Engag ement and society notices from New York and Philadelphia
The page reports the engagement of Miss Gertrude Bucknell to Dr. C Hollister Judd with a July 31 wedding at Pine Point Lodge Adirondacks and a post wedding tour of the world. It also notes numerous society events including Mrs. James Highly’s luncheon and card party, Miss Gertrude Steller’s Wayne luncheon, and various summer home plans and travels of Philadelphia residents and guests. The item mentions Anson Phelps Stokes and daughters returning from Deport and Adirondack camps, plus other society engagements and travel plans across New York and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Bucknell
William Bucknell
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pa
New York
Anson Phelps Stokes
Mildred
Helen Stokes
Atlantic City Visitors Populate Seaside Oceanfront
June 24 report lists dozens of Philadelphians and linked couples in town for summer stays at major hotels and cottages. Notables include Mrs. Warrick Miss Leard Miss Gordon and Colonel Benson with relatives, plus J A Beck of Philadelphia and Navy physician Dr Arthur Cobell among this influx.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Atlantic City
Louise Hubbard
Philadelphia
Emery Marvel
Misses Marvel
States
Pacific Avenues
George D. Warrick
Miss Warrick
Alice Leard
James Gordon
Alice Gordon
Bart Lenning
Jean Lenning
Estelle Lenning
Harold Murry
R. D. Benson
Maud Benson
Bertha D. Benson
Washington Dignitaries’ Summer Travel Plans
The Secretary of State Mrs Hay and Miss Hay depart for a New Hampshire summer home while Secretary Shaw and Mrs Shaw with two daughters reach Washington from Chicago for a Western trip tied to their children's school commencements. Miss Lester joins a Bar Harbor family before a Swiss trip in August. Mrs Cortelyou leaves for Hempstead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Washington
Hay
Miss Hay
New Hampshire
Miss Lester
Mrs. L. Z. Lester
Bar Harbor
Switzerland
Many Prizes Go To High School Men
Secretary Hammond announces a long list of Central High School alumni who earned top honors and prizes across colleges and universities. The record shows Harvard, Haverford, Dickinson, Lehigh, and University of Pennsylvania degrees and fellowships, with multiple Central graduates winning fellowships, prizes, and honors in law, literature, languages, and engineering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
A. F. Hammond
Board of Education
Central High School
University of Pennsylvania
H. V. Bullinger
Haverford
Harvard
Phillips Academy
Andover
C. R. Haig
F. W. Ohl
C. W. Fisher
Dickinson College
George E. Roth
Thomas J. Meek
William S. Dye
Lehigh University
Louis F. Blume
Law
Terry
Newport summer arrivals and horticultural show open
Gould H Redmond arrives at The Gables Rhode Island avenue for summer. W P Henzey and family stay at the Potter cottage Dumplings Jamestown. H S Potter and family at Shoreby Hill cottage. Edward C Knight and wife arrive Morrell cottage Ochre Point. John C Whiteridge arrives at country place Portsmouth. Newport Horticultural Society rose and strawberry show opens. John R McLean and wife expected at Bennett Stone villa next month with Miss Lota Robinson as guest. Mrs H Stockton to Hadley Quebec for July August. EF Winthrop Jr arrives for the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Newport
Gould H. Redmond
the Gables
Rhode Island Avenue
W. P. Henzey
Philadelphia
Potter Cottage
Dumplings
Jamestown
H. 8
Potter and Family
St. Louis
Shoreby Hill
John R. McLean
Washington
Bennett Stone Villa
Lota Robinson
Baltimore
WEDDINGS OF A DAY ANNA DAHMS MARRIES WILSON HIMEBAUGH
Miss Anna M. Dahms daughter of Mr and Mrs John G Dahms married Wilson Himebaugh last evening at St Lucas Church on Twenty sixth street and Girard avenue Rev M F Dumstrey officiated William Gass served as best man Viola Bates maid of honor and a group of ushers bridesmaids and flower girls attended the ceremony After a reception at the North Broad Street Drawing Rooms the couple left for a southern trip and will reside at 190 Beechwood Street after September 1
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna M. Dahms
John G. Dahms
St. Lucas’ Church
Twenty-sixth Street
Girard Avenue
Wilson Himebaugh
M. F.dumstrey
William Gass
Viola Bates
North Nineteenth Street
Nelson Fry
Harry Whiteside
Edward Stewart
Sawuel Boyd
Minnie Lawser
Emma Zindell
Elizabeth Bates Donahay
Dorothy Thompson
North Broad Street
Sot Beechwood Street
Miss Alice Thomas and August Meuhleisen Wed at Home
Miss Alice Thomas and August Meuhleisen were married yesterday afternoon at the home of the bride s parents 834 North Twenty third street The ceremony was performed by Rev William Main Schall Only the immediate families were present On their return from a brief tour the couple will reside at 854 North Twenty third street
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Thomas
August Meuhleisen
North Twenty-third Street
William Main Schall
Mrs. Meuhleisen
North Twenty-third
Class Day at the Girls Commercial High School 1902
