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...your issue of May 11 you printed a picture of Mrs. Newberry, Mrs. Preston and Mrs. Roosevelt, together with a brief article which was not only news but helpful to the Needlework Guild of America comprising approximately one million women...
...Philadelphia the Needlework Guild of America- held its annual convention and re-elected for the third successive time Mrs. Thomas Jex (Frances Folsom) Preston Jr., 66, relict of the late great Grover Cleveland and First Lady of Princeton, N. J., to be its national president. Energetic and assured, she made the speech of welcome, stressing the importance of welfare work and snapping: "I always vote, but I feel that women are more effective in other lines of work than in politics." She was followed on the platform by gentle Mrs. Theodore (Edith Kermit Carow) Roosevelt, 69, relict of the 26th...
...advertising for its "El Toro" cigars. Under a picture of Porto Rico's Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and over his signature it headlined: ROOSEVELT SAYS: "Give Porto Rican products a chance. . . . Our sugar, our fruit, both canned and fresh, our coffee, our vegetables, our hand embroidery, our needlework and our tobacco, are all in my opinion of exceptional quality. ... I wish our fellow Americans on the continent would give us a chance to prove the quality of these articles by trying them and seeing if they do not agree with...
...conservative, shrewd Yankee who is now executive vice president of Gimbel Brothers, Philadelphia. More surprising and newsworthy was the simultaneous announcement that chairman of the executive committee will be William Bishop Warner, president of McCall Corp., publishers of McCall's Magazine (circulation 2,500,000); McCall Quarterly; McCall Needlework and Decorative Arts; McCall Style News; Red Book Magazine. McCall Corp. also publishes and distributes fashion patterns. Chairman Warner knows the retail field, knows much about distribution, and his press can do much to popularize woolens and worsteds...
...Majesty the Queen officially opened the annual exhibition of Queen Mary's London Needlework Guild last week. She beamed with pride at the principal exhibit: three soft woolen scarves knit by the busy fingers of Edward of Wales, her eldest, and three other scarves knit by her youngest son Prince George...