Social notes from Harmony club and local societies
Harmony club guests Mrs. Tom Harvey and Mrs. James Brooks heard Edgar Guest poems and attended a brief business meeting with refreshments. Pleasant Plains Missionary society met at Mrs. R. G. Cherry on East Washington with eighteen members and two guests and a noon cafeteria dinner. A double wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Beenblossom celebrated fifty years. ceremony held January fifth, 1876, with four of twenty guests witnessing.
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Harmony Club
Tom Harvey
Washington
Edgar Guest
James Brooks
Harvey
Mildred Patterson
Pleasant Plains Missionary Society
R. G. Cherry
Washington Street
A. A. Beenblossom
West Harrison Street
J. W. Loonely
Wilson
John Stewart
Isabelle Loonely
Mrs. Perry
Mr. Klein
Emma Klen
Keota
London Bridge
Maurine McLaughlin
Miss McLaughlin
Jeannette Karel
Booth Tarkington
Bertha Hay
Edith Boulean
Kolah Club
John Jackson
Frank Heinzman
Lauder Kennedy
Clarence Jackson
Community club and church notices from West Chester
A collage of meeting announcements lists ToS BK club Mrs Max Marble January 7 and many church groups including Pythian Sisters Temple 132 January 12 8 pm West Chester Baptist church West Chester M FE church women officers installation Ladies Aid bake sale January 9 at Hoover's store and other activities at 2:30 pm Friday January 8 and 12th committee leaders noted with various hostesses and locations across multiple organizations.
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Pythian Sisters
West Chester Temple
M. FE. C
C Off
West Chester M. FE
Lindenmeyer
Everette West
West Chester
Seven Million Pledged to Pay Church Debt
The Right Rev John Gardner Murray announces that over 7 million dollars have been donated or pledged to wipe out the Protestant Episcopal Church of America debt of 1.5 million. The fund was raised since the bishops conference in New Orleans last October when Murray was elected presiding bishop. Appeals for 1926 budget donations have met a magnificent response.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Protestant Episcopal Church of American
John Gardner Murray
General Conference of Bishops
New Orleans
Manchester David Wesley Barr Dies at 69
David Wesley Barr, 69, died of apoplexy Wednesday afternoon while attending a meet ing of Thorpe at reamery Association in Kw y oe nen ae.
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Manchester
David Wesley Barr
Thorpe
Reamery Association
Revival of English country dances and fashion shifts in Europe
London reports a nationwide revival of Morris and sword dances sparking a major folk festival at London University South Kensington. Women take up dancing for youth groups while critics flag fashion changes, tariffs, and a trend toward lighter wardrobes and less formal entertaining.
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London
Grand Hall
London University
South Kensington
English Folk Dance Society
England
Boy Scouts
Girl Guides
Duchess of York
France eyeing Basque Coast as future film hub
A 1920s article cites LE SOIR plans for a French motion picture center near Basque coast and Biarritz by 1927. It laments France losing ground to Germany, praises Basque suitability for shoots, and notes Charlie Chaplin owning property at Biarritz.
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France
Hollywood
Biarritz
LE Soir
Germany
Basque
Riviera
Nice
Paris
Basque Country
Made in America tag sparks shopper debate
An indignant critic questions who bears responsibility for a peculiar bargain. The feature contrasts a house that closed the deal with a small Parisian buyer who rushes to purchase a velvet item simply because it is labeled Made in America.
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America
Germany Leads in White Sports Growth Across Europe
Germany rises to third in popularity of White Sports as more than twenty national and ski tournaments are planned for January to March in regions including Lower Havanna Harz Breek Forest and Thuringia. Berlin hosts multiple indoor rinks while aviation tours promote Bavarian sightseeing.
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Berlin
Germany
Norway
Sweden
Lower
Havanna
Harz Mountains
Breek Forest
Thuringia
Neuner
Junker
Trans- Europa Union of
Munich
Zugspitze
Bavarian Alps
Frau Helene Lange Honored by German Democratic Party
Frau Helene Lange, 77, elected honorary chair man of the German Democratic party in recognition of 45 years campaigning for women suffrage. Lange, a veteran leader of the feminist movement, tied to DIF FRAU and the suffrage cause since the early eighties, lives in Berlin.
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Presieh Banner of Deputies
Gambetta
Arna
Herriot
Chamber
M. Herriot
Frau
Helene Lange
Democratic Party of Germany
Frau Lange
DIF
Frank Lange
Germany
Berlin
Blindfolded carp reveal scent sense in fish experiments
Dr. Von Frisch of the University of Munich reports experiments showing carp distinguish bitter sour and sweet smells. They reject odorless meat but eagerly eat sweetened meat, and even mishandle sweetened cotton while ignoring plain cotton.
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von Frisch
Geological Institute
University of Munich
Br. von Frisch
The German theatre crisis voiced by leading producers
Hoersen Courier gathers opinions from Leopold Jessner Ernst Toller and Klabund on postwar theatre. They cite diversified patrons lack of courage to stage mass appeal and a call for simpler riot rather than problem plays.
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Hoersen Courier
Leopold Jessner
Ernst Toller
Mountains pair obtains divorce and license in one day
Chattanooga-Evelyn Fariss of Mountains secured a divorce and a marriage license on the same day, reflecting a personal legal action and civil record.
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Chattanooga
Evelyn Fariss of Mountains
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Castile Hall
Fef
G Fox
Brother Bovee
Brother Carris
Pythian
Jessie Means
Lina Manassier
Dot Wells
Maude Schmoeller
Jessie Clark
Pose Matucha
Eva Davison
Mary Guy
Emma Johnston
Louise Pratt
Goldie Mayo
Louie Jones
Chat, Pauls
R. R. Breese
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John Pratt
R. Johnson
Francia McCoy
Alice Meek
Tos. BK. Club
Max Marble
Tou
10Th Century Club
W. M. Keeley
Ladies Aid
Nellie Dayton
Euble Pulver
Audrey Fleming
Notio
M. B
Mae
Woman's Missionary Society of the
2Nd
U. P. Church
J. B. Randle
James Gordon
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
W. W. Lowers
Pirs. Bowers
Harry Croge
Woman's Missionary Seciety of the Baptist Church
Presbyterian Choir
Ream
TMZ
C. DD
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Ladies Aid Society
1St Vv. P. Church
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Shalom
Methodist Sunday School
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Atkinson
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Cirencester
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Africa
Sir John
Lady Harrington
Khartum
White Nile
Sudan
Misa Amy MacMillan
Detroit
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Ethopia
Edward VII
New Light Airplane Club
Suffolk Galleries
Sophie Elliott Lynn
Phillip Sassoon
M. P
Pioneer Aero Club
War Department
Spura
French Academy of Sciences
Madame Curie
Albin Heller
Academy
Edouard Branly
Strasbourg
Theatre Municipal
Rendiga Thas Srasbourg
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Picardy
New York
Charlie Chaplin
Diarrits
Metropolitan Opera
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Hessen
Trevia
Cassel
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Rhineland
FE. M. Bridges & Co
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Mayence
Crefeld
Duesseldorf
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Herlin
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Klabund
Vouwne
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