Palmetto Personal Notices Favor Local Visits and Moves
Palmetto residents host and travel widely with visitors from Tampa St. Petersburg and Pensacola. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Turner and children of Tampa, Mrs. E. S. McConnell, Mrs. J. J. Saxton, and Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Fischer in Palmetto. Several locals plan distant summer stays, moves to Tennessee and Connecticut, and trips to Venice Dunnellon Coral Gables and Sarasota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Turner
Tampa
D. D. Ward
R. H. Wester
Baby
W. A. Fischer
Mrs. A. M. C. Russell
Bernard and
Iris
Coral Gables
Mrs. Russell
Mr. Durst
District Legion Auxiliary Meeting Here Wednesday
An important business session of the American Legion Auxiliary preceded a joint card party and dance at Bradenton Country Club. President Mrs. G B Knowles led a well attended meeting detailing May Day funds sent to flood victims, Red Cross clothing, and plans for the annual poppy sale to aid hospitalized veterans and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
American Legion and Auxiliary
Bradenton Country Club
G. B. Knowles
Alimony, feminism, and fashion in old columns
A collage of social notes recounts a divorce after a fault claim, a fictive alimony saga from Detroit, and gender roles in earning income. It cites a National Home Study Council survey, laments unpaid alimony, and jokes about wives’ cooking while discussing Mary Lewis and Elsie De Wolfe on money and dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Home Study Council
Papa
Elsie de Wolfe
Miss de Wolfe
Mrs Lewis Hosts Notable Bridge Luncheon on Terra Ceia Island
A springtime gathering at Mrs H F Lewis’s Terra Ceia Island home featured a three course lunch and porch tables for bridge. Prizes were awarded with Mrs Harry Anderson high, Mrs D M Courtney second, and Mrs S N Davis consolation. Guests included E C McLean and A B Rowe among others. A musical interlude by Mrs A B Rowe followed the games. The snippet closes with a statistical note: 1903 had 68 books per 1000, 1913 had 89, while current reads run about 125 per 100.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
H. F. Lewis
Terra Ceia Islan
Harry Anderson
D. M. Courtney
S. N. Davis
O. W. McClure
A. B. Rowe
Mesdames
E. C. McLean
Fred Kermode
A. D. Cox
T. A. Howze
M. O. Harrison
J. P. Harlice
W. T. Harrison
Pollard
T. R. Robinson
J. P. Davison
E. G. Grimes
M. Courtney
Social calendar items for Bradenton St Petersburg and Manatee County
A slate of community events includes the Sixth District American Legion Auxiliary meeting at 11 at the Bradenton Woman's Club and an Optimist Club luncheon at 12 15 at the Dixie Grande Hotel. Mrs O B McKinley hosts a bridge party at 3 on Fifteenth Street with the E T C Club meeting at Riverview Boulevard. Frederica Balch and Lennard Nelson Wadi wed at 6 30 in St Petersburg Congregational Church. Manatee County High School Senior Class plans a class night at the Biltmore auditorium at 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradenton
Stephen Fifield
American Legion Auxiliary
Sixth District
Optimist Club
Dixie Grande Hotel
Frederica Balch
Lennard Nelson Wadi
Congregational Church
St. Petersburg
Manatee County High School
Biltmore Auditorium
Ready Made Suits Popular In England Jazz Age Blamed
English fashion shift after World War I boosts ready made and ready to wear clothing in London as jazz age habits curb tailor made suits. Demand rises for ready made blazers and summer outfits while tailors face gloom on Savile Row amid high taxes and inheritance duties.
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England
London
Saville Row
Court
Fresh Diced Pineapple Breakfast and Steamed Fish Pudding
A sister Mary breakfast menu lists fresh diced pineapple cereal cream and scrambled eggs with cheese ham toast milk and coffee. Luncheon features steamed fish pudding creamed carrots vegetables fruit salad plain cakes milk and tea. Dinner includes celery soup lima bean loaf croquettes lettuce egg salad lemon sponge pie graham bread milk and coffee. Steamed Fish Pudding combines shredded fish breadcrumbs lemon onion salt pepper cream eggs and is steamed then served hot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sister Mary
Tailors to Royalty Highlighted in Historic Playbill Snippet
A fragment from a theater program lists “Tailors to His Majesty, the King of Siam” and “Tailors to His Majesty, the late Czar of Russia” among notable royal dressmakers. The item reflects era specific honorifics and the fashion guild’s reach across courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam
Czar
Russia
Social Notes Highlight Local Births and Visits in Bradenton
Personal mentions recall the May 21 birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs J P Mixon of Palmetto. Guests from Lakeland visit the Bolins of Bradenton while planning summer travels to Georgia and the Carolinas. Nearby, George J Martin of Newman Georgia stays at the Dixie Grande Hotel. Various performers and residents are listed with visits, engagements, and departures across Bradenton, Tampa, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J- P. Mixon
Palmetto
E. S. Bolin
Lakeland
Mr. Bolin
L. B. Bolin
Ninth Street
Miami
Georgia
Carolinas
George J. Martin
Newman, Georgia
Bradenton
Dixie Grande Hotel
George C. Tinsley
West Palm Beach
Also Mentioned on This Page
Palmetto Personals
S&s E. McConnell
J. J. Saxton
T. M. Woodburn
FE. W. Johnson
J. C. Permenter
Venice
Dr. Hilburn of
E. T. Bell
Jessie Miller
R. L. Cely
Adams, Tenn
Murphy Gower
Palemtto
Tennessee
Poney Murphy
Mrs
Bob Dely
Sunbury
William Abt
Pensacola
8. C. Dupree
Bryant Williams
Watkinsville
W. A. Munsey
L. R. Smoak
R. L. Durant
Dunnellon
Derant
John Padgett
St. Augustine
Mrs. Evans
Lake Wales
E. B. Harrison
Arcadia
District Legion Auxiliary
Department
Auxilary
Legion
Tucker
Legion Hall
G. B Knowles
Auxiliary
Herald
Palace Theatre
Mae Murray
Altars
Conway Tearle
American Legion
Benjamin Franklin
Manatee River Bank and Trest Co
City, County & State Depository
B. P Bronson
B. P. Bronson
B. P
Lena Lapidus
Detroit
Morris Lapidus
Morris
Lena
Mary Lewis
Schumann-Heink
Ernestine
Sloan
O. B. McKinley
Fifteenth Street
E. T. C. Club
Bob Cely
Bluebird
Streabbag
Vaughan MacDugald
Mitch
The
Boy Scouts
Martha Sue Hayes
Mona McLean
Edith Smith
Nevin
Mamie Lee Smith
Reid
Mary Ferguson
Aster Shottiche
Mary Peterson
Claudia Waltz
Greenwald
Larone Hardin
Way
Ovau
Ws Majesty
Royal Warra
Jane ME
Talor
Virginia Tresca
Richard
Hildred Mikel
Wachs
Doris Courtney
Lester
Clarice Courtney
Old Madrid
Trotere
Minnie Jones
Drumheller
Lucile Mikel
Mattei
Elizabeth Ezell
Rachmaninoff
Elizabeth Hamilton
Lane Wilson
A. Greenberg
J. W. Hancock
Louisville
Terrell Fender
Valdosta, Georgia
Preston White
Jacksonville
North Carolina
Carl Sanders
Ampico
Pho
Theatre
Chantry
Palmetto Theatre
Starland
Jack Hoxie
Jack
Hoxie
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