League of American Pen Women meeting at Public Library
Report covers RS Philander Claaton leading a round table on community and its possibilities, with notes on post, city efforts, and responses by club members. Mentions new members, upcoming events, and other society activities across several DC area clubs including Petworth Woman's Club and local drama and suffrage groups.
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League of American Pen Women
RS Philander Claaton
Commissioner of Education
League
League of American Penwomen
Plistons
Della Hine Merty
Mobile
Hamilton Ontits
Amanda WC Ludwaite
Perdida Beach
Douglas Jahn Ware Lenon
St Fous Mo
Terence Richmond
Anth
Cal
Carderine Dandruff Product Promises Hair Growth Boost
An old advertisement touts a 25 cent bottle of Carderine claiming dandruff causes hair loss and that the product keeps hair thick strong and beautiful in minutes. The teaser suggests dramatic results for girls and urges trying it now.
Danderine Claim Promises Quick Dandruff Relief and Hair Growth
An advertisement extols Danderine's effects within minutes, claiming scalp cleanliness, no itching, and rapid new hair growth after weeks. It touts brushing through hair for even dull, brittle strands, promising lighter, fluffier waves, incomparable luster, and luxurious softness with a 25 cent bottle from drug stores.
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Knowlton
Extraordinary Late Real Handwrought Laces Sale Listing
Real Cluny and other lace items offered with deep pointed edges and various widths. Original prices range up to 1198 yd with sale prices from 3.25 to 6.49 per yard, listing multiple lace types including Point Venlus Edge and Point Venise Band. Royal Street Floor location noted.
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Real
royal—Street
New Silk Hose Sale For Monday Special Prices
Spring styles feature fancy stripes clocks and embroidered hose in black white gray navy bronze brown champagne silver. Regular value one dollar ten cents. Special at one dollar for Monday.
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Palm Beach
Palais Moynl
Community society notes and club events in early Washington
A dense roundup details the Abingdon group and other clubs meeting at homes across northwest and northeast DC. Reports include talks by Mrs Voisin and Miss Eileen Hastwood, a Sibley Memorial Hospital benefit luncheon netting over 750, and a large Columbia Heights Art Club gathering with papers on the Crusades and Academy of Fine Arts. The piece lists alternates for a continental congress, new member admissions, and upcoming entertainments hosted by Mrs Li B Norwood and Mrs Clayton Emig.
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Petworth Woman's Club
Petworth
S W. Norton
W W Trail
Charlie Newhard
Fleisher
Mark D Smith
Ruas
Ethel Taylor
Thilo Classics
Harmon
Steyvenon
Frintes
Burt Williams
Wood
Federation
Willams
Scotts Lady
Rs Dickinson
Boston
Mis Ts
Evanston III
Sibley Memorial Hospital
Sibley Memorial Guild
Old Masonic Temple
Columbia Heights Art Club
Carl Smith
Seventeenth Street Northwest
Wolhaupter
Ethel
Mra Clark
Heisler
Academy of Fine Arts
Washington
Railway Mail Association
A. K. Wime
Third Street
Driscoll
Middleton
Hanger
Roberts
Luxford
Hughes
Gilliam
Wine
Stikefeather
E H Roberts
Holmead Street
Why Society Women Wash Their Own Hair
A brief ad style note explains that society women wash hair for beauty using a shampoo made for the purpose. It recommends a home canthrox mixture dissolved in hot water, costing about three cents per shampoo, claiming it removes dandruff oil and dirt, leaving hair fluffy with apparent body, luster, and softness.
Why a Man's Love Should Be Stronger Than His Wife's
An exploration of whether men or women should hold the greater capacity for love in marriage. The piece weighs whether the man’s love must be stronger to balance temptations, provider roles, and mental demand, versus arguments that a wife’s love is life itself and must be intense to sustain family and partnership through years, including motherhood implications.
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Avery
The Perfect Flesh Reducer Advertised By Tika Tea Co
An advertised herbal product claims to reduce flesh without diet or lifestyle changes and guarantees harmless effects. The tabloid styled pitch offers full particulars to readers who respond with 2 cents in stamps, sent to Arral's Tika Tea Co Dept 10 New York Fifth Ave.
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Java
Arral’s Tika Tea Co
Dept
Fifth Ave
New York
Newbro
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
Ladies Underwear and Boudoir Accessories Sale Ad
A Monday bargain table features women's undermuslins including envelope chemises jap satin or crepe de chine with laces and elbow sleeves. white tube silk petticoats. silk combinations. boudoir caps in dotted Swiss lace crepe de chine and net. kimonos in oriental crepe and silk. gowns skirts and drawers in lace embroidery and medallions. Palace Royal Third Floor.
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Afc. Palain Royal
Love and marriage stakes in early domestic duty
A historical reflection argues the husband must be the aggressor and decide on marriage while a wife may accept or refuse. It notes women often marry to secure themselves and that a wife’s love strengthens over time if the husband is right, emphasizing the man’s initial stronger affection.
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Nernnyti
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Ore Sumior League
Prbbius + Stoa
Pisamas
Vox
Centire Perry
Sabens
Mount Pleasant
Mount Mersant
College Woman's Club
College Womans Club
Raleigh
Thomas
Robertson
Ida Husted
Abracadabra Club
J D Croissant
Q Street
Frank H Smith
Manila
Philippine Islands
Charles Abbot
PD Lindsay
G Abbot
Alfred FB Tindsay
Mabel C Lind Sy
J Metcalf
Appleton P Clark
Sons of the Revolution
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William T Snyder
Rex Tohn
Vin Shaick, Jr
Chaplan Uenge
United States
Brigton Green City
Srrike Davin Rittenhouse
Samuel Seo Ole Tsehat
George Dewey
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Frouppen Arteinal
National Capital
National Association of Stenotypists
Anthony League
Anthony
Wis Anna
Betreley
Ilness
Bingham
Bluebird
Mittle Stinson
Drama League
Darlop Charmin
Tish
Rhode Island Avenue
Philo Clasaice
Patriots’ Memorial Chapter
George T. Smallwood
Sixteenth Street
George P Conway
National Society
George T Smallwood
Paul R Hickok
Williams Boone Douglass
Caroline Smith
JM Willey
A Tuohy
E W Child
A. P Ordway
William 8 Corby
Edward L Browne
Connecticut Avenue
Crittenton
Pictorial Review
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Third Fleet
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China
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Virot
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Argyle Study Club
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Gallatin Street
Piney Branch Road
Junior Welles Society
C. A. RB
George Burehield
Nigels Place
Thomas Welles Society
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Abigail H. Rice
Abigail Hartman Rice
J. A
Mary Ward
Milas Alice Hoover
F W von Dachenhausen
Olive Budd
Trainham
Eileen Hastwood
Vernie Maupin
Mary Frances Harris
Columbia Heights
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Railway Mail Auxiliary
Palais Hroysl
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