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Social life and society pages reveal a busy gentry
A long read on city social life shows society women hosting, attending, and lamenting the costs of aristocratic duties. Scenes of charity visits, grand parties, luncheon confessions, and club notices illustrate a network of names, places, and events, with matrons, debutantes, and married couples shaping the season.
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New York Tribune
Mamma
Catharine Merrill Club
Cleland
FE. Morison
Rosemary Club
Walt Whitman
Folsom
James Whitcomb Riley
Miss Walk
Procter Reading Circle
Florentine
Mary Muhl
Brennan
Ferger
Daly- Irvington Woman's Club
Williams
Alton Locke
Miss Tompkins
Thompson
Forrest
R. D. Fisher
Josephine Nichols
E. Hamilton
Kate Field
J. H. Ed
Ndin
Magazine Club
S. N. Poyser
Higgins Apartments
East St. Joe Street
D. W. Tibbs
St. Patrick
Harry Porter
J. A. Sutcliffe
Ketcham
Robert Long
Louise Pugh
T. B. Laycock
Woman's Research Club
C. W. Gorsuch
Homer
Belle Tutewiler
M. A. Ryker
Florence Hopkins