Dinner Plans Fold Around a Flirtatious Morning
Helen Curtis anxiously schemes for a Wednesday dinner as Ned Burns flatters her and Mary endures neuralgia. Dr. Marshall visits, suggests postponing the maid, and offers Elvira as guest partner while Helen contacts Warren and Frances for the social set.
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Elen
Ned Burns
Mr. Burns
Helen
Warren
Yonkers
Elvira
Frances
International News Service
Admiral Dewey Hale at 78 Celebrates Birthday at Home
Admirer George Dewey turned eighty? no seventy eighth birthday yesterday at his K street home. The Admiral enjoys good health and backs national preparedness and a navy for the United States equal to any other country. He received scores of congratulatory messages and personal calls from friends and took a drive yesterday afternoon.
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George Dewey
K Street
Unites States
Suffragist Miss Lillian Wiggin Dies in Washington
Miss Lillian Wiggin of East Orange New Jersey, 55, died suddenly from heart disease at the Hotel Buckingham in Washington. A suffrage supporter who came to attend the opening day Congress events and the suffrage party convention, she had stayed at the hotel since December and was not a convention delegate. Coroner Mevitt issued a death certificate and friends were notified.
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Lillian Wiggin
East Orange
N.J
N. J
Buckingham
Fifteenth Street
K Street
Wear
Mevitt
Miss Wiggin
Washington
Seasion
Alvord
Social Tea Honors Gore Guests and Washington Figures
Mrs Benator and Mrs. Gore entertain at a tea in Mintwood Place honoring Cameron Kay and his bride, guests of Senator and Mrs Gore. Guests include Mrs Tarvin, Mrs Kenyon, Mrs Oldfield, Mrs Reed, and Miss Maxfield. Attendees wear gowns of black lace and pale blue chiffon with floral accents. A Pan-American Union reception is noted, and Prof Axson departs for Texas.
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Benator
Thomas P. Gore
Mintwood
Mra. Gore
Oldfield
Olanent
Mra
W. Roberts
Massachusetta
Is. Reed
Missouri
Mine Maxfield
Max Gore
Kay
Iverson
Brooklyn
Mr. Kay
New York
Texas
Married at Montclair in a Navy family wedding
Helen Bancroft of Chestnut Ave Pa wed Assistant Paymaster Thomas Cochran U N at her sister Mrs Robert Muyrd Bord Jr's home 96 Prospect Ave Moclair N J The Rev Dr Harry Fosdick Union Theological Seminary officiated Only relatives and a few friends attended Cochran stationed at League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia Also notes guests returning to Chevy Chase Washington Maj L C Scherer and a winter at 1822 Lamont Street Others mention suffrage pace and holiday gatherings with military cadets and social guests at Shoreham and Annapolis figures.
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Helen Bancroft
Chestnut Au. Pa
Thomas Cochran
U. N
Robert Muyrd Bord
Prospect. Avenue
Moclair
N. J
Lady Haig Influence and Fox Hunt Headlines in 1918 News
ADY HAIG, wife of Gen. Sir T Douglas Haig, is credited with influencing his rise to command in France. Also, Philadelphians join a 25 mile fox chase by the Radnor Hunt. Royal Red Cross expansion allows more nurses to receive decorations. several notable deaths and the arrival of Lionel Guinness with Mrs Astor near Ellis Island raise immigration concerns.
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Ady Haig
T Douglas Haig
France
Viscount French
Maud Vivian
Vivian
Queen Victoria
Queen Alexandra
Miss Vivian
Haig
French
Radnor Hunt
Bryn Mewr
Charles Custis Harrison
Reynard
Benjamin Chew
Fox Hounds
J. Stanley Reeve
David B. Sharp
Jacob 8. Wain
Lawrence Bodine
Henry C. Barclay
John W. Converse
Eugenia Cassatt
Rose Dolan
Alexandra Dolan
Julian Biddle
George Biddle
Harold Wilcox
W. Plunkett Stewart
Elizabeth Sinnickson
William E. Carter
R. Penn Smith
Edward L. Blabon
Ruth G. Wood
William E. Carter, Jr
A. J. Drexel Paul
J. Garner Cassatt
John Astor
John Jacob Astor
England
Rotterdam
New York
Benjamin F. Guinness
Lionel Guinness
Ellis Island
Society Takes to Skiing on the White Sulphur Trails
White Sulphur Springs West Virginia December 26 Skating and skiing drew winter sports enthusiasts to the Greenbrier area as snow fell lightly but offered a Christmas landscape. Notables and visitors including Mr and Mrs Lathrop Brown and their children from New York toured the grounds while others rode, walked, or visited nearby trails and tea houses.
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Washington Post
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Greenbrier
Empress Auguste Victoria Uses Bread Card at Home
Special cable from Berlin reports Empress Auguste Victoria and her household observe bread, meatless, and fatless days under national economy laws. The empress, a model housewife, reportedly visits hospitals daily and leads princesses in charity for widows and orphans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Berlin
Auguste Victoria
Auguste Victoria Shuwa
Cremation Service Marks 13th Pastorate Anniversary
At Wesleyan Pentecostal Church in D Street a cremation service will burn debts in a regulation casket next Sunday afternoon. The observance honors Rev. H. B. Hosley after thirteen years in the pulpit, with Jericho offerings totaling 21.65 collected after last night's program. Morning services reviewed the pastor’s years of progress and a jubilee concluded the event.
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Wesleyan Fentecostal
Wesleyan Pentecostal Church
D Street
Third
Fourth Streets
H. B. Hosley
Liverpool Archdeacon Madden Dies After Long Service
The death in Southport of Archdeacon T. J. Madden, archdeacon of Liverpool since 1906, is announced. Madden was formerly vicar of Christ Church Southport and was born in 1863.
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Liverpool
Southport
T. J. Madden
Madden
Christ Church
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Dotel Owhatan
Dewey Hale
Smart
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Prof
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Fort Riley
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Louise
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Edson Hradley
Misa Margeret McChord
New Willard
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Loulaville, Ky
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R. D. Shepherd
Lieut
Del
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Boston
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Shoreham
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Pacific Coast
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Montclair
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Chevy Chae
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Port Blas
Tex
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Chicago
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United States Military Academy
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Guy H. Burrage
Ramzey
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Mra’ 4
Sieber
Fort Myer
Have
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Haverford, Pa
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Oranzé
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Roe
America
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the Navy
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St. Clair McKelway
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Empress
Swift & Compeny
Washington, D.C
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7Th St
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Raleigh
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G Street
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Broadway
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