Honor to Suffragists Seats Reserved for Them
A House hearing clash unfolds as Speaker Mondell invites suffrage leaders to witness the Susan B Anthony resolution. National American Woman Suffrage Association deputies press for a hearing before Congress, but Senator Thomas blocks a joint hearing and the special invitation remains limited to a select gallery audience.
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Mondell
Susan B. Anthony
Rkival
Mls Te
Anni
Oruay
House of
Clark Fou
Ok Wrom
New York
Great Damand
Che Spaker
Cideil
National
Anarian Woman Suffrage Association
Congressional Union
Charles S Thomas
Senate Committee On
Hencing Moee Tiusin
Anthon
Weidrescht
Union
Suffrage Association
Thomas
Forming Women Voters Club by Congressional Union
The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage outlined plans to canvass 211 Wash ington women to form a Washington women voters club. Members will press Congress to grant suffrage to all women, with Miss Alice Paul briefed on Mary Ttones of heart! Wash delegation arrival for the convention.
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Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
Washingon Hho
Nh Wallington Women Voters
Congress
Alice Paul
Baltuvent
Iko
Founders' Night at Hamline Church Honors Surviving Original Members
Founders' Night at Hamline Methodist Church continued a semi centennial service with Mrs Clara Lt. Roach presiding in Hamline. Surviving original members Mrs Josephine Cummings and Elasaph were lauded as goods of honor. District superintendent McDowell gave an address on morality. An Missal program featured the Hoornan Orchestra and a Dougie quartet with performers Fouls nine Cauareci, Miya Marion Fietve, Mos Arthur Pierce, Mrs James Nour, Roy Gilder, Clarence H. Sorritt Jinn Wasera Edwin Cal fie Folltu Atler.
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Tarmling Methodist Vyiseoal
Clara
Roach
Sitty
Hamlie
Josephine Cummings
Elasaph
Tioream
Woutford Lo McDowell
Tobiaeia
Hb Hoornan Onchestra
WB Mundelle Euler Ani
Dougie Quarte
Cauareci
Miya Marion Fietve
Mos
Arthur Pierce
James Nour
Roy Gilder
Clarence H. Sorrit
Mr Wasera
Edwin Cal
WEDS MRS VOMBERGE IN LATE 19TH CENTURY WEDDING
Mrs Genevieve Ss, daughter of the late Loula Scoe, married Thomas Jefferson Penn of Ketds vila Missouri at a hotel. The Rev Dr W A Lam performed the ceremony. A trip to Hot Springs Virginia was given as a wedding gift. the groom, Mr Pony, is from Buffalo. reception details unnamed.
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Washington Post
New York
Genevieve Ss
Tm Davehter
Loula
Mar ‘le
Thonas Jeffirson Penn
Vila Moo
W. A. Lamteth
Niasera
Elot Springs
Wifes Modern Mind and Dance Reach China Talks in New York
Special to The Washington Post. Mme Koo, wife of the Chinese Minister to the U.S., describes changes under Yuan’s rule. She notes Chinese women study philanthropy, dance, and choose partners with parental consent, while cultural shifts ease the mother-in-law constraint and bring Western education, dress, and music to daily life.
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China
Republic
Koo
Nixola Greeley-Smith
Washington Post
New York
V. E. Wellington Koo
Hotel Biltmore
Madam Ko
Yuan
Mme Hoo
Canton
Mme. Koo
Ime
Sia
Springfield
Mme
Koo Bald
Indies
Mme, Koo
Beethoven
Schumann
Mme Koo
Parle
MISS RUTH COXE A BRIDE IN PHILADELPHIA WEDDING
Miss Ruth Coxe daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Brinton Coxe married William Standley Stokes son of Mr and Mrs Thomas P Stokes at the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Messiah Glyndev Valley Philadelphia Dec 1 The Rev Benjamin Nathaniel Bird officiated The bridal party included Miles Catharina Coxe Katharine Ashhurst Bowie as maids of honor and Cornelia Carter Leidy Mary Stewart Wurts Mien Carrette Rush Misa Busan Ingersoll Misa Alicea Chapman Thompson Miss Gertrude Tower and Miss Elizabeth Carter of Honolulu as bridesmaids Best man was Baward Lowther Stokes and ushers Henry Brinton Coxe Jr John Stokes Walter Stokes.
