Strangely Wedded at a Florida Health Resort
Waldron Morse, 70, dies at Shell Beach after arranging to have Wilton Revere marry his daughter Ethel. Revere, initially reluctant, discovers Morse’s deathbed wish to protect Ethel’s interests. A clerical mediator clarifies Morse’s plan, revealing Revere and Ethel wed by arrangement and later real husband and wife after the truth emerges.
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Waldron Morse
Shell Beach
Wilton Revere
Fuinner
Mr. Morse
Revere
Ethel
Friend
Morse
Uthel Morse
Ethel Morse
Chicago
Pardidlae
Canada
Wthel
Hostess houses aid soldiers families in WWI camps
War work centers run by the YWCA expand hospitality for visiting relatives at cantonments. Hostess houses serve as directories, salons, cafeterias, and safe havens, with five women staffled by a director. Architects are women. cost and construction rise yet value persists across Camps Lewis Lee Devens Funston Cody Taylor Meade.
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Robert H. Moulton
America
War Department
Young Women's Christian Association
Commission
War Work Council
The
Young Women’s Christian Association
Camp Lewis
American Lake
Washington State
Camp Lee
Virginia
Camp Devens
Mass
Kansas
Camp Funston
Camp Doniphan
Okla
France
Balboa Park
Cal
Julia Morgan
Pacific Coast
Pay Kellogg
Katherine Budd
Camp Taylor
Louisville
Taft
Camp Cody
Tex
Saldiera
Camp Meade
Camp Sherman Annex
Chillicothe
Charleston
Wyoming Notes Across The State From 1918 Era
Cheyenne reports a smallpox case and a gas plant debate in Sheridan over municipal ownership. Hailstorm hit Wheatland while Thermopolis and Kirby saw jail break attempts. Wells drilled by Cheap Oil in Alkali Butte and Wymo Coal fields. Troops from Wyoming in World War I divisions noted along with labor appeals, fare-wares, and a missing boy skeleton debate in Tongue River.
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Thermopolis
Kirby
Wyoming
Better Schools Conference
Laramie
Cheap Oil Company
Alkali Butte
Wyoming Coal and Off
G. W. Riggins
Greybull
American Oil Company
148Th Field Artillery
116Th
117Th
Sheridan
Denver Bonding House
Sheridan, Gas Company
Public Service Commission
Cheyenne
Buffalo
John Grandin
Tongue River
Stanley Patz
Mike Patz
Carneyville
Patz
John Mooney
Lucille Manning
Glenrock
J. J. Ruthford
Denver
Ruthford
His Ambition The Visitor
A child asks what he will become and answers a vegetable peddler so he can eat green apples and bread all day, in a family scene showing parental expectations and a humorous defiant reply.
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Himer
Among the Debutantes Jane Bess and Jack
A Brooklyn Citizen item notes Jane Bess as the ideal debutante for Jack in a social column. It contrasts Belle and Jane Bess with social odds and preferences in society circle reporting.
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Jane
Bess
Jack
Belle
Brooklyn Citisen
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Jessie E. Sherwin
Ay Cocke
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Kemmerer
Wourias
Laramie County
Doc
Donahue
Wind River
Lander
Torrington
Methodist Church
Registraria
Sweetwater
Carbon
Weston
Campbell
Walzhall
Fremont
Platte
Miobardeboast
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