January D A R chapters meet with social and election notes
The January DAR gatherings across chapters include indorsing Miss Elizabeth Pierce for national chaplain general, reports on fundraising and juvenile court work, and various officer nominations. Events feature lectures, musical programs, and social hours, with delegates elected for the continental congress and multiple club activities noted.
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Constitution Chapter
Lewis
Mount Pleasant Street
Elizabeth Pierce
Ball
Sanford
Olive
Vera Budd
Misa Trainham
Ellen Spencer Massey
Guernsey
District of Columbia
Woodbury Pulsifer
Our Flag
G. Wallace W. Hanger
Molly Pitcher
Golus M. Brumbaugh
Livingston Manor
Mary KH. Wilcox
John Donaldson Chanter
Rlizabeth FF. Pierce
Constitution
Delegeste
Vuncanson
John TY. Sadler
J. It Wegemann
Mra
TP. R. and Son
Matilda J. Rams
F. Vwarvee
Frank Lee Williams Mere
J. W. Harris
Washington area clubs plan events and concerts
The Faculty Women's Clubmet at Mrs Parker's home with Brookland members performing. Mary Washington Chapter DA R plans a twenty fifth anniversary at the Washington Club ballroom February 13 with regents and founders attending and reminiscing. Twentieth Century Club to midwinter frolic February 11 at All Souls Church with Mrs Town and Mrs Bicknell. conservation and wild flower subsections meet Thursday. A joint recital by Marguerite Brown and Marion Borre supports frontier orphans in France at All Souls Church tomorrow at 4. Hamilton Hotel and Shakespeare Society noted for ticketed events. readings and meetings outlined for upcoming weeks.
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Excelsior Literary Club
Dire
A. H. Frear
Federation
New Fabbitt
Carrie EK
Kent
Boon
Congress
Juvenile Protective Association
Court F. Wood
Brances E
Twentieth Century Club
All Souls’ Church
Marguerite Brown
Marion Boyce
St. Matthews’ Church
Miss Brown
Herr Giesinger
Kroll Royal Opera
Mise Brown
Teplitz
Austria
Ie Faculty Women’s Club
Cathol
Ie University
J. B. Parker
Lawrence Streets
Brookland
L. d. Jiemelt
Mary Washington
DA. R. Wil
Washington
Dorinda Rogers
Otto H. Tittman
Richards
Lockwood
Virginia Miller
H. Town
Fitness FP. Bicknell
Tilizabeth Carhart
Marius Campbell
H.R. Hare
William
Herron
Oregon Avenue
Dayton Ward
Columbia Road
Mig William L. Brown
Marion Borre
France
Hamilton Hotel
Rug sizes and Wiltons listed for sale
A catalog fragment lists 9x12 Axminster rugs and 8.3x10.6 Wiltons with notes of 9x12 Wiltons and a price of 82.50 for quality goods. The text shows repetitions and misspellings but indicates rug types and a price point.
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Axminsters
Wiltons. O
Wiltoms
Wiltons
Impossible Demonstration of a Fireless Cooker Manuever
A newspaper notice invites a demonstration tomorrow at 2 p m of an Ideal Fireless Cooker. It promises a stove capable of baking, roasting, and freezing in one oven compartment and lists a Monday February 6 menu featuring Beast Chicken Cake and Ice Cream.
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Eleventh St
Seven Rules for Winning a Bride
A Brooklyn YMCA speaker offers dating guidance with seven rules. He cautions against overanxious courtship and “music” parties, advises focusing on steady progress, avoiding rival flirtations, and taking a girl to shows or bringing flowers. He warns mothers influence proposals and recommends modest rings and restrained public affection.
Troops Use Carranza Money as Stationery
Charles M. Seay writes from the Mexican border that prices are so high troops use Carranza money as stationery. The article notes a three years contract and mentions Rostock opera and a return to America. It also profiles Mr. Boyce as a church musician with recent posts in Oxford Cincinnati and Washington.
