Debutantes and duty as San Antonio social season opens
The piece notes social season shifts as youth prepare for school and new careers while mothers stay active with Red Cross work. It references debutante sisters, returning soldiers, and a proposed San Antonio Cotton Club supper dance to formally introduce new debutantes, signaling a broader move toward wartime civic duties.
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San Antonio
Red Cross
Daughers
Europe
Ada
New York
Mary
Johnnie
Armyen
San Antonio Cofon Club
Als
San Antonio Debutantes and Society Notes 1916
Miss Laura Winstead of Houston visits grandmother Mrs. Augustus W. Houston as debutantes of the season are feted. Engagements include Miss Abbel Moore to Howard Newman Pardue and Miss Mae Schwartz to Roy E. Schwartz with weddings planned in autumn. Social calendars feature parties on the Travis Club roof and large guest lists, as well as mothers groups, club meetings, and summer travel notes across Texas and New England.
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Laura Winstead
Houston
Augustus W. Houston
Miss Winstead
Wichs
New York
Massachusetts
Mexico
San Antonio
William J. Moore
Miss Abbel Moore
Howard Newman Pardue
Tains
Bar Harbor
Portland
James Routledge
Francis Smith
Rockport
Land's End
Mass
H. B. Fall
Chicago
Edward Carrington Jones
Juanita
Boegel Ranch
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Charlotte Gibbs Blesse
Eagle Pass
Vernon Edward Prichard
Mae Belle Allen
Calvert
Elizabeth Senior
S&s
August William Zerr
Wiliam Shaw
Lozier, Texas
el Paso
J. A. Hoerster
Mae
Roy E. Schwartz
Laura Virginia Adams
Travis Club
Imogene Young
Kaufman
Verna Raby
Girard Galpin
George C. Vaughan
Cornelia
Sattle Creek
Mich
Atlantic Ty
Brownie Phillips
Cuero
Jack V. Betters
S. M. Wantzloeben
Marvill Mothers’ Club
Council of Mothers
South Flores Street
Mrs
Roland Springall
S&s Ss
R. C. Wright
Eva
Adele Gutzitt
John Bennett Jr
Annabelle Hilgartner
Austin
Armstrong Ranch
Armstrong
Jax
Ralph Hinchliff
Rockford, T'l
Camp Wilson
St. Anthony
Charles R. Vincent
Major Vincent
Illinois National Guard
Herman Hirsch
Miss Fern
Kidd-Key Conservatory
Katherine Coolidge
Marjorie Campbell
Thornton Lamilton
Kate Buckman
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