The Smart Set in Society and Colonial Style
OMB ONE explores the meaning of smart as used for society noting its English origins and the elite leaders in London and American cities. It discusses prominent figures like Mrs Willie James Mrs Brown Potter Lady Londonderry Mrs Bischoffsheim and Mrs Stern and contrasts wedding fashions and garden tours with the Stenton restoration gathering for the Bartram descendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
London
Willie’ James
Brown Potter
Londonderry
Helmsley
Gwendolene Little
Lady Shrewsbury
Bischoffsheim
Mrs. Bischoffsheim
Mrs. Stern
Maria Lady Allsford
Lady Helmsley
Stern
Devon Horse Show Returns to Devon Inn Oval
Tuesday and Wednesday bring the annual Devon Horse Show organized by the Devon Horse Show Association. Local amateurs fill the entries creating intimate favorites amid ideal weather and a near sellout crowd expected at the Devon Inn’s back oval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devon Inn
St. Martin's Green
Quaker City
Devon
Notable Grubbs to Leave Edgewater for Narragansett Pier
General Grubb and Mrs Grubb plan to join cottagers at Narragansett Pier this season leaving Edgewater Park. Local figures Mr and Mrs John Jeffords and daughter Miss Marguerite Jeffords will also be at the Pier. Sherry’s famous influence is credited for shaping the Pier’s amenities and social scene. The Casino and Sherry are central to Narragansett’s appeal with bands and hops anticipated. The bathing pavilion is praised as the world’s best arranged and appointed.
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Philadelphia
General Grubb
Edgewater Park
Narragansett
John Jeffords
Marguerite Jeffords
Paris
France
Sherry
Bartram House at Gray's Ferry Shines in Historic Garden
A visitor to the Bartram house in the old botanical garden at Gray's Ferry finds the quaint residence an outright joy. The dress it has received under Mrs. Harry Markoe highlights its charm and historical appeal for history lovers.
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Harry Markoe
Bartram
Gray's Ferry
Newport social season opens with Gooseberry Island and Kat Bote Klub
A Newport summer scene unfolds with Gooseberry Island and Kat Bote Klub opening for the season. Notables include Mrs. Widener and family aboard the yacht Josephine and plans for cottages. Josephine heads to Europe as Widener Sr. follows by sea. Engagements announced include Florence Richards Woodbury to Dr. Frank T. Woodbury and Edith Chapin to Weston J. Hibbs. Weddings follow in Philadelphia and Springfield venues.
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Gooseberry Island
Newport
Kat Bote Klub
George D. Widener
Josephine
Europe
Mr. Widener
London
Joe Widener
Newport society notes from a busy summer season
Ed and Cramp arrive back in Newport taking possession of the Chickering cottage as social season launches. Philadelphia and Boston families including Mrs Clarence Dolan and Mrs Elwood Davis plan summer camps in the Adirondacks and at Upper St Regis Lake while wedding guests and ambassadors mingle at Delights of a Gr ant era garden party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Edwin
Cramp
Chickering Place
Merion Cricket Club
John G. Johnson
Andrew Cheves Dulleses
Elwood Davis
Casino Register
Clarence W. Dolan
Edward H. Coates
Upper St. Regis Lake
Adirondacks
J. E. D. Trask
Trask
Coates
Camp Elsinore
Mrs Pleasanton Travels With Daughter for Mountain Rest
Mrs Frank 8 Pleasanton is slowly recovering from illness and will leave with her daughter for the mountains to recuperate. Independence Hall Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution was entertained at the Yardley mansion in Yardley Pennsylvania by Mrs George Warner. The 1728 house sits near the point of a noted crossing of the Delaware.
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Frank
Pleasanton
Miss Pleasanton
Independence Halil
Daughters of the American Revolution
Yardley
George Warner
Delaware
Philadelphia Social Notes Highlight Bride and Summer Travel
Miss Lillian Garrett wed Dr. Alfred Sylvester Butz at her father’s home on North Forty-first Street in an evening ceremony attended by prominent guests. The item lists social events, reunions, and numerous summer plans across Philadelphia, Wildwood, Belmar, and Atlantic City with many named residents and hotels.
