Social notes brighten Mobile with gatherings and upcoming weddings
Mobile society stories a flurry of meetings and entertainments. New Bridge Club hosts Mrs. H. K. Dawson at 3 p m. Elwell Club meets Mrs. E. J. Buck also at 3 p m. All Saints’ ild holds a November morning 11 o’clock gathering at Mrs. W. T. Kelly’s home on Government street loop. A heart party honors Miss Miriam Black with groom-elect Gaines St. John, featuring games, prizes, and a luncheon. Wedding plans for Monday cover Miss Black and Mr. St. John as guests and society eyes the couple’s forthcoming nuptials.
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New Bridge Club
H. K. Dawson
Elwell Club
E. J. Buck
All Saints
Ild
W. T. Kelly
Government Street Loop
Ruth McCormick
Margaret Swan
Memphis
Tenn
Cecila Webb
Margaret Horn
Mobile
William Vizard
Miriam Black
Gaines St. John
Mary Kelly Vizard
Daughters are One Day Behind at Confederate Daughters Convention
Delegates of the United Daughters of the Confederacy pressed ahead with business in New Orleans delaying plans to adjourn Saturday. Many reports remain to read and speeches to deliver as social events fill the schedule. An automobile ride and cornerstone laying for the Beauregard monument are planned, followed by receptions at the Country Club and Soldiers Home hosted by the Louisiana division.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Beauregard Monument
Country Club
Louisiana
Soldiers Home
Potter and Miss Brown wed at Newton Methodist Church
In a Newton ceremony Thursday at 10 30 Rev H W Featherston presided as John Potter of Mobile married Miss Carrie Brown of Newton. After the ceremony the couple went by east bound train for a wedding tour to Washington and New York. They will reside in Mobile upon return. He is assistant to the chief auditor for the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago railroad.
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Newton Methodist Church
John “. Potter
Mobile
Carrie Brown
Newton
Miss
H. W. Featherston
Washington
New York
New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
Mirs
A. J. Brown
Senators Buy Silver Service for Miss Wilson
Washington November 14 Miss Jessie Wilson will receive a silver service wedding gift from the Senate including tea service coffee percolator compote vases candelabra trays all inscribed and valued at slightly over a thousand dollars Senator Martine overseeing the gift announced the details yesterday.
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Associated Press
Washington
Jessie Wilson
Martine
Wilsons to attend Army Navy football game in New York
The Wilson family said they plan to attend the Army Navy football game in New York on November 29. The president has promised to go if possible.
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White House
Washington
Wilson
New York
White House Bride-to-Be Treated at Navy Wife Luncheon
Miss Jes ie Wilson, soon to be the White House bride, was honored at a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Josephus Daniels wife of the secretary of the navy at Single Oak Wedley Lane Washington Navy. The event started a series of similar gatherings by cabinet officers wives with fourteen seats at the table. Genevieve Clark presented Miss Wilson a Virginia stone cross on a chain from the Jack piece tradition. Guests included Margaret Eleanor Wilson Genevieve Clark Mrs Richard Hargreaves Mrs Bryan Nona McAdoo Lucy Kyle Burleson Agens Wilson Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt Ruth Hall Mary White Belle Bagley Ethel Pagley.
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Associated Press
Washington, Navy
Jessie Wilson
White House
Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
Wedley Lane
Miss Wilson
Nona McAdoo
Lucy Kyle Burleson
Agens Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ruth Hall
Mary White
Baltimore
Belle Bagley
Ethel Pagley
Daniels
Hindu awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Rabindranath Tagore, a Hindu poet from Bengal, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm. The award marked the first time a nonwhite laureate received the prize. Tagore’s works gained English translations recently, boosting international recognition of his writings and the Tagore family's literary and artistic lineage.
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Associated Press
Stockholm
Gay
Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore
British India
Bengal
Mahrajah
Pradyot Tragore
Rajah
Sourindra Mohun ‘Ragore
Philadelphia
National Woodmen convention awarded to Toledo
The 1914 national convention of the Modern Woodmen of America was awarded to Toledo, Ohio by the society's executive council meeting in Rock Island Illinois. The meeting also discussed the rate fight with a likely final settlement set for June 16.
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Associated Press
Rock Island
Ill
The
Modern Woodmen of America
Toledo, Chidé
Society
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