Ancestral Home of Mrs. Galt Now Headquarters of Golf Club
Bradford England November 1 The engagement of President Wilson and Mrs Galthan sparks interest as Mrs Galt is traced to Pocahontas through the Bollings of Botling Hall The hall Grange Chellow Grange and later the Weat Bradford Golf Club sit on the site Cal Robert Bolling migrated to Virginia and married Jane Rolfe Pocahontas granddaughter The old monastic Chellow Grange became part of the golf club complex and may attract American visitors like Haworth Brontés town nearby
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England
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Pocahontas
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Virginia
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John Rolfe
Galt
Weat Bradford
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The
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Wedded War and the White Gloves Lieutenant
Paris dispatch recalls a young lieutenant who led his troops with white kid gloves during a dawn assault at 9 15. He was killed by shrapnel in the trench as his regiment pressed the line, while the commander suffered a wounded thigh and tended a wounded comrade before rescue arrived.
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William Philip Simms
Paris
Neptenant
Tia
St. Cyrian
St Cyrlan
Teach Child on Sex Learn the Truth Too Late
Mrs. Julia Kurtz, Milwaukee educator, argues at the American Social Hygiene Association session that sex hygiene should begin when a child asks questions, not later. She says low wages do not cause fallings, ignorance does, and education plus truthful guidance is needed.
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Alia Kurtz
American Social Hygiene Association
Washington Post
Chicago
Mession
Julia Kurta
Martha Washington
Milwaukee
Mia Kurtz
Baby Gets Lockjaw From Peck by Rooster
An 18 month old child of Mr and Mrs Edward Maass in Renville Dakota was pecked behind the ear by a rooster while playing. A slight abrasion appeared but tetanus, or lockjaw, developed a few days later. The baby was rushed to a Madison Minnesota hospital where recovery seemed unlikely.
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Renville
Dak
Edward Maass
Madison
Minn
Education and silence in a troubled upbringing
A fragment discusses a mother who kept her child ignorant of harsh truths until tragedy revealed them. It questions the consequences of truth and delay, then quotes Dr. T. L. Harrington of the Milwaukee Society for Suppression of Commercialized Vice urging to separate essential knowledge from sensational claims and educate the child.
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Ighoranes
T. L. Harrington
The
Milwaukee Society For Suppression of Commercialized Vice
Jews to Call a Congress Conference on Jewish Rights
The American Jewish committee voted to call a conference to study Jewish rights in belligerent lands and Roumania. It plans a democratic congress after hostilities end, at a suitable time and venue. Officers elected include Louis Marshall as president and Jacob H. Schiff on the executive committee among others. Levi Rothenberg and James Davin were named as members.
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New York
American Jewish Committee
Roumania
Louis Marshall
Fudge Julian W. Mack
Jacob H. Hollgader
Tanac W. Bernheim
Jacob H. Schiff
L. Magnes
Judge Mack
Levi Rothenberg
Meridian
Miss
James Davin
Chicago
YMCA Work in War Outlines Service to Soldiers
C B Hibbard national YMCA secretary told the Vaughn Bible class at Calvary Baptist Church that YMCA efforts in Europe include 25,000,000 men under arms. He said camps are built near front lines with buildings, tea and soft drinks, games and current literature provided for soldiers.
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Europe
C. B. Hibbard
Vaughn
Calvary Baptist Church
Hibbard
M.C. A
Surprise Birthday Gift That Was Death on Train
Wayne Gooch a 48 year oldVirginia businessman shot himself aboard a Southern Pacific train near Rothenberg en route to Clarksville Va after a brief honeymoon in California He promised his bride a big birthday surprise and died by his own action as she slept in the drawing room The couple wed in Lexington Va a month ago and plans included a return to their new life together on the bride’s birthday
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Houston
Tex
Wayne
Gooch
Virginia
Southern Pacific
Rothenberg
Clarksvillea
California
Lexington
Wedding Links Virginia Farm Owner to President Wilson
Wealthy Virginia stock breeder near Bristol owns prime bluegrass farm stocked with choicd gardic to soon join as brother in law of President Wilson. Maury, partly in Virginia and Part Anniston, will attend Washington wedding with sister of Mrs. Galfe. Maury learned of no such plan before Baltimore convention. Bristol scene notes Maury’s anticipated tie to the First Family.
