Eyes of Women Are on Chicago Biennial Convention
One million club women eye the General Federation of Women's Clubs Biennial in Chicago starting June 18. The program includes Gifford Pinchot on conservation, civil service reform topics, and state president speakers, with venues at the Auditorium Theatre and Hotel.
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General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Chicago
Robert Burns
Burns
Chase
San Francisco
General Federation
Auditorium
Auditorium Hotel
Bureaus of Information
Tion
Allon Conany
Conservation Department
Emmena Crocker
Fitchburg
Massachusetts
Gifford Pinchot
Francis D. Everett
Mionie Starr Grainger
Frederick A. Dow
Ilinois
John C. Swinson
Swinson
Association of Commerce of Chicago
Vaudeville Bills Shine at Montauk and Newark Theatres
The Montauk in Passaic hosts a top vaudeville bill featuring The Knickerbocker Girls and Burke and Burke among others, with Kinemacolor films. In Passaic The Howard Chase Players debut at the theatre with Rosalind at the Rose Gate and upcoming shows including Madam X and Raffles. Newark’s Shubert Theatre brings Within the Law back for a week led by Catherine Tower with lower-floor seats cut to one dollar. Proctor’s next week promises The Four Harveys wire walkers and a star revue featuring Bobby Heath Florrie Millership Georgette and The Four Avollos among others.
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Montauk
Passaic
Taylor
Knickerbocker Girls
Burke
Hayes
Fulton
Hert
Bess Drapers
Adv
Howard Chase
Passaic Theatre
Washington Place
Nutley
Chase
Rosalind
Rose Gate
Mr. Chase
William McCrystal
Jane Babcock
George Graves
Camille Lewis
Hastest Way
Newark
Shubert Theatre
Catherine Tower
Bermahhardt
Proctor
Europe
Bobby Heath
Florrie Millership
Millership
Harry Fox
Bobby
Miss Millership
Winter Garden
Sam Bernard
Mr. Heath
Rudy Raymond
Melody Maida
Georgette
George B. Reno
Miss Bessy Reno
Etta Byrop
Ray Summer
Religious Services Schedule Amid Week Of Church Activities
Local churches publish a weekend schedule with multiple services. Grace Church Christan Endeavor and Sunday School, Vincent Church Holy Communion and Epworth League, Lutheran St Pauls programs, and Roman Catholic masses at St Marys and Holy Family list sermons, study groups, and choir events through Sunday afternoon.
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Reg Ae Condit
Christian Endeavor Society
M.S. Littlefield
Sunday School Society
Mary
Vincent Church
Epworth League
James MacCallum
St. Paul's Congregational Church
Church of the Holy Family
Harrison Street
Alfonzo de Santola
Vincent Church Notes and Civic Meeting Updates
Chelé C Ladias' Aid holds an all day meeting with Miss Sarah Falkenburg at 197 Hillside Avenue. Friday at 7 30 pm the Battery adds a signal and ambulance corps. The League monthly meeting is postponed indefinitely. Rally attendees meet at 7 15 pm Monday at Chestnut and Franklin. Circle B hosts Mrs Mitchell on Wayne Place Wednesday Feb 4. Circle B cake sale Feb 7 at 2 30 pm in the church parlor.
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Chelé C. Ladias
Sarah Falkenburg
Hilside Avenue
Newark
Roseville M. E
Chestnut Street
Franklin Avenue
William H. Mitchell
Circle B
Wayne Place
Ladies’ Aid
Struck at the root drama with a boastful doctor
A crusty laird doubting a doctor provokes a comic scene. The physician, bemused, theatrically explodes a wine bottle and proclaims he is striking at the restr Supreme Self Confidence. The exchange reveals the laird’s irritation and the doctor’s misplaced bravado in a tense moment.
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Abernethy
Siaird
Gou
Ray
Beclog Strait Passage Into Arctic From Behalf of Whaler
From A Year With a Whaler by Walter Noble Burns. On August 15 the voyage passed Beclog Strait entering the Arctic. The straits span thirty six miles between Cape Prince of Wales and a basalt cape on the Asiatic side with Diomede islands nearby. Eskimos cross between continents in small boats and in winter the strait freezes allowing walking travel.
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Be- Clog -Strait
Arctic
Cape Prince of Wales
Big
Diomede
Beitween
Capes
Kyack
Big Diomede
East Cape
America
Asia
Noble Burns
Tragic Welsh Miner Tale and Eskimo Dress Reflections
A Welsh mining tale recalls a resurrected love rooted in a betrothal sixty years prior as miners move an elderly woman to her former home. Captain Amundsen discusses Eskimo dress meaning, noting ridicule for fringe and a later curling fringe warning against casual fashion judgments.
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Wales
Hin
London Telegraph
Roald Amundsen
Northwest Passage
Amundsen
Astronomy and the Vastness of the Cosmos
The text muses on the immensity of space and the difficulty of grasping astronomical distances. It notes a star being far beyond Earth and uses colossal figures to illustrate the scale, comparing travel times to traverse space with imagined railroad speeds.
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United States
Canopies on Their Heads in Korea Hats of Giant Proportions
A Sunbeam article describes Korean men wearing enormous bamboo hats with nine foot high crowns and six foot wide rims. Hats are varnished bamboo with under-brim caps and padded strings. rain funnels of oiled paper attach inside. Soldiers wear black or brown felt hats with red horsehair and porcelain ornaments.
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Korea
Helped With Advice Footmen at the Door
A brief exchange from the New York Mail notes a poor man downstairs asking for help as he fears a wolf at his door. Mr Richleigh warns caution and to avoid opening the door.
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Richleigh
Rhat
New York Mail
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