eligibility and a cooperative Iowa women network planned. Pronunciation debates over Iowa sparked lively chatter as Mrs Catt guided proceedings.
An upcoming Household Eco- Mic Association class at No 41 Leroy street offers after work Sciem chops dinner. Attendees will drink milk on arrival and teens may pick them up at 9 20. Monthly Sunday topper sessions invite men for supper or evening visits. Lessons focus on dishes doable on a small gas stove for renters.
The New York Womens Legislative League met at the Waldorf Astoria for a monthly session. Miss Jessie delivered an address on moral training of children and the sanctity of marriage laws. Dr Harriette Keatinge criticized American women for shirking motherhood responsibilities and warned against trial marriages.
Miss Sarah S Cox, early T S S member, has lived abroad for years but keeps aiding Sunshine Lines. She reports from Switzerland on T S S rules and asks Frau M Wingefelder in Munich for copies of the paper to illustrate how Tribune Sunshine Society operates. A Munich paper seeks reports on German readers learning from others.
A Brooklyn reader writes of becoming deeply interested in an Alabama family living in hard circumstances. The invalid mother and daughter have knitted more than five dozen wash cloths in gratitude, which the Brooklyn Needlework Guild has distributed to day nurseries and a babies' home.
The Chelsea branch holds a two day sale on Friday and Saturday April 19 and 11 from 10 a m to 10 p m in Mrs. Pierrepont A Greene’s studio at 222 West 23d Street Chelsea for the outing fund for working women and for the consumptive work of the branch The Sunshine friends are invited to buy Easter gifts and members are urged to contribute items with name and address so thanks can be given in person Gifts not sold will be passed to other branches for Sunshine work Mrs Greene also contributes items to the sale showing her support and belief in exchanging good cheer.
Harold A. Caparn chairs a committee with John De Witt Warner and Jacob A. Cantor to collect public input on monuments in need of repair and cleaning. They aim to aid the Park Department under Commissioner Smith, invite citizen tips, and consider relocating statues of lesser merit beyond Central Park.
Annie Moore a resident of East 128th Street was arraigned in Flushing on alleged kidnapping of her eight year old daughter. Police were given twenty four hours to conduct a formal investigation into the child’s disappearance. Moore had a prior Queens County conviction for killing her husband with a poker.
Kruger and Firemen's Memorial Fund nears the $7,000 total with $315 added at Lincoln National Bank. Subscriptions include Allan Pinkerton Firemen's Association $200 Charles H Ludington $3 Mr and Mrs Stetson $30 Richmond Borough Great Kills Fire Engine Company 1 $ existing donors Edward Severin Clark $100 Henry Parish $10 and A B Twombly $5. Carnegie Hall box bid by Mme Schumann-Heink sold to Henry Clews for $6. Summary notes indicate continued strong donations, pushing the fund toward the milestone.
Multiple undertakings by the People of the State of New York cite heirs legatees and next of kin in estates of Robert Ernst Margaret Terry Harriet A Barrett and others. Probate and judicial settlement proceedings are scheduled before Surrogate’s Court in New York County with dates in 1908 and guardianship provisions for minor heirs.
Notices list claims against Abby S Thompson Mary de Trobriznd and Mary H Krush, executors and executrices named. Creditors must file with vouchers by July 1 1907 June 10 1907 and September 1 1948, at offices on Wall Street Broadway Pine Street Manhattan New York. Executrixes Curtis R Hatheway Charles A Post Ferris S Thompson Fraser Findlay Van Buren and Latting are named attorneys for executors.
Box pleats are becoming to young girls and are greatly in vogue. An attractive frock is shown suitable for serge, cashmere, Henrietta and similar materials, and also usable for linen and other inexpensive wash fabrics.
Pattern No 5911 offers a box pleated girl’s costume in Bordeaux Henrietta cloth with plaid chemisette and velvet trim. Medium size twelve years requires eight and five eighths yards of 44 inch fabric, or six and three fourths yards of 42 inch, or four and seven eighths yards of 44 inch. Pattern No 5915 covers sizes 16, 18, 14 years and can be mailed on receipt of 1 cent. Send pattern number and age to Pattern Department, New York Tribune.
Advertisements offer single insertions at five cents each for six teen words seven times in a fourteen day period. Free circulars describe rooms available at Uptown Tribune office 1364 Broadway between 38th and 11th streets. Listings include 319-321 West large and small rooms with table. 1st Street 516 West with steam heat running water refined Christian family references.
Several furnished rooms and apartments listed with amenities such as running water bath heating telephone and south facing views. Locations include Broadway near 36th Street Morningside and 118th Street near Columbia with options for single or double occupancy and breakfast if desired. References available for tenants seeking private family or gentleman lodgings.
Help wanted notices describe canvassers for a newspaper with a guaranteed $3 a day, potential $25 to $35 weekly with salary and commission, advancement for capable men, requirement clean habits and neat appearance. Call after 9 at Mr Chariton Room 421 Tribune Building. Also seasonal shore and mountain work, send stamp for reply.
A dense block of job seeker notices seeks positions in fields from bookkeeping cashier chauffeur and designer to engineer foreman and masseur. Applicants cite experience, references, and willingness to start on modest salaries, with contact details across New York Brooklyn Jersey City and Connecticut.
Classified listings show a 38 year old poultryman skilled in incubators brooders and hot water heaters, can drive horses and autos, carpentry capable, sober with no tobacco or liquor use. Also multiple workers seeking stenography teaching printing painting sales retail and office posts, with various addresses in Yonkers Ridgefield Park Brooklyn and New York City.
A dense page of 19th century help wanted ads seeks coachesmen and grooms. Entries claim sober, reliable men with horse and carriage experience, some with automobile know how, from single to married, often with no children, urging strong personal references and city or country work.
A collection of classified style pleas for domestic help featuring chambermaids and waitresses. Listings include German and Irish Protestant workers, seamstresses, cooks, and laundresses offering various services with references, typically at weekly or monthly wages, and with agency contact details across multiple avenues including Flaherty, Collier, Mathewson, Hofmayer, and Pitagerald bureaus.
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