Wedding Invitations For Rosa Lee Foster and Others
Mrs M E Doby invites guests to Rosa Lee Doby and Eugene Clifford Foster wedding reception Thursday June 21 from 6 30 to 8 30 at 513 South Forty second street. Mr and Mrs Edward Palst announce Marianne Carolyne Parrottet to Irving Do Paul June 26 at 7 pm Eddington Presbyterian Church Eddington Pa followed by a reception at Ashcroft Cornwall s Pa. New York express leaves Philadelphia at 6 pm Cornwells return 9 28 and 11 pm. Mr and Mrs William McCully Bouvier invite Mae Corson to Eugene Raymond June 27 at 12 noon Second Presbyterian Church Twenty first and Walnut Street.
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M. E. Doby
Rosa Lee
Eugene Clifford Foster
South
Edward Palst
Marianne Carolyne Parrottet
Irving Do. Paul
Eddington Presbyterian Church
Eddington
Ashcroft
Cornwells
New York Express
Philadelphia
William McCully Bouvier
Mae Corson
Eugene Raymond
Second Presbyterian Church
Twenty-first
Walnut Street
Princess Aribert of Anhalt Visits Niagara This Week
Report notes Princess Aribert seeks a U.S. national convention sighting and follows a royal lineage via Queen Victoria. It recalls her 1891 marriage to Prince Aribert of Auhaut, long said to be troubled, with the princess traveling with her mother.
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Aribert of
Anhalt
Niagara
Tufts
America
England
Ulfe
Auhaut
Weddings Brighten City Life With Two Loyal Pairings
After their wedding tour Dr and Mrs Butz will live at Forty second and Aspen streets. Miss Lella Voorhies of San Francisco married on June 12 to Lieutenant Guy T Scott of the Third Artillery. He is the son of United States Senator Scott of West Virginia. Senator Scott, in Philadelphia with Republican committee duties, sent a $20,000 telegraph draft to his son. Lieutenant Scott returns from the Philippines and will visit Southern California before going to Fortress Monroe where he has been stationed. Miss Carrie M Duff and Clarence Fones Marshall, both of Philadelphia, were married on Tuesday evening at Cohocksink Presbyterian Church. The bride’s brother-in-law walked her, maid of honor Irene F E Marshall, bridesmaids Lillie McNaily and Nannie Seib, flower girls Carrie Ella Duff and Inez Beatrice Livingston. Best man Chester Wilson Plank. ushers R W Phipps De Witt Dunn Frank Feidler David Schuyter Duff Carle Duff Elmer Ellsworth Boone K Pierson Jr Frank Reynolde William Kaighn William de Krafft James Barrett. The bride wore white silk and silk taffeta trimmed with Ducoes lace with tulle veil en trays and bride roses. The maid of honor wore pink silk with a white organdie overdress and carried roses and sweet peas. The flower girls wore white ribbone and lace dresses with baskets of flowers.
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Alfred Harrison
Philadelphia
Miss Wharton
Harrison
Morris
England
St. George's
Hanover Square
London
Daugh
Henrietta Brown
Edith Keating
Laura Whelen
Elsie Cassatt
Boston
Marion Fenno
Mary Sargeant
Mildred Harrison
Mr. Prentiss
New Yorker
Metropolis
Alfred
Frazier Harrison
Messrs
Eugene Hale, Jr
Louis Lorillard
Lathrop Randolph
Townsend Irwin
William Benjamin
Maitland Armstrong
John Talmage
Evelyn Pierrepont
Arthur Choate
New York
California
Scott
Fortress Monroe
Carrie M. Duff
Clarence Fones Marshall
Wiliam Greenough
D. B
Cohocksink Presbyterian Church
Miss Duff
Thomas BR. Keane
Irene FE. Marshall
Lillie McNaily
Nannie Sei
Carrie Ella Duff
Inez Beatrice Livingston
Chester Wilson Plank
R. W. Phipps
de Witt Dunn
Frank Feidler
David Schuyter Duff
Carle Duff
Elmer Ellsworth Boone
K. Pierson, Jr
Frank Reynolde
William Kaighn
William de Krafft
James Barrett
Brasington Announces Marriage of Margaret Ellis to William Church
Mrs. Elizabeth G Brasington announces the marriage of her daughter Margaret Ellis to William H Church on Tuesday June 12 at 1013 South Forty-ninth street. A reception for intimate friends follows June 26 from 8:30 to 10:30 at the same address. An at home date is planned for Wednesdays in October after 3 at 1025 South Forty-sixth street. The bride was given away by Thomas B Ellis with gown of white satin lace and orange blossoms. Her sister Elizabeth H Brasington was maid of honor with ribbon over white taffeta and carried sweet peas and valley lilies. Alfred B Ellis was best man. The Rev. Sherman officiated.
