Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Program of the First Council of Long Island Women's Clubs

New York, 1895

The first council of Long Island women's clubs will be held in Jamaica on Friday, May 3. Miss Caroline Hicks, the chairman of the advisory committee, has announced the following program:

MORNING SESSION.

Roll call of delegates at 9.30.

Report of each club and society, its founding, work, aims and outgrowth, 10 o'clock.

Intermission and basket luncheon, noon.

AFTERNOON SESSION — 2 O'CLOCK.

Address by Mrs. Anna C. Field, founder of Brooklyn woman's club.

Address by Mrs. Helen H. Backus, president of Brooklyn woman's club.

Address by Mrs. Mariana Chapman, president Brooklyn suffrage association.

Address by Mrs. Julia O. Perry, president Urban club.

Address by Mrs. Cornelia Hood, president political equality league.

Address by Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, president of national council of women.

Address by Mrs. J. C. Croly, founder Of Sorosis.


1895 advertisement:

"Half a span of angry steel" will produce no more fatal results than a neglected cold or cough. For all throat and lung diseases, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is the best remedy. It is invaluable in cases of croup, whooping cough, bronchitis and la grippe.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 26, 1895, p. 4.

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