Society Notes Mark Engaged Couples and Weddings
Mrs. William Disston hosts a musical luncheon at Chestnut Hill with a guest list of notable Philadelphia society figures. Engagement announced for Miss Ethel Christine Smith to S Murdoch Kendrick, son of the Kendricks, with Yale like credentials and active Philadelphia bar status. Includes upcoming weddings, travelers sailing, and Newport social movements with confirmations of visitors and arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Disston
Country Place
Chestnut Hill
Ethel Christine Smith
F. Percy Smith
Murdoch Kendrick
George W. Kendrick, Jr
Kendrick
University of Pennsylvania
Law School
Philadelphia
George W. Kendrick
Marion Audenried
Atlantic City Summer Visitors Include Gans Laberman and More
June 6 Atlantic City notes list Mr and Mrs Aaron Gans and daughter Bertie H Gans of Green Street planning June July apartments. Mrs A Leberman and son Joseph close city home for cottage at 115 Gramercy Place. Also visitors include Laberman Merchant Jarden Coghlan Jones Frazer Kitson Croll Bell Weidman and others in town for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Aaron Gans
Bertie H. Gans
Green Street
Mrs Roosevelt Hosts Farewell Tea at White House
Washington June 6 Mrs Roosevelt issued tea invitations for Saturday afternoon June 7 at 5 o clock on her visiting cards. The informal gathering allows friends to bid farewell before her departure for Oyster Bay Monday morning at 10. The event signals an end to Washington social life except private gatherings. The first Marine Band concert of the season will be on the White House lawn tomorrow afternoon. President Roosevelt hosted several friends informally at dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Washington
Dolly Madison
Marine Band
White House
Engagement announced for Miss Harmon and Guernsey Curran
The engagement of Miss Marie Burr Harmon daughter of Frank D Harmon to Guernsey Curran son of James Ross Curran is announced. Mr and Mrs B Franklin Lieber and their daughter will not occupy their summer cottage at Atlantic Highlands New Jersey. They left today by the Celia for Loudoun to attend coronation ceremonies. Mrs John R Drexel has returned to her house at 450 Fifth Avenue from Philadelphia and will go to Newport for the summer. Commodore and Mrs Elbridge T Gerry and the Misses Gerry will return from Europe on July 12 and then proceed to their Newport cottage. Mrs Nicholson widow of Admiral Nicholson moved into her new house at 157 West Seventy ninth Street. Nicholas de Nouville and Miss de Nouville have taken a large cottage at Arverne for the summer.
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Joseph Ellis Janney
Eva Irwin
Harry Wells Ruth
North Twenty-fourth Street
Haverford Avenue
West Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
New York
Marie Burr Harmon
Frank D. Harmon
Guernsey Curran
James Ross Curran
B. Franklin Lieber
Atlantic Highlands
N. J
Loudoun
John R. Drexel
Fifth Avenue
Philadelphia
Newport
Commodore
Elbridge T. Gerry
Gerry
Europe
Swarthmore Endowment Drive Seeks $600000 Gift
Swarthmore College endowment committee pushes to raise funds to 600000 so Professor Joseph Swain will accept the presidency. Robert M Janney leads solicitations in New York with a week left before Swain’s decision. about 350000 has been raised though pledges began with Isaac Clothier giving 100000.
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Swarthmore College Board of Managers
Joseph Swain
Robert M. Janney
New York
Swain
Isaac Clothier
Thesterday
Miss Clara Piser Weds Paul Eugene Ludes in St John the Evangelist
The wedding took place yesterday morning at St John the Evangelist Church Thirteenth and Chestnut streets with John Piser of Warwick Md giving the bride away. Best man Joseph Lucies and ushers Paul Connolly Paul Lucien McConomy John Delaney and William Lucien attended. Rev F B Gooding officiated with Fathers Clarke and Fisher. After breakfast the couple went to Washington and plan to reside at 222 South Eleventh Street after September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara B. Piser
Paul Eugene Ludes
F. B. Gooding
Fordham
N. Y
Andrew W. Clarke
Nevin F. Fisher
Mrs. Ludes
Washington
South Eleventh Street
Slot machine owner jailed for showing nude pictures
Judge Sulzberger in Quarter Sessions Court No 2 sentenced Frank Williams to four months imprisonment. Williams the proprietor of a store at 218 North Eighth Street exhibited slot machine pictures showing women in various states of undress. The article notes children were allowed near the machines at the premises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sulzberger
Frank Williams
Williams
North Eighth Street
Woman's Absolute Duty Declared by Lady Colin Campbell
A fragment quotes Lady Colin Campbell asserting that beauty is a woman’s birthright and she should cultivate it to its fullest development as an absolute duty to herself. The garbled text ends with incomplete phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colin Campbell
Morality and citizenship urged by Roosevelt letter
A letter to the Chief Marshal of the Sunday School Union's Brooklyn anniversary parade extols decency, willingness, and charity as the foundation of good citizenship. It warns against corruption and urges voters to uphold these virtues to keep the nation advancing among the nations of mankind. The piece closes praising Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday School Union
Brooklyn
Republic
Theodore Roosevelt
Caesar
God
Mitchell
Textile Alumni Meet Elects Officers and Debates Shoddy Bill
The Philadelphia Textile School Alumni Association held its annual meeting at Broad and Pine. Bradley C. Algeo elected president with H. J. Maynard first vp and A. Y. Davison second vp. Honorary members include Hutchinson Paine Lord Tompkins. A five member committee was appointed to oppose the Grosvenor shoddy bill. Addresses covered Industrial Education and Electricity in textiles. Seven papers read. Afternoon coach tour of the park followed by a banquet at the Hotel Walton.