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Elizabeth G. Brasington
Margaret Ellis
William H. Church
South Forty-ninth Street
South Forty-sixth Street
Thomas
Ellis
Elizabeth H. Brasington
Alfred &. Ellis
Sherman
Pretty bride Anna Bray wed Anthony Street Jr in city church
A wedding at Grace Methodist Church joined Miss Anna Marie Bray and Anthony Waddy Street Jr of New York. The bride wore a white empire silk gown as two little dower girls accompanied her up the aisle.
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Anna Marie Bray
Grace Methodist Church
Broad and
Master Streets
Anthony Waddy Street
New York
Names List for School Pageant Aide Roles
A reader's column lists Miss Kline, Miss Lanner, Miss Patton, Miss Scott, Miss Widmayer, Miss Watson, Miss Yonkers, Miss Strouse, Miss Mayer, Miss Robertson, Miss Starr, Miss Secler, Miss M. McIntyre, Miss Martin, Miss Goulder as potential aides for an upcoming school pageant.
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Kline
Lanner
Patton
Scott
Widmayer
Watson
Yonkers
Strouse
Mayer
Robertson
Starr
Secler
M. McIntyre
Martin
Goulder
Mrs Haffington Hosts Luncheon and Card Party
Mrs Thomas E Haffington hosted a luncheon and card party on Wednesday at the Lorraine for a small circle of friends. Attendees included Imogene Haf fington Dorothy Thomas Jenny Blanc Alice Jones Bessie Simpson Mae Pennington Millie Fitzpatric and others with prizes awarded to Jones Fitzpatric Huffington and Weiss. Also a boating party chaperoned by Mrs L Mackeown from West Philadelphia sailed from the Undine boat house with Elsie Mackeown Ida Mackeown Elizabeth Hays Harriet Chesshire Helen Hamilton Field Thomas Flavell Lewis Dewing Morton Alexander Albert Alexander and William White enjoying a Button supper and informal dance afterward.
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Thomas E. Haffington
The
Lorraine
Imogene
Haffington
Dorothy Thomas
Jennie Blanc
Alice Jones
Bessie Simpson
Mae Pennington
Millie Fitzpatric
Miles Kittle Weiss
Margaret Lafferty
Marguerite van Buren
Ella Connelly
Bessie Chatham
H. Baird-Huey
Mise Jones
Fitzpatric
Mise Huffington
Miss Weiss
L. ©. Mackeown
West Philadelphia
Elsie Mackeown
Ida Mackeown
Elizabeth Hays
Harriet Chesshire
Helen Hamilton
Pleasant musicale hosted by Harry P. Page for visiting Misses Leister
A Monday musicale at 1834 North Sixteenth Street by Harry P. Page honored the Misses Leister of Muntingdon Pennsylvania. Attendees included Mattie Brown J H Klauder Percival Rust Langdon Octavia Stuart Marie Coulston John Phillips Rowland Walter Percival Harry Dey and Lehmann. A subsequent at home by Mr and Mrs George N Tyson ran Tuesday 5 to 7 with guests ushered by Anna Bement Helen Weatherly Helena Sachse Emma Sachse and Mrs Tyson in a spring welcome marked by the bride’s return.