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Waoogrow Wilson
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Anniston
Als
Galfe
Haury
Washngton
Wilson
Galt
Baltimore
Underwood
Insane Couple Disrupts Church Service in Yonkers
Special to The Washington Post Yonkers Nov 16 A Teutonic ally backlash spurs Willy G Holtdorff and Frieda Holtdorff to violent insanity during St John Evangelical Lutheran Church service. Mrs Holtdorff tears at clothes, tries to reach pulpit while shouting against war. Holtdorff overpowered by worshippers. Spreckels associate Rouss Spreckels helps calm him. Both housed: Holtdorff in a padded cell, Mrs Holtdorff in hospital observation.
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Yonkers
Teutonis
Willy G. Holtdorf
Spreckels
Frieda
St. John's Evanchical Lutheran Church
Holtdorft
St. Joseph's Hospital
Halidor
Navy Yard Worker Reinstated After Jump Refusal
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt tentatively reversed a discharge for a boiler maker at Portsmouth Navy Yard who refused a six foot jump into icy water to board a boat. The union delegation argued the man’s capability and integrity were not in question and that the discipline was severe. the order was amended to a suspension ending Saturday.
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Jortanhoitelt Navy Yard
Portamouth Navy Yard
Roosevelt
Navy Yard
Mating Bureau Report Crushed by Church Order Collapse
A Bristol case shows the attempted matrimonial bureau for wounded soldiers failing after a Bristol bishop halted Rev Houghton’s plan with church authority. Letters of interest from women poured in but the effort ends with resignations and return of all correspondence.
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New York
London
H. Houghton
Bristol
Houghton
League
Ir. Houghton
St. Stephen's Rectory
Beaburn Staniland
Millionaire widow leaves vast estate to museums and church groups
Mrs Maria Van Antwerp De Witt Jessup died leaving a net estate of 12.67 million. The American Museum of Natural History gets 5.13 million with 5.6 million in trust for science. Religious and charitable groups receive 8.6 million. relatives and employees 4.07 million. Thomas De Witt Cuyler, Philadelphia lawyer and Jessup nephew, nets 2 million. Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes receive 54 thousand each.
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New York
Maria van Antwerp de Witt Jessup
Morris K. Jessup
American Museum of Natural History
Jessup Long
Josaup
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas de Witt Cuyler
Jessup
Philadelphia
Tuskegee Institute
Hampton Institute
Catless World Slogan Aims at Cats In North Dakota
Devils Lake N D Nov 14 With the slogan Song birds forever and a catless world in 1920 R Sayre a large North Dakota farm owner arrived from Chicago to push his anti cat campaign He offers prizes to those killing the most cats A leaflet from Sayres faction portrays the household pet as vicious disease carrying and sperm ridden in the world
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Devils Lake
N. Dak
Sayre
Tabby
Beginnings of a $50 Million Mission Drive Advocated
Boston Nov 14 J Campbell White president of the University of Wooster urged raising 50 million dollars annually to support 25000 missionaries at the opening of the Boston laymen convention representing many Protestant denominations. He said the European war increases Americas burden to spread Christianity. Erwin M Poteat president of Furman University predicted the future business man would be a total abstainer for efficiency.
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Boston
J. Campbell White
University of Wooster
White
Europe
Eewin M. Poteat
Furman University
South Carolina
Monarch Restoration Movements Reported in Three Provinces
News from Washington indicates large majorities favor both a revised constitution and a monarchical form of government in three Chinese provinces. Conventions will decide whether delegates proceed to a national assembly in Peking and timing may shift to next year. Mrs. Archipald C. Hopkins travels to Boston to speak on housing for the District Civic Federation's women’s department on October 17.
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Council of State
Republic
Washington
Yuan Bhi Kat
Peking
Dele‘paten
Hopkins
Boston
Archipald C. Hopkins
District Civic Federation
Woman's Department of the Civic Federation
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