What Women's Clubs Are Accomplishing
Ada Patterson notes women’s clubs and associations unite to advance public health forest conservation and civic betterment. Twenty thousand delegates visited New York for the General Federation of Women’s Clubs convention, sharing expenses with the Merchants' Association and city officials. The article highlights civic reform through organized womanhood and examples from Hull House to city leagues fueling municipal improvement.
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Womens Clubs
General Federation of Womens Clubs
New York
Metropolis
Merchants’ Association
Women’s Clubs
Women's Clubs
Association
Caroline Bartlet Crane
Kalamazoo
Hull House
Jane Addams
Chicago
Albion Fellows Bacon
Julia Tutwiler
Lyman Abbott
Alabama
Rudolph Blankenburg
Philadelphia
New Century Club
New Century Guild
Salesman Seeks Space to View Goods After Rebuff
After another slow day a weary salesman tried one more approach with a prospective buyer. The customer refused to look at the samples but the salesman asked to use part of the counter to view the line himself, citing lack of opportunity.
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Pittsburg
China to Manufacture Telegraph and Telephone Gear at Home
China sends government agent abroad to study telegraph and telephone equipment production. Aim is to enable domestic manufacture of all such apparatus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Riverside Park Mothers' Club Plans Next Year Work
Society notes report Riverside Park Mothers' Club officers meet at 4 p m with president Mrs C D Hogan at 222 McKinley Avenue to plan upcoming year's activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside Park
Mothers’ Club
C. D. Hogan
McKinley Avenue
Revelers Host Poolside Dinner At Travis Club
Mrs Victor Eckhart and children visit her parents Mr and Mrs J T Ives. Miss Grace McClannahan hosts an all day party for Miss Blanche McDonnough of Beaumont and Miss Agnes Cherry of Sherman with a yellow and white theme. The Revellers group includes Laura Maverick Graves Zora Samuels Agnes Cherry and others with a noon progressive luncheon. Lena Budd Powers will read The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill at the Lady of the Academy Wednesday at 7 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Eckhart
Yorktown
Mrs J. T. Ives
Lucille Buckman
Eagle Pass
Charlotte Blessi
Travis Club
Sterling Price Adams
Edward McClannahan
Atlee B
Ayres
E. J. Martin
Laura Maverick Graves
New York
Zora Samuels
Greenville
Agnes Cherry
Sherman
Blanche McDonnough
Beaumont
Grace McClannahan
Dorothy Mooney
Viands
Misses McDonnough
Cherry
Margaret Graham
Adelaide Campbell
Lena Budd Powers
Israel
Zangwill
The
Lady of the Academy
Miscellaneous shower honors Miss Genevieve McBride
Miss Ella Mac Nevill hosted a Tuesday afternoon shower for Genevieve McBride with yellow and white decorations. Bunco prizes went to Mildred Taylor Genevieve McBride and Mrs. Del Hall. Two courses were served to a group including McBride Harpole Gilland Holloman Jones Robbins Shiner Van Hoogen huyze Farmer Peyton Hughes Witherspoon Wheat Lewis Avery Bliss Mason Fly Singleton Woods Burke Nevill and others.
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Ella Mac Nevill
Genevieve McBride
Mildred Taylor
del Hall
Misses McBride
Artie Harpole
Nellie May Harpole
Ella Gilland
Asa Holloman
Leila Jones
Gladys Robbins
Phiilis Shiner
May
Myra van Hoogenhuyze
Katherine Farmer
Fred Marie Peyton
Ethel Hughes
Dor
Lucile Witherspoon
Virginia Wheat
Kate Lewis
Hazel Avery
Peggy Bliss
Francesca Mason
Mabel Fly
Edith
Kate Singleton
Nell Woods
Eleanor Burke
Catherine
Sallie Nevill
Misses Evans
Mesdames Durand
A. W. Neilson
Walter Lewright
C. J. Palmer
Howard Henson
Walter Frieke
Why It Is Winter When Earth Is Nearest Sun
Garrett P. Serviss explains that in winter the northern hemisphere tilts away from the sun while the earth’s elliptical orbit brings it nearer to the sun at perihelion. The southern hemisphere has the opposite cycle, with seasons tied to aphelion and perihelion and moderated by oceans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Garrett P. Serviss
Chicago
Aphelion
South Pole
North Pole
Antarctic
New York
Labrador
Stoves Around the World and Earthquake Safe Heating
A survey of global heating habits describes Japan using floor heat and portable stoves to cope with earthquakes, while Germany France Italy Holland and Spain rely on porcelain stoves charcoal or portable bucket fires. It notes Japan extinguishes lights during tremors and moves stoves easily.
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Japan
Holland
France
Italy
Spain
American plan anywhere in Euro
The text notes that people stay warmer in the country than elsewhere, describing warmth across the globe from temperate to frigid zones. It portrays a general observation about climate comfort in rural areas versus other places.
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Euro
Globe
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National Biscuit Company
Ada Patterson
Businss
Evansville
Ind
Hannah Kent Schoff
Frances A. Keller
Women's Municipal League
Bell Jewelry CO
West Commerce Street
West Commerce
Mu Nu Sigmas
Gunter
Herbert Dudley Edenborough
Warner
New Silk Jersey
Milan
Emil Blum DO
John
Hertzberg
Houston and St. Mary’s Sta
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