Simple White House Wedding of Woodrow Wilson’s Daughter
Jessie Woodrow Wilson wed Francis Bowes Sayre in a brief East Room ceremony at the White House. Cabinet members and diplomats attended alongside family, with a restrained decor matching a home parlor setting. The bridal party and Marine Band provided formal ceremony details.
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Washington
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
White House
Treasury
Woodrow Wilson
Hart
Marine Band
Sylvester W. Beach
Princeton
John Nevin Sayre
Wilfred Grenfell
Eleanor Wilson
Mary G. White
Baltimore
Adeline Scott Mitchell
Marjorie Brown
Atlanta
Margaret Wilson
Beautiful Bride Enters As President Looks On
A bugler announces the entrance of the bride who leans on her father as she crosses the threshold. The president smiles while the bride, radiantly calm, wears a white satin gown with orange blossom embroidery and delicate point lace details.
Bride and Groom Miss Jessie Wilson and Mr Sayre Married
Miss Jessie Wilson and Mr Sayre were married yesterday in a quiet ceremony attended by family and friends. The couple plans a short honeymoon before returning to their duties and home.
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Miss Jessie Wilson
Mr. Sayre
Bridal attire and state reception at the White House
The article describes a bride in satin and lace with a three foot train, tulle veil, and diamond pendant gift. The ceremony includes a Presbyterian service without obedience vow, and the couple receives guests in the Blue and Red rooms as foreign ministers and dignitaries mingle with flowering decor and formal congratulations.
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Lavallier
Mr. Sayre
Miss Wilson
Wilson
White House
Canandaigua Man Degraff Ends Life in Barn
Great A Degraff of Canandaigua aged 82 died by hanging last week. His wife found the body in a barn near the Gorham street home. Degraff, a former assessor, had suffered mental trouble in recent times.
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Great A. Degraff
Canandaigua
Gorham Street
Mr. Degraff
Last Term for Justice Hooker on State Court Bench
Justice Hooker of Fredonia New York will close his career on the supreme court bench at Mayville New York in December. The term begins on the first of the month and has 198 cases on the calendar.
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Hooker
Warren
Fredonia
N. Y
Eupreme
Mayville
Priest Pantanella Sued for Alienation of Affections
Robert S. Lowery seeks 50000 dollars in damages from 83 year old Catholic priest Dominic Pantanella for alleged violent love making toward his wife Mrs Sarah N. Lowery at Sacred Heart college parlor. He asks the court commit Pantanella to jail if he refuses a judgment. The suit notes advances from 1912 summer to fall 1912 ending November 15 1912.
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Denver
Dominic Pantanella
Sacred Heart College
Robert S. Lowery
District Court
Sarah N. Lowery
Lowery
Father Pantanella
Man Tries to Mail Letter From Fire Box in Pittston
Felix Hodanna attempted to stuff a letter to friends overseas into a fire alarm box, triggering a false alarm. Firefighters arrived to find Hodanna still at the box, admitting he broke glass and turned the key to open it. He was not arrested after the incident.
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Pittston
Felix Hodanna
Holanna
Hodanna
Turkey Theft Hits Owen Wister Family Farm
Nov. 26 report from Philadelphia says novelist Owen Wister and his family found two Virginia turkeys they favored for Thanksgiving stolen from their Old York Road poultry yard. The loss leaves Wister to buy an unsophisticated sow for the meal.
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Philadelphia
Owen Wister
Old York Road
Plays With Dead Sister In Nanticoke Tragedy
In Nanticoke Pennsylvania on November 26 a mother found her three month old twin Mary playing with the body of her sister Margaret who had died during the night both infants had been put to bed in apparent good health authorities investigated but no cause of death is given and no further details are provided.
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Nanticoke
William Williams
Mary
Margaret
Dog Saves Master from Vicious Bull at East Union Farm
James Ostrom's farmer near Binghamton was saved from death when his bull dog Jappy faced a vicious bull threatening Ostrom as he herded cows. The dog bit the bull in the hind leg and nose before neighbors intervened to rescue Ostrom, who was seriously hurt.
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Binghamton
James Ostrom
East Union
Here
Jappy
Ostrom
Amputation Allegation At Scranton Coal Mine
Walter Rychliskie sues the Pennsylvania Coal Company for 15000 damages alleging the assistant foreman at Old Force colliery amputated his foot with scissors after a roof fall. The suit claims the superintendent ordered an emergency operation to sever flesh threads to free the trapped foot.