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Philadelphia
Wiliam Standley Stokes
Washington Post
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Messiah
Gwynedo Valley
Ruth Coxe
Henry Brinton Coxe
William Standley Stokes
Thomas P. Stokes
Lone Oak
Germantown
Benjamin Nathaniel Bird
Miles Catharina Coxe
Katharine Ashhurst Bowie
Cornelia Carter Leidy
Mary Stewart Wurts
Mien Carrette Rush
Misa Busan KB. Ingersoll
Misa Alicea Chapman Thompson
Gertrude Tower
Elizabeth Carter
Honolulu
Mr. Stokes
Baward Lowther Stokes
Divorce suit to Russia asks for delay in Chicago heiress case
New York December 1 Prince Nicholas Engalitcheff asked Supreme Court to stay divorce proceedings and have the case tried in Russian courts claiming both are subjects of the czar He seeks separation and accuses his wife Evelyn Engalitcheff of misconduct while she seeks divorce on statutory grounds The couple have a son Nikholas Vladimir and the princess asks to resume her maiden name with custody sought
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New York
Nicholas W. Engalitchef
Russia
Supreme Court
Pendleton
Evelyn Engalitcheff
Evelyn Clayton Partridge
Chicago
Edwin W. Willcox
Portyealghth Street
Fifth Avenue
Ritz-Carlton
Charles W. Yartridge
Board of Trade
Windy City
Nikholas Vladimir
Mrs Galt’s Sister to Attend Prenuptial Festivities
Mrs Matthews H Maury sister of Mrs Norman Galt will depart Anniston next Wednesday with Mr Maury and their children to visit Mrs Bolling her mother. She is expected to remain in Washington through the wedding and will be a conspicuous figure at the nuptial preparations despite her demure demeanor.
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Washington Post
Mobile
Ale
Matthews H. Maury
Norman Galt
Anniston
Wedding Gift of Apples from Brewster Wins World Title
Representative Dill reports Brewster Washington apples hand picked for a wedding gift to President Wilson and Mrs Galt. Six boxes of Brewster apples won the world championship sweepstakes at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
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Washington
Wilson
Mrs. Galt
Brewster
Waah
Dill
Son Born to Angier B Duke of New York
Friends of Mr and Mrs Angier B Duke at 1003 Fifth Avenue extend congratulations on the birth of a son at their home Tuesday. Mother and child were reported as doing favorably. The boy is a grandson of Mr and Mrs Benjamin N Duke and of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle of Philadelphia.
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Washington Post
New York
Angier B. Duke
Fifth .Avenue
Benjamin N. Duke
Bire
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
Philadelphia
Glass of Water Before You Eat Health Hint Ad
A health note urges drinking hot water with limestone phosphate every morning to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels of the prior day. It claims benefits for headaches putrified breath rheumatism and pallid complexions and promotes internal cleanliness over external care.
New Carnation Named for Mrs. Galt by U S Experts
A new carnation names Edith Bolling pink is in development at government greenhouses to honor Mrs. Galt. It blends white with deep pink, aiming for a charity distribution role in the White House decor and official society events. Blooming expected by February with a debut at the Supreme Court dinner on February 8.
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Bolling Green
Edith Bolling
Washington Monument
America
William Gibbs McAdoo
Galt
Supreme Court
“Old Black Mammy” Will Dress for Mrs Galt Wedding
Roanoke dispatch reports that Mrs Edith Bolling Galt to be married to Woodrow Wilson will have the “old black mammy” Matilda Steptoe and her half sister Emma Chapman travel from Wytheville to Washington to assist with the bridal dress. The tradition dates from slavery days when a mammy served as the bride’s court of last resort in dressing.
