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Leap Year Ball Spurs Dozens Toward Marital Vows in St Louis
The Matrimonial Society of Council No 10 Knights of Father Mathew hosted a Leap Year ball where bachel ors proposed to escorts and twelve engagements were announced. Miss Agnes M Dunn married Peter R Gunn within a week, others including Gertrude Lee Agnes Cunningham and Marie Mitchell soon face future weddings as twelve couples accept proposals and thirty two hostesses refrain from sharing their outcomes.
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St. Louis
Matrimonial Society
Council No. 10
Knights of Father Mathew
Peter R. Gunn
The
Knights
Agnes M. Dunn
Miss Dunn
Gertrude Lee
Agnes Cunningham
Marie Mitchell
Miss Lee
Charles W. Murphy
Miss Cunningham
Sidney Ryan
Miss Mitchell
Peter H. Hilton
Mendelssohn
Will
Eva
Wil
Wred