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Old Force
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Scranton
Walter Rychliskie
Rychliskie
Wife of Pennsylvania Merchant Injured In Auto Crash
Mrs. N. Gross wife of a Harrisburg merchant may lose her sight after glass from a shattered windshield pierced her eye during a collision near Myerstown. The Gross family of six were returning from Wernersville when their car struck John Bollinger’s team. Bollinger and his wife were driving in the opposite direction and his horse was thrown onto the automobile causing the windshield to shatter. The occupants suffered numerous cuts from the broken glass.
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Myerstown
N. Gross
Harrisburg
Gross
Wernersville
John Bollinger
Bollinger
Woman Held on Cruelty Charge Toward Stepson
Bayonne police took Mrs. Josephine Sandown of 77 West 49th Street into custody on $1000 bail after her six year old stepson Robert recounted being burned with fire and repeatedly scorched by a lighter and a stove. She denied cruelty.
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New York
Hara
Bayonne
Josephine Sandown
West 49Th Street
Robert
Rev Dr Johnson Dies Suddenly Underground
Rev Dr Johnson, 1 years old, noted Presbyterian clergyman and educator, died suddenly of heart disease in his Germantown home. He had lived in Philadelphia for two years after a Louisville second marriage to Miss Duncan. His first wife Katharine Hardenbergh of Auburn, N Y, died in 1907. Burial will be at Auburn.
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Dr. Johnson
Herrick Johnson
Germantown
Philadelphia
Louisville
Miss Duncan
Katharine S. Hardenbergh
Auburn
N. Y
Auburt
Farmhand Saves Merriken After Horse Fight
Henry M. Merriken of Nanticoke Hareded Georgetown Del is severely injured when trying to separate two fighting horses. A farm hand jumped into the barnyard to drag the unconscious man to safety, narrowly averting death.
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Georgetown
Del
Nanticoke Hadred
Henry M. Merriken
Merriken
New York Cheese Slice Prompts Chicago Show Giveaway
A giant cheese wheel weighing 6 200 pounds and made from 63 289 pounds of milk was cut into 20 006 pieces and distributed to land show patrons in Chicago. The product originated in New York state.
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Chicago
New York State
Missing groom’s death mystery widens in Avoca
Miss Rynders of Avoca New York now bears the burden of a body identified as James Greene the bridegroom who vanished before his wedding. The corpse from Michigan lacks Greene’s distinctive features and the case deepens as authorities search for the missing man, suspected to be a victim of aphasia.
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Miss Rynders
Avoca
N. Y
James Greene
Thomas Hatch
Jackson
Mich
Greene
Rochester
STATE SELECTS CATTLE FOR PUREBRED DRIVE IN MINNESOTA
W A McKerrow of the Agricultural College extension says about four hundred full-blood Holsteins and Guernseys have been brought into Minnesota by farmers in the past three months. He left for Wisconsin to buy a carload of purebred Guernseys for Wilkin county. McKerrow helped form a Holstein breeders group in Waseca and notes a similar Northfield group formed six years ago. Northfield farmers expect Holstein sales around 300000 dollars this year.
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Minnesota
W. A. McKerrow
The
Agricultural College
Wisconsin
Wilkin County
McKerrow
Waseca
Northfield
Medkerrow
Two Boys Drown After Boat Sails on Pond in Shortville
Disregarding warnings, two young residents of Shortville New York Charles S Oliver and Herbert Hall drowned in a pond beside the village electric plant. Oliver had just finished a small boat and invited Hall to sail. The craft leaked and the boys, realizing danger, could not reach shore before drowning.
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Shortville
N. Y
Charless. Oliver
Herbert Hall
Tree Sent by Parcel Post From Franklin Pa
A tree shipped by parcel post from Franklin Pennsylvania last Saturday was collected by rural carrier Albert Bun nel from a farmer who intended it for a friend in Ohio. The eight foot tree had branches bound to the trunk with twine yielding a four inch girth and was allowed only after it was sawed down to meet the parcel limit.
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Parcel Post
Franklin
Albert Bunnel
Ohio
Bunnel
Largest blast at McAfee destroys mountain face
Thousands of tons of limestone were blasted from a mountainside at McAfee New Zealand on Bethlehem Steel property. General Manager Patrick Dagnan says enough rock fell to supply 150 men for about a year shipping to the plant. Twenty tons of dynamite were used.
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McAfee
N. Z
Bethleham Steel Company
Patrick Dagnan
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Francis B. Sayre
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Thomas Turkey
Omas Turkey
Husbana Sues
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