Debutante Needs 20000 Year to Live in New York Court Holds
New York December 14 Miss Helen Anita De Witt aged nearly eighteen will be presented Saturday at Sherry's funded by an annual income of 20000. Her guardian uncle J Hornblower DeWitt says the debutante must sustain herself with this allowance until eighteen and beyond for her social career. The estates include a trust of over 1000000 from her grandfather and future inheritances from her late father.
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New York
Helen Anita DeWitt
J Hornblower DeWitt
Sherry
West Fiftyfirst Street
Miss DeWitt
Augustus C. Downing
Witl
Miss de Witt
DeWitt Increases Guardian Allowance For Ward In Court
Lam P DeWitt secretary treasurer of New York Wire Cloth Company died in 1907 leaving a niece living with her uncle after her mother’s death in 1893. He testified to Surrogate Fowler that keeping the city home country place in Monmouth Beach and a fashionable schooling cost about 6000 yearly with maid governess Europe trips and a 1500 ward robe totaling at least 1500 monthly. The court approved the increased allowance to cover high living costs for the schoolgirl.
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Heiresa
New York City
Monmouth Beach
Lam P DeWitt
New York Wire Cloth Company
Miss Dewitt
DeWitt
Fowler
Europe
Arm y Life Lures Her Unifor ms Are 800 Cute
Special to The Washington Post from New York December 14 describes a dramatic shipboard scene on the White Star liner Megantic as two men claim a stowaway is aboard. A teen drummer girl from the Hippodrome, Christine Welford aged 16, is revealed, seeking to go to war in Europe.
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White Star Liver
New York
Europe
Washington Post
White Starner
Teara
England
Christine Welford
Hippodrome
Manana
Woman Rescues Three Men In Hudson River Rescue
New York December reports Mrs Laura J Talmage of Fort Montgomery Rockland County spotted three men struggling in the Hudson River from a motor boat. She and her brother-in-law David Gregory hauled Arthur Renney Jerome Kennefick and Harold Bostwick from the water and to Fort Montgomery after their dinghy overturned in a tugboat swell.
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Washington Post
New York
Hudson River
Laura J. Talmage
Fort Montgomery
Rockland County
Manitou
Arthur Renney
Jerome Kennefick
Harold Bostwick
Fair nurses start bow to protest clash at front
London reports that the national council of trained nurses demands a detested report on incompetent volunteers serving at the front and in hospitals. Lord Kitchener, war secretary, calls for a detailed inquiry. Also, French Premier Vivian visits a U S hospital in Paris to learn about wartime economy.
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London
National Council
Lord Kitchener
Council
U. S
Paris
Vivian
Montdidier
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Hudson
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