Pageant Keeps Suffrage Cause Alive at Congressional Union Gala
More than 400 people witnessed a Susan B Anthony pageant at Convention Hall closing the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage convention. The show featured ten episodes of Miss Anthonys life with friezes, tableaux, and a torchlight procession, backed by 36 musicians and 60 choir members. Prominent patronesses and society girls modeled period costumes, highlighting the suffrage movement and the 14th amendment amid praise from Congress members and other attendees.
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Susan B. Anthony
Pianisr
Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
Miss Anthony
Convention Hal
Congress
Ecolera
Congressional Union
Isrue
Hazel MacKays
Washington
Percy MacKaye
the Post
Anthony
New York
Senate
Garfield
Frieses
Lafayettes
Belasco
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Morence Kays Hanson
Mra
Charlotte Stanley
Elizabeth Cady Stenton
Catherina R. McCormick
Lucretia Mott
James R. Daly
Wendell Phillips
Charles O. Shaw
Witliam Lloyd Garrison
Howard Treet
Daniel Anthony
Adalaide Townsend
Leonora de Grange
Hannah Anthony
Margarite Pearson
Mary Anthony
Margaret Hopkins Worrell
Amelia Bloomer
Prof
EH. C. Townsend
J. B. Peat
Hunt
Bennett Mead Ag
Frederick Monroe Kirby
Richard Henry Lee
Watson Ahlenfeld
Warmer Marsh
Harry Meyer
Mary Randolph Dickens
Georgia Schofield
Gen. Schofield
Harriet Peckham
Judge Peckham
Margaret Reeve
Set
Ruth Hapgood
Helen Burch
Anne Hopkins
Catherine Burdett
Lilian Hendricks
Mary Howry
Pocahontas Butler
Janet Cowan
Mary Lord Andrews
Candace Howard
Margaret Howerd
Eloise Orme
Randolph Keith Forrest
W. T. Burch
William S. Moore
Morven Thompson
Benton MacKaye
Natalie Willoughby Sons
Lucy W. Matcalf
District of Columbia
Union
Earl of Glasgow Dead in Scotland at Age 8
London dispatch reports David Boyle Glasgow seventh Earl of Glasgow died at his home in Puirlic Scotland. He was eight years old and had served in the Crimean and China wars.
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London
David Boyle Glasgow
Earl of Glasgow
Puilic
Scotland
U S Woman Dresses Like Man to Drive War Truck
Special to The Washington Post Chicago reports Mrs. Bartlett-Bader a young American singer living abroad before the war drives a three ton ambulance truck with the British army. She says more ambulances are needed and she seeks support from New York and Chicago friends to equip machines for the trenches. She recounts wartime experiences and acts of aid to soldiers.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Olster
Bartlett-Bader
British Army Ambulance Corps
America
New York
Brave American matron and physician praised for Pirot rescue
Lady Sybil Findlay reports Dr Richard Jett of Cleveland and Matron Anna Dull braved Bulgarian fire to stay with wounded in Pirot hospital during the Serbian city’s bombardment. They refused to leave as hospital buildings came under fire and arranged care until refugees were moved to Nish. Jett was honorarily made a Serbian captain for his bravery. Additionally, the obituary notes Mrs Eleanor Scott, Daughters of Veterans officer, dies at 418 Eleventh Street NW, born 1873 as Eleanor Burgess, married to Garnon R Scott May 18, 1909. Survived by her husband and infant.
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Forrest
Star
United Press
London
Richard Jett
Cleveland
Ohto
Anna Dull
Pirot
Sybil Findlay
Saloniki
Findlay
Serbia
Sy-bi
Jett
Dull
Not Ony
Nish
Theas
Sybil
Eleanor Scott
Daughters of Veterans
Eleventh Street
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
S 1Camp
Sons of Veterans
Misa Eleanor C. Burgess
Garnon R. Scott
Cushing Camp
Suffrage Convention Opens Amid Leadership Debate
Delegates arriving for the forty Seventh annual Nation American Woman Suffrage Association convention face a president selection dilemma after Dr Anna Howard Shaw declines. Possible successors include Carrie Chapman Catt Medill McCormick Frank M Roessing and Pattie Ruffner Jacobs as discussions of union affiliation and a bronze Susan B Anthony bas relief unfold. The meeting begins with reports and a Wilson reception planned for today.
