Richmond Society Seeks Summer Outing as Virginia Day Nears
Richmond society plans bustle for July 8 Virginia Day with Gov. Stuart and staff heading to California. Blues battalion departs with escort of wives and guests. Many Richmonders open country houses for summer while engagements and weddings spark social rounds.
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Gov. Stuart
Richmond Blues
Virginia
Wrebhington
Richmond
California
Beauties of Smart Set in National Capital and Social Centers
Report of a Chestnut Hill Philadelphia event with society participants including Mrs. Mary Carter Graham of Washington and Mrs. James Grigg visiting. Notes mention Miss Lightfoot Sims traveling to Baltimore, Mrs. William H. White and Miss Ama Gray White heading to New York, and other social movings among the Griggs and local families. Also a feature on hygiene of top hats with thermometer readings inside hats versus outdoor temperatures.
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Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia
Mary Carter Graham
Washington
James Grigg
Pelham Blackford
Caroline County
Miss Lightfoot
Sims
Baltimore
Carter Agram
William H. White
Ama Gray White
New York City
Qurigg
Pertinent News Items of Interest To the Feminine World
A New York blind institution sails to France to organize a corps of workers for European war victims who are sightless. Plans include training for self support and regular courses in Europe. Dame Elizabeth Garrett Anderton, England’s first woman mayor and wartime hospital appointee, receives major rank in Britain. State legislatures consider women labor laws with Maine, Massachusetts, Wyoming enacting 53 hour, eight hour, and wage rules. Idaho studies minimum wage. Wisconsin senior class celebrates lemon tradition at breakfast. Miss Marie Angelica Carbo of Ecuador engaged to Willis R. Jones. California’s Ebell Club withdraws amid dispute over political methods. A Chicago judge rules a dentist’s engagement work for love cannot be charged. Miss Caryl Cody marries Carl Pfanstiehl wearing hair-tone coordinated gown. she graduates in three years. Cleveland hosts three women’s baseball teams on a skyscraper roof. Rail unions grant railroad women voting rights for membership. Postwar workforce grows. Miss Ethel Melendy, age 19, becomes postmistress at Elbing Kansas after civil service exam.
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New York
France
Europe
Winifred Holt
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Wyoming
Idaho
Alexandria Society Delights in Informal Dances and Visits
A sequence of social events in Alexandria features informal dances at the homes of Capt. and Mrs. Albert Bryan and Mr. Francis Edgar Johnston with numerous local guests. Attendees include Misses Cabell Kemper Boswell Hunt Roberts and Messrs. Bryan, Leadbeater, Wattles, Johnston, Barley, and Robinson, along with relatives in Fairfax and Norwood communities and guests from Washington. Other notices mention travels to Montana and Buenos Aires, upcoming birthdays, and family visits around Mount Chichester and Braddock Heights.
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Ferguson Bryan
Albert Bryan
Prince Street
John Tackett
Rose MacDonald
Emily Johnson
Katherine Waller
Corinne, Reardon
Julia Hopkins
Uise
Sarah Kemper
Charlotte Kemper
Elizabeth Boothe
Anne
Mary Cabell
Norwood
Nelson Counts
Bryan Pitts
Garnett Fitts
Wallace Fawnett
Robert Bryan
Greener Boothe
Louis
Bartley, Jr
Tom Wattles
Frank Johnston
Clarence Robinson
Johnson Mc Leadbeater
Browse Burke
Tupper Barrett
Vivian P. Berry
Shirley Pullin
North Royal’ Street
Montana
Francis Edgar Johnston
South St. Asaph Street
Anne Cabell
Collins McKay Jones
Isobel Boswell
Julia Benton Hopkins
Lucy Marchant
Anderson
Sarah Cox
Mary Hunt Roberts
Messrs
Ferguson B. Bryan
Albert ¥. Bryan
Gardner Soothe
Louis C. Barley
Clarence J. Robinson
Thomas L. Watties
Lawrence Fawcett
Charles C. Carlin
Allan Roberts
Jack Leadbeater
George A. Armes
Armes
D. Carter List
Carroll Francis
Strother
Washington
Mount Chichester
Frank §. Harper
Fairfax County
Louise Abbott
Marlon Greenaway
High Point
N. C
Sarah
Edward H. Kemper
Rosemont
Ruth Lawton
Mission
Henry O'Ban
Non Cooper
Braddock Heights
Anne and
Newounty
Lucy Anderson
Mises Hilda Schneider
Cornelia Miller
Jack Roberts
Louis C. Bailey
Alsert Bryan
Gardner Boothe
Joan M. Leadbeater
Johnson McGuire
Edward Oliver
Chester Pierce
Edwin Pierce
Rockville and Hyattsville Society Update
A long local society item chronicles weddings engagements and social visits in Rockville, Gaithersburg, Kensington, and Hyattsville. It notes a fourteenth anniversary wedding at Mount Mary Church parsonage, engagements of Mary Chapin to Louis Willard, and various family visitors and club happenings including the Poolesville Woman's Club election and Epworth League entertainment.
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Poolesville Woman's Club
James W. Darby
James T. Williams
Isaac Fyffe
Epworth League
Grace Methodist Church
Gaithersburg
Missothel Waters
Beauty Hints Offer Skin Care and Hair Shampoo Tips
The column promotes a skin whitening mixture using spurmax dissolved in hot water with glycerin, claiming clear smooth skin and no powder rub off. It also offers a cheap shampoo recipe using “eanthrex” and hot water for faster drying and softer hair. Mentions Misses Graham and McIntyre visiting old schoolmates in Prince Georges County.
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Nancy
Henriette Ter
SL Graham
Milmore
Helen
Jennie McIntyre
Brooklyn
Bellaville
Prince Georges County
Foretelling fetal sex by case chronology claims by doctor
Dr James S Freeborn of Magnetawan Canada told an American Medical Association convention he can predict a unborn child sex from the chronology of the case using a small dose of information. He says 91.6 percent of his 100 maternity cases ended with correct sex predictions. The remark drew skeptical but amused reaction from other physicians. The report mixes other local notices and social updates from Rockville and nearby areas.
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San Francisco
James S. Freeborn
Magnetawan
Canada
American Medical Association
Pr. Freeborn
Freeborn
Hburone
Tulsa Woman's Hoard of Dirty Bills Attracts Notice
Mrs. Sadie Knight, divorced from her husband fifteen years, collapsed in Tulsa after calling for humane assistance. She left nearly $800 in dirty bills hidden in her hat and a mortgage valued at $2,200 on Tulsa property. Her former husband is a Missouri bank cashier. The money was taken to a local bank and sent to Washington Treasury officials. Survived by a mother, two brothers, and two sisters.
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Washington Post
Tulsa
Oklo
Sadie Knight
Humane
A. M. Welch
Ne. Mo
Missouri
Stewary
Knight
Fast Fire Street
Washington
Womar
Art
Washington Treasn Department
Ls Prosass
Gorgeous Globe of Blossoms
Instructional note describes making a decorative globe of blossoms by nesting two hoops into a sphere and securing it to a base such as a tree stump. Plant running flowers around the base and train the blossoms up the hoops forming a decorative garden feature.
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