Sunshine Society Holds Fourteenth Annual Convention
Rochester May 16 Officials council members and delegates from nearly every state gather at the Powers hotel as the International Sunshine Society opens its fourteenth annual convention. Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden presents the welcome and reports. state leaders address sessions. The group, founded 1896, funds sick relief, sanitariums, rest homes, and wartime relief, with a membership fee aimed to spread sunshine.
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Sunshine Scatterers
United States
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Women Leaders in Clubs and Businesses Across the Nation
The article profiles several prominent women: Mrs. Charles H. Havener who owns a Milwaukee baseball club with her husband’s estate, serves as president and treasurer, and is a leading lawyer and club member. Mrs. T. J. Bowker who heads Boston’s Woman's Municipal League and advocates a new sanitary market near Copley Square. Miss Margaret Smith of Skowhegan as the sole woman member of New England Retail Coal Dealers Association who runs the family business. San Francisco clubwomen planning a city beautification with golden poppies ahead of the world’s fair. and Miss Elizabeth Harrison of Chicago promoting three National Kindergarten centers with sites in New York Chicago San Antonio and other cities to support early childhood education.
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Margaret Smith
Skowhegan
New England Retail Coal Dealers Association
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Portland
Elizabeth Harrison
Chicago
New York
Sale of Household Goods on the Square May 18
An entire household furnishings sale is set for Saturday May 18 at 2 P M on the square. Featured items include a Kingsbury piano dining set coats of furniture and more with extensive odds and ends listed. Auctioneer D F Macon will conduct the sale.
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Oyster men push for law improvements at national convention
The National Association of Shellfish Commissioners opened a three day meeting in Boston with delegates from fourteen states. They discuss improving oyster laws to ensure healthy delicious bivalves and plan sessions in Providence and Hartford. The industry reports a strong season and oysters now rank with all aquatic products in value.
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Bill Flinn: From Newsboy to Pennsylvania Political Boss
The article profiles Bill Flinn, a key Pennsylvania political boss. Born in England to Irish parents, he rose from selling papers and bootblacking to contracting and ward leadership, then state politics. He became a long-time Republican leader, a delegate to national conventions, with a career marked by repeated defeats and persistent ascent.
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