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Harry P. Page
North Sixteenth Street
Leister
Muntingdon
Philadelphia
Mattie Brown
J. H. Klauder
Percival Rust
Langdon
Octavia Stuart
Marie Coulston
John Phillips Rowland
Walter Percival
Harry Dey
Lehmann
George N. Tyson
Anna Bement
Helen Weatherly
Helena
Emma Sachse
Tyson
Miss Sachse
Newport Sightseeing Guide For Millionaire Hotspots
A brief list of Newport sights and open hours for visitors including Armory of Newport Artillery Clarke Street United States Naval Training Station Coasters Harbor Island open daily 3 PM to sunset band concerts 8 to 4 Fort Adams signal drill 1 to 2 30 PM dress parade 11 AM daily except weekends Sunday 9 30 or 10 00 AM battalion drill after parade Redwood Library Bellevue Bellevue Avenue open daily 12 PM People s Library 200 east avenues daily except Sundays and holidays
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Newport
Armory
Newport Artillery
Clarke Street
United States Naval Training Station
Harbor Island
Fort Adamese
Redwood Library
Bellevue Avenue
Jade M. Dally
Miss Marianne Thomson to Wed Lt Frank Crans town Boggs
Norristown announces the engagement and upcoming marriage of Miss Marianne Thomson daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Thomson to Lieutenant Frank Crans town Boggs of the Engineer Corps United States Army. The ceremony is set for Saturday June 23 at 4 oclock in St Johns Protestant Episcopal Church Norristown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marianne Thomson
Frank Thomson
Norristown
Frank Cranstown Boggs
Engineer Corps
United States Army
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church
Harry D. Cohen
North Eleventh Street
John K. Walker
John Keashy Walker
Bpruce Street
Idieside
Milford
Conn
Theodore Adams
North Broad Street
Catskill Mountains
A. 8. Logan
South Eighteenth Street
Goshenville
Chester County
Stenton Opens to Public Under Pennsylvania Society
The Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Damesassumes care of Stenton the old country seat of Jenes Logan and will open it to the public daily except Sundays from 1 PM to 5 PM An admission fee of fifteen cents for adults and ten cents for children will be charged Charles Wood of the Seec-
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Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames
Stenton
Jenes Logan
Charles Wood
The
Seec
Chestnut Hill Wedding Guests Return Home
The J Emlen Smith family and Miss Rhoda Emlen Smith will depart Atlantic City for their Chestnut Hill home Sweetbriar on Saturday. Bishop McVickar of Rhode Island officiated at the wedding of Miss Catherwood and Mr Gummey. Mr and Mrs William Ellis rented a house on the Pennsylvania Railroad main line for the summer.
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J. Emlen-Smith
Rhoda Emlen-Smith
Emlen-Smith
Atlantic City
Chestnut Hill
Sweetbriar
Bishop McVickar
Rhode Island
Catherwood
Gummey
William Ellis
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia residents plan summer trips and relocations
A long list details Philadelphia couples and individuals leaving for summer locales. Many will spend time in Atlantic City Wildwood Beach Haven Cape May York Harbor and Maine. Names include Mr and Mrs Robert Fulton Miss H K Patterson W H Poulson Janet Sayward Mrs W A Mears Mr and Mrs Jones Miss Rosalie Horner and others.
Local Summer Cottages and Social Gathers Noted Around Philadelphia
Mr and Mrs Frank H Keen and family of Haverford have taken a cottage at Chelsea for the summer months. Mrs J Barry Collahan and Miss Katharine Coleman will soon depart for White Springs. Mrs John Bernard Doris has sent cards for the marriage of Florence Doris to Lorenzo Lewis Bland at Christ Church Germantown. Others host or visit Bar Harbor Cape May and Providence in coming weeks.
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Frank H. Keen
Haverford
Chelsea
C. Pinckney Norris
Stockton Avenue
Cape May
Apna
Grifith
Idlewild
Media
Frederick T. Mason
Sewell Brown
Edward Hessehurst
Duncan Buzby
Edwin Lewis
Brinley
Rittenhouse
Etting
Wayland
Alexander McClure
Daniel Holsman
Harlan
Gratz
Lamott
Elisabeth Norris