The class of 1902 at the Commercial High School for Girls held class day in the Normal School auditorium. A 145 member graduating group, seventeen honor girls, and performances by students marked the event with music, readings, and speeches. The cap and gown were passed to the 1903 president Martha L Schroeder, and a class banquet followed at Broad and Green streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial High School For Girls
Normal School
Thirteenth
Spring Garden
Rosalie M. Striffling
Cora Hurst
Laura Staples Weds Charles H. Reagles in Stroudsburg
In Stroudsburg on Monroe Street the marriage of Laura Margaret Staples daughter of Mayor and Mrs A B Staples to Charles H Reagles vice principal of Stroudsburg High School was performed by Rev Clark Hirshman pastor of Zion Reformed Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Stroudsburg
A. B. Staples
Monroe Street
Laura Margaret Staples
Charles H. Reagles
Stroudsburg High School
Clark Hirshman
Zion Reformed Church
Passengers Listed on the S S St Paul Sailing Today
The Amer ican Line steamship St Paul departs today with a list of saloon passengers including Miss Anna de Angelis Miss L M Alexander Mr Alexander Hon Willard Bartlett Miss Bartlett H K Baumgardner Mrs Baumgardner F A eReckwith Hi Boynton Miss Isabel Clark Mrs H B Carter Miss Pauline Curran G L Davidson Mrs G L Davidson HH B Pazetpes Mrs H B Davidson W G Edwards Charles Engel Mrs M S Fairbanks Miss Fairbanks Mrs F R Fithian Mise Esther H Fithian Mise Mary H Fithian I D Fletcher Mrs I D Fletcher George A Ford Mise Mary S Garrett Miss Hazel Ellis La oman James H Hoyt J H a Mrs Jefferis K Jefferis Miss Marie S Jefferis Miss Florence Lauer George Lauder Mrs George Lauder Charles B MacDonald Miss Edith MacMillan George MacFarland Mrs Charles Morgan Miss Grace Miller Mrs W H Newbold Miss Ethel Newbold William Phillips George Pollock ce Fred Pratt xc ac ri Shoemaker 88 Ellen Shoemaker F Smith Mrs Smith G Snowd Tone A Scewee Mrs John A Stewart R H Townsett Mrs R H Townsend
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna de Angelis
L. M. Alexander
Alexander
Willard Bartlett
Bartlett
H. K. Baumgardner
Baumgardner
F. A. eReckwith
Hi. Boynton
Isabel Clark
H. B. Carter
Pauline Curran
G. L. Davidson
Pazetpes
H. B. Davidson
W. G. Edwards
Charles Engel
Fairbanks
F. R. Fithian
Esther H. Fithian
Mary H. Fithian
I. D. Fletcher
George A. Ford
Garrett
Hazel Ellis
la Oman
James H. Hoyt
Jefferis
Bove Deters
K. Jefferis
St. John's Organ Recital At Camden Church
An organ recital at St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Camden featured Professor Ernest T. Allen at the new organ, dedicated last week. The event was hosted by Club No. 4 led by president Charles A. Frost, part of ten church clubs each raising $100 for renovations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church
Camden
Ernest T. Allen
Charles A. Frost
Obituary notices for Jacobs Connell and Perkins headline
Obituary notices report Benjamin F. Jacobs a pioneer Chicago real estate dealer and Sun Zeen leader in national Safe School work. Anna Connell wife of Congressman William Cornell dies in Pennsylvania after months of illness aged years. Bertha Perkins wife of Commodore Perkins noted in Washington society with social engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F. Jacobs
Chicago
Sun- Zeen
Anna Connell
William Cornell
Pean Pa
I Weshington
Bertha Perkins
Commodore
P. Perkins
The
United
Take
Graduation Exercises at Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind
Graduation exercises were held yesterday at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in Overbrook. Five graduates received diplomas from Board President John Cadwalader, with prizes awarded for Fisher and Harrison scholarships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Institution For the Instruction of the
Overbrook
Board of Managers
Francis H. Budd
Daisy Carlson
Bella Harkins
Annie K. Hartman
Mary E. Keecher
John Cadwalader
Cadwalader
J. Francis Fisher
Harrison
Fisher
Patience
Joseph Sheehan
Sophia Brady
Nellie Curren
Elizabeth Smith
Mary Stutz
Joseph R. Fower
Board approves warrant for school site Moyamensing and Morris
The Board of Education committee on audits and accounts approved a warrant for 13458.54 to purchase a school site at Moyamensing avenue and Morris street. The site was condemned for 14300 and the warrant covers costs. Names Catharine Cullen and Celeste A. Cullen appear in the damaged text among the property owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education Committee On
Moyamensing Avenue
Morris Street
Eline An
Catharine
Cullen
Celeste A. A. Cullen
Che
Monogram Fad Dominates Summer Hosiery Styles
The article surveys the season's monogram craze across women and men hosiery. It notes white and black contrasts, lacey openwork embroidery, and signet initials on stockings, shoes, and accessories. It mentions growing white stocking sales tied to all white gowns and cites a Berlin snapshot moment with Roosevelt observing a Kodak scene.