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Carranza
Selma
Ala
Charles M. Seay
Alabama
Wagner
Statt Opera
Rostock
America
Boyce
St. Aloysius
Oxford
England
Cincinnati
Washington
St. Matthews
Regensburg
Bavaria
Dr. Heberl
Letter Written On Carranza Five Peso Note
A note describes a scheme where a merchant refuses a Carranza five peso bill and is shot after refusal. The document notes the bill’s validity and the practice of marking or using it in transactions, illustrating a violent consequence for nonacceptance in Mexico.
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Seay
Mexico
Charity group appeals for ten thousand dollars
The joint finances committee of the Associated Charities and Citizens' Relief Association calls for 10000 dollars in donations. Chairman Milton E. Ailes urges immediate contributions due to extreme cold and rising costs of food, shoes, and fuel, saying the relief work is hampered by these conditions.
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Associated Charities and Citizens’ Relief Association
Milton E. Ailes
King
Costa
Kensington Notes Local Meeting Highlights and School Law Talks
The Kensington notes record a Florence Crit tenton gathering with Mrs Townsend and Mrs Grace Porter Hopkins discussing the new federal employment agency for women and girls. Also planned are a discussion on the new state school law, a home missions lecture by Mrs Wilbur on Porto Rico, a Miss Mabel Tinton recital, and a Kensington Railway services meeting with Prof W W Skinner chairing a committee to approach the Public Service Commission.
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Florence Crittenton
Townsend
Grace Porter Hopkins
Department of Labor
Employment Agency For Women and Girls
Home and School Association
Public Service Commission
Skinner
Edgar Moore
Eugene Jones
W. P. Hay
A. N. Dobson
William H. Ponsaville
C. H. Davidson
J. Dawson Williams
A. C. Warthen
C. BR. Howdybush
J. Frank Wilson
Mayflower Dinner Set for February Seventeenth
The Society of Mayflower Descendants plans its annual Lafayette dinner on February 17, marking the fifteenth anniversary of military orders and Myles Standish’s captaincy. Plans for Massachusetts tercentenary events of the Plymouth landing in 1620 will be announced. The society has prepared genealogies of the 49 Mayflower passengers with descendants. Arlington National Cemetery gates along the east approach will close for improvements, directing traffic via Georgetown and Fort Myer.
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Society of
Lafayette
Myles Standish
Plana
Massachusetts
Plymouth
Arlington National Cemetery
Georgetown
Fort Myer Military Post
Cultivating Plants to Cut the Drug Bill in Half
The article urges growing ornamental and practical garden plants to replace medicines. Camomile and verbena teas aid digestion and calm nerves. dried flowers relieve colds, headaches, and insomnia. Mint, sage, catnip, and Melissa are cited for tonic and digestive benefits. Rhubarb powder dates to 2700 B C and was used as a purgative. Trees like pine and balm aid lungs and nerves.
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Europe
Temperance Exhibit Arrives in Washington at 1327 G Street
A scientific temperance exhibit from the Panama-Pacific exposition arrives in Washington. Organized by the National Antisaloon League Educational Department, it opens Tuesday evening at 1327 G Street NW and runs daily from 1 to 10 oclock. Ming Edith M. Hills of Beaton oversees with local committee chair Georgia Robertson.
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Havig
Washington
San Francisco
Educational Department
National Antisaloon League
G Street
Northwest
Ming Edith M. Hills
Beaton
Scientific Temperance Federation
Georgia Robertson
German Bazaar Postponed Indefinitely
Martin Wiegand as chairman of the executive committee for the charity bazaar announced last night that the bazaar planned to begin tomorrow at Convention Hall for the benefit of war sufferers of the central powers had been postponed indefinitely.
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Flag
H. C. Wegemann
Cathedral Avenue
Katharine Polkinhorn
Ways and Means
Treasury
Martin Wiegand
Convention Hall
Central Powers
Quartet to Sing at Immanuel Church Concert
Immanuel Baptist Church secures the Criterion Male Quartet from New York City for a Friday evening concert. The group includes John Young and Horatio Theney as tenors, George Reardon as barione, and Donald Chaimur as bass.
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Immanuel Baptist Church
Criterion Male Quartet
New York City
John Young
Horatio Theney
George Reardon
Bariione
Donald Chaimur
Base
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