Social Life Notes From A Busy Week In Town
A glance at society happenings reveals weddings on Wednesday, notable engagements, and club pages full of meetings. Invitations, travels, and hostess duties populate the social calendar with engagements, dances, and suppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Licher
Anne Potter Garhart
T. Pralgx
North Delaware
Pottery
Brandt Steele
J. Ee
W. R. Galpin
Ballenger
College
J. E. Cravens
Grape-Nuts Backed As A Digestive Aid In A Calm Cure
A reader testifies that Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food cured her indigestion and heart palpitations after six years of suffering. She notes the food, not medicine, aided digestion and built the body, with her daughter also preferring it for breakfast and supper. The ad credits Postum Co. of Battle Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Co
Battle Creek
English Divorcee Case Reflects On Social Hospitality
The Marquis of Downshire's divorce case ends with a decree amid admissions of infidelity while his wife urged postponement until coronation festivities. The piece mocks insincere feminine hospitality and tea culture, contrasts male and female social honesty, and condemns vapid tea talk and artificial politeness in society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Marquis of
Downshire
Brooks and Peterson wed at Granville home
Walter Brooks, a Muncie post office clerk, married Miss Peterson, daughter of a Granville farmer, at 7:00 PM in the bride’s parents’ home. Rev F P Trotter officiated. The ceremony drew a large crowd and the couple will reside in Muncie. Social updates note club gatherings at Holy Cross Church, U Go I Go Club, German House, Good Time Euchre Club, St Mary’s of the Woods Club, and out of town guests from Danville Marshall Kentland Washington and Bedford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hay
Roosevelt
Signora Mayor Des Planches
Committee of Foreign Affairs
Fuller
United States
David B. Henderson
Miss Kean
New Jerseys
Miss Cockrell
Missouri
Margaret Foster
Burlington
Virginia Keep
Sarah Wallace
Geneva
Orville Peckham
George W. Stout
French Ack
Flora Hay
Crawfordsville
Frank Morrison
W. Ernest Garrison
St. Louis
Charles Werner
Nellie M. Bowman
Brandt
Downey
Miss Warner
Edward G. Hereth
Goshen
J. F. Daugherty
Nineteenth Street
G.W. Morrison
Pressly
Thomas Clements
Chicago
W. E. Boyd
Meridian
Park Avenue
Eleventh Street
James T. Eaglesfield
Margaret
Davy Eagiesfield
Mary A. Wilkinson
California
Highland Place
Charlotte Cathcart
Mary Chamel
Pittsburg
New York
E. N. Ketcham
Corydon
Jean Gill
Cortland van Camp
Martindale van Camp
Jessie Patterson Roth
Memphis
Tenn
Contemporary
Century Club
Denison Hotel
Alfred Potts
George C. Calvert
John H. Holliday
Lucia Holliday
Evelyn Holliday
John H. Holliday, Jr
Europe
William E. English
Scott County
Captain English
William Hauk
Jesse Lulu Hauk
Charles H. Shera
Oxford
Adelaide Goetz
Philip Goetz
Charles Roemler
Edna Kuhn
Larz Whitcomb
Wood L. Wilson
Zeeland
Antwerp
Paris
Walter Hale
Italy
Girls’ Classical School
May Wright Sewall
Booth Tarkington
Gaylord Hawkins
Archibald Harmon Bradshaw
Marie Yehner
Lancaster
Margaret Greene
Germantown
Mary Foster
Miss Greene
Miss Foster
Bryn Mawr College
Mona Taggart
Kauncheon
Cornell
Saginaw
Mich
Taggart
Gertrude Duvall
Yakima
Wash
I. N. Krutz
Miss Duvall
Will Scott
Greenfield
John F. Hedges
John Monks
C. M. Hamilton
Board of
Margie Anne Taylor
University of Chicago
Sewall
Manual Training High School
Bertha Keller
Freda Pink
Emma Kothe
Bess Beissenhertz
Maisie Branham
Lillie Bryant
Mary Collins
Woodrow Whson
Contemporary Club
Mr. Kendall
Representative Sherman
Yale College
John L. Griffiths
Andrew M. Sweeney
John B. Elam
Jesse Overstreet
Lucius Swift
A. Smith
Evans Woollen
Charles W. Moores
W. H. H. Miller
Charles R. Williams
Jacob P. Dunn
Samuel D. Miller
H. L. Beveridge
Merrill Moores
John O. Perrin
Hilton A. Brown
David F. Swain
Mary Gordon
Samuel A. Fischer
City
R. H. Kerfoot
George Andrews and Sons
George Gordon Kerfoot
John G. Bryson
Brazil
Brooks
Peterson
Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Walter Brooks
Granville
F. P. Trotter
Mary Mueller
Holy Cross Church
North Arsenal Avenue
Bess
Gertrude Brown
Cordelia Hughes
Carl von Hake
George Bauer
Margaret Daly
B. F. Watson
S. P. Sheerin
Helen Daly
Hadley
Danville
English
Marshall, Il
Keefe
Kentland
O'Neill
Charles Francis
Bedford
Among Those Present Protests Chicago Social Lists
An editorial critiques frequent newspaper lists of people described as among those present at events. It argues such lists inflate civic vanity, overlook lesser known contributors, and duplicate notable names. It cites patronesses and suggests reporters drop both lists for more meaningful public discourse.
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New York Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Paris
United States
Chicago
Heavenly Choir
Ringling's Big Circus Show With 300 Fine Horses
Ringling Bros big circus, coming to Indianapolis Monday May 12, features 300 horses from high-bred stock. The display includes 28 draught horses for the dens and tableau cars, 65 trained trick horses, 65 Shetland ponies, famed riders and acts by John O'Brien Joan Rooney Davenport Schadels Hobeons and others, with 900 artists and 40 clowns in a three ring program plus a vast menagerie and unique attractions.
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Ted
Ringling Bros
Indianapolis
Imperial Free Street Parade
John O'Brien
Joan
Michael Rooney
Davenport Family
Schadels
Hobeons
Kingsing Bros
Captain Webb
Pearl Louder
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Arcady
Robert Bridges
Iltiie
Della Dearborn
C. . Weaver
M. H. Shaw
Eee Gardens
Joseph Reagan
Abner Lewis
Floree Patterson
C. W. Tibbs
Culture Club
Geo. McCammon
East St. Chir Street
John Hay
Pike County
J. J. Winman
Joaquin Miller
Sierras
8. M. Dyer
C. A. Paquette
HL Gruelie
New York Evening Post
Young Ladies’ Seminary
Eall
Ongey
Pire
Jones
H. McLane
Terre Haute
Jo Joseph G. Swain
Youngs Own
Club Entertainments
Ringling
BIG Circus
Charterhouse Sq
London
Rue de la Paix
Dave Anp
Boston
U.S.A
Alaska
Lilly & Stalnaker
East
KINGAN @ CO. (Ltd
Kingan & CO
Buffalo
Harmon
Halltona Street
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