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Newport social war signals end of an aristocratic paradise
A sprawling account details Newport's caustic social battle among the Social Strategy Board led by Mrs. Oelrichs and Mrs. Fish, a Philly NY crossfire with the Goelets and Biddles, rising exodus to Bar Harbor, and looming collapse of the cottage settlement era as trade, tax, and church unions tighten.
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Newport
Theresa Odrichs
Social Strategy Board
Rosecliff
Thomas F. Walsh
Oelrichs
Mrs. Walsh
Denver
Evelyn
Mrs. Thompson
Julie Phillips
Anne
George Hahn
Craig Biddies
Anthony J
Cadwaladers
Virginia Evelyn Howell
Miss Howell
Baby Brown
Sherman Twins
Roche “S
Ministers’ Union
Stuyvesant Fish
O. H. P. Belmont
Pioneer
Quelrichs
Fish
San Francisco
Virginia Fair
William K. Vanderbilt
Oebrichs
Belmont
Social Straegy Board
Astors
Belmonts
Taylors
Spencers
Vanderbilts
Cushings
Winthrops
Walsh
Hermann Oeltichs
New York
Newport Society
Washington
Europe
Little Mary Paul
Drexels
Reggie
Alfred
Elsie Whelen
Robert Goelet
Quakertown
Craig Biddle
Wheens
Elsie
Mrs. Goelet
Mrs. Biddle
Eisie
Bar Harbor
America
United States
Union
Theresa Oelrichs