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Social Life at Lake Parties and Modern Manners
A city column notes lake resort parties grow in favor yet can offend, recounting a prank that drenched guests from a roof and left them on the porch. It contrasts old time courtesy with current phone and social antics, and ends by citing David Graham Phillips on Devery era fashion and tasteless displays.
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Baltimore
Europe
Beer Garden
Gurls
David Graham Phillips
New York Times
Devery
Girm
Ruth Spritz
Chicago
Hattie L. Frank
Lydia Becker
Mackinac
Mary N. Wells
Martinsville
Richard Wilson
Jamestown
M. J. Thomas
Syracuse
N. Y
Mary McConney
Muskegon
Mich
Jean M. Cochrane
Maxinkuckee
William Shireman
Petoskey
Douglas Pierce
Cincinnati
Runnels
Higgins Lake
Louise Young
New York
Agnes Hutton
Delaware Street
S. L. Harvey
Fairfield
Inl
Nan M. Wilson
Central Avenue
Harry Long
South Haven
L. M. Huber
Susan
St. Joe
Ida Beller
Milwaukee
George B
Rose Solomon
Charlies O. Pfaffini
Walloon Lake
Minocqua
Wis
Catherine Tomlin
Beulah Steinfeld
Gene Rauh
John D. Brosnan
Atlantic City
Adelaide Nehen
Richmond
Hazel Hammell
Greenfield
Randall
College Avenue
William E
Rebecca Rogers George
Healing Springs
William Beck
Wisconsin
Northwest
A. M. Hawkins
E. K. Chapman
C. S. Runnells
Martha Smith
Asa Elliott
Beach Spring
Ind
W. M. Robertson
New England States
Louis Benor
Charlotte
Muncie
Mr. Benor
M. Benor
Francis Smith
Texas
Capitol Avenue
P. M Pursell
Susan Pursell
Putin Bay
James W. Lilly
East
C. B. Ensey
Leonora
Lakeside
Anna Teger
Boston
Portland
Harriet Coughlen
Macy Coughlen
Gloucester
Pittsburg
F. F. McCrea
Winona
Edward E. Gates
San Francisco
A. B. Gates
Hurlbert
Lewis Hurlbert
Albert Metzger
Familly
Elkhart Lake
N. A. Rose
Mary Maxwell Knippenberg
Dorothy Stewart
Logansport
Reagan
Senate Avenue
Reginald Sullivan
Donald Morris
Ned Jones
Tippecanoe River
Bertha Herron
A. P. Herron
North Meridian Street
S. H. Smith
Cora
Charles Daniel Snyder
H. G. Stiles
Winifred Stiles
Anna K. Guenther
Danville
Bloomington
Nellie H. Wilson
Broad Ripple
Leah Hurlbert
Denver
Arthur H. Webb
Detroit
Ypsilanti
Charles James Mooney
New York City
Omer Logansport
Ina
Madison, Nd
Laura Hartmann
Memphis
Tenn
Edward J. Treat
Kokomo
French Lick
St. Clair Parry
St. Lawrence
Montreal
Liverpool
Nelle Taylor
William M. Taylor
Erwin D. Ross
Clinton
F. C. G. Wambsganss
Leona
Flo Bradford
Elizabethtown
Bandy
Edgar Bradford
Shelbyville
Anna
Elizabeth Schrader
Maine
Atlantic Coast
California
Bernice Wright
Mabel Barton
Terre Haute
Hbartel
Agnes Ketcham
W. A. Keacham
Philadelphia
Weir Mitchell
Jeanette Brooks
Jessie Thompson
North Capitol Avenue
Louisville
Thompson
Antwerp
Vaderland
Miss Long