Social season balls and debutantes color Natatorium era
A grand society gathering last night moved from Natatorium Hall to 2027 Chestnut Street with a Bal Pondre. Debutantes such as Miss Isabel Wetherill Miss Harriett Blythe and others wore colonial gowns and white satin to showcase the season’s social splendor. Notable events include a large private dance at 1615 Walnut Street for Mr. and Mrs. Powell Evans and a wave of salons, teas, and receptions surrounding prominent Philadelphia families and visiting dignitaries.
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Chestnut Street
Horticultural Hall
Ross Smith
Mises
PF. Wetherill
Robert N
Isabel Wetherill
Edward Browning
Maria P. Norris
Samuel Price Wetherill
Christine Biddle
Elizabeth ‘Turnbull
Harriett Blythe
Ethel Weightman
Ida Mildred French
Eugenia Dixon
Chestnut Hill
Florence
Biddle Addams
Clark Merchant
Walnut Street
Powell Evans
Spruce Street
Edwin Hall
Thomas J. Barger
Charles Este
Harrison Townsend
Eugene Ellison
George Deb. Keim
Thomas H. Andrews
Patton
Stacey
Waldorf Astoria
de Peyster
Morris
Armstrong
Olyphant
H. Fairfield Osborn
J. Montgomery Strong
Price Collier
Collier
Muriel Delano Robbins
Joel B. Erhardt
Miss Erhardt
Nora Maynard Green
Riverside Association
Fifth Avenue
Thomas Henry Randall
Sarah Grand
Ethel Rockefeller
Warf
Miss Rockefeller
Million-Dollar Central and South American Exhibit Arrives
The Philadelphia Commercial Museums received the bulk of Central and South American exhibits from the Pan American Exposition valued at about 1 million dollars. The collection includes rare woods, cacao, vanilla, coffee, medicinal plants, crude rubber and minerals. About twenty rail cars are needed for transport and storage is underway as officials seek a 125,000 dollar city appropriation to install and protect the displays.
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Philadelphia
South American
Central and
South America
Edward W. Tingle
THE
Philadelphia Times
Buffalo
Mr. Tingle
Paris
Vienna
Pupils to Aid McKinley Fund in Cleveland Plan
Cleveland schools superintendent L H Jones proposes a secret pupil contribution scheme for the McKinley national memorial fund. Envelopes with each pupil's name and home address are sealed and turned in, contributions from a penny up accepted, and all donors receive a souvenir certificate.
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Cleveland
L. H. Jones
Cleveland Public Schools
McKinley National Memorial Fund
National Association
Jones
Roosevelt Dines Large Party at White House
President Roosevelt entertained a large dinner party listing attendees including Secretary Long and Senators Pettus Gallinger Nelson Delliver McComas Clark of Wyoming Mallory Foster of Louisiana Clay Bard Kent Dillingham and Burnham and Paul. The event took place in Washington in the evening.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Secretary Long
Pettus
Gallinger
Nelson
Delliver
McComas
Clark
Wyoming
Mallory
Foster
Louisiana
Clay
Bard
Kent Dillingham
Burnham
Paul
Jamison Price and Miss Price Marry in Elkton Home
William R. Jamison of Wilmington and Miss Price wed at Rosehill home of the bride's sister Mrs. Simmons with Rev. Dr. Cal performing the ceremony.
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Philadelphia Times
Elkton
William R. Jamison
Wilmington
Del
William Price
Benjamin Simmons
Rosehill
Cal
Wheel-stabling tips for bikes in tight city homes
Practical guidance on weatherproofing sheds and interior space to shelter bicycles. Use roof felting and zinc sheeting to block rain, slope floors toward doors, and add felt bands around doors to seal gaps. Install racks inside to store multiple wheels neatly without crowding halls.
Guidance on infant care and discipline practices
The passage urges parents to teach children obedience and good habits. It describes baby care timing with baths between feedings, dressing in clean garments, feeding, sleep, and preparing for outings. It advises encouraging stretching and crawling to strengthen and promote circulation, while delaying walking.
Household Tips From The Era On Cleanliness And Maintenance
Lamp wicks should be pinched and rubbed smooth not cut. Wash coffee pot interior to keep coffee clear. Boiling copper in drain pipes removes grease. High quality table linen lasts longer and adds value. Camphor in silver drawer prevents rust. Turpentine in soaking tub whitens clothes. Charcoal bags purify water and cistern. Vinegar and cloves neutralize kitchen odors. Salt and vinegar clean copper preserving kettle. lemon halves with salt remove stains.
