Quince Wedding Bellsmark a Quiet Home Ceremony
A wedding at 8:30 p m united Miss Nelle Irena Kingsley and John Carl Dittbrenner at the Kingsley home on Beville Avenue with Rev Cromwell Kirby officiating. Attendants included Miss Irene Dittbrenner and Rae Bradley as guests from Michigan City and Newcastle. reception followed with pink and white decor and a pink white gown worn by the bride.
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Frank E. Kingsley
Beville Avenue
Misg Nelle Irena Kingsley
John Carl Dittbrenner
Cromwell Kirby
South Street
Walter Boyd
Leroy Berry
Mewcastle
Kingsley
Fred Colebrook
Miss Dittbrenner
Local social notes and visits from town
Mr and Mrs Meadows return home after a wedding journey through the west. surprise party held Saturday for them. Miss Emma Hardegan hosts first card club meeting with twelve members on North Delaware street. Mrs W H Blodgett leaves Friday for Fort Wayne as Meridian league delegate to the WC T U convention. Several ladies travel to Lafayette Ind for missionary branch meeting. Arthur Jordan departs for New York to join Mrs Jordan for a two week east visit. CHO club to meet Friday due to Mrs J F Edwards illness at 525 East Thirty second. Mrs Frank Starkey hosts bridge Tuesday evening on West Pratt. Miss Laura Kemper invites for Halloween party Oct 31 on Twenty Seventh street. Miss Florence Kittle returns from Lincoln Neb after weeks away. Mrs Rena Kittle returns from Lake Maxinkuckee after ten days. Mrs Evans of West Thirtieth street leaves for Tipton Ind for a week.
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Enoch Warman
North Alabama Street
Edith Warmum Scuciler
J. Arthur Myers
Chicago
Music Room
William Everson
College Avenue Baptist Church
Mrs. Meadows
Downey Street
Emma Hardegan
North
Delaware Street
Charming Bridal Gift Embroidered Luncheon Set Notes
The Christian Science Monitor describes a bridal gift comprising an embroidered luncheon cloth with two yard square cloth and two napkins sized 20 by 20 inches, plus a buffet scarf 24 by 54 inches. Designs favor simple flowers scrolls and leaf motifs with eyelet or solid embroidery and French knot centers.
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Christian Science Monitor
The Linen Chest Gift Sets on Sixteenth Birthday
Three girls each received a linen chest on sixteenth birthdays. Two modern chests, one heirloom filled with homespun. They began with practical linens like towels and dusters, then added sheets, pillowcases, aprons, and quilts. As they aged, elaborate lace and cushion covers joined the collection. One girl is widly involved and two have used their chests. the third remains a bachelor.
Actress Quits Stage for Aviator Lover
London October 11 Marie Lohr the actress and Robert Lorraine the famous aviator have announced their engagement. Miss Lohr has nine years on the English stage at age 20 and comes from a strong theatrical family. Lorraine, an international aviator and actor, was formerly married to Julie Opp who divorced him in 1902.
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London
Marie Lohr
Robert Lorraine
Miss Lohr
Lorraine
Julie Opp
Old fashioned yet useful home making advice
The text urges mothers to interest daughters in housekeeping early to ease future responsibilities. It argues that household furnishings are universally appealing to girls and that gradual preparation provides a constructive occupation for long hours, especially in the era of business women.
Afternoon Tea Menu Ideas for Debutantes
A Philadelphia Times note suggests dainty afternoon tea menus for debutantes, with sandwiches of chopped nuts olives and cream cheese for tea drinkers and caviar or minced chicken for chocolate lovers. Olives and lettuce with mayonnaise, little cakes bonbons salted nuts stuffed dates and cheese balls add charm, while creamed oysters rolled bread and butter sandwiches plus salad suit a larger repast. For social teas with theater or dinner, two to three girls hosting with young men present is common. Elaborate menus are discouraged. flowers should abound for a refined, dainty ambiance.
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Philadelphia Times
Visiting Card Sizes Shift This Fall For Proper Etiquette
A guide notes visiting cards shrink slightly this season with men’s cards just under three by one and a half inches, while married women's cards stay nearly square. Paste boards carry both names, thickness rises, and styles move from script to old English and block. Address placement rules vary by use of day.
Quiet Tones and Seasonal Shifts in Wall Coverings
The article notes that wall coverings change with seasons and interior schemes. It advocates soft quiet shades and subdued backgrounds, with color contrast from fires, flowers, pillows, and lamps rather than bold walls. A shop features gray with mulberry, and gray moire with mulberry velvet. Bachelors rooms show deep wainscoting in greens and browns.
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New ‘York
Uae
Velvet Ribbons and Satin Trims Dominant in Paria Fashions
Very wide velvet ribbons headline hat trims and sashes while bright satin and velvet facings accent white and black dresses. Black and white striped silk trims ochre suits. Jabots and Tosca net waists rise in popularity with Scotch colors. Leather and patent leather belts lead new waistlines, with belts and dress goods favored to prevent hopping. The era hints at a return to higher Empire waists in dressy gowns.
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Paria
Fragmentary snippet on transparency and shadow figures
A brief excerpt discusses the transparency of the black figure, noting that what appears as trimming is more like a shadow. The fragment hints at perception and interpretation affecting visual clarity.
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Dlack
Theater for Women Opens in London by Gertrude Kingston
Gertrude Kingston has completed a theater designed for women in London. She studied women’s needs and provided features like extra large cloakroom shelves for hats and wraps. Each seat has a receptacle for gloves opera glasses chocolates and handkerchiefs and similar items women wish to take to the theater.
