Mrs P H Owens Builds Noted Pennsylvania Beauty Parlor
Five years after starting at 900 South Eighteenth Street Philadelphia Mrs Owens expands to one of the state's largest beauty parlors. The three story building offers hair goods tonics and toilet articles with Ethiopian scalp food and a training school. A Philadelphia and Atlantic City presence with 20 agents is noted.
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P. H. Owens
South Eighteenth Street
Philadelphia
State
Pennsylvania
South Eighttenth Street
Christian
Owens
North
Kentucky Avenue
Hair Shop at 1717 South Street under Beatrice Smith
One of the citys oldest hair establishments, the Hair Shop at 1717 South Street, has passed from Miss Beatrice Smith as manager to ownership. She runs a large stock of hair and face preparations and makes hair goods at reasonable rates, noting her status as a young businesswoman.
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South Street
Beatrice Smith
The Unique Millinery Shop—Mrs Wing’s City Store
The Unique Millinery Shop at 1629 South Street, run by Mrs Wing, a local entrepreneur who started on November 4, 1911, now employs three workers. She learned her craft at Mrs Fanny Lewis French Shop and has built a notable, refined line of goods attracting praise for progress and industry.
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South Street
Delphin
United States
Ing
Wing
Fanny Lewis
South Thirteenth Street
Baltimore House hotel noted for homey meals and privacy
Mrs. L. J. Waters operates the Baltimore House at 1438 Lombard Street famed for home like meals and comfortable sleeping rooms. Opened twelve years ago on Lou Sixteenth Street the house moved to its present site due to Durham School construction.
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L. J. Waters
Baltimore House
Lombard Street
Lou
Sixteenth Street
Durham School
Beauty Ideal School: Mrs M B Jones Opens Hair Goods Shop
Five years after launching the Beauty Ideal School Mrs M B Jones remains active as owner and instructor. She manufactures diverse hair goods tonics and face products and maintains a large stock for sale serving local public needs.
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M. B. Jones
Beauty Ideal
Cites
Twenty-Two Years on Pine Street A Remarkable Woman
Selena Hall Vodery, a Philadelphia native and I. C. Y. School graduate, built a 22 year career on Pine Street as a trusted businesswoman after widowhood. She ran an employment office and later a combined business residential building, prioritizing her son William H. Vodery Jr. Willie, a noted music writer and composer, gained early acclaim with K Harris in Chicago.
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Selena Hall Vodery
Philadelphia
Fannie Jackson
Coppin
North Carolina
William H. Wodery
Baltimore
William
H. Wodery, Jr
Pine Street
Pine
Vodery
K. Harris
Chicago
Our Only Woman Druggist And Her Modern Well Stocked Store
A profile of C. Dillard Dean the city’s only colored woman druggist owning a store in Philadelphia. After training she bought the 10th and Christian streets drug store in 1911 restored it, expanded stock, and aims to install a 12 foot soda fountain.
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C. Dillard
10Th
Chris
Dean
Philadelphia
Sittedoth
Christian Streets
Successful Physician Grace A DuiGuid Joins Douglass Hospital
Dr Grace A DuiGuid arrived in Philadelphia in June 1907 as chief Resident Physician at Douglass Hospital for a year and remained active. From Ohio she became the hospital’s first woman resident and now serves on the attending staff as pathologist and assistant gynecologist with a large practice serving white and colored patients. She married Thomas J Simmons February 7, 1912, and they live at 6218 16th Street where her office is housed after a recent remodel. She concentrates on women and children’s diseases and is recognized as a leading physician.
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Grace A. DuiGuid
Philadelphia
Douglass Hospital
DuiGuid
Ohio
Douglass
DuiGiaid
Thomas J. S.imbrough
Pennsylvania Cold Storage Company
Market Streets
16Th Street
Mrs Henrietta Goodman Named Music Teacher
The musical studio of Mrs Henrietta Goodwin sits at 1354 South Markee Street. For over ten years she has built a successful career teaching instrumental music.
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Henrietta N. Goodman
Henrietta Goodwin
South Markee Street
Estella Goodwin Dressmaking Firm in West Philadelphia
Mrs Estella Goodwin Ashton at 1554 South Market street operates a dressmaking business started five years ago. She is described as a practical designer and dressmaker with stylish customers in the area.
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West Philadelphia
Estella Goodwin Ashton
South Market Street
Selena B Jones stenographer listed in archive note
A fragmented entry references Selena B Jones as a stenographer with unclear context. The readable portions indicate her role and a South Markoe area association, but crucial details and full action are missing.
Mrs W J Moore Supplies Eclectic Help to Aristocratic Families
Mrs W J Moore operates from 4086 Locust Street delivering selective household services to a clientele described as aristocratic. The notice highlights her eight years in business and emphasis on eclectic assistance.
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W. J. Moore
Locust Street
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Atlantic City
City
N. J
Mrs. Owens
the Hair Shop
Miss Beatrie Smith
Mrs
Frances Allen Wing
THE
M. S. Jones
Beauty Ideal School
M. &. Jones
C. Dillard Dean’s Drug Store
Grace A. Dui Guid-Kimbrough
Estella Goodwin
Selena B. Jones
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