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Miss Harrison
Markoe
John Bartram
Emily Ritchie Perkins
Decatur Smith
Prince Aribert
Berlin
Joseph Richards
Florence Harvey Richards
Frank Thomas Woodbury
Woodbury
Philippine Islands
Edith Burwell Chapin
Weston James Hibbs
Chapin
George W. Chapin
St. David's
George E. Earnshaw
St. Philip's Church
Overbrook
Roosevelt
Long Island
Hanna
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Grant
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Grand Stand
Baron Fava
Yang Yu
State Department
William Leverett
Miss Leverett
N. M. Brooks
Florence Clark
Alice Clark
Lillian Garrett
James H. Garrett
Alfred Sylvester Butz
North Forty-first Street
Ruth A. Pratt
Elsie Butz
Frank W. Kine
Girls’ High School
Casino
Miss Maxwell
Mrs. Hines
Miss Brackin
Miss Longaker
Lawrie
Miss Kimmel
Miss Hosking
Miss Gans
Miss Koch
Miss McIntyre
Miss Clanton
Miss Boyer
Miss Clapham
Bailey
Miss Wemmer
Miss Richter
Miss DeCamp
Miss George
Miss Geary
Miss
Easton's
Bailey's Beach
Narragansett Avenue
Bailey’s Beach
Hanging Rocks
Second Beach
Purgatory
Malbone Road
Broadway
Bailey's Benches
Gammells, Goelets
H.mck. Twombly
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John R. Drexel
Perry Belmont
Hermann Oelrichs
Astors
C. N. Bell
W. K
F. W. Vanderbilt
KE. T. Gerry
H. Mortimer Brooks
C. W. Lippitt
Jewish Cemetery
Ocean Avenue
Ten Mile Drive
Grave's Point
Bateman’s
Castle Hill
Fort Adams
Brenton’s Cove
Halldon Hill
Bristol Ferry
Lawton's Valley
Portsmouth Grove
Bay
Stone Bridge
John Joseph Alter
Maria Theresa
Wildbad
Germany
Marienbad
Bohemia
Engadine
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
Maurice F. Wilhere
Sumac Street
Wissahickon
George W. Norris
Rittenhouse Square
Penllyn
Clement H. Griscom
Colobran
James W. Robins
Miss Robins
Lewis H. Bodman
Toledo
H. W. Littlefield
West Walnut Lane
Germantown
George P. White
Windsor Avenue
James McCormick
Masters Stanley
Milton McCormick
Forty-eighth Street
Springfield Avenue
Oriental
John H. Musser
Chestnut Street
Marion
Charles F. Bartlett
Spring Garden Street
Wildwood
New Jersey
Aldine
Walter F. Smith
J. W. Slaughter
Walter Cox
William Walton
May Bartram
James Scott
Lewis Lugar
John C. Lugar
James Lewis
E. H. Shearer
Howard Hughes
Charles M. Taylor
Yellowstone Park
Alaska
Harrison Krips
John M. Finn
Finn
Spruce Street
Caln
Barker Hall
Lansdowne
F. Rees Phillips
Thomas Collins
Hamilton Street
I. B. Bunting
Bushkill
Luther Martin
Thirty
Eighth
Chestnut Streets
Eaglesmere
Stelwagon
Frances Vaux Wilson
Pine Street
Lovella
Wayne
Elisha Crowell
Kingsessing Avenue
John Frederick Lewis
Moretem
Zermatte
West Chester
Belmont Cricket Club
Elmwood
Petey Boyd
Edwin W. Crittenden
Samuels
Helen Paul
Miss Rastall
Dorothy Restall
McCall
Megarey
J. Collins
John Inglis
Rastall
Conrad B. Day
Pennsylvania Avenue
Basil H. Brown
Fortyninth Street
Rising Sun
Charles D. Norton
Bryn Mawr
Charles J. Rider
Mantua Avenue
Sea Isle City
Anthony W. Street
Robert Fulton
South Forty-second Street
Falkland
Del
H. K. Patterson
Thomas M. Newbold
Fortyfirst
W. H. Poulson
North Thirty-fifth Street
N. J
Janet Sayward
Overbrook School
Springvale
William Pfhaler
Pfahler
North Thirty-third Street
W. A. Mears
North Thirty-fourth Street
Beach Haven
R. Jones
Max Loeb
Em. Rubel
North Tenth Street
Loeb
Rosalie Horner
West Chestnut Street
Mabel Koons
Paxton
Helen Lloyd
Mann
Halsey
Bunting
Whitlock
Baltimore
Switzerland
Henry Nuss
Thirty-third Street
Chalfonte
Charles M. Taylor, Jr
Yellowstone Park and the Lakes
Jennie M. Blank
North Fifth Street
Allentown
Kathryn W. Weiss
Girard Avenue
M. F. Dominguez
Dominguez
Green Street
Seaside Park
Annie
Ella Headman
North Eighteenth Street
Columbia University
Edgar F. Paist
Carolyne Perrottel
Irving C. Paul
M. H. Cryer
University of Pennsylvania
Cryer
Elizabeth
Edward A. Smith
Smith
Delancey Street
Lake Mohawk
Mr. Smith
Richard Tukhman
North East Harbor
A. A. Norris
Chester Avenue
E. Hood
Annapolis
Naval Cadets
Johns. Hopkins
Misses Hopkins
Robert
Sturgis
A. Y. Stewart
Bar Harbor
Maine
Lucius
Landreth
Winter Harbor
Henry Whalen
South Forty Second Street
Providence
Howard L. Chandler
South Forty-seventh Street
Bradford