Country Home Ball Becomes Washington Benefit Pageant
A Country Home event at Rauscher's drew Beaux and Belles for a Children's Institute fundraiser. Guests mingled among gowns and gems while a lavish dinner and boxholders from society attended, with diplomats and local leaders among the attendees in a winter social in Washington.
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Rauscher's
Smart Waashington
Treuschers
Board of Manats
Isingto «Peat World
Ower O Spimler
Eltes
Geatra
Tee C Pillas
Awakening of a Gifted Young Author in Baltimore
Annet Tamitton laordyn, 11, daughter of Mrs George Barnett, wrote The Awakening as a birthday gift to her mother Mrs Barnett, wife of Maj Gen Barnett. The self published tale follows a bachelor guardian to his orphaned niece, with the author’s family details noted as a Baltimore lineage.
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Annet Tamitton Laordyn
Mre
George Barnett
Barnett
United States Marine Corps
Moss Gordon
Gasil Gordon
Baltimore
Powhatan Montague
Lella Sinelar Montigue
Washington
Jilted Beauty Sues Accuses Cincinnati Youth
Nancy Clay of Paris Kentucky files $25,000 damages suit in common pleas court against Ambrose Hosters son of Cincinnati manufacturer B J Holters for breach of promise to marry and seeks paternity ruling. Clay, 19, is from the prominent Kentucky Clay family and has studied music in Columbia Ohio.
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Ambrose Hosters
Manufacturer
Washington Post
Cinedinnati
Nancy Clay
Paris
Common Pleas Court
Ambross Hosters
B J. Holters
Kentucky
Mias Clay
Brutus J. Clay
Clay
Sha
Columbia
Ohio
German Gains and French Counterorder World War I Report
Berlin reports German forces advancing in Poland and Galicia with Austrian gains near the Don and in Galicia while French front activity surges. An official Joffre order urges renewed assault after months of hard fighting, promising victory through renewed courage and material strength.
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Argonne
Verdun
Joffre
Berlin
Sayville
Russian
Poland
Galicia
Donajes
Tupkow Paas
Carpathians
War Office
Milady's Foibles and Family Follies in Verse
A collection of aphoristic quips on marriage love and gender roles drawn from faded chatter notes. It contrasts male and female behavior with humor about fidelity, gossip, shopping, government, and aging women, attributed to Iseraldina Ames in a New York Evening Mail column.
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Iseraldina Ames
New York Evening Mail
Belgium Forever Patriotic Song by Former U S Minister's Wife
New York December 21 Mrs Laurence Townsend of Washington DC wife of the former United States Minister to Belgium has composed a patriotic song titled Belgium Forever dedicated to the prima donna Mme Wime Frances Alda wife of impresario Gatt Casary One verse extols Belgium's defense with thunder of cannons and shrapnel and the young king inspiring victory in the ranks of Belgium's sons
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New York
Mra
Laurence Townsend
Washington, DC
United States
Belgium
Wime Frances Alda
Gatt Casary
Cannéda
Galas and gowns feature many shimmering silks and pearls
The text lists numerous ladies in a formal ball scene, describing gowns in satin, velvet, tulle, lace, and embroidery. Names include Mrs John F Wilkins, Mrs George Howard, Mrs Peter Gerry, Mrs Blaine Elking, Miss Marjory Colton, Mrs Archibald Davis, Miss Isa bella Hagner, Mrs Frederick Chapin, Mrs Reynolds Hitt, Miss Eudora Glover Diack, Miss Mackay Smith, and many others wearing colors from emerald green to sapphire blue, with pearls, tiaras, and corsages noted. The piece presents an inventory of fashionable outfits and notable attendees at a social event.
