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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1925
Page
16
Readers are invited to send social notices such as visits, departures, arrivals, or other items to The Times Society Editor. Include details signature address and contact phone. Submissions accepted weekdays 8 to 11 30 am and 12 30 to 5 pm, Saturdays 1 to 9 pm, with post-noon items published next day.
Fragment from a local paper combines a Christmas carol excerpt with social notes. It mentions a Book Club meeting at Mrs T H Pratt's Sevier Street home on Thursday at 5 o clock, an O E S quilt fundraiser at the Masonic Hall hosted by several members, and the quiet marriage of Hazel Martin to Leon ard Cardwell at Rev S G Ketron's Ravine Street home. Additional society items note club activities, contests, and various residents visiting or in town yesterday.
Miss Betty Bronson models an apple green two piece frock in crepe romaine with a circular skirt and green taffeta trim. The article notes fashion trends for spring featuring Georgette fabrics, light shades, and lace trimming across outfits in a period, printed as a design digest.
The article notes inserts of ecru lace marking the joining of shirt to bodice. It lists several visitors and guests including Mrs. Wm. Brittan and Mrs. Alva Fox of Church Hill, Mr. Floyd Ingleman of Knoxville, Mrs. W. H. Greear and son from Greeneville, Miss Rose and Mabel Miller and Mr. J. E. Miller, Mrs. E. F. Smith, Mrs. R. H. Fraser, Mrs. Raymond Fisher, Mrs. C. H. Pickens, and visitors at Bristol. It mentions the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Foe Pectol named Billy Joe and notes guests Bertram H. Borden and Nathan Durfee of Fall River, Mass., at Rotherwood.
A five story tenement blaze on East 14th Street, New York, killed four women and one man and injured five others. Three women died on the top floor while a woman and a man perished in a third floor hallway. Firemen battled the flames as a second fire threat emerged on East Sixteenth Street. Fire Marshall Brophy opened an incendiary origin inquiry.
White Plains New York December 15 The grand jury investigating the charge against Dr J C Bennett an eye specialist of Yonkers has been discharged.
Officials report the grand jury did not return an indictment and the charge against Dr Gennett was dismissed in the Rhinelander annulment trial. The jurors offered no comment as the case moved on. In Asia the fate of warlord Chang Tso-Lin remains tied to the battle near Mukden.
News dispatch from Shanghai reports from Japanese sources that a decisive battle is ongoing. Details on forces, location, and potential outcomes remain unconfirmed as reports filter in from the front.
A flock of crows raided a local golf course and carried away three golf balls in a single afternoon. The incident occurred at the course grounds, prompting players to note the birds’ bold thefts and ongoing bird activity.
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