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Mrs. Galt
Roanoke
Norman Galt
Edith Bolling
Wytheville
Woodrow Wilson
Land
Matilda Steptoe
White House
Matilda Stepton
Washington
United States
Matilda
Emma Chapman
Bolling
Gait
Boling
Bolfing
Woman Kissed Colored Porter by Mistake at Joliet Train
Mrs B Milton Collins of Sioux City forgot to say farewell on a Rock Island flyer at Joliet. She kissed Dinah Brown the colored porter on the lips during a crowded boarding, fainted, and was aided by Thomas Poe of Chicago as the train pulled out.
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Washington Post
Joliet
Chicago
Rock Island
Pacific Flyer
Mra. B. Milton Collins
Sioux City
Iowa
Saitcases
Dinah” Brown
National President Speaks Officers Elected and Prizes
The United Daughters of the Confederacy District branch held its eleventh annual convention in Confederate Memorial Hall. A national defense meeting was mandated by resolution. Mrs Maude Howell Smith was elected president and pledged to call the meeting soon. Prizes were awarded to the Mildred Lee Society children of the Confederacy. Officers were elected across multiple chapters and the day included prayers, songs, and roll calls. Louis & Post reported Karl Schulze, a Dutch stowaway deserter, admitted to New York after board action.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy
Confederate Memorial Hall
Maude Howell Smith
Frank Odenheimer
Odenheimer
Frank H. Brockman
Bons of Veterans
Mildred Lee
Thompson
Dixie
F. H Elmore
Lawton
Belle C Riley
R E Lee
Alice Theobald
Winnie Davis
Hattie Bowle
Stonewall Jackson
Ida Bowie
Roberta Volland
Wallace Streater
R. E Lee
Gustave Werder
Katherine Hslin
Isabel Sinclair
Virginia Griffith
Stephen H Ford
R. E Lees
Smith
Mary Barnes
Ethel McKnight
M.C Bowe
M C Bowie
Blanche Cooksey
Louis & Post
Karl Schulse
Rotterdam
New York
Schulze
Ells Island
Mr Post
Cornerstone Laid for Petworth M E Church
The Petworth M E Church cornerstone at Grant Circle and New Hampshire Ave NW was laid by the District Masons led by Grand Master Alexander Grant. Rev Dr Joseph M M Grey delivered the dedicatory address on the Meaning of the Modern Church. A Bible, records, and clippings were placed in the cornerstone as a choir from Prince Georges County and others performed. The building is expected to cost about $5 000.
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New Fetworth
Petworth M. E
Grant Circle
New Hampshire Avenue
Grand Lodge of Masons
Alexander Grant
Joseph M. M. Grey
Grand Avenue M. H
Kansas City
Hamline
M. E. Churches of
Washington
Ji. de Clark
Hamline Church
G. E. Williams
Petworth Church
Brightwood Park Seeks Prohibition in DC Action
Brightwood Park Citizens Association met to approve a resolution calling for prohibition in the District of Columbia. The measure, offered by president William McKay Clayton, directs the federation delegate to vote for prohibition. Homer Smith submitted the resolution after general discussion. E F Calladay, president of the Federation of Citizens Associations, urged broader membership to shape public opinion. A compromise to refer the issue to a DC referendum before Congress acts was adopted.
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Brightwood Park
E .F. Calladay
Federation of Citizens’ Associations
Clayton
District of Columbia
Congress
American attache weds Paris opera singer
Lieut Bernard B. L. Smith assistant naval attache of the American embassy of Richmond Virginia married Marguerita Sylva at Notre Dame des Champs Paris. Close friends and families attended including Mme Sylva Miss Grace Olmstead Edna Wallace Hopper and Oliver Roosevelt. Smith had served as marine aviator in the Veracruz era and was posted in Paris as observer of aeronautic warfare. Sylva was performing at the Opera Comique.
