Pretty weddings and society notes fill city pages
The day’s society section records numerous weddings and engagements. Florence M. Bessel marries Chester Oral William. Lottie C. Wester to Donald J. Munro. Carrie Cahn to Herbert Rindekopf. Attendants include Blanch Kelly, Kathleen Walsh, and more. Receptions and showers follow in homes across South New Jersey Street, Roache Avenue, and North Illinois Street, with guests from Columbus Indiana to New Orleans.
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Florence M. Bessel
John B. Bessel
Chester
William
South New Brney
S Street
Tes
Minnte Marsh
Rland Connelly
Harry Carr
Loben
Claude R. Shaver
Sev- Presbyterian Church
Raymond
John H. McCloskey
Lottie C. Wester
August Thouse
Donald J. Munro
Church of the Holy Angels
James Coulter
Blanch Kelly
William’ Westerhouse
Kelly
Wester
Nro
Alexander
Miss Munro
Chris
Albert Fisher
Ft. Wayne
Carrie Cahn
M. Cahn
Herbert Rindekopf
Claypool
Emony
Kilsipson
Cincinnati
Gar Rindekopf
New Orleans
Rindskopf
Edgar Rinds
Hobble Skirt Lets Whole Secret Out at Indiana Wedding
Mrs. Freda Schilling, 33, wore a white silk hobble skirt when she wed Joseph H. Kissell, 25, a saloon keeper, in Lawrenceburg Indiana. The pair had sworn secrecy to license clerks but the unusual dress drew a crowd as the ceremony drew attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Freda Schilling
Joseph H. Kissell
Daughter Is Chosen Instead Of Mother
In Cleveland Ohio on September 28 Judge Reynolds heard Alfred Haney's divorce suit against his 20 year old bride. Mrs Haney testified that she and her mother visited Bertha Clifford in Huntsburg. Clifford asked which would be his wife and he chose the daughter, noting they were married in a few weeks.
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Miss Cornet
G. P. Cornet
May
Theresa Corn
Cleveland, O
Reynolds
Geauga County
Alfred Haney
Breagh of Promise Suit Moves to South Bend
A change of venue was granted on Tuesday in the breach of promise suit of Miss Mabelle Seymour of Chicago against William Stearne, a LaPorte shoe dealer. The action seeks to set aside sale of stock to recover $6,500 principal and interest, and the case was sent to South Bend for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte
Ind
Mabelle Seymour
Chicago
William Stearne
South Bend
The Nigger Comes to Murat Next Week Amusements
The South race drama The Nigger by Edward Shelton arrives at Shubert Murat October 6 7 and 8 with Guy Bates Post as Philip Morrow and Florence Rockwell in supporting roles. Lynching race riot election and other realistic scenes are described as powerful and humanly compelling. Jeanne Towler stars in Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks at the Park with promise of a non offensive version.
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Edward Sheldon
South
Shubert Murat
New York
New Theater
Guy Bates Post
Philip Morrow
United States
Elinor Glyn
Jeanne Towler
In Old Kentucky Play Opens at Park With Scenic Depth
The review highlights Madge Brierly’s line It are a hundred feet down and the stage illusion of a deep gorge. Although the chasm seems vast, it is actually ten feet, created by padded runways and a bridge that comes apart in places. The Park screens the familiar musical comedy Wednesday afternoon and night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge
Joe Lorey
Old
Kentucky
Madge Brierly
Blanch Ring Advocates Traditional View On Suffrage
Blanche Ring denounces women's suffrage in forthright terms. She defends home life, motherhood, and marriage as the proper mission for women, mocks public demonstrations, and urges women to return home and focus on making one man happy. Her stance contrasts with modern suffrage fervor she calls exhausting and unnecessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Ring
Christy Girl Says Couple Will Reunite
Miss Guis lan Britt the Christy girl in the Christy trial says the artist and his wife are reconciled and that Mrs Christy will move to New York to settle affairs before Zanesville becomes their future home in Paris.
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Christy
Zanesville
Guislan Britt
Paris
New York
Anna Eva Fay Somnolency Vaudeville Act Mystery
Vaudeville entertainer Anna Eva Fay performs Somnolency with mysterious feats after audience members bound her. She blindfolds and uses mind reading to answer written questions about lost items, missing friends, relationships, and personal affairs with rapid, detailed responses.
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Anna Eva Fay
Miss Fay
From Gay Life to Padded Cell in Oakland
Harry Rhinestrom, 26, heir to a Cincinnati distiller, lies in a padded cell at Receiving hospital after a street burst of insanity. He and Edna Loftus, famed Leidon music hall star, married in Kentucky after eloping from his mother’s opposition. Once wealthy, he squandered his estate funds, including $1,000 weekly on the actress, and now awaits advice from eastern relatives as he is confined for safety.
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Oakland
Cal
Harry Rhinestrom
Cincinnati
Rhienstrom
Edna Loftus
Leidon
E City
Emma Rhienstrom
Kentucky
Rheinstrom
Fifteenth Street
Miss Loftus
New York City
Edmond Hayes Stars in The Wise Guy at Empire Theater
Edmond Hayes, veteran actor, leads The Wise Guy company this week at Empire theater. He has a long dramatic background with Mantell and Robert Downing, and has played heavy leads in Denver and San Francisco stock theaters. Hayes also headlined vaudeville with Shakespearean moments. The Wise Guy was written for him by George M. Cohan, and he originates the title character, praised as among the funniest on stage.
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Edmond Hayes
Wise Guy
Empire Theater
Mantell
Robert Downing
Denver
San Francisco
Hayes
George M. Cohan
Mr. Hayes
Appeals for aid to teach Chinese mission work
Bishop Lozan H Roots of Hankow urged Trinity parish in Washington to recruit more men and women to spread Christianity in China. He argued that Christian nations opened the Flowery Kingdom through missionary work, citing St. John’s hint to be of good cheer since victory over the world. He noted safer travel as proof of missionaries’ long efforts.
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Washington
China
Lozan H. Roots
Hankow
Episcopal
Trinity Parish
Roots
St. John
Duke Praises United States Girls on Departure
Duke Franz Joseph of Bavaria spoke off the Kronprinz Wilhelm on Sept 28 in New York praising American women as wonderfully attractive while noting he has no plans to marry, though he admired the country’s women and will return home with his heart intact.
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New York
Franz Josef
Bavaria
Kronprinz Wilhelm
America
Europe
Central Christian church plans Nov. 3 auction sale
Columbus Ind on Sept 28 The Central Christian church the only church with a roof garden hopes to clear its debt via auction sale of donations on November 3.
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Columbus
Ind
Central Christian Church
Columbus to Have Own City Hospital
Grace May Morris heads a new corporation which will take over the Roope sanitarium and operate it as a city hospital. A training school for nurses will be in charge of Miss Adele Deitz.
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Columbus
Ind
Grace May Morris
Roope ‘Sanitarium
Adele Deitz
Bedford hunter shoots companion in squirrel hunt incident
At Bedford Indiana on December 23 W H Culmer a noted local merchant was wounded in the leg and face by a squirrel shot fired by hunting partner Joe Johnson. The pair had separated and each did not know the other’s location when the shot occurred.
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Mer
Joe Johnson
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