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Philadelphia Textile School Alumni Association
Broad and
Pine Streets
Bradley C. Algeo
H. J. Maynard
A. Y. Davison
Poneeee C. Seareh
H. H. Bosworth
William Steele
Charles Bond
Samuel Butterworth
Herbert Arnstrong
William Stafford
William (. Robb
Charles H. Hutchinson
Worcester
Mass
Sidney P. Paine
Boston
Samuel Thompson, Jr
Philadelphia
Henry G. Lord
D. A. Tompkins
Charlotte
N. C
Grosvenor
Congress
Charles H. Hutchins
Sidney B. Paine
Walton
Smallpox Scare Closes City Hall Stairway
Roger Hayes, 2222 Bolton street, entered City Hall seeking city doctors and claimed to have smallpox. Clerks fled to a corridor as Dr. J Howard Taylor ordered fumigation and hospital ambulance, treating the case as mild. The sixth floor elevator and stairwell were fumigated and shut for the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Hayes
Bolton Street
J. Howard Taylor
Board of Health
City Hall
Municipal Hospital
Taylor
Hayes
Students Exhibit Pictures at Ardmore Public School
An Ardmore exhibit in the gym of the new 70,000school building features 255 photographic reproductions and photogravures from architecture sculpture and paintings in great galleries. School children provide musical entertainments and proceeds fund new pictures for the school.
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Ardmore
Obituary of Rev Henry Latham Master of Tripley Hall Cambridge
The Rev Henry Latham MA died. Born at Dover in 1821 he was educated at Trey College Cambridge and became deacon in 1848. He served in various clerical roles and authored works including Pastor soblemeth Master and A Service of An. Latham also rowed for his college crew and later pursued travel as a recreation. Emmett Goff identified as professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin.
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Henry Latham
Dover
Trey College
Cambridge
Soblemeth
An- Latham
Mani Otar Caraman
Household Fruits And Vegetables Plentiful In Local Markets
Local markets offer plentiful strawberries at 15 cents a quart with occasional drops to 7 to 8 cents. Florida peaches and California cherries fill shelves. cantaloupes and watermelons from Florida appear at 3 or 4 for 25 cents and 45 to 50 cents each. Fresh vegetables mostly cheaper, with tomatoes from Mississippi at 18 cents a small box and 35 cents a basket, and peppers, beans, cabbage, squash, and cucumbers priced modestly. Meat, poultry, and shad remain high, with spring chickens up to 50 cents a pound and butter at 30 to 32 cents per pound. Prices may shift after next week as Delaware supply wanes.
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Florida
California
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Philadelphia
Jersey
Delaware
Fancy Gelatine Desserts From Philadelphia Times
Parker Quincy Adams presents ornate fruit jelly puddings like water melon pudding with layered molds, chocolate seeds, green spinach coloring, and whipped cream borders. Includes Victoria jelly with cherries and lemon jelly molds, and a tutti frutti jetly layered with fruit and coconut.
CARE OF THE BABY ADVICE FOR INFANTS IN HOT WEATHER
Colonel J. Lewis Good announces pamphlets with special rules for infant care in heat. The guidance from the Obstretrical Society of Philadelphia covers bathing, clothing, sleep, feeding, and emergency steps, advising lukewarm baths, light clothing, regular hours, fresh air, and physician guidance for medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Lewis Good
Board of Health
The
Health Bureau
Watermelon arrival at Chestnut Street shop
A large Florida watermelon weighs about forty two pounds and is priced at one dollar in a fashionable Chestnut Street display. The piece notes the novelty of the fruit season and mentions a fashionably tinted melon price of two cents per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Whitcomb
Riley
Atermelon
Florida
Chestnut Street
Cleaning and care tips for kitchenware from old text
Advice on selecting sturdy granite and tin ware Kerosene brightening for tin kettles odor in stored teapots sugar as odor absorber brass kettle cleaning with salt and vinegar everyday utensil care hot suds and vigorous rubbing for long lasting results
The Men of Comfort by The Rev. Miller D D
An excerpted meditation reflecting that pain sharpens character and reveals beauty. It cites Goethe on affliction turning into poetry and notes that life’s lessons arise from suffering. The piece urges maintaining a sweet heart and steady ministry amid hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goethe
Miller
D. D
Diamonds and Combat of Crystals Said by Naples Professor
Professor Von Schroen of the University of Naples describes photographs of diamond life events. He says two crystals from different mothers collide in a fatal struggle for survival, while crystals from the same mother never fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von Schroen
University of Naples
Mushrooms a la Noblesse and Chocolate with Egg Gelatine Dish
A curious, recipe heavy fragment describes making chocolate with coffee, extracting stock from chicken bones for a sauce, and a mushroom dish. It mixes culinary tips with quirky lines about sifting, beating eggs, and serving over toast.