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Lieut. Smith
Richmond
Washington Post
Paris
Bernard Bl. Smith
Marguerita Sylva
Church of Notre Dame
Deschamps
Mme, Sylva
Grace Olmstead
Edna Wallace Hopper
Dlaron
Rudolf de Wardener
Louis Neilson
Oliver Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Treut. Smith
Marine Corps
Vere Cruz
Misa Sylva
Opera Comique
Navy enlistment citizenship figures misprinted
A wartime statement from Secretary Daniels claimed that nearly 96 percent of enlisted Navy personnel are U S citizens while a figure of 548 percent and 327 percent for Filipinos appeared due to a faulty print. The passage also referenced nonresident aliens residents Porto Ricans Samoans Chamorros and other groups in incomplete form.
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United States Navy
The
United States
Secreary Daniels
Pope Names Bishops In American Archdioceses
Special cable from Rome reports the Pope appointing Mgr Mundelein as archbishop of Chicago and naming Mgr Bressart bishop of Covington Kentucky. Dougherty is named bishop of Buffalo. Additional appointments to Brooklyn and other sees were noted.
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Washington Post
Rome
Mer. Mundelein
Brooklyn
Chicago
Mgr Bressart
Coyington, Ky
Mer, Dougherty
Buffalo
Haggin to contest will and statue fund plan
Special to The Washington Post Lexington Ky Dec 1 Mrs Jamey B Haggin of New York who inherited 15 000 000 after her husband death a year ago will join in efforts to break the will of Col J Voorhies an uncle Voorhies died in Denver leaving nearly 250 000 for a statue in his honor 7 Rockville Md Dec 1 Miss Helen Les Peters daughter of Mr and Mrs John W Peters of near Darnestown and Ernest C Ritkets of Seneca were married in Rockville this afternoon by Rev Oscar W Henderson
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Washington Post
Lexington
Jamey B Haggin
New York
Col J. & Voorhies
Voorhies
Denver
Rockville
Helen Les Peters
John W. Peters
Darnestown
Ernest C. Ricketts
Seneca
Rockyville
Oscar W. Henderson
Harem Weiss and Trousers Dominate New Fashion Decree
Special to The Washington Poet from New York notes American designers adapt global styles including Japan Russia and France. Turkish inspired harem trousers and veiled veils appear in new gowns with peacock panne velvet suits and fur trimmed coats. Dark red Garibaldi reds set day and evening tones, a Paris trend not yet common here.
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New York
France
England
Japan
Paris
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Clark
Dr. Shaw
Women Voters’ Club
Vomberge
Thomas J. Penn
North Carolina
Welungton Ky
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Columbia University
Clase
Yasrav
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Prince
ISAYS
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MES. Galt’s
Mr. Wilson
Angier B. Dukes
Benjamin N. Duke and
A. J. Drexel Biddle
U. S
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Sol Herzog & Co., Inc
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Take UP Defense
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Grant Lodge Masons
Citizens' Association
Federation
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Will
Helen Leo Peters
Hotel Gotham
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AJ Solson
Winter Garden Co
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David Warfield
van der Decken
Belasco Theater
Neureqay
Greta Torpadie
Thar
Linden
Christ Child Society
New National War
Charles Frohmymas
William Gillette
Secret Service
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Charles Dillianghawp
Frank
Bernard
Tinney Granville Ly
Emmy ‘Destinn
Ater
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Mational Theater Tyre
Carl Friedberg
Nielsen-Stohe
the. T. Arthur Swith
Metropolitan Grand Opera
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Kreisler
F.areith
Lina Abarbanell
Chip & Marble
Harry Coorm
Barton
New Oxford Hotel
Plare
Mark Kent
Julius Caesar
Loew
Columbia Comfissons
Dustin Farnum
Indiana
Stella
Tom Thers
Big City
Dansant Fort Myerna
Army Relief Society
Fridey der
Dri
Dame
Dor
Atheneum
Will Reese
Rauschera
Beneît
Zaragueta
Nyewspapel
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