German Governesses Home Promotes Help For Foreign Women
A New York City group started by Miss Matilda Demmier operates the German Governesses Home at East 60th Street. It offers lodging, meals, and a meeting place for foreign-born women awaiting positions or seeking work as governesses. The home rooms twelve women, with plans to expand. membership includes about one hundred active members and paying supporters.
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East 60Th Street
Matilda Demmier
America
Azid Miss Demimier
New York
Egypt
Asso
Sunshine Help For Needy In Mountains
A New Jersey reader provides $3 to aid an old Jersey City soldier while others send funds for Miss in Bridgeport and Esther Ramos for a badge. Sunshiners in the mountains receive eight books from Miss Helen Keiler to start a Sunshine Library amid winter snows. Gratitude pours in for a $35 tuberculosis patient as aid flows from donors, a mission report notes clothing and food distributions reach No. 19 branch and families with unemployed husbands receive support.
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N. J
Jersey City
David L. Gluck
Manhattan
Miss
Bridgeport
Conn
Esther Levy
Ramos
Helen Keiler
Sunshiners
Annie L. Mahler
New Jersey
Rever
T. 5
No. 19
Illinois
Massachusetts
Florida
Jeseyary
Virginia
Paquin Paris Warns of Counterfeit Dress Trade Mark
The well known dressmaker Paquin of Paris 3 Rue de la Patte informs clients that his trade mark has been extensively counterfeited. The counterfeit items are described as white ground with reddish brown letters and relate to the coming summer season.
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Rue de la Patz
Paris
Tts
Warsebands
Charity aid warms children with clothing gifts
The Lister branch of Cuba and others donate outfits and goods for distribution to children in need. Nine new flannelette nightgowns and fabric garments join undergarments, socks, caps, and a shawl. A Flatbush friend sends a rug, six bound books, and statuettes, with other supporters contributing undergarments, fancy buttons, and a copy of Country Life in America for country residents.
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Lister Branch
Cuba
Flatbush
Jessie Fowler
Manhattan
Lorenzo F. Fowler
Fashion's restraint urged by M Worth in Harper's Bazar
Paris critic M Worth argues for simplicity and moderation in dress and warns against chasing every new trend. He advocates versatile wardrobes, timely alterations, and practical styling for modest incomes, praising careful use of pins and historical collars while urging avoidance of the latest fad to prevent fashion pitfalls.
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M. Worth
Paris
Harper's Bazar
Cress
Gress
England
Europe
Department of Life
Mesdames
Fancy aprons for chafing dish functions and work
The Tribune Pattern describes two aprons that are charmingly attractive yet simple, suitable for fashionable chafing dish events and for hours spent on fancy work and related tasks. The patterns promise practicality and style for home entertaining and crafts.
Embroidered Swiss Tissue Paper Apron Pattern
Pattern No 5.97 offers tissue paper apron patterns in several fabrics. Medium size requires % yard material 27 or 3 inches wide, with inserting and edging yards for different apron styles. Pattern mailed for ten cents with a 2 cent stamp. address Pattern Department New York Tribune for delivery.
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New York Tribune
Through Car Connections Brooklyn Bridge Trolley Plan
A Brooklyn reader asks The Tribune to explain why trolley tracks on the Brooklyn Bridge cannot connect with Park Row routes to allow through cars from Brooklyn to New York. The letter argues that shared level tracks could ease congestion, reduce car changes, and enable a single fare across greater New York, urging action by New York lawmakers. February 26 1908.
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Park Row
Brooklyn
New York
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Broadway
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N. J
Herald Square
McAdoo
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Henry Whittemore
Question Convention Delegates and Presidential Choices
Henry B. Blackwell argues for delegates to reveal first and second presidential choices to allow Republicans and Democrats to vote intelligently at national conventions. He cites Taft Roosevelt Hughes and Bryan, warns of unaligned voter blocs, and stresses policy unity and railroad and monopoly concerns. Boston, March 7, 1908.
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Denver
New England
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Taft
Hughes
Bryan
Henry B. Blackwell
Boston
Washington Lands and George Washington Heirs Debate
A New York Daily Tribune piece on February 23 198 discusses Senate bill 1238 and House bill 5489 to reimburse Washington estate for Ohio lands. It argues the claim misreads Washingtons will and fails to cite correct heirs shares, noting the estate owed funds and the will dividing proceeds among twenty three relations.
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United States
Justice
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Tribune
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George
Ohio
Geis
Move to Prohibit Vivisection by International Union
A letter from Josephine Redding, New York chairman, announces the formation of the International AntiVivisection Union, a group formed to abolish vivisection and educate the public on scientific grounds. The union lists Dr Achilles Rose and Dr Elmer Lee of New York and 24 French physicians on its white list, noting an estimated 65,000 US physicians with fewer than 500 conducting vivisection. The plan is to publish a white list and press public enlightenment to compel physicians to declare their positions. March 6 1908.
