Taft Silver Wedding Celebration At White House
President Taft and family host a grand White House reception for the silver wedding. Telegrams of congratulation arrive from Russia and Turkey as Yale and Psi Upsilon gifts are displayed among numerous presents. The Cincinnati Commercial Club joins the festivities with a luncheon at Chevy Chase Club to mark the jubilee.
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Yale
Taft
Psi Upsilon Fraternity
William H. Taft
Tafters
White House
Delia’ Torrey
President Taft
Miss Torrey
Millbury
Mass
Penniless Wanderer Reunites with Daughter in Salem
In Salem on Curtis street a penniless Frank Baker found his daughter after ten years. The reunion occurred Saturday night and uncovered a fortune of fifty thousand dollars connected to the family.
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Salem
Curtis Street
Frank Baker
How Taft Won His Bride and Beginnings of His Career
William Howard Taft married Helen Herron of Cincinnati on June 19 1886 after a three year engagement. He balanced law work and journalism while helping his father in political campaigns and later built a career that led from the Cincinnati Superior Court to the United States Philippines Commission and ultimately the Roosevelt and Taft administrations.
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William Howard Taft
Helen Terron
Cincinnati
William Taft
Yale University
Murat Halgstead
Williamh. Taft
Helen Herron
Pike Street
Miss Herron
East Walnut Hills
Ohio River
Nellie
William Howard ‘Taft
Horace Dutton Taft
Connecticut
Taft
Fanny Louise
William A. Edwards
Los Angeles
Maria Herron
England
Ireland
Scotland
English Channel
Mr. Taft
Quarry
Superior Court of Cincinnati
Judson Harmon
Harrison
United States
Sixth United States Circuit
Cincinnati Law School
University of Cincinnati
McKinley
Manila
United States Philippines Commission
Philippines
Aft
Rome
Mrs Taft Champions Social Bridge Cabinet At White House
In inaugurations era Mrs Taft opposed divorce social stigma and sought a social bridge cabinet to run White House entertaining while keeping formal secretary duties clerical. She praised Washington as social center and formed bridge gatherings as a key White House feature.
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Taft
Mr. Taft
White House
Washington
Wanderer Becomes Heir After Bequest Stirs Biddeford Ties
Last Wednesday a man named Frank Baker arrived in the city seeking aid on Curtis street. He proved to be the son of a Biddeford wanderer and, after identification, is revealed as the heir to a Montana cattle ranch valued at $50,000 left by his late father. His sisters and granddaughter in Biddeford have been notified and are traveling here by wire, while the father’s past travels and bequest lay a path to a substantial fortune and new family ties.
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Helen Herron
Bill Taft
Ohio
Nellie Herron
Pike Street
Baker
Curtis Street
Catherine Baker
Frank Baker
Biddeford
New England
West
Montana
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