Old Fashioned Steps Return in Keystone State Dance Revival
A Washington Post Puyadelpha article notes a push to ban the tango and restore simple dances such as the waltz and minuet in Pennsylvania social circles. Dancers like Tayloe and Perot advocate plain form, criticizing fancy steps as excessive.
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Motet Concert Delights Memorial Hall Audience
A Christmas themed motet concert directed by Mr Oscar Torney Simon at Memorial Hall featured choral pieces and solos. Highlights include rare madrigals, the Abend Lied, Bach Gounod Ave Maria, and Cornelius Three Kings with John Meaters in a barytone lead, underpinned by fine cello by Richard Larleberg and supportive piano and orchestral contributions.
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Campaign discussion features eastern state reps and committee plans
Mrs Artommette Funk spoke on nationwide campaign strategy referencing the national campaign committee and New York coordination. Lisette Medict Metormick appointed to represent women’s welfare and delegation to the Senate Congress, with states New York New Jersey Pennsylvania and Massachusetts named among participants.
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Na Inal Sa
New York
Borr Ot Bitman
Look to Needs at Home Says Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish urges focusing charity first on domestic distress as winter nears while war relief abroad continues. She notes unemployment and overcrowded lodging in New York after the last storm and advocates hosting smaller gatherings, manufacturing knitted goods, and limiting lavish entertainments to fund aid at home before overseas relief.
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Europe
WIVES CLAIM HIM TOOK THEIR MONEY AND VANISHED
Special to The Washington Post from New York reports Karl von Wagner sought by Hoboken police for matrimonial swindling after allegedly marrying and robbing four women. His partner Arthur Klee faces $3,000 bail on conspiracy charges. Recorder McGovern denounces federal officials for ignoring the case.
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Suffragist Miss Martin Meets President in Washington
Miss Anne Martin, president of the Nevada Equal Suffrage Association, met President Wilson at noon to seek support for federal suffrage. She explained Nevada’s gains and urged a national amendment, noting referendum campaigns hinder progress and comparing American women’s rights to Filipino policy. Miss Martin stays with Mrs. Harold Walker at 1741 K Street.
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America
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Martin
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Woman Convicted for Forcing Niece to Beg Alms
Special to The Washington Fast Newark December 10 Ars Malamo Demetriades wife of Demetrus Demetriades a patent lawyer and former U S Deputy Consul General at Constantinople was found guilty in special sessions of sending her two year old niece Ferromea Alexandler to beg. The child brought from Constantinople appeared at a door with a note claiming her mother was very sick and that they were poor. O Hara testified he gave money and the defendant later received it while in the street she wore costly furs and was dressed fashionably. The husband claimed a mistake. December 11 London Gazette reports Field Marshal Kitchener appointed colonel of the Irish Guards. The President plans a White House holiday reunion and possible new White House gift amid mourning and possible remarriage of Mrs Sayre.
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New Passport Rules Issued by Justice Department
John R Young, clerk of the District Supreme Court, received from the Department of State rules governing passport grants to citizens during wartime. Applications require court clerk submission, oath of loyalty, and fees totaling about six dollars plus one dollar for passport issuance. Passports, endorsed by port consuls, are valid two years. Young has issued passports for travel to Palestine and Wales.
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Mistress and maid celebrate thirty five years together
Mrs Ben Gretretcher and her maid Mary Collins celebrate thirty five years of service in the Ges treitrcher family. The article details their mutual welfare rules, the mistress's caretaking, and the deep bond formed over decades of work, with Mary remaining devoted despite aging. It highlights the mistress’s praise for Mary and the household harmony built over 35 years.
Society Plans a Wild Cat Hunt Around White Sulphur Springs
Special to the Washington Post White Sulphur Springs delegates include Mr and Mrs Joseph Medill McCormick who will ride next week at a wildcat hunt the first of the present season. Notable guests Baron and Baroness Dnagell arrived from Washington and spent the afternoon driving alongside Prince Francesco R. Walter Watson and family are among those arriving from New York and will stay after the holiday.
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Dd Nagell
Washington
Men Who Drink Die Earlier, New York Study Claims
A New York lecture reports a life insurance study by Arthur Hunter showing alcohol use shortens life. Data cover about 1,000,000 lives over 25 years with higher mortality among saloonkeepers and liquor workers. Occasional drinkers show over 50 percent excess deaths, equating to more than four years of reduced life. Daily drinkers without excess also show elevated mortality.
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Association of Life Insurances
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Arthur Hunter
Central Bureau of the
H Hunter
United States
Canada
Bacond
Mortality Rates High Among Alcohol Users in Insurance Study
A 2,000,000 life insurance data set shows high death rates among those linked to alcohol. Saloon proprietors face 70 percent higher mortality, and saloonkeepers live six years shorter. Heavy drinkers exceed average mortality by about 50 percent, while abolishing alcohol could save about 500,400 men over ten years in Russia.
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Abstinence Could Save Russian Lives Says Study
A report notes former heavy drinkers who reform for two years show 3 percent higher mortality and three years longer life loss from relapses. It argues Russia’s abolition of alcohol could save many lives, suggesting 50,000 wartime deaths could be offset within a decade by universal abstinence.
NONE OF $500,000 FOR WIDOW
Estate of Jacob Schwenn valued at $500000, letters of administration issued to his widow Mary Schwenn after she said no will existed. Will from October 11, 1873 left entire estate to first wife Caroline, now deceased, with equal division among four children if she died. Widow four years younger than Schwenn. romance with a stenographer on a farm near Schwenn's country place noted.
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Washington Post
St Louis
Jacob Schwenn
Mary Schwenn
Clayton
Schwenn
Caroline
Childre
Schwennga
Girls in the Shops Face Hard Times and Pride
The excerpt contrasts the limited earnings of girls who work in shops with the costs of living, noting housemaids receive room and board plus about five to six dollars a week. It argues pride is the root of their troubles as they juggle duties and social expectations.
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U S Collector in New Orleans Aids Cupid Couples
The U S Collector at New Orleans rules that no stamp tax will be imposed on marriages. Ten couples sought to wed in Orleans Parish but refused to return their stamps, which were retained as wedding funds.
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