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the Tribune
Noblesse Oblige
International Anti
Achilles Rose
Elmer Lee
New York
Paris
United States
Josephine Redding
New Work for anti vivisectionists letter argues for physician self sacrifice
A reader rebuts anti vivisectionists in The Tribune, urging protection for doctors who subject themselves to experiments and dangers for medical progress. He notes physicians endure bloodcurdling trials on themselves and even plague exposure, while relatives worry about their own safety and ethics. The author suggests anti vivisectionists volunteer for vivisection to spare patients and animals. New York March 5, 1908.
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the Tribune
Army
Navy
New York
Description of vivisection spurs medical cruelty critique
Norfolk letter condemns vivisection with a forceful catalogue of brutal animal experiments. Dr Edward Berdoe’s cited horrors include brain work with red hot tools, nerve tracing, acid injections, forced starvation, gas inhalation, boiling, and nail driven into limbs. The writer, 8. N. Cleghorn, 1908, urges readers to read and reject such practices.
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Edward Berdoe
N. Cleghorn
Norfolk
House for Revolution Relics in Newburg Museum Plan
A letter discusses Newburgh New Yorks Washington Museum Building once bought from General Farleys estate, the James Mansion used as Washingtons headquarters, and the goal to create a colonial and Revolutionary relics museum attracting public visitors though little has happened in recent years.
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the Tribune
Washington Museum
Newburg
N. Y
City of
New York
Ferdinand P. Farle
James Mansion
Washington
Preservationists urge fireproof structure for Revolutionary collections
A letter from L. H. Cornish proposes building a fireproof extension adjoining a historic mansion to house Revolutionary era collections. He notes no recent activism but suggests Newburg as a model for a similar project and invites fundraising to create such a structure for greater New York.
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Newburg
New York
L. H. Cornish
Prevention best cure argues for proactive punishment
The letter argues that harsher, earlier punishments for risk causing behavior could prevent disasters like the Slocum fire and auto fatalities. It contends many near-misses produce as much harm as actual injuries, and that protecting the public requires punishment of risky acts before they cause harm rather than mere vengeance after such events.
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the Tribune
van Schalck
New Jersey
van Schaick
Jacobs
L. New York
Would Christ Say A Wager A Journal Letter
Burt G Wilder argues that gambling mirrors theft and robbery by mutual consent and cannot be excused by consent or nature. He cites moral criticism of betting at racetracks and a hypothetical river race to show crowd influence and the loss of self restraint. Ithaca, New York, March 6, 1908.
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League For Political Education
The
Tribune
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Burt G. Wilder
Ithaca, N. Y
Washington Water Power issues 6 percent notes for 3 million
Washington Water Power of Spokane offers 3 million dollars of six percent notes at nine percent through Moffat and White and Lee Higginson. The company operates a falls on the Spokane River in Spokane and Post Falls falls on the same river, runs ninety three miles of electric railway, with seventy three miles in Spokane, and supplies light and power to Spokane and nearby towns, mines and plants.
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Post Falls
Domestic Help Wanted Advertisements Variety
Domestic situations sought by women including first class Swedish girl for butler duties with entertaining skills and top references. wages 25. Osterberg's Bureau at Lexington Avenue. Also first class butler with salad and wine knowledge, wages 22 to 25. Flaherty's Bureau at Columbus Avenue. Also notices for nursery governess and dressmaking services. Multiple agencies advertise with contact details and references.
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Osterberg’s Bureau
Lexington Ave
57Th
58Th Sts
Plaza
Flaherty’s Bureau
Columbus Ave
River
Surrogate Court Probate Notices for Charle Lawrence Heirs
Citations issued by the Surrogate Court of New York for the will of Char le Lawrence of New York. Noticees include Richard Hilliard Sterling Agnes Harriet Canfield Sterling Buckham and others. Audiences are summoned to appear January 24 1908 for probate proceedings and guardianship actions for minors.
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Charlotte
New York
Richard Hilliard Sterling
Agnes Harriet Canfield Sterling Buckham
Y Sterling
Mary Hilliard Morgan
Callison
Katherine Hilliard Sterling
D Sterling
B. Lawrence
Warting Parks
City of
New Tely
Charate
County of
Abner C.L
Notice of Summons for James McMullan and guardianship details
Notice in New York County against James McMullan and others to answer a complaint about the goods chattels and credits of Elizabeth A McMullan deceased and as general guardian for Margaret F McMullan. Judgment by default if no answer within twenty days after service. Attorneys for plaintiff Schenck Stockell, 32 Broadway Manhattan New York City.
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Lynn Bradford
Caroline G Redington
Caroline G MecClellan
George G Mann
Caroline Scammeg
Olivia Guman
Edward & Perce Norton
Milfort HL Norton
Sanveae
Anna K. Giiman Gimas
Charles
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March
Pressman
Edward L. Norton
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Thomas
NTY
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Margaret F McMullan
Elizabeth M Mullan
Mary McMullan
Cecilia
Kate Graham
James Mullan
Elizabeth A McMullan
Elizabeth A. McMullan
Margaret F. McMullan
Madmimizabeth A. McMullan
Elizaulla
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