Rich Young Man Imprisoned for Infidelity Guilty
Charles H. Beecher son of a Detroit millionaire was found guilty of marital infidelity and sentenced to nine months in the County Prison from December 4. Desertion proceedings had claimed he was drugged into a marriage in New York, a claim Beecher said was false, while his wife alleged ongoing separation and a separate relationship on Thirteenth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Beecher
Detroit
Carrie Dearborn Beecher
Young Beecher
New York
Beecher
License Transfers Granted by Court Session
Judges Audenried and Ralston granted seven retail transfers and one wholesale transfer in Quarter Sessions Court No. 3. Retail moves include Dempsey to Shugers on Tenth Street, Linn to Peck on North Eleventh, Apsey to Kozkowski at Richmond and Venango, Labouche to Patrick on South streets, Orr to Donahue on North Fifth, Seger to Collins at Point Breeze, and Groome receiving the wholesale transfer from Pancoast to Groome.
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Audenried and Ralston
Sth Ward
Joseph F. Dempsey
Tenth Street
Louis F. Shugers
William Linn
North Eleventh Street
Tmpas Peck
Joseph Apsey
Richmond
Venango Streets
Insoles
Kozkowski
Ewile Labouche
Corabe
South Streets
Patrick
John D. Orr
North Fifth Street
James A. Donahue
Charles, Seger
Point Breeze Avenue
John Collins
Siir
W. Howard Pancoast
South Third Street
John C. Groome
Philadelphia Orchestra to Continue Concert Series Next Winter
The Philadelphia Orchestra announces the Saturday evening concerts at the Academy of Music will repeat next winter with Friday afternoon rehearsals as before. The organization will operate under a perpetual charter after a recent annual meeting. Officers elected include Alexander Van Rensselaer as president and Thomas McKean as vice president, with John H. Ingham secretary and Henry Whelen Jr. treasurer.
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Philadelphia Orchestra
Academy of Music
Alexander van Rensselaer
Thomas McKean
John H. Ingham
Henry Whelen, Jr
Oliver B. Judson
Edward S. Keffer
Edward G. McCollin
A. J. Cassatt
John H. Converse
George H. Burnham, Jr
Eckley B. Coxe, Jr
William L. Elkins
Mary K. Gibson
Clement A. Griscom
A. C. Harrison
C. Hartman Kuhn
Clement B. Newbold
James W. Paul, Jr
F. H. Rosengarten
Richard Rossmassler
Edr Scott
Simon A. Stern
Anne Omson
P. A. B. Widener
Local Theatre Listings on Girard and Chestnut Hill
Readable entries show showtimes for venues including Kinney's Bood Willow Grove and Woodside Park with 8 00 PM 8 20 PM in the early evening. Listings reference venues on Girard Avenue and Chestnut Hill area with multiple 8 PM showings and prices.
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Girard Avenue
Shaye
Sages
le Swainsia Ie
Keith's Theatre
Wrader
Sare
Rtdacek
Aad Vagansa
Chestnut Hill
Higginson Transfers Flag at Navy Yard
Boston reports Rear Admiral Higginson today transferred his flag from the Olympia to a new ship at the navy yard prem
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Higginson
Boston
Navy Yard
Prem
Sosa
City Pays Largest Award In Philadelphia History
The city approved a $158 038.02 draft to estate lawyers for George B. Roberts heirs in a condemnation case. The Belmont and City Line Avenue site, part of Penn grant lands, was taken in 1900 after a jury valued the 2714 acres at 5600 per acre, higher than the city’s $4000 per acre appraisal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Rnuseell Duane
Algernon B. Roberts
Roland S. Morris
George B. Roberts
Pennsylvania Railroad
Haddock
Roberts
Belmont
City Line Avenues
William Penn
Collision Injures Two Men Near Reading Railway Yard
A freight train backing near Wayne Junction collided with a man unloading fruit on a siding. Patrick Gallagher, 27, of 1545 Mervine Street, suffered a broken leg and Barney O’Neill, 29, of 1710 Wingohocking Street, internal injuries. Both were taken to the Jewish Hospital.
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Wayne Junction Station
Reading
Patrick Gallagher
Mervine Street
Barney O'Neill
Wingohocking Street
Gallagher
O'Neill
Jewish Hospital
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University of Wisconsin
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