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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
9
Mrs. Henry M. Tilford hosted a grand Sherry's dance for her daughter Katharine with about a hundred couples, electric candles and silver accents. Miss Margery Shannon and Miss Elizabeth Bruce hosted later events at the Plaza with elegant gowns and a midnight buffet.
President Taft and Mrs. Taft attend the wedding of their niece Louise Walbridge Taft to George H. Snowden of Seattle. The ceremony at the Taft residence is limited to relatives and a few intimate friends due to mourning, with no reception.
Miss Christine Kean Roosevelt daughter of Mr and Mrs W Emlen Roosevelt married Lieut James Etter Shelley of the Eleventh Cavalry at Church of Zion and St Timothy. The ceremony followed by breakfast and reception at the Roosevelts 804 Fifth Avenue with relatives including Lucy M Roosevelt as maid of honor and several Roosevelt and Shelley relatives as bridesmaids and ushers.
Arrangements announced for the January 3 wedding of Miss Alice Demorest Wilson, second daughter of Mr and Mrs George Thomson Wilson, to Porter Clyda Shannon, son of Mr and Mrs John Porter Shannon, with a ceremony by Rev Wilton Merle Smith and a reception at the couple’s relatives home. Miss Elsie Charlotte Wilson to serve as maid of honor, with a large list of bridesmaids and attendants including Miss Edith Cook Alice Demorest Beatrice Barclay Ethel Keen Elizabeth Bonbright Charlotte Demorest Gilbert Demorest James Deckert vestman Richard Barnes and several ushers.
The Brooklyn Bureau of Charities appeals for 50 to help a young married couple recently from the hospital with a newborn. The father suffered pleuro-pneumonia before the birth three weeks ago and is too weak to work. Contributions may be sent to 69 Schermerhorn Street marked 016.
In a sparse report from the period, a botanical cough medicine, attributed to Apauson, is mentioned as a remedy during the grippe outbreak. The note points to home treatments and limited clinical detail.
The wedding of Renee Noel Gourd and Louis John de Grenow occurs at noon in the Cathedral with a breakfast at 21 West Twelfth Street. A Waldorf Astoria tableaux marks the American Economic and American Historical Associations anniversary. Multiple society dances and dinners follow at Sherry's, Dodworth's, Knickerbocker, and Colony Club, hosted by prominent families including the Gourd, Mackay, Warren, Whitman, Edgar, and Suffern Livingston households, with numerous debutantes and hosts listed.
The Metropolitan Opera Company staged Mario Costa's Histoire d'un Pierrot at The New Theatre, a first in America. Miss Rita Sacchetto starred as Pierrot with Tucette de Lievin as Louisette, Lodovico Sarracco staging Pochinet, while Cavalleria Rusticana opened with Santuzza sung by Mme. Destini and Turiddu by Mr. Martin. Podesti conducted both works.
Miss Edith Constable, daughter of Mrs Louise Bolmer Constable of 9 East 93rd Street, is engaged to Dr John Henry MacCracken eldest son of Chancellor and Mrs MacCracken New York University graduate class of 1894. He has two brothers George G and Henry N MacCracken both NYU graduates.
Mrs. Arthur H. Hearn hosted a large dinner at the Plaza yesterday evening in the gold room for Miss Elise Mallory Holmes daughter of Mrs. Jabish Holmes. The guests included Catherine Rising Emeline Holmes Gladys Clark Helen Hoffster Margaret Prince Eloise Talcott Alice Brewster Elizabeth Sabin Dorothy Whitehead and Frederick Seggerman Russell Dougherty Harold Van Tyne Walter Douglas Charles Lawrence Anson Bangs Donald Armstrong and Howard Radway.
A Doyle melodrama staged at the Liberty Theatre with Arthur Revelle in the lead. The first act attracts interest through a debate on suicide between a materialist doctor and the Rev Samuel Roden, while the voyage to the Nile and dervish peril follow. Performances by Grace Carlyle Ina Hammer Edwin Brandt and others praised though the swordplay and dervish menace need sharper staging.
Florence Fisher takes over Vera Ravendal in The Melting Pot at the Comedy Theatre. Miss Herne shifts to Miss Philura. The Seven Days company opens a Winter engagement in Syracuse after Chicago previews, with stops in Grand Rapids before Illinois Theatre. Shubert actors join Lulu Glaser in One of the Boys with a large cast. Martin Beck plans a charity benefit at the New York Theatre for the Technical School for Girls featuring top vaudeville acts. Rome prize winners attend Walker Whiteside’s The Melting Pot in New York.
James M. Baxter longtime Newark educator and former principal for colored students died of heart disease at home. He served 45 years in the Newark system and aided opening schools for colored children. He helped secure high school entry rights for colored graduates and last led Market Street School. Survived by widow and five children, including Dr. James L. Baxter.
Supreme Court opened the case of Walter Lawrence against Joseph Weber over profits from The Climax. Lawrence seeks 40 percent of earnings and an injunction to halt salaries and ads for Broadway Production Company. Weber’s side says he lost 4000 on the play and drew 12500, with the author Locke earning over 15000 in royalties.
