President Elect Wilson and His Family
Charles N. Lurie profiles Woodrow Wilson family life during the transition era. Josephine Cothran, age fifteen months, and Virginia Payton Howe, age three, join Wilson relatives in the White House while Wilson’s siblings and daughters are cited. The piece notes Margaret Jessie Eleanor Wilson daughters, their talents, and Mrs. Wilson’s art and social work while hinting at the open house policy debate.
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Charles N. Lurie
Washington
Josephine Cothran
White House
Sousa
Virginia Payton Howe
Baby Cothran
Howe
Wilson
Wison
Executive Mansion
Iein
Perin Cothran
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Josephine
Virginia
Joseph Wilson Howe
Alrady
Virenia
George Howe
Cleveland
Joseph R. Wilson
John A. Wilson
Franklin, Pah
Nashville
Starf
Banner
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
University
Pennsylvania
Lincoln
Mr. Wilson
Margaret
Jessie
Eleanor
Princeton University
New Jersey
Bermuda
Jeasie and
Vieanor
Lfe
Mika Margaret Wosen
Pome
Ruih
Misa Margaret
Jessie Wilson
Young Women's Christian Association
Committee On Colleges and Schools
Crows Roads
Pach Bros
New York
Wilson Woodrow
Margaret Wilson
Eleanor Wilson
Josephine Coth
Minor wartime notes reveal toll on home front lives
A wartime column highlights everyday suffering back home and frontline bravery. It recounts Sophie Lobitza Jovanovitch, a Belgrade typist who joined her admirer in the Servian army and is hailed as queen of the army. It also describes Bulgarian and Serb casualties, stoic peasants, and roadside scenes near Adrianople and Belgrade as journalism documents the war’s quieter front.
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Sophie Lobitza Jovanovitch
Belgrade
Michael Stepanovitch
Sophie
Merdek
Uskub
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American Press Association