Forum club opens season with ban que at Menger Hotel
Katherine M. Joseph notes sender details and forum program including Mothers Day round table Our Responsibilities and Home and Mother activities. Dinner at Menger Hotel featured six toasts by Scholz Knight Harris Campbell Powell. Attendees and upcoming meetings listed with local clubs and individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Round Table
Forum Club
Menger Hotel
Young Men’s Christian Association
John Meusebach
Paul H. Scholz
Butler L. Knight
Robert G. Harris
Robert G. Harris; “Brain Food,” Forrest Campbell
Marriage of Kilgore and Billingsley at Kilgore home
The notice lists a 6 30 wedding for Miss Lulu Elizabeth Kilgore and Oliver Franklin Billingsley at the home of Mr and Mrs Lee Kilgore 128 Callaghan Avenue. It also records several club and church meetings including Juvenile Card club at Miss Annis Walton's McCullough Avenue home and other social and church gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu Elizabeth Kilgore
Oliver Franklin Billingsley
Lee Kilgore
Callaghan Avenue
Annis Walton
McCullough Avenue
Edith Mitchell Hosts Ninth Birthday Party
Miss Edith Mitchell celebrates her ninth birthday at home on West French Place with red and white decorations. Guests include Helen Price Eve Newton Anna Leigh Myra Thompson Lucille Casner Clair Jackson Helen Montgomery Ruth Marion Watson Day Nina Worley Junior Knox Charles Booth and Abner Hopkins Cecil Homer Mitchell. The Government Hill Methodist church Woman's Missionary Society postpones its meeting to Friday at 3 pm due to E. K. Gibbons' death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Mitchell
West French Place
Helen Price
Eve Newton
Anna Leigh
Myra Thompson
Lucille Casner
Clair Jackson
Helen Montgomery
Ruth
Marion Watson
Day
Nina Worley
Masters Junior Knox
Charles Booth
Abner Hopkins
Cecil
Homer Mitchell
Picture of Nell Brinkley Corset Image in Good Housekeeping
Miss Nell Brinkley’s drawing reproduces a corset like the one worn in Mme de Montespan era. The Rusk corset was a cuirass with whalebone a quarter pound and nine to ten yards of braid. An article on corset history accompanies the August Good Housekeeping issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nell Brinkley
Mme. de Montespan
National News Association
Good Housekeeping
Miss Nell Brinkley
Age of Indiscretion: A Wife's Dilemma and an Old Adonis
Dorothy Dix recounts a married woman whose sixty five year old husband, though faithful before, falls for a younger vaudeville temptress after one kiss. The piece argues such infatuation, labeled the age of indiscretion, often ends with the husband returning humbly to his wife, chastened but unchanged in many cases.
Farewell Party for Miss Janie Stapp Planned
Miss Janie Stapp will host a farewell party at her Johnson street home Thursday evening before departing for California to reside there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janie Stapp
Johnson Street
California
Connecticut Man Breaks Boyhood Vow After Bridge Opening
Joseph Pendleton aged 91 from Connecticut fulfilled a lifelong pledge by shaving off his long whiskers after the Old Lyme bridge was completed and opened to traffic. The bridge construction cost nearly 1.5 million dollars and met Pendleton’s condition exactly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Joseph Pendleton
New York
Pendleton
Lyme
Marriage Licenses Issued in Twenty Four Hours
Marriage licenses were issued during the twenty four hours ending at noon today to George Esser and Martha Magers. Homer A. Newnam and Nellie E. Ellison. William Paul Levendusky and Christina Zemleda. Oliver F. Billingsley and Lula Elizabeth Kilgore. Charles S. Hunter and Nellie M. Howard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Esser
Martha Magers
Homer A. Newnam
Nellie E. Ellison
William Paul Levendusky
Christina Zemleda
Oliver F. Billingsley
Lula Elizabeth Kilgore
Charles S. Hunter
Nellie M. Howard
Burglar Heist Sets Stage For Ruby Theft In London mêlée
A midnight London scene ends with Lady Bessington thwarting a jewel thief. The would‑be robber confronts her, seeks the Bessington rubies, and unlocks a hidden safe. She traps him behind a secret door as dawn breaks, signaling a dramatic curtain on another successful burglary plot at the theaterof crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Masterson
London
Lady Bessington
Alistair
Bessington
Bessingtons
Lord Bessington
Scotland Yard
Man and woman cancel wedding after license rushed
Daniel Crumsley 41 and Bridget Boyle 45 met yesterday in Sweyersville and quickly engaged. They obtained a marriage license in Wilkes Barre this morning but returned it after quarrelling on the way to the minister and tore up the license, seeking a refund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Crumsley
Bridget Boyle
Wilkes-Barre
Penn
Crumley
Sweyersville
Here
Miss Boylé
Daysey Mayme and Her Folks
Frances L. Garside chronicles Lysander John Appleton contemplating marriage while humorously critiquing wives and domestic life detailing pet obsessions beds furniture and fashion. The piece cycles through satirical quips about marriage and daily life with a closing aside on oysters' temperature sensitivity.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Katherine M. Joseph
Central Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
A. R. Byrd
Guenther Street
Tobin Hill
Travis Park Church Home Mission Society
T. O. Foster
Main Avenue
W. N. Caputo
Richmond Avenue
Josie Woodgate
Katie Conners
Belton
Alice Simpson
Kingsville
Corpus Christi
Eleanor Stevens
Lorena Wilson
West End
Beatrice Turman
Uvalde
Miss Turman
A. H. Evans
Evans
Elsie, Elizabeth
Andrew Evans
Eagle Posse, Tex
L. S. Bates
East Cypress Street
Walter Napier
Miss Estelle Napier
Tarpon
E W. Newton
Marshall Street
Nellie W. Howard
Georgia Howard
South Press Street
Charles 8. Hunter
Lucille Mueller
Leopold Simon
Mission Street
Willard Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
West End Presbyterian Church
San Pedro
Travis Park
Rebecca McKnight
Warren Street
Travis Park Philathea
Walter Martyn
Summit Avenue
Meeting of Missionary Society
Prospect Hill Methodist Church
Woman's Missionary Society of the
Government Hill
Methodist Churen
E. K. Gibbons
Barnard E. Bee
Daughters of the Confederacy
Woman's Club House
Mabel Massey Bates
Pompeo Coppini
W. P. Baugh
Richmond
D. J.allen
Earl Carnahan
J. E. Griffin
W. H.young
Beacon Hill
Fountains & Elsewhere
Dorothy Dix
Draughon
Practical Business College
Schealan
United States
Draughon’s
John F. Draughon
Earthman Bros. & Parish
Aughon’s Practical Business College
Plaza
Crockett St
San Antonio
the Light's Daily
Daysey Mayme
Frances L. Garside
Lysander John Appleton
Free Sam
Houston Street
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