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Newspaper

Wilmette Life

Location

Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Sep 24, 1926

Page

11

Lecture by Madame Parry on Progressive Education and Music

Madame Barbareaux Parry director of Barbareaux School of Educational Unfoldment will lecture on Progressive Education and its Association with Music at Winnetka Community House Monday Oct 11 at 8 pm. The talk follows her Europe study tour and highlights the Barbareaux system with branches in Chicago Boston San Francisco Vancouver and more. The district central office is 2442 Sherman Ave Evanston.

Madame Barbareaux Parry Barbareaux School of Educational Unfoldment Winnetka Community House Madame Parry Europe Fine Arts Chicago Boston San Francisco Vancouver Sherman Avenue Evanston

Three New Trier Grads Enter Kenyon College

Wells Simmons and Phil Brown, New Trier High graduates, left Sunday with Phil's parents to enter Kenyon College at Gambier Ohio. Mr and Mrs Brown plan two weeks visiting central Ohio. Bob Kenyon also entered Kenyon this year.

Wells Simmons Phil Brown New Trier Phil James M. Brown Greenleaf Avenue Treshman Kenyon College Gambier Brown Ohio Bob Kenyon

Field Museum Free Saturday Movie Series Captures World Tour

The Field Museum offers nine free Saturday morning films in the James Simpson Theatre from October to November under the theme A Trip Around the World. Programs cover regions including South America Africa Persia India China Japan East Indies Australia and the South Sea Islands with titles such as Strange South American Animals Mandalay and Souvenirs of Singapore.

James Simpson Field Museum of Natural History South America Rio Buenos Aires Parana Iguassu Africa Algeria Sahara Swazi Persia India Mandalay China Canton East Indies Singapore Java Garden of the East Batik Land Australia Sidney Derwent River Mount Buffalo South Sea Islands Moana South Seas

Pattison Family Updates and Local Congregational Sewing Meet

Walter Pattison, recently back from France and Spain, visits his parents at 204 Golf terrace before heading to teach romance languages at the University of Minnesota. The Crescent circle of the Congregational church meets this afternoon at 105 Fifth street to sew for the bazaar. Mr and Mrs George H Pattison of 204 Golf terrace plan a Monday trip to Cleveland to visit Mr and Mrs Donald Pattison. Mrs Louis Becker at 105 Fifth street hosts house guest Mrs Frank Woodyatt of Moline Illinois this week.

Walter Pattison France Spain George H. Pattison Golf Terrace University of Minnesota Crescent Circle of The Congregational Church Louis Becker Fifth Street Cleveland Donald Pattison Frank Woodyatt Moline, Ill

Now is the Time to Plant Peonies

The article extols peonies as ideal for northern gardens with perfect soil and climate on the north shore. It urges readers to plant now to achieve a glorious flowering display in their own gardens.

World’s Finest Varieties for June Garden Color

A garden ad highlights a Master List of flower varieties from delicate shell pink to dark red in single through double forms. It recommends careful selection for early to late blooms and touts North Shore Special Quality Group with plants that will produce prize winners.

North Shore Gardens

Lucky Sevenall Prize Winners and Mixed Color Seeds

The fragment lists prize winners with numeric scores and color coded items such as Mid Season White and Early Red. Names include KELWAY, FRANCES WILLARD, LA FRANCE, PHOEBE CAREY, RICHARD CARVES, MAD GAUDICHAU, and references to a prize total of $56.00. The text reads like a catalog or lottery snippet with scattered dates and values.

Kelway Frances Willard Ate Wises Esa Cussuicune Wes Pleas Jubilee Barry Sue LA France C. Caccues Phoebe Carey Richard Carves Gaudichau

Special Peony Offer Limited to 50 Collections

Northbrook Peonies grown under scientific cultivation invites readers to visit a neighborhood garden five miles west of Glencoe on Dundee Road to choose roots or have them mailed prepaid. Orders must reach by October 9, with a special price of 40 dollars. Mail for The Master List, America's Blue Book of Fine Peonies.

Northbrook Glencoe Dundee Road

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