Fiancee Follows Captain Appleton to Burial at Chapel
Funeral of Captain Nathan Appleton held at King’s Chapel with Civil War veterans and Loyal Legion honors. Miss Edith Russell Wills, his fiancée, attended as the service and taps marked the somber procession to Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Remains cremation requested by Appleton. details of will and life policy noted.
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Nathan Appleton
King’s Chapel
Edith Russell Wills
Loyal Legion
Fifth Massachusetts Battery
Appleton
Kinsley Post
Howard N. Brown
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Wills
John 8. Doane
George L. Newton
Joseph L. Knox
Henry L. Higginson
Charles F. Reed
Bostonian Society
Appleton Stevens
Society of Colonial Wars
Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Captain Appleton
Mt. Auburn
May snub relief worker who wed a negro
Mrs. A. M. Curtis, sent from Washington with War Department credentials to aid San Francisco relief after the April disaster, will return despite illness from Oakland injuries. Her marriage to a negro physician in Washington shocks San Francisco society, where Southern families refuse to welcome her.
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San Francisco
Cal
A. M. Curtis
Washington
War Department
Oakland
Curtis
East
California
Taft
Cuba
Clara Barton
Arraign Clark in Ponkapoag Post Office Bond Thefts
Harry Clark, arrested in New York, was arraigned before United States Commissioner Hayes yesterday on charges tied to the Ponkapoag post office bond theft. He was committed in 500 bonds for his appearance with five others. Albert Abrams of Dorchester is also charged, with the youths held pending further examination.
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Harry Clark
New York
Ponkapoag
United States
Hayes
Albert Abrams
Dorchester
Clark
Postal Card Beauties Targeted by Watch and Ward Crusade
Watch and Ward Society presses a crackdown on peek-a-boo postal cards as Uncle Sam enforces modest display. Ira Grishaver faces court after 2000 pictured cards titled Lady Beautiful were seized from his Meo shop at 6298 Washington Street, case set for September 1.
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Uncle Sam
Watch and Ward Society
Venus de Milo
Art
Crusade
Ira Grishaver
Washington Street
Davies
Sergeant Bowley
Station 4
Lady Beautiful
Doogue Shows Improvement in City Public Grounds Chief
Superintendent William Doogue, near his 80th birthday, showed considerable improvement after days of alarming condition. Dr L L Cliff attends him as he experiences brief unconscious spells and periods of resuscitation, marking cautious optimism for recovery. The veteran forester leads the public grounds department and remains one of the city’s oldest department heads.
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William Doogue
Public Grounds Department
Ll. A. Cliff
Doogue
Banker Stanwood Dead in England
C Stanwood head of E C Stanwood & Co died yesterday on the Isle of Wight He was 50 years old He belonged to the Algonquin and Exchange clubs Eleven years ago he organized the banking firm E C Stanwood & Co with offices at 45 Milk Street
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Wben C. Stanwood
E. C. Stanwood & Co
Isle of Wight
Stanwood
Algonquin and Exchange Clubs
Milk Street
Funeral of John Welch with Boston & Providence ties
Funeral services for John Welch formerly of Roxbury were held at his Cambridge home followed by mass at St. Marys Church of the Annunciation. Interment was in Calvary Cemetery West Roxbury. Welch worked 50 years for the Boston and Providence railroad and leaves five children.
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John Welch
Roxbury
Greenough Avenue
Cambridge
St. Mary’s Church of the Annunciation
Calvary Cemetery
West Roxbury
Welch
Boston & Providence Railroad
Captain Littleton Not to Quit Fire Fighting
Captain James M. Littleton received a diploma from Fire Commissioner Wells for 35 years of service with the Boston Fire Department. The commissioner denied rumors of resignation and praised Littleton as a faithful, essential member of the district.