Points on Fashioning Gowns Show Seasonal Diversity
An article notes the shift from uniform dress patterns to varied styles this season. It highlights diverse skirt lengths from short to ground sweeping trains, new square train cuts, and Paris trends toward short gowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Masculine fashions seen through feminine eyes
The article surveys men’s jewelry and accessories with a chic, designer focus. It highlights carved onyx Bedouin heads, baroque pearl turbans, diamond and emerald cravat pins, sapphire cuff links, rose gold fobs with monograms, and gemmed chains. It notes fashionable walking sticks, tan leather belts, and new cotton four-in-hand neckwear in pongee, plus grass lawn motifs for menswear. The piece also references American fashion and Persia’s Shah visiting Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chestnut Street
Desserts Tempting and Easy to Make
Martha Taft Wentworth presents a collection of gelatin fruit and custard desserts for hot days. Recipes include berry sponge with berries and egg whites served with cream, orange lemon chocolate layers, baked custards, meringue crowns, lemon gelatin, layered fruit jelly, and tapioca pineapple molds served cold with cream.
Man Carries Hat and Luggage Through Union Station
A Baltimore News piece follows a traveler who alighted at Union Station with a bandbox typewriter case and suitcase. He narrates shopping for a blue hat for his wife describing prices from ten to twenty five dollars and worries over whether blue suits her. The tale ends with him disembarking carrying the bag and uncertain if he bought a prize or a blank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Station
Baltimore News
Boston
Philadelphia
Charcoal Pantry Stoves Aromatic Toilet Vinegar Recipe
Practical notes on charcoal use for pantry stuffiness and lamp renewal. Guidance on moth control for furs, making a rosemary lavender camphor vinegar for bath or skin, and a romantic poem ending with a beloved’s arrival.
Post Graduate Girls Opposed Over Scholarships At School
The Board of Education committee on the High School for Girls urged ten graduates receive college scholarships. Miss Alice McQueen and Miss Helen Lowengrund, top graduates with averages 97 and 96.8, faced opposition over six years in school. They gained entry to the classical course with consent and now hold the highest averages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Simon Gratz
Alice EB. McQueen
Helen M. Lowengrund
Simon Mubler
Thomas M. Merchant
McQueen
Dodd
Lowengrund
High School Girls Scholarship and Course Changes
The school committee weighs limiting pupils to one full course and a four year maximum scholarship. Gratz supports optional two courses if the scholar relinquishes a scholarship claim. Names for other scholarships include Lepper Kraus lymptopie Bricker and Helen Sew ing course ends as Miss Moffett is dropped. Rover reports 630 exempt promotions, 192 entrance exams, total 1124 pupils, with 900 anticipated for fall term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Gratz
Frederick A. Sobernheimer
Sobernheimer
Muler
Minerva Lepper
Flora Kraus
Mary
Lymptopie
Jude Bricker
Helen
Sophia Moffett
Lucy T. Lewis
William D. Rover
Church of the Saviour selects contractor for new church
The building committee at Thirty-eighth and Ludlow streets announced the contract for the new church was awarded to A Whitehead. Construction will start at once and be completed before Christmas, with the congregation moving into the new church building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Saviour
Thirty-eighth and
Ludlow Streets
A. Whitehead
Opce
Ohio Supreme Court upholds Willis tax on private corporations
The Ohio Supreme Court sustained the Willis tax law imposing a fee of one tenth of one percent on subscribed capital stock of private corporations. The court estimated it would yield the state about 40 dollars annually. An adverse ruling would have forced a special legislative session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, CO
Ohio Supreme Court
Baltimore Steel Plant Pursuit By New York Capitalists
A group organized by New York capitalists seeks a suitable site near Baltimore for a new steel plant to manufacture steel nov... The report notes investment interest and location search as the plan advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Steel
Baltimore