How to Care for the Range for Efficient Heat and Longevity
Practical guidance on maintaining a coal range with careful firing, raking, and ash management. Avoid shaking the fire, prevent clinkers, and ensure drafts and air flow for a brighter fire. Keep the stove polished, monitor the top temperature to prevent warping, and bank the fire safely at night to minimize gas.
Practical Parenting Tips From a Bygone Era
A 19th or early 20th century guidance note urges using a low chair for bathing a baby to reduce back strain, delays starch in infant diet until teeth appear, and stresses patient, loving discipline. It recommends long sleep for children and early training, emphasizing character formation and gentle correction.
Tempting Sweets Recipes for Afternoon Tea Treats
A compact guide to making cakes and cookies for tea. It lists ingredients and steps for butter rich cakes, Hermits with spices and raisins, and nutty drop cakes. Clear instructions cover mixing, chilling, rolling, and baking to light golden color.
Household Tips And Home Remedies From A Past Column
Practical advice covers wood floor care with beeswax and turpentine, treatment for chilblains using methylated spirits or camphorated oil, removing ink stains with oxalic acid, preserving fish when boiling with vinegar, mending before washing to avoid enlarging holes, and preserving red cabbage color with saltpetre for crispness.
Family Doctor Advice on Skin Health and Care
The chest may be strengthened by daily cold water. Save old linen for sickness use. Raw cotton soaked in castor oil will cure soft corns.
Vertii works featured at Heppe Aeolian recital
A Chestnut street recital devoted to Vertii drew a large refined audience last evening. Performances included Overture La Traviata, Rigoletto Potpouri, and Il Trovatore showcasing the composer's varied works.
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Vertii
Chestnut Street
Today in Philadelphia Civic and club events
Afternoon meetings of the Civic Club and an Art Club officers nomination followed by a Sons of Delaware dinner at Hotel Stratford. Engineers' Club gathers at 1122 Girard Street and the Delaware Society of Philadelphia hosts a second annual dinner at Hotel Bellevue at 6 30 p m. An exhibition proceeds at the Academy and a Sportsmen Show runs at Export Exposition Grounds.
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Civic Club
Art Club
The
Sons of Delaware
Stratford
Engineers’ Club
Girard Street
Delaware Society of Philadelphia
Hotel Bellevue
Cherry
Sarrette
Train Schedule Notice for Weeks Ending Thursday
Announced timetable shows trains on Thursday and Saturday for the Gate Railroad. The 8.19 PM departure on the 28th is listed with arrivals at Wa for the period. Priday and days after are allocated to travel, with trains leaving in the evening hours.
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Gate Railroad
Soteien Ak
Forests of
Maine
Huntingdon Street
Plastic Club Exhibition Opens With Applied Arts Focus
The Plastic Club holds its winter show at 10 South Eighteenth Street with a private view for members press and invited guests. Public access starts Monday, daily 1 to 5 PM until December 28, featuring tapestry stained glass burnt wood and colored glass works by Violet Oakley Elizabeth Shippen Greene Jessie Willcox Smith Ma thilde Well Mary Wingate Lloyd Florence Featherstone Millicent Drake Sophie Steele Mrs. McClain Florence Fulton and others in a lively exhibit emphasizing applied art.
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Plastic Club
South Eighteenth Street
Violet Oakley
Elizabeth Shippen Greene
Jessie Willcox Smith
Mathilde Well
Sophie Borie
Emma Cee
Mary Wingate Lloyd
Florence Featherstone
Millicent Drake
Sophie Steele
Agnes Repplier
Elizabeth Burton
Mary P. Ginther
Margarette Lippincott
Bryn Mawr
Ellen Wetherald Ahrens
Clara W. Madiera
Obituaries for Dr Anna Griffith and James Argys Smith
Dr Anna E Griffith Homoeopathic physician of 501 North Fourth Camden died Thursday. She led the West Jersey Homoeopathic Society and studied medicine in New York. Funeral Sunday at 4 PM from her home, Rev James W Marshall preaching, burial Fairmount Cemetery Newark Monday. James Argys Smith Jackson Mississippi marshal and Confederate brigadier general died of pneumonia. Former West Point graduate and educator, lifelong public servant. Joseph M Hancock died in Sea Isle City aged 87. longtime building inspector and early Sacramento settler. Burial for Hancock at Woodlands Cemetery, body brought to city Monday.