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of the Nations
American Woman Suffrage Association
Anna Howard Shaw
Shaw
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Asociation For Woman Suffrage
Medill McCormick
Congressional
Frank M. Roessing
Pennsylvania State Association
Stanley McCormick
Desire Breckenridge
Kentucky
Pattie Ruffner Jacobs
Alabama
Winston Church
National
Congressional Union
National Association
Mra
James W. Morrison
Chicago
Middle West
Executive Council
Anthony
Women Active for Defense Rally Nationwide Support
Enthusiastic reports from Atlanta Seattle Nashville and other cities detail Navy League Women’s Section rallies urging Congress to back national defense. The 1 million member campaign grows with daily pledges and a striking poster showing a woman on troubled waters holding a lamp. Prominent new sections and members include Washington Clinton Fulton Hammonton Philadelphia Nashville Seattle Fauquier County and many notable spouses and leaders.
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Woman’s Section
Navy League
Congress
Atlanta
Seattle
Noshville
Bangor
Hammonton
N. J
National Defense
Thomas H. Hardwick
Adricus Jones
the Interior
E. E. Moffitt
Harbert Jackson
Evelyn Jackson
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
C. R. P. Rodgers
the Navy
Meyer
Edwin Gould
New York City
John O. Herndon
Champ Clark
Alexander Sharp
John D. Spreckels
Claud Spreckels
Nathan Sargent
Charles A. Munn
Katharine H. Wylie
Kate Maloney
Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Society of America
J. Heron Crosman
Patriotine Women of America
Philip N. Moore
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Congressional
Henry D. Flood
Henry T.ney
A. G. Hart
Ernest W. Roberts
Augustus J. Gardner
W. G. Brown
National Society of Colonial Dames of America
District of Columbia
A. C. Janin
National Society to See D A R Films at Memorial Hall
Mrs. William Cum ming Story invites D A R members and national notables to a Friday night performance of Battle Cry of Peace at Memorial Continental Hall. Speakers include Commodore Blackton and Dudley Field Malone. many top officials and lawmakers will attend. event supports national defense efforts. A Helping Hand Circle will organize at McLean Va with Rev A H Zimmermann delivering the address on Mistakes of the Modern Church.
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The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Ean
Memorial Continental Hall
Commodore Blackton
Dudley Field Malone
United States
Port of New York
Washington
Champ Glark
Robert Lansing
Agriculture
Houston
Ashhurst
Works
Justice
van Devanter
Herbert Putnam
Congress
John Barrett
Pan-American Union
Home
Henry Couden
Army
Navy
McLean, Va
A. H. Zimmarmenn
Mackell House
Man testifies in divorce case cites God on his side
In a divorce suit against Mrs. Kelly the witness Ketchum admitted involvement as corespondent. Throughout his testimony he frequently referenced the Deity and in one outburst proclaimed God is on my side. If He is not in this trial now there is no God.
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Kelly
Ketchum
Mon on Mrs Galt's Gowns Fears Wave of Crime
Rev Bouck White warned at the Church of the Social Revolution that Mrs Galt's gowns would trigger crime. He cited New York journeys for costly apparel and predicted wives would pressure husbands to spend, leading to widespread financial abuse and a rising crime wave.
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New York
Galt
Houck White
Church of the Social Revolution
Sixth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Ada Weiss Reelected President Of Legion Of Loyal Women
Mrs Ada H Weiss was reelected president of the Legion of Loyal Women at the Raleigh last night Other officers elected included Ming Grace M Pierce vice president Mrs May Houghton chaplain Miss Mary I Smith treasurer Mrs Albertina Bodell financial secretary Mrs Helen A Engle corresponding secretary Mrs Anna Ball Gerald Afro Anna Whitman sentinel Miss F G Pomeroy historian and Mrs Florence Donohue pianist This is the fourth consecutive time Mrs Wetes has been reelected president of the region The annual New Year reception will be held at the Raleigh on January 1 in the afternoon.
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Ada H. Weiss
Legion of Loyal Women
Raleigh
Ming Grace M. Pierce
May Houghton
Mary I. Smith
Albertina Bodell
Helen A. Engle
Anna Ball Gerald
Anna Whitman
F. G. Pomeroy
Florence Donohue
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