New York
Nurse Toppan Admits Killing 31 People in Career
Boston report states nurse Jane Toppan confessed to killing thirty one victims during her career as a professional nurse, including Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Gordon, and Alden Davis. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity on one murder count and sent to Taunton Insane Hospital for life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Jane Toppan
Fred M. Bixby
Brockton
Barnstable
Miss Toppan
Bixby
Gibbs
Harry Gordon
Chicago
Alden P. Davis
Cataumet
Taunton Insane Hospital
Property row: man sues sister-in-law over Master Street home
William Walsh filed a Common Pleas case seeking to stop Bridget Walsh from conveying the 2339 Master street property to William Frehofer or others. He asks a court order to reconvey the home to him and his wife, alleging prior transfer to Bridget and potential fraud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Walsh
Equity
Bridget Walsh
Common Pleas Court
Master Street
William Frehofer
Walsh
Nest
New Rail Service From Broad Street to Asbury Park Beach Haven
The Pennsylvania Railroad adds a Broad Street Station Philadelphia to Asbury Park and Long Branch via Delaware River Bridge Route with Seaside Park connection at Whitings for Beach Haven. Depart Broad Street 4.17 PM week one schedule 9, and 6.15 AM on week-lays. An extra 2 cents on full tickets and 15 cents on half tickets applies for Delaware Bridge transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broad Street
Philadelphia
Asbury Park
Long Branch
Beach Haven
Delaware River Bridge
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Siroad Street
Seaside Park
Toni Beach Haven
Delaware Bridge
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Robert T. Butler
Lansdowne
Blanche F. Butler
May Leeds
Margaret Lear
Fannie Vandergrift
Mabel Bangs
Violet Sedgway
Lillian Vansclver
Laura Parker
Alice Clark
Nellie Bates
May Williams
Gertrude Weitzel
Ethel Reed
Bessie Reed
Adele Herter
Philip Coons
Harry D. Somerset
Harper Leeds
Dick Reynolds
Charles W. Raymond
Gilberts. Brown
William Parker
Herbert Gordon
Albert Heath
Louis Stokes
Benjamin T. Wright
Frank Robinson
Wells M. Steward
John Curtis
James E. Highly
North Twelfth Street
Horace Stokes
Philip Ivy
Jn Duffen
George Shafter
J. Flake
James Highly
C. ©. Bushey
Sophia Duffen
Gertrude Steller
Wayne
Maybelle Rowe
Nellie Stanton
Mary Burgin
Ethel Fannon
Corinne Davison
Juliet Stevens
Waturus
Archduke Charles of Austria
Randall Morgan
New York Harbor
Mrs. Morgan
Bertha May Dowell
Frank William Griffith
North
Fiftieth Street
West
Cornelius Stevenson
Mr. Stevenson
Devon
John Price Wetherill
John Price Wetherill, Jr
Fannie Levi
North Seventh Street
Miss Levi
Denver, Col
Robert R. Logan
Winter Harbor, Me
Samuel Price Wetherill
W. Horace Hepburn
Pine Street
Cape May
Fam
J. D. Coxe
Drifton,a
Far West
Jacob Singer
Europe
Thomas Carter
Mabel Carter
Eaglesmere
Wayne Country Place
Herbert M. Howe
Bristol Neck, R. I
Stead, L. I
Samuel Cushing
Miss Cushing
Vineyard Haven
Justice
Mrs
David J. Brewer
Thompson's Point
Lake Champlain
Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw
Vermont
George de Forest Lord
Lenox
Curtis Hotel
Edith Brainerd Abercrombie
D. W. Abercrombie
Worcester
Meg
Arthur Edward Gifford
Frederic C. Penfield
East Seventeenth Street
New London
Conn
Mary Otis
Elwell Otis
Ralph Isham
Otis Homestead
Rochester
N. Y
J. A. Beck
United States
Beck
8. M. Fridenberg
Morris M. Bernheimer
Royal Palace
Nace
the Majestic
J. P. Mills
J. W. Beard
Majestic
Robert P. Austin
Alfred F. Somers
Theodore Bradly
C. C. Carter
A. H. Mack
Norton Mack
Mrs. Wainwright Churchill
Pittsburg
Town
Miss May Sharp
Reba Hill
Pacific Avenue
Lillian Wilson
F. W. Wilson
E. T. Dobbins
Miss Dobbins
Mrs. B. Levy
City
Arthur Cobell
United States Navy
George B. Cortelyou
Dickinson
Colleges
Hammond
U. OF P
Edward C. Knight
Morrell Cottage
Ochre Point
John C. Whiteridge
Portsmouth
Newport Horticultural Society
EF. L. Winthrop, Jr
Meuhleisen
Thomas
Girls’ Commercial High School
SAIL
American Line
St. Paul
St. John’s
Roosevelt
Berlin
Shah
Shah of Persia
Dallke
Martha Taft Wentworth
Tapioca Ice
Tim
United Gas Improvement Co
Partridge G Richardson
MR. Merchant
Buffalo
Columbia Avenua
GEO. B. Newton & CO
Eacionenn Ballding
Candy Novelty
Ackers
Catholic Summer School
Fairmount Avenue
Toppan
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