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Josephine
Willidwird & Mitchell
John F Wilkins
George Howard
Peter Gerry
William Futt
Sturma
Blaine Elking
Marjory Colton
Archibald Davis
Davenport Brown
Boston
Marion P Maus
Isabella Hagner
Miss Boragen
Frederick Chapin Green
Miss Gilmore
William Payne Meredith
George Summerlin
Reynolds Hitt
Mia Edmund Bontiaffon
Margaret Perin
Robert Roosevelt
Freeridge
Mra
John P Jackson
Ami
Merv Clark Wagegaman
Mantel Jordan
Harry Cole
Alexander Magruder
Preston Gibson
Frank Mitchell
John * Tohnston
Christian Flemmick
Eldridge Jordan
Thomas Bowers
Eudora Glover Diack
Miss Mackay Smith
Blaire Spencer
Fleming Henbold
Murray Cobb
Mary Wheeler West
Frederick Faust
Choarles Wilson
Mise Cora Barry
Thom
Claytor
Theodore J Baldwin, Jr
Missa de Pena
Catherine Britton
Margaret Britton
Alexander Britton
Frances Hoar
Sally William
Britton Browne
Misa Beatrice Clover
Misa Helen Walcott
Misa Maxwell Church
Lucy Burleson
Misa Sydney Burleson
Killian Hendricka
Charles Howry
Elizabeth Howry
Samuel Spencer
Margaret McChord
Pauline Stone
Daniel Thew Wright
Miss Marton Trumble
Miss Frances Traver
Madge Stokes
Gladys Mackay
Wilmer
Rebecca Wilmer
Francis Bish
Nash
Touchea
Mary Wister Wurts
Phildadelphia
John Temp
Graves
Laura Graves
Wilhalm F Dennis
Giant Battleship Sails for Argentina From New York
The Rivadavia, Argentina’s rumored great battleship, built in the United States, left port with a planned destination unclear. Construction began May 25, 1910 at Quincy, launched August 26, 1911, and finally commissioned August 29 after delays from turbine issues.
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York
Rivadavia
Argentine Republic
Buenos Aires
Quincy
German ambassador thanked for relief aid to Belgium
The State Department conveyed appreciation to Count von Bernstorff for Germany’s prompt and thorough arrangements ensuring safe conduct for neutral ships delivering food to Belgium and Holland for relief efforts. Linden Wates of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium requested the message.
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Count von Barnstorff
State Department
Bal- Alan Reef
Department of State
Linden W[ates
American Commission For Relief
Belgium
Holland
Hig Excellency
Count von Bernstorff
Sweet Girls to Watch Waltham Boys Boxing and Wrestling
Boston reports Waltham High School will host weekly boxing and wrestling bouts in the school gym starting January with spectators invited. The school committee faced protests from parents but Supt Welham Parkinson declined to halt the events, praising instructor Harry Dame and deeming boaring a manly sport beneficial for conditioning.
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Boston
Waltham High School
Welham
Parkinson
Harry Dame
Secret tap in his wooden leg prolongs prisoner's spree
New York police arrest a one legged man named Ben Tyler for disorderly conduct and intoxication. He was remanded to sober up, then found intoxicated in custody. A doctor diagnosed chronic alcoholism. Jailers discovered a bottle of whisky hidden in his wooden leg. The bottle was confiscated and arraignment planned.
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New York
Hen Tyler
Union Hib NF
Constabulars
West New York
Thoradty
Karria
Tyler
Wheeler
Ben
Jall
Bens
Ren
Home Is Where Your Hat Hangs Court Rules in 350000 Tax Suit
New York court defines home as where the hat hangs in a tax case involving Henry Rutherford who died in 1913. Executors argued he resided elsewhere, but Surrogate Fowler ruled that hotels in New York can be homes for those preferring temporary lodgings to private dwellings. The decision affects estate tax assessments based on residence.
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New York
Fowler
Henry Rutherford
Tithin City
Ala
Christmas pay for federal employees announced
Government department workers begin receiving part of their salaries this week to ease Christmas budgeting. The Department of Commerce paid yesterday, with Post Office and Labor to pay today. Navy War State Treasury Agriculture Justice and Interior will pay tomorrow.
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Department of Commerce
Post Office
Labor Departments
Navy
War, State, Treasury, Agriculture, Justice and Interior Departments
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Mos
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SLO
Alue
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Esriwo Sule
Washington Igents
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Anne Hamilton Gordon
Jilted Beauty Sues
Miss Day
Cincinnati
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Ypres
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the New York World
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Pleventh
Lee
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Milady
Falk
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Miss Clover
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Virginia Theater
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Daniel Frotman
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Liane Carrera Clark
Vera
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Inwells
Hardcastle
Curtice Bros
Yara North
Gordon & Dilworth’s
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G. G. Cornwell & Son, Inc
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Michael Morton
Siget
Iltinge Theater
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Lady Windermere
Os Ar Widde
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Harry Patterson Hopkins
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Washington College
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