Social events mark Mobile wedding and Confederate gathering
Miss Pincus and Mr. Stockman wed at St. Mary’s as guests in pastel gowns and roses. A lavish reception follows at 913 Bi Mira Street. U. D. C. convention opens with a Mississippi River boat trip and numerous private parties in honor of visiting members from New Orleans and Shreveport.
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O'Rourke- Stockman
May Philemon
Michael Vincent
St. = of honor
8Us
Pensacola
Neces Parker
W. C. Stockman
Payon
Dolive
Copenhagen
Emma
New Orleans
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Frank B. Williams
St. Charles Avenue
Youree
Shreveport
St. Charles Hotel
Ladies’ Confederate Memorial Association of
W. J. Behan
New Orleans Item
Monday Bridge Club Sees Agnes Fowlkes Top Score
Miss Findley Glass hosted the Monday Bridge Club with Miss Marguerite Festerazzi and Miss Hilda Broadwood as substitutes. Miss Agnes Fowlkes won the high score and received silk hose. Miss Broadwood earned the crochet coin purse as consolation after a salad course. Wedding notices announce Millie Swain to Joseph Touart Quinn on November 20 1913 at St Michaels Pensacola with a December home invitation on Indiana Avenue Mobile.
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Findley Glass
Monday Bridge Club
Miss Glass
Marguerite Festerazzi
Hilda Broadwood
Agnes Fowlkes
Miss Broadwood
Quinn Swain
Richard Swain
Millie
Joseph Touart Quinn
St. Michael's Church
Pensacola
Indiana Avenue
Mobile
Ala
House gifts Miss Jessie Wilson a pendant from State gift
The House of Representatives plans to present Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson with a pear shaped pendant of one canary diamond weighing six and a half carats surrounded by eighty five smaller diamonds. The gift, valued at over $2,000, will be presented on her marriage to Francis B. Sayre at the White House on November 25. A jewelry box inscription notes the gift from the House as a token of affection. The appraisal and selection involved Republican Leader Mann and Miss Genevieve Clark.
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Associated Press
Washington
House of Representatives
Jeasie Wilson
Francis B. Sayre
White House
House
Mann
Genevieve Clark
Wilson
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
United States’ House of Representatives
Great cake completed for Miss Jessie Wilson
New York report notes Miss Jessie Wilson will have a wedding cake baked yesterday. The first layer is four inches thick and twenty two inches across and the cake will weigh 135 pounds when ready for the knife. It will be two and a half feet tall with an orchid vase on top. It will cost about 500 dollars and contain nineteen ingredients. Twenty two hundred boxes will be used to distribute the cake under pillows to dream on. The icing features a white scroll design and initials in silver with valley flies in white sugar on the sides.
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Associated Press
New York
Jessie Wilson
Alabama Bonded Debt Totals Rise
Montgomery November 12 Alabama's bonded indebtedness stands at 3 057 000 with annual interest of 357 450 according to a report filed with the governor Tuesday by Examiner Gorman The bond redemption fund on deposit September 30 last was 35 400 During the fiscal year five thousand dollars worth of bonds have been redeemed.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Gorman
Confederacy Legacy Dominates Southern Convention
Delegates from across the South and beyond convene to map funds for a Shiloh battlefield monument and homes for Confederate widows and veterans. President General Mrs. White touts a 90,000 member U D C lineage since 1894, noting extensive monuments, pensions, and relief efforts.
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Bhilon Battlefield
Shiloh Monument
Nathan D. Ella
Virginia
Daisy McLaurin Stevens
Senator McLaurin
Mississippi
New Orleans
Ias
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Alexander B. White
White
Nashville
Tenn
South
San Francisco
Mississippi Valley
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Jefferson Davis
Richmond
Arlington Monument
Washington
Make Farm Life More Attractive for Youth
Washington November 12. The American Association of Farmers Institute Workers discussed attracting youth to rural living as a solution to urban migration. W J Kennedy of Ames Iowa proposed better roads labor-saving devices and amusements to improve appeal. Also meeting were the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science the Society for the Advancement of Agricultural Teaching and the American Society of Agronomy.
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Washington
American Association of Farmers’ Institute
W. J. Kennedy
Ames
Society For the Promotion of Agricultural Science
The
Society For the Advancement of Agricultural Teaching
American Society of Agronomy
Major General Biddle seeks retirement due to ill health
Major General William Phillips Biddle, commandant of the United States Marine Corps and a Marine officer for over thirty eight years, has asked for retirement on account of ill health, according to Secretary Daniels.
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Washington
William Phillips Biddle
United States Marine Corps
Corps
Daniels
Yester
General Biddle Named Native Pennsylvanian Army Officer
The sketch notes General Biddle is a Pennsylvania native who was appointed to the Army in 1875 and is now 60 years old. No decision had been made on the action to be taken regarding the request.
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General Biddle
Pennsylvania
W C T U to Meet at Harte Auditorium
A meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Harte Auditorium of the YMCA.
Podophyllin and Calomel Lose Favor in Liver Treatments
Historical medical note explains why Podophyllin and Calomel fell out of favor for liver issues. It cites severe griping and sickness, safety concerns, and public opposition. Mentioned are Druggists chemists and the shift to gentler methods as bile and digestion are discussed.
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Min
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Mullis
Percy
Miss Wilson
Lower House of Congress
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Miss Jessie Wilson
Bones
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Biddle
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