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Gertrude Kingston
London
Winter Garden Table for Windows
A simple four by two foot table of poplar or pine makes a winter garden accessible and attractive. The top drops about six inches and is lined with zinc with a wastepipe in one corner. Casters allow easy movement between windows and a bucket to catch draining water.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Black Notes in Paris Fashions This Season
Black notes dominate Paris fashion with black fur accents. Silky black fur trims tailored costumes, outlines collars and coat buttons, and decorates skirts and double breasted fastenings. Black fox remains popular and ermine appears with or without spots.
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Paris
Ribbon Trimmings on Afternoon and Evening Gowns
Narrow black velvet ribbons trim afternoon gowns while velvet ribbons one to two inches wide in various colors trim evening gowns made of satin or chiffon. The trims add edge detailing across different dress styles and fabrics.
Saving Time in Home Dressmaking Tips
The article notes that ready tucked fabrics such as chiffon net lawn and batiste save time and patience in home dressmaking. It emphasizes even work and the need for sewing machine skill for yokes colors and sleeve parts.
Worldly Wisdom Bits From A Bygone Column
A quaint collection of anecdotes on fashion, marriage, pies, and household quirks. It skewers New York vanity, the quirky logic of love and money, and the everyday foibles of mothers, husbands, and children with playful humor and sharp social observations.
New Hand Bags In Silk and Velvet Styles
A fashion note describes heavy watered silk bags with gold framing and tassels, highlighting a gold monogram on a black watered silk bag. Velvet bags appear, but the maire style is praised for elegance and dust resistance.
Genius Inventions At Home Sparks Laughing Exchange
A witty exchange unfolds where a woman asks who is the greatest inventor of the times. She answers that her husband, though, is the one. The other replies that she did not know he ever invented anything. The humor pivots on his excuses for coming home at 2 in the morning.
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Jove
Lysander John Appleton
Letter exposes secret milliner bill in domestic scene
A tense exchange reveals a wife demanding to see a letter she suspects is from another woman. The husband, already pale from reading it, ultimately hands over the document, revealing it is merely a milliner's bill.
How to Make a Fancy Piano Cover on a Budget
A guide suggests using three yards of embroidery flouncing for a pretentious piano cover. It launderes well and is inexpensive, with dainty patterns available from 29 to 55 cents per yard. A mitered corner fits the piano top for a pleasing effect.
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John Carl
Dittbrenner
Sabine Frederick
H. J. Epply
Bess Herr
Senate Avenue
Japan
Miss Herr
J. M. Herr
James A. Calderhead
Miss Frederick
Alice Hoffman
Mary Harlan
Minnie Small
Lucille Nordyke
Helen Holloway
Tessie Root
Clara Epply
Beulah Fox
Elizabeth Light
Bernice Logan
Stanley Bowen
Clarence Schad
Robert Leibrich
Wilber Dixon
Paul Hyde Buchanan
Pennsylvania Street
Helen Margaret Johnson
Buchanan
Margaret Johnson
Milwaukee
Wis
Miss Johnson
John T. Greene
Sacramento
Cal
W. H. Lockwood
Braxton Baker
Elizabeth Baker
Park Avenue
Liza Leichmann
Persian Garden
Maude Essex
Oprano
Eva Jeffries
Louis Ochez
Basso
Carl Emmert
Charles F. Hanson
Kokomo
Muncie
Anderson
Greenfield
Columbus
Indianapolis
Jataree ‘Page
Jane Mason Kyle
Paul Richie
Milas Sara Johnson
Los Angeles
Miss Kyle
Ward H. Dean
Bingham
Walter Gregory
Pittsburg
John J. Kyle
Lena Swift
Third Christian Church
Broadway
Addie Blair
Frances Eliott
H. B. Burnet
H. G. Hill
Priscilla B. Hickmen
G. E. Homsher
G. M. Henderson
J. G. Morgan
William Spearing
Postumas Club
Ashland Avenue
F. J. Getle
Walter T. White
H. W. Painter
A. B. Cooke
John Kealing
East Washington Street
Thomas W. O'Connor
Monticello
Gertrude O'Connor
St. Agnes’ Academy
Rose Krieg
Frank 8B. Stout
St. Mary's Church
W. H. Blodgett
Ft. Wayne
Meridian League
John E. Higdon
Fred Hoke
Nelson Apgar
Milholland
Ethel Watkins
Lafayette
Ind
The
Missionary Society
Arthur Jordan
New York
Mrs. Jordan
East
J. F. Eawards
CHO Club
W. N. Willson
East Thirty-second Street
Frank Starkey
West Pratt Street
Laura Kemper
Twenty-seventh Street
Florence Kittle
Lincoln, Neb
Rena Kittle
Lake Maxinkuckee
Evans
West Thirtieth Street
Tipton
LOHR
Horlick
Porlick
Winter Garden
K.P Warrson & Co
Flatirons
Indianapolis Light and Heat Co
Monument Place
Old Main
State Life Insurance Co
Denison
Amight
Good _ BARIN
Murat Theatre
Alven Cavett
57Th Street
Central Park
Carnegie Hall
Great Northern
Louis XVI
Eliase Atoinette
Fifth Avenue
Riverside Drive
West 57Th Street, N.Y
M. E. Burke
J.D. Mvison
Merchants Heat &Light Co
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