Daughters of the American Revolution plan a Mediterranean pilgrimage
The Toughnioga Chapter based in Cortland seeks funds for a Daughters centennial hall by chartering the White Star Line steamer Arabic for a 71 day voyage to Madeira Spain Gibraltar Algeria Malta Greece Turkey Palestine Egypt and Italy. Passengers may join by Daughter or a vouched member. travel costs cover all expenses with side trips and on board activities. The trip departs February 4 1999 with options to disembark early in Home Nice or Liverpool.
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Toughnioga
Daughters of the American Revolution
Elizabeth H. Doublegay
Cortland
Washington
White Star Line
Mediterranean
Holy Land
Pillgrimace
Madeira
Spain
Gibraltar
Algeria
Malta
Greece
Turkey
Palestine
Egypt
Italy
Rome
Pompeii
Jerusalem
Nice
Liverpool
Cairo
Florida
Mexico
California
International Council of Women Session in Geneva
American delegates won influence as Australia and Canada gain single delegation. A Sewall resolution urged schools to set a peace day and seek an international arbitration court. European opposition feared harms to Europe’s work. Delegates spoke on white slave traffic and called against a double standard. Lady Aberdeen addressed public health efforts by women. Attendance marked the largest since organization began.
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Geneva
International Council of Women
Commonwealth
America
Canada
Australia
United States
May Wright Sewall
Indianapolis
Letter Writing as a Lost Art Sparks Club Debate
A seaside hotel crowd debates whether letter writing survives in modern speed. One elder laments the trend toward short notes and postcards while a younger leader defends concise, health and social updates over lengthy epistles.
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Thackeray
Essen- Point
Miss Fstelle Long Builds Two Room Farm Hut at Newdigate
Miss Fstelle Long daughter of Professor Janes ing an authority on agriculture and well known in Surrey built herself a two room wooden hut near her farm at Newdigate Surrey' she plans to live there while tending the land.
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Mike
Tim
Albertina
John
Fstelle Long
Janesing
Newdigate
Surrey
English suffragette faced eviction and harassment in Wales
The text recalls an English suffragette Miss Annie Kenney being stoned with dirt grass sods and rotten eggs while speaking in Welsh villages. It notes a Welsh eviction and a £2 fine, and compares to Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony being treated the same sixty years earlier.
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Annie Kenney
Wales
Lucy Stone
Susan B. Anthony
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