Adventurers' Club Forms in New York for Fellowship and Adventure
A new club, the Adventurers' Club, formed in New York over dinner, invites men with real adventure to join. It hosts monthly informal dinners with no officers or obligations and organizes tables by experience such as Boer War, big game, Balkan, and South Seas, letting members mingle across eras.
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New York
Adventurers’ Club
Robert Foran
Waziri
India
Souk
Kisii
Nandi
Talbot Mundy
Basil Grant
Fritz Duquesne
Joubert
Britain
Stephen Allen Reynolds
Babies of the Poor
Fabian Society investigators warn that London's poor bear healthy babies who suffer from poverty's lack of warmth air light medical care and food. They urge national care measures including baby clinics baths and free washhouses to protect future health and productivity.
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Fabian Society
London
Pansy Motif Embroidery for Tea Apron Ornament
Instructions describe a pansy motif suitable for a tea apron, advising to embroider first then make the apron. It covers materials such as handkerchief linen or cotton O N T thread, floss choices, satin or crochet-like stitches, French knots, Battenberg net, color options, and a transfer method using soapy water, soap, and blotting paper.
Defect in School Children Highlights Health Warning
A pamphlet by Dr. Thomas D. Wood warns that 75 percent of the nation’s twenty million public school children need attention for physical defects. The piece cites tuberculosis risk, spine curvature, hearing loss, malnutrition, enlarged tonsils, and defective teeth as major issues impacting health and learning.
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America
Thomas D. Wood
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
New York
Wood
United States Bureau of Education
Bureau
Washington
Parisian hats and new toque fashions in fur and velvet
The Millinery Trade Review notes hats with flexible crowns and various trims in fur and velvet, including full crowns pulled back or tucked, toques with extravagant aigrettes, and caps with blocks. Some styles return to earlier trims while new toque forms appear, with limited adoption for now. Quartz street lamps shine in Chicago and Argentina opens a meteorological station in Cordoba at four thousand feet.
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Millinery Trade Review
Kreitschwantz
Colonel Aigrette
Midwinter cold remedies from an old home guide
A domestic advisory piece explains midwinter cold causes and self care. It urges identifying triggers from warm rooms to drafts, then promoting walks, gentle fasting avoidance, light meals, long sleep, and air. It cites figs apricots chickweed tea pineapple raw egg lemon juice and fruit to ease hoarseness and fevered symptoms.
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Turkey
Love Smiles On Lock Smith
Stamford Connecticut The romance began when Miss Mary E Conroy slipped a card into a box of Yale and Towne locks at the plant in Stamford Letters and photographs followed and Cl Brown a Dallas builder married Miss Conroy at St Johns Catholic Church Rev James C OBrien officiated The couple then planned a Texas life with Brown 20 and twice married Conroy 23 The prompt continues with unrelated Italy bequest and vegetarian diet notes for Morigan heirs
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Stamford
Conn
Mary E. Conroy
Cl Brown
Dallas
Recto St. John’s Catholic Church
James C. O’brien
Conroy
Yale & Towne Plant
Sir
Morris Co
Hawthorne Street
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Ecan
World Color Printing Co
St. Louis, Mo
Elbert Hubbard
Chicago
San Esteban
Province
Cordoba
Cavalier
Ordin
Mme. Linn Cavalier
Love
Lock Smith
Leghorn
Italy
Modignan
Acro
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