New Nebraska school praise echoes Gary success at graduation
Nebraska Statesman reports on February graduates from McKinley Manual Training School praised for industrial education as groundwork for careers. Representative Dan V Stephens asserts Washington schools rival Gary institutions. The piece lists graduates and notes forthcoming exercises at another high school with remarks by officials and a pair of distinguished speakers.
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Nebraska Statesman
Washington
Gary
Ind
Dan V. Stephens
Nebraska
McKinley Manual Training School
Willam T Galliher
Board of Education
Susie Root Rhodes
John G Palmer
Dale Wolfsteiner
Stephens
Eleanor May Ashford
Grace Elizabeth Crawford
Marion Campbell Goodrich
Stella Elizabeth Harrison
Mamie Elizabeth Heider
Elizabeth Hortense Hitchcord
Elizabeth Stanton Lewis
Margaret Elizabeth Sullivan
Gertrude Amanda Thompson
Bessie Virginia Watts
Horace Everett Ackerman
Charles Andrew Ap
Roland Tetten Booth
Roger Brooks
Williarm
Orme Burger
Benjamin Sargent Elliott
Edwin Lloyd
Etrenser
Ernest Cleveland Fortier
Olea
Iris Gibbs
Archie Leroy Gibson
William Slocum Hancer
George Elliott Tarrington
Allen Bond Harrison
Edward Broosae
Harry Garnet Wrex
Norman Paul Laudenslager
Melvin Edgar Lederer
Daniel Hammond Lockwood
Maurice Arthur
Movie
Alan Huston Pottinse
Robertt Sanders Leonard Sargeank
Viaurice Deneale Shannon Harry Ster
Ralph Nelson Stoddard Earle van Hiren Thomas John Raymond Wells
Dad
Tigmas O+barn
White
Readings from Ben Hur by Evelyn Gurley-Kane in Willard
Evelyn Gurley-Kane will present readings from Ben Hur in the Willard ballroom on February 17 with an orchestra. A February program was previewed for Retail Merchants Association members at the Chamber of Commerce. Gurley-Kane, a long time dramatic reader, pioneered orchestral accompaniment for recitations and previously performed a similar piece in Washington in 1922. She is a niece of the late Rev P D Gurley, former United States Senate chaplain.
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Evelyn Gurley-Kane
Willard
Retail Merchants’ Association
Chamber of Commerce
Gurley
Kane
Washington
Gurley-Kane
P D Gurley
United States Senate
New Willard Hotel
Duchess backs lodging house plan for low income workers
In Sunderland Faund at the National Association meeting the Duchess of Marlborough urged a home for women with small means who work for a living. She named a typist, teacher, and author among others earning 40 to 500 dollars yearly as those receiving the least help. She disclosed securing a license for the Mary Curzon Heater and spoke of the responsibility of being a London landowner.
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London
Duchess of Marlborough
National Association For the Women's
Sunderland
London County Council
War Department Chaplain Dickson Films Shown at Belasco
Chaplain Thomas J. Dickson will present an illustrated lecture on the mobile army of the United States at Belasco Theater this afternoon at 4.00. The two hour program uses 8000 feet of film and opens with a salute of standards as infantry cavalry and artillery go into action. Dickson, stationed with the horse artillery at Fort Riley, personally produced the films and is expected to be joined by many distinguished War Department officers.
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Chaplain Dickson
Mobile Army of the
United States
Thomas J. Dickson
Belasco Theater
Peragas
Sima
Blind Six Months Pretty Writer Aids the Sightless
Mrs Lewis B Woodruff a young writer who lost sight for six months has devoted much of her time to helping blind people. She donates all profits from a book to the Lighthouse headquarters of the New York Association for the Blind at Hast Fifty ninth Street.
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Lewis B. Woodruth
New York Association For the Blind
Hast Fifty-ninth Street
Woman Seeks Right Man as Greatest Ambition Says J J Hill
J J Hill asserts that every woman’s top goal is finding the right husband, whether in cottage or castle, with family and home as core aims. He warns career focus fades when the right man appears, calling optimism essential but prioritizing a stable home life.
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J. J. Hill
Trusts in Right Man Home Placed Above All Else
A column reflects on optimism and resilience, arguing that faith in the right leadership guides families and nations. It stresses confidence in people, capital, and opportunities, urging readers to stay positive and proactive to secure health, wealth, and happiness.
Northwestern magnate Jamea Hull on women and optimism
New York January 2 Jamea Hull Northwestern railroad magnate discussed women and family in a frank interview. He said every woman has one great ambition to find the right partner and build a home, and warned that prioritizing career over family would be a sad future. He declined pessimism, citing capital and brave people as reasons to stay optimistic.
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New York
Jamea J Hull
Northwestern Railroad
Hill
Napoleon
Northwest
Mr. Hill
Farm Homes Out of Date Prompt Prison and Asylum Need
The Department of Agriculture reports farmhouses are insanitary and poorly built driving rural depopulation. It stresses economical, comfortable homes for farmers with a well designed kitchen as essential, noting century old housewives faced better living with simpler log cabins and fireplaces.
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United States
America
Department of Agriculture
Department
Prigona
Houses of Correction
Pet follows her in death as sorrow strikes family
Mrs. Connor dies from apoplexy after attending a matinee with sisters in law. Her 8 year old pug Pups and a pet turkey, both owned by Paul D. Connor of 1215 Quincy Street NE, die soon after, with Connor believing the dog died of heartbreak. An Emergency Hospital Ambulance arrived. the doctor notes a paralytic stroke and brain hemorrhage as the cause.