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Anna E. Griffith
North Fourth Street
Camden
James W. Marshall
Fairmount Cemetery
Newark
James Argys Smith
Supreme Court of
Mississippi
Jackson, Miss
Joseph M. Hancock
Sea Isle City
Charles J Walton Dies at Roxborough Home
Charles J Walton one of Roxborough’s oldest residents died Thursday morning at his Peachim street and Green lane home. He was longtime treasurer of the Manayunk Roxborough and Barren Hill Inclined Plane and Railroad Company and a brother of the late Rudolph B Walton.
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Charles J. Walton
Roxborough
Rudolph 8. Walton
Peachim Street
Green Lane
Walton
Manayunk
Barren Hill
Prohibition Governor Candidate James Swan Dies at 53
James Swan, Prohibition candidate for Maryland governor in 1899, died at his Caroline county home aged 53. He had served for years as principal of the Wilmington Conference Academy in Dover, Delaware.
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James Swan
Maryland
Caroline County
Wilmington Conference Academy
Dover
Del
David Paul Greason postmaster dies at seventy
David Paul postmaster at Greason Pennsylvania died aged seventy after serving thirty years as Cumberland Valley ticket and freight agent at Greason. Survived by two children Ka ward and Mrs J B Diller of Washington DC.
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Greason
Cumberland Valley
Kaward
J. 8. Diller
Washington, D. C
Mrs Mary Pringle Mitchell Dies in New Haven
Mrs Mary Pringle Mitchell 71 wife of author I K Marvel died in New Haven Conn. She was born into the Prin gle family of South Carolina and was known as a member of that distinguished lineage.
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Donald G. Mitchell
I. K. Marvel
New Haven
Conn
Mary Pringle
Pringle
South Carolina
English story writer Frederick W. Robinson dies in London
Frederick William Robinson, a prolific English author born in 1830, died yesterday morning in London. He was a steady contributor of serial stories to magazines.
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Frederick William Robinson
London
Death of William Gee at 1885 Buckins Street
William Gee aged 76 at 1885 Buckins street collapsed and died of heart disease behind his shop. The body was found about an hour later by his wife.
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William Gee
Buckins Street
Death notices for City Solicitor aide and Dover woman
Charles E. Perkins assistant city solicitor died at home after a week of illness. Elizabeth Manlove of Dover Delaware died at 72 after paralysis.
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Charles E. Perkins
South Forty-fourth Street
Elizabeth Manlove
Dover, del
Robbery at Wilmington depots nets cash and loot
Three masked men broke into the Baltimore and Ohio depot in Wilmington Ohio binding operator R D Walm and taking 9.50 plus 20.55 from a cash drawer. They then robbed Langdon's flouring mill across the street, blew the safe and took 50. The operator was bound for hours and later released. A posse found three stolen rigs near Midland City as a manhunt surrounds the woods where the robbers fled.
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Wilmington
Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
R. D. Walm
Langdon
Columbus
Midland City
Churchman to See Roosevelt in Civic Righteousness Campaign
Boston dispatch reports Rev. Dr. Francis B. Clark president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union has gone to Washington to meet Secretary Hay about the Gillett Lodge bill restricting sales of liquor opium firearms and ammunition to South Pacific island inhabitants. He also plans a meeting with President Roosevelt to discuss a campaign for Christian citizenship and civic righteousness.
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Clark
Boston
Francis B. Clark
Christian Endeavor Union
Washington
Hay
Gillett-Lodge
Congress
South Pacific Islands
Roosevelt
Mexico to Exhibit at St. Louis Exposition
Mexico accepts invitation to send an exhibit to the St. Louis Exposition. Upon Nuncio's return in Buffalo, preparations will begin for a comprehensive display to credit the country.
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Mexico
St. Louis Exposition
Mexico City
Senor Nuncio
Buffalo
Woman sues church and Chadwick over graveyard chicken coop
Mrs. Christianna Bishop files bill in Common Pleas Court against the Methodist Episcopal Church of Germantown and Cornelius Chadwick alleging a chicken coop has been built over the graves of her husband William G. Bishop and three children. She says Chadwick claims ownership of cemetery land and seeks removal of the coop and an injunction. Defendants have 30 days to answer.
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Christianna Bishop
Common Pleas Court
Methodist Episcopal Church of Germantown
Cornelius Chadwick
William G. Bishop
Bishop
Chadwick
Ellen F. Chadwick
Franchise granted for Pier at Sea Isle City
Sea Isle City officials meet to fill a council vacancy by confirming Theodore L. De Bow of Philadelphia. An ordinance granting a franchise for an ocean pier was approved.
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Sea Isle City
Philadelphia Times
Theodore L. de Bow
Adelphia
DeBow
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