Justice Davis granted absolute divorce to Mrs. Alice McAloon from her husband William A. McAloon known on stage as Andrew Mack for statutory causes. She cited marriage on December 2, 1887 and a son Francis A. McAloon born December 15, 1889 with corespondent Kate Humphrey stage name May Stevenson. Custody of their twenty-year-old son awarded to Mrs McAloon.
Oscar Hammerstein announced Massenet’s Griselidis with Miss Mary Garden in the title role will premiere next Friday at the Manhattan Opera House. Dufranne and Huberdeau, also in Paris 1901 cast, join as principal roles. the plot follows a medieval tale of fidelity and temptation in the fourteenth century.
Subscribers and operagoers found Mme Olivia Fremstad listed on the Tristan and Isolde program at the Metropolitan Opera House replacing Olive. Posters confirmed the change as official and Fremstad indicated she wished to use the new name in future programmes.
The Metropolitan Opera House presented Hansel and Gretel yesterday afternoon with the same cast from last week. Alten played Gretel, Mattfeld Hansel, Meitschik the Witch, Goritz Peter, Wickham Gertrude, conducted by Mr. Hertz. A large crowd of children attended as usual for this opera.
Paris ballet dancers end their brief strike after directors promise to meet most claims. Dancers say monthly pay ranges from 20 to 25 dollars, just enough to buy shoes.
Arthur Gilman, author of Cambridge Massachusetts, founder of the Harvard Annex now Radcliffe College, died in Atlantic City at age 72. Born June 22 1837 in Alton Illinois he began as a banker and later supported women’s higher education with Harvard instructors bringing education to many students.
Notices indicate marriage and death items may be telephoned to 1000 Bryant for insertion in The New York Times. The entry specifies a contact method for submitting notices.
A roundup of engagements and marriages listed in various locales. Notable pairings include Rose Du Frene and Warren Day Brown in New York. Christine Roosevelt and James Shelley in New York. Lillian Stetson with Frank Hawthorne. and Bertha Velsor with Bastian Kahler among others in Connecticut New Jersey Long Island and New York entries dated December 22 to December 28, 1909.
A crowded December 1909 obituary column lists Merwin Bolton Bangs funeral in Hutchinson Kansas, Homer Phelps Beach, and many others. Notices cover death, residence, and funeral details across multiple families and fraternal organizations, with detailed affiliations and venues.
A long list of death notices and funeral arrangements from New York City and surrounding areas. Names include John E. Currie Sarah F. Davis and many residents of Manhattan Brooklyn and nearby towns with service dates locations and ages where listed. Notices reference St George's Cemetery Newburgh Bayonne Livingston and other locations.
A dense death page lists individuals from New Haven Newark Jersey City Paterson and Danbury with dates Dec 26 27 28 and ages ranging 28 to 886. Funeral services are scheduled for many today or tomorrow including Leonard Zucker and Amelia Warren among others.
Major General John A Wiley longtime Pennsylvania military figure died in Franklin at age 66 from intestinal nephritis. Born Sept 8 1848 in Allegheny County he served 1861-64 with the Army of the Potomac. After the Civil War he led oil interests and was Franklin mayor for six years before the Spanish American War era appointment by President McKinley to brigadier general of volunteers.
John W. Dixon secretary treasurer of the Manhattan Cricket Club dies of pneumonia after attending the Kings County Cricket Club dinner in Brooklyn aged 40. He leaves a widow and four children, a Yorkshireman who helped organize the South Brooklyn Cricket Club and served the Manhattan Club for eighteen years. N. E. Whitaker former State Senate president and head of Whitaker Glessner Company dies in Wheeling at 71 of pneumonia. He led the West Virginia Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and had interests in other firms including desER iron works. Thomas W. Carmichael, banker and oil…
The producer and Vice President from West Virginia of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress died in Wellsburg following surgery for peritonitis. He was 47. John Wallis Clearman, longtime Tiffany & Co. confidant, died at his Brooklyn home aged 73. He was a NY Law School graduate and ex member of Company B, Seventh Regiment. Survived by wife, one son and brother Harold Clearman. Maria C. Wiley Rusher, widow of George Rusher, died at 22 East Forty eighth Street aged 76, after several weeks illness. Survived by son W D Rusher and one daughter. Rachel Elliott Knox, widow of William Knox, prominent in New York wholesale harness business, died at 478 Mott Avenue aged 71. Survived by three sons and three daughters. Marie Antoinette Davis, wife of Fellowes Davis broker, died at 37 West Forty-eighth Street. Survived by husband and son Fe Davis Jr.
The Bohemian Publishing Company publisher of The Bohemian Magazine 40 West Thirty-third Street filed an assignment in the County Clerk's office yesterday. The deed bears signatures of President J G Sommer and Secretary Treasurer Fritz Krog. The company was incorporated on Sept 3 with a capital stock of 225000.
Brief memorial notices list James Burns of St James's in Newark and Elizabeth Donohue of St Mary NewarkMasses held today at 8 AM at St James's RG and St Mag ee ere Newark with the mass readings indicating a memorial service in the city parish records.
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