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James McCheansy
Harry R. Burrill
Thomas Stretton
Conner
Mr. Burrill
Fourteenth
Lewis
Mr. Conner
American Women in Berlin Denounce Immorality Accusations
At Berlin's American Woman's Club a large U S protest met to rebuke charges of immorality among American girl students in Europe. Mrs Gerard and Ambassador emphasized the claims are grotesquely untrue. Resolutions affirmed a vigorous protest and denounced the accusations as unfounded slander.
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Europe
Bertin
Berlin
United States
American Woman's Club
Germany
Alice H. Luce
Wellesley
Hineat Hutcheson
Baltimore
George Fergusson
Chicago
Gustav Hollander
Hollander
Mme
Etelka Gerster
Xavier Scharwenka
Atlantic
American Woman’s Chuir
Man settles women's war in Chicago club reorganization
Bitter factional fights in the Southern Woman's Club of Chicago ended with an extraordinary election supervised by Sidney S. Pollack. He found 88 rostered members ineligible, and Mrs John Willis Heatfield won the presidency by twenty votes over Mrs Jeremiah Hallasy as the club was reorganized to admit only Southern women.
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Chicago
Southern Woman's Club of
Sidney S. Pollack
Lin Chancery
Pollack
Superior Court
Sullivan
Mra
John Willis Heatfield
Jeremiah Hallasy
Mallissy
Scotland Yard Warns Americans Of London Confidence Game
New Scotland Yard warns American visitors about a clever two man confidence trick that fleeces victims of about 500 dollars by sentimental pleas of an eccentric will. One man asks the American to draw 500 dollars from his bank to advance a claim, then vanishes with the money while the other searches for his partner. Consul General Griffiths notes the dupe supply seems inexhaustible and urges visitors to use common sense when dealing with strangers to prevent becoming victims.
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London
Criminal Investigation Department of New Scotland Yard
Saya Shun
Griffiths
State Department
Assu
Plans a Card Index to Stop Hasty Matches
Chief Justice Petit proposes a Cook County card index bureau recording every person ever involved in domestic or criminal proceedings. Ministers would be asked to avoid marrying those lacking bureau certification. He cites divorces as driving juvenile delinquency by about half.
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Chicago
Jen
Petit
Cook County
Bride On Court Bench Visits Probation Officers
Mrs. Ben B Lindsey, wife of juvenile court judge, begins work as assistant juvenile judge in Denver. She will accompany probation officers to hearings to learn individual causes and aid Judge Lindsey in presenting facts. The couple married after meeting in a sanitarium during their recoveries from nervous breakdowns.
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Washington Post
Denver
Colo
Ben B Lindsey
Lindsay
Lindsey
New York
Lindsey Io
Women Raid Primate Lab to Press Suffrage Demands
London January 2. Mrs Dacre Fox led militants to Lambeth Palace and forced Archbishop Davidson to promise consideration of suffragette demands against forcible feeding in prisons. They presented her with suffragette papers and Christabel Pankhurst’s book. Labor meeting in Glasgow disrupted by over twenty militants during James MacDonald speech.
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London
Dacre- Fox
Thames
Westminster
Dacre-Fox
ANLT
Sis
Mra Dacre-Foxthereupon
Davidson
Suffragetta
Christabel Pankhurst
Glasgow
Labor Party
Reid
St. Andrew's Hall
James Rameau MacDonald
Leicester
Spart
MacDonald
Womn
Girl Dying of Hiccoughs After Thanksgiving Attack
Hilda Caine an 11 year old girl of Bex Clift Long Island has suffered frequent hiccoughing since Thanksgiving day. Doctors fear continuous attacks may prove fatal unless a remedy is found. The case draws concern as reports describe the girl’s worsening condition and illness since the holiday.
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Hilda Caine
Bex Clift
Long Island
Furlana Seen as Peasant Folk Dance for Ballroom Use
New York reports that Mme Verhoeven rejects the furlana as mere folk dance and not suitable for society, while noting its two time rhythm, open space needs, and vigorous steps. The tango is deemed more daring and poses less crowding. A four-woman chorus in La Gioconda demonstrates the furlana in a Broadway setting.
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New York
Paper Plus K
Venice
Rome
Federation of Italian Artists
Mme. Verhoeven
Metropolitan Opera House
Mme Verbreven
No Place to Seek Bride Castaways on Easter Island
Seven castaways from the schooner Eldorado arrived in San Francisco on January 2 saying no native wife can be found on Easter Island. Captain Benson left the crew there after they preferred island life to civilization, declaring they are not married and fear a long voyage more than staying, while condemning the island women as not beautiful.
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San Francisco
Cal
South Seas
Benson
Viscount Knutsford Dies in His Eighty-Eighth Year
London reports the death of Viscount Knutsford a long time conservative politician aged about eighty eight He is survived by his son Sydney George Holland born in 1855 The late viscount held roles from legal adviser to colonial office to financial secretary and secretary of state for the colonies during the late 19th century.
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Viscount Knutsford
Sydney George Holland
Henry Thurston Holland
Bknuteford
Harrow
Trinity College, Cambridge
Colonial Office
The
Treasury
Council of Eduation
Colonies
MISS CLARK TO PRESIDE AT JUNIOR AUXILIARY MEETING
The newly organized junior auxiliary of Neighborhood House will meet in the board room of the Union Trust building today at 11 o clock. Miss Genevieve Champ Clark, the president, will preside. Other officers will report on the work accomplished. Incoming members and prospective members are invited.
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Frederick M Dickey
William Sheehan
Allan Davis
Moe Simmerman
Roland Wileus
Edith M. Simlaitian
Dorothy F Blackford
May M Walsh
Secetar Kilda de
Igman
Margaret Wilson
James Ormond Wilson
Slarvey W Wiley
W_ C. Rue
Neighborhood House
Union Trust
Genevieve Champ Clark
Pragent
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Belles of Washington Society
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