Society news and club gatherings across town
Social events fill the week as the Mu Phi Epsilon Alumnae host at G W Bradshaw home with bridge prizes for Miss Mabel Barnhart and Mrs C W Strafion. Beauceant tenth anniversary supper at Masonic temple features Judge Hugh Means, music, and a play. Qui Vive club shares bridge prizes with Mrs Alfred Withington and Mrs Charles Hackler. Farm Bureau women Brackett group meets at Mrs John Patchen’s. Progressive Reading Club hosts three travelers from Topeka with talk on India including Mary Richmond. Christian Endeavor plans church social and business meeting. Lawrence Art Club meets at Spooner Thayer museum. art digest review precedes lesson on Kinteretto and Venese. Quivira club reviews The Magnificent Obsession with Mrs Keeler as host. Junior High School 2-T A to meet for talks on post junior high plans. mothers invited. Friday Mission Club hosts Adah Past Matrons at Masonic temple. K Dames banquet features radio program at Wiedemann’s. Helen Alsoda Hoopes travels to Columbia Mo for university chapter event. Tea at 4 oclock for Miss Hoopes hosted by Missouri University Poetry Society.
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G. W. Bradshaw
Elizabeth
Cleary
Mu Phi Epsilon
Mabel Barnhart
C. W. Strafion
Wiedemann’s. i
R. C. ‘Miller
Marvin C. Ayre
Masonic Temple
F. T. Stockton
Arcison
E. Friend
Marjorie Rumble
Genevieve West
Irma Cummings
Irma Cummings, Bridge Club
Wend
Presbyterian
Women’s Guild
E. H. Lindley
R. C. Moore
Imperial Club
League of Women Voters
Hotel Biaziones Bridgettes
Charles Laming
Tomanoxie
Corder
Octet Bridge Club
G. W.onshaw
J. T. Skinner
Kanaga
W. G. McFarland
K. A. Dames
Wiedemann’s
Social Calendar highlights in Kansas City area
A dense social calendar lists Wednesday events at Wiedemann's and the Hotel Wend with bridge clubs, guilds, and a luncheon circuit. Notable items include Miss Ella Victoria Dobbs hosting Pi Lambda Theta, Miss Hoopes’s sorority presidency, and an evening Portia club meeting featuring talks on Spanish colonial roots. Dorothy Rails announces engagement. university and D.A.R. activities also noted.
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Ciety
Miss Hoopes
Ella
Victoria Dobbs
Pi Lambda Theta St
Teachers’ Honorary Sorority
University of Missouri
Lawrence
Beauceant social notes and Topeka meeting guest list
Eluding with wiener toast near midnight at the brickyard pond. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Allphin, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Beal, Miss Thomas, and Mr. Mullins. Women of the Social Order of the Beauceant traveled to Topeka for a chapter meeting where Mrs. W. G. Robinson of Atlantic City was guest. Lawrence attendees listed among many local members.
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Brickyard Pond
Herbert Allphin
Clifford Beal
Miss Thomas
Mr. Mullins
Social Order of the Beauceant
Topeka
W. G. Robinson
Atlantic City
Lawrence
A.C. Mitchell
E. E. Trueblood
W. H. Mchone
FM. Holliday
0. J. Lane
Harry Sparks
George Dun
Personal travel notes of Holmes and acquaintances
Mr and Mrs J R Holmes returned last night from a several week motor trip to the east. Mrs John Mauck accompanied them and remained in Indiana. They visited in St Louis Wheeling West Virginia and Washington DC where their son Julius C Holmes secretary to the American Legation in Bucharest rejoined them. Jean Jackman will depart tonight for Berkeley to visit Miss Barbara Barteldes and return to Lawrence mid May. Mrs trt Williams spent yesterday in Topeka and Mrs Mob Goff returned from Albany Missouri after two and a half months with her daughter Mrs D D Hornaday. The McGracken family and daughter Patty Ann visited Albany with Mrs Goff. Mrs Goff, 86, was an early Kansas settler since 1869. Mrs ML J Schleppy was called to Kansas City today by the illness of granddaughter Mrs Richard Rauter.
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J. R. Holmes
East
John Mauck
Indiana
Jean Jackman
Berkeley
Cal
Barbara Barteldes
University of California
Lawrence
Trt Williams
Topeka
Daisy Hadle
Mob. Goff
D. D. Hornaday
Albany
W. A. McGracken
Patty Annn
Goff
Kansas City
Richard Rauter
Sketches From The Capital By Congressman Guyer
The Dolly Madison House on H Street Washington linked to Dolly Madison era hosts, great men, and notable women. Civil War era occupation by General McClellan noted. Lincoln once sought audience, sparking controversy over the general's refusal. The piece recalls ties to Webster Calhoun Clay and early Capitol history.
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Lafayette Square
H Street
Washington
United States
Alexander Hamilton
Dolly Madison
Madison
Daniel “Webster
John €. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Clay
Stephen Decatur
Commodore Necatur
M Thornton
Capitol
Tobias Lear
John Peter
van Ness
da Burns
George B. McClellan
McClellan
West Point
Illinois Central Railroad
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
General McClellan
Aunt Het by Robert Quillen in 1928 style
Short humorous note recalling Aunt Het and a playful remark about modern dress and modesty. Quillen style humor highlights social pretenses from the era and the caricature of public figures.
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Aunt Het
Robert Quillen
Government to replace Cosmos Club house with office building
A historic residence once owned by the Cosmos Club and later occupied by Mack Melellan was sold to the Government. The old house will be demolished to make way for a modern government office building. Also noting an Appliance Show at 9473 Mass and a portrait studio at 829 Mass for Mothers Day.
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Melellan
Oly
Cosmos Club
Adv
Ee Soci
Mothers Day— Studio
Mass
Grandi Calls for Abolition of Battleships and Bombers
Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi at the disarmament conference backs the U S plan to end tanks heavy artillery and gas warfare and adds a proposal to abolish battleships aircraft carriers and bombing planes. He urges gradual destruction to cut costs and boost security.
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Geneva
Dino Grandi
Italy
United States
Amendment to Volstead Act for cereal beverage tax plan
The National Association of Manufacturers proposed to amend the Volstead act in the Senate Finance Committee to permit sale of a wholesome palatable cereal beverage. The plan aims to raise 270 million dollars in taxes.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
National Association of Manufacturers
Cheap Aussie land on deposit ten dollars big tracts sold
The report claims Australian land is extremely inexpensive with ten dollar deposits and 20 cent monthly installments. Unemployed turn to truck gardening. vegetable markets shrink. In Buenos Aires the southern triangle loses population due to weak livestock and wool prices, with several towns shrinking by two fifths. Attending the Appliance Show at 948 Mass on Friday and Saturday.
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Australia
Sydney
Pataronia
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Ronit
Seversl
Fears Boll Weevil Taint Cotton Trade in Fortaleza
Brazilian commercial group protests US cotton imports used for local manufacturing fearing boll weevil infestation. Other items note Madrid air line safety record with 15 160 passengers last year without a fatal accident. Paris installs synchronized traffic lights in Opera district. Community events include North Lawrence Christian church play The Old Fashioned Mother with dates and admission prices. Expressive portraits offered by SThempeams Studio.
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Brazil
Fortaleza
United States
Commercial Association
Air Travel Safe Madrid
Spain
Madrid
Barcelona
Seville
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