"For Mother's Sake": Presented Under the Auspices of the Bethel Branch, W.C.T.U.

Citation: "'For Mother's Sake': Presented Under the Auspices of the Bethel Branch, W.C.T.U.," Brooklyn Times Union (Brooklyn, New York), 20 May 1892, p. 5; image, Newspapers.com (clipping by mattjameswade, 6 July 2019).

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The passage naming the performers; the rest of the article (the programme and the Bethel's work in the Twenty-sixth Ward) is summarised, not transcribed.

[…] The story was agreeably interspersed with Gospel songs by the double quartet from the Ocean Hill Church. It was made up of Miss Eleanor Pearson and Miss Nellie Thompson, sopranos; Miss Lena Ryder and Mrs. Tenny, altos; Messrs. William Wade and W. Thompson, tenors, and Henry Wade and James R. Wheeler, bassos. Miss Edith Daniels, 9 years of age, sang sweetly in the character of the blind girl. […]

Summary of the rest: an entertainment by the Bethel Branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, held at Jefferson Hall, corner of Pennsylvania and Atlantic avenues, in the Twenty-sixth Ward. "For Mother's Sake," by J. T. Allen, is a service of song about a drunkard reclaimed by his son and blind daughters.