Gridiron Club Holds Second Annual Dinner Event
The Gridiron Club celebrated its second annual dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Craig at Crail home with generous servings, tributes to founder S. B. Dewey, and election of J. B. Crail as president. Members shared speeches, songs, and applause in a lively social gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B Crall
Gridiron Club
S. B. Dewey
Dewey
Craig
Cherry McElhinney
Cyail
Joe McElhinney
Cherry
A. N. Alberson
8. H. White
Mr. Dewey
Mr. Crail
Crail
Rodney Crail
Leavenworth
Kansas
Herman Stanley
Piantet
Social calendar items and home projects fill January listings
A crowded social calendar lists hostess duties for Harmony club, Fortnightly club, and Women's Missionary societies in January. Includes pie supper at Moose hall, unit meetings at parsonage, and plans for a newly organized Detroit women police unit led by Miss Virginia Mae Murray alongside Travelers Aid work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verne Jackson
Tie Harmony Club
A. Speer
Fortoichtly Club
Charles Jackson
New Haven Baptist Congregation
John Stewart
HIM Missionary Society
Miss Tucker
Moose Hall
Women's Foreign Missionary Society of
Alamsworth
Order of the Eastern Star
Queen Esther
Methodist Church
Ainsworth Order of Eastern Star
Mary Ryestone
South
Marion
The
Baptist Women's Missionary Society
George Duke
Isabella
K. (. Hall
F. L. Widson
George Morrison
Virginia Mae Murray
Travelers’ Aid Society
New York City
Detroit
New York
Miss Murray
James W. Inches
Citizens’ Committee of
Women's Protective Committee
Girl’ Protective League
Tarehes
Travelers’ Aid
Washington
Mina van Winkle
Major Pullman
Altho
Women Leaders Highlight Progress in Philadelphia and England
Statistics show women as the most careful drivers in Philadelphia. Viscountess Harcourt, daughter of William Burns of New York, becomes the first American-born peeress named a justice of the peace in England. English women in trade unions gain notice as magstrates, with sixty labor women and justices named. The First Women's Building and Loan Association of Pennsylvania begins in Philadelphia as a pioneering women’s financial group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Police Department
Viscountess
Harcourt
William Burns
New York
England
Women's Building and Loan Association
Philadelphia
Women's Building and Loan Association of Pennsylvania
Greeting from Mrs Winter to 2,000,000 club women
Mrs Thomas G Winter, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, sends a New Year greeting to 2,000,000 members. She urges closer unity to form a stronger national body, asks for state updates, and calls attention to two near topics: the plight of Christian women abroad and the need to align education with moral purpose to strengthen democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas G. Winter
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Near Eart
Notable firsts and feats mark women breaking barriers worldwide
The article chronicles women achieving milestones from legal practice in China and chartered accounting to dental hygiene education in New York. It notes Mrs McCauley becoming the first woman admitted to practice law in the Far East while in Chinese waters, and Mrs Hanis Smith being named the world’s first woman chartered accountant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCauley
Cleveland McCauley
United States Navy
China
Far East
Hanis Smith
The
Institute of Chartered Accounts
Grace B. Lampshire
Bruns
Ore
Death of the melody bird under a death white moon
A poem painting autumn sounds and the death of a lone songbird. The woods hush as crows fly by and leaves fall while owls hoot and a bitter wind cuts the night. The dead bird lies beneath a pale moon as the forest keeps its chorus.
Women to Speak on Conservation at Ames Convention
Town Conservation association selects club women to present at the Ames convention January 7 and 8. Mrs. Francis E. Whitley of Webster City will address Friday evening on Women and Conservation. Saturday speakers include Mrs. Henry J. Taylor of Sioux City and Mrs. Fred J. Lazell of Cedar Rapids with topics on parks and birds around the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town Conservation Association
Ames
Agriculture Hall
Francis E. Whitley
Webster City
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Henry J. Taylor
Sioux City
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs
Fred J. Lazell
Cedar Rapids
Conservation Committee
The
Iowa Federation
Carroll T. Sawyer
Oskaloosa
Colonial Nut Bread From Mrs C W Stewart
A simple bread recipe details 4 cups flour 2 cups liquid 1 cup English walnuts 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar. Stir add nuts last, let raise 15 to 20 minutes in a warm place, bake one hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. J. Harmeier
C. W. Stewart
Baking Powder Biscuit Recipe Measures
A biscuit recipe lists 1 quart flour 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder 3 tablespoons salt 3 tablespoons lard and 1 pint milk, outlining the dry and wet components for dough preparation.
Women propel new firms and political gains report
One third of Idaho voters are women as Michigan voters elect women to a seat in the state senate two sheriffs and seven county offices. Twelve women engineers in England form a women staffed firm due to lack of suitable employment. American novitiates in Rome can study languages in a house bought by American branches of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vi ‘Eter
Idaho
England
Sisters of the Sacred Heart
Rome
State Senate
Michigan
First Woman Appointed to U.S. Foreign Trade Service
Mrs. A. Viola Smith has been named secretary to Julian Arnold American commercial attache in Beijing and is reportedly the first woman to hold a position in the United States foreign trade service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Viola Smith
Julian Arnold
Peking
Foreign Trade Service
United States
Bunker Hill Monument’s Dimensions and Granite Mass
The Bunker Hill Monument stands 221 feet 2 inches tall and 90 feet wide at the base with a 15 feet 4 inches square apex. It required eight thousand seven hundred tons of granite in its construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunker Hill Monument
Rivalry Talk At The Cotton Mill Showroom
A mill proprietor boasts fabrics as a visitor critiques patterns. The guest claims his works are superior and hotter than the rival's, sparking a sharp exchange about whose products burn brighter like gunpowder.
Paper Devoted to Rheumatism Periodical
A monthly paper dedicated entirely to rheumatic sufferers, described as one of the oddest periodicals in the world.
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Washington County
Second United Presbyterian
John DeVinney
Leslie Mountford
West Washington Street
Evening Journal
Tre
Baptist Church
Sherm Brindley
F. P
Keach
Itv
W. J. Hamilton
Thousand Island
Dade B. Shearer
Office of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Ni He
National Federation
Gertrude Lady Decies
Baroness Decies
Vivian Gould
Lady Decies
Rochester Dental Dispensary School
School For Dental Hygienists
Kathryn Welter
Williamstown
Vivian Hindley
Rutland, Vermont
Herald
Morris Plan Company
Birmingham
Ala
Rhondda
Cambria Colliery Combine
Rosalie Blaidsell
Tlenolulu
U. S. Health Service
Kalihi
Flight
Benteco
ASH
BOC
Swift
del Monte
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