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Littleton
James M. Littleton
Wells
Boston Fire Department
Columbus Association Annual Picnic Draws 1000 at Sharon Heights
The Columbus Association of the North End held its annual picnic at Sharon Heights yesterday with over 1000 attendees. Races for boys and girls were held and a game of boochee between two picked Italian teams entertained the crowd, followed by a Washington street parade led by the Savoy Band.
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Columbus Association of
North End
Sharon Heights
Washington Street
Savoy Band
New York Girl Dies of Injuries in Scotland
Emma Van Norden daughter of Warner Van Norden of New York died in Blairgowrie Scot after a carriage accident Aug 21 she suffered a skull fracture. Other members of her party who were injured at the same time are recovering well.
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New York
Scotland
Blair Gowaire
Scot
Emma van Norden
Warner van Norden
Here
van Norden
Teen elopes with butcher. disinheritance shocks family
Vivian Kuehmsted, 14, daughter of A Lewis Kuehmsted of Gregory Electric, elopes with 19 year old Albert Woehler in Elgin and marries after claiming they are of age. Vivian’s grandmother, Mrs Fannie Brentano Frienwalt of Fortress Monroe Virginia, disinherits her and plans to leave her fortune to Vivian. Detectives search as a constable seeks to annul the marriage license in Geneva.
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Chicago
Vivian Kuehmsted
A. Lewis Kuehmsted
Gregory Electric Company
South
Lincoln Street
Elgin
Albert Woehler
Fannie Brentano-Frienwalt
Fortress Monroe
Frienwalt
Vivian
Albert
H. H. Root
Grace Methodist Church
Geneva
Kentucky University Star Athletes Weds Society Fiance
Miss Katherine Emmel 19 daughter of W B Emmel married George Marshall Varnell of Chicago last night in Nicholasville. Varnell a Kentucky University football star faced parental objections from the Emmels, prominent Kentucky family, well known in Cincinnati.
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Lexington
Katherine Emmel
W. B. Emmel
George Marshall Varnell
Chicago
Kentucky University
Nicholasville
Phillips
Emmel
Emmels
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Heiress Amelia Wahrmund Weds Local Farmer in Quiet San Antonio Ceremony
Amelia Wahrmund, Texas's wealth heiress, marries William Sanger, a Elmendorf farmer, at her parents' home. Colonel Otto Wahrmund gives her away. few relatives attend. The couple plans a cross country honeymoon at Sanger's farm. she studied in Paris and Germany and moved in elite circles in San Antonio New York and St. Louis.
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San Antonio
Tex
Amelia Wahrmund
Texas
William Sanger
Elmendorff
Otto Wahrmund
Sanger
Paris
Germany
New York
St. Louis
Nashville Bride-to-Be Plans Shanghai Wedding Alone
Miss Mary Gudenrath travels twelve thousand miles solo to her own marriage in Shanghai. Her fiancé, once Alabama sweethearts, worked for the American Tobacco Company and is now to oversee Shanghai affairs. The couple's engagement persisted through years of separation.
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Nashville
Tenn
Mary Gudenrath
China
Shanghai
Woman in men's clothes joins husband on daring rail journey
Mrs. Fannie Anderson, 28, wore overalls and a slouch hat to travel with her husband to New York to avoid separation. Arrested in Brooklyn for trespassing in railroad yards, they faced 20 days in jail after the kit of tools was found in an empty freight car.
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ST. Louis
Fannie Anderson
New York
Brooklyn
Anderson
Premature engagement string leads to public denial
In Trenton New Jersey Leon Embley’s engagement notice provoked a reply from his father announcing the wedding will be postponed until age 21 and refusing consent if marriage proceeds Nellie Sheller then vows she will not marry. In Clifton Heights Pennsylvania Father M G Scully notes few marriages this year in St Michael’s parish attributing it to bashfulness among young men.
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Trenton
N. J
Leon Embley
Nellie Sheller
Embley
Clifton Heights
Penn
St. Michael's Catholic Church
Kellyville
M. G. Scully
Scully
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