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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1915
Page
12
A Milwaukee inquiry notes no women only shoe shines in the city. It finds women can access exclusive parlors in major downtown stores, with private spaces and staff, yet public access remains limited, and demand for women friendly shine persists.
Mrs Robert Tensuiter announces the marriage of her sister Mrs Dave Larter Haskill of Lena i J Heptura to this city today at 1644 Spruce. The ceremony was performed by Dr Wo Alexander. The bride is a member of the Wells or Vi oltig family of Carrere Me Hepurn. The couple will reside at 4018 Eine Street.
A report from The Washington Post describes Mrs Howard Gould losing property rights over unpaid taxes. The piece notes confusion over ownership, with mentions of her brother and a European trip affecting the dispute. The tax action appears tied to a valuation and potential property rights contested by family members.
A Paris cablegram reports the July wedding of Edith Ridgeway Townsend to Dr Hunter W Scarlett at Church of the Holy Trinity. The ceremony was simple with few guests. only her brother Roger Townsend attended. Their engagement had been announced over a year ago, delayed by Dr Scarlett’s posting at the American hospital in Paris.
Secretary of War Garrison leaves Washington for a few days to stay with Mrs Garrison at Seabright New Jersey. The Assistant Secretary of Commerce and family travel to Grand Rapids Michigan for the summer. Mrs Howry prepares for a Pacific coast trip in August. Senator Wedsworth and Mrs. Kingsbury plan visits and moves. Elizabeth Kingsbury visits Meriden Connecticut and Mrs Philip McMillen goes to Bar Harbor. Assistant Attorney General Wallace returns to the city and stays at the Shoreham.
Mr and Mrs Lester A Barr plan a Pacific coast trip visiting expo sites. Danish minister Mr Brun and Mrs John Jacob Astor attended a dinner hosted by Miss Alexandra. Gen and Mrs John A Johnston and Mrs George Summerlin are en route to Newport. Capt Roger Welles USN hosts luncheon for the governor. Mrs Evans and Mrs Nicholas Brown were guests. Mrs George C Shaw returns from the Philippines with daughters, to Plattsburg. Mrs Robert Hraver and Miss Frances Traver stay in Atlantic City then Bar Harbor. Miss Lester Randolph visits Havre de Grace and Savannah debutante season preparations.
Stocktons visit Seattle with Rear Admiral Charles H Stockton and Mrs Stockton. Mr and Mrs Mitchell Harrison arrive at the Shoreham for a stay. George A Yakel to depart Washington for several weeks at Atlantic City. Mrs Louis P Clapper of Louisville visits Rev and Mrs W M Lyon with Miss Josa Phine Borseman. Mrs W F Norris and daughter head to Wytheville Va for the summer. Others, including Maris H Smith A R Nathan and Winslow Lewis, head to California expositions. Rev Edward M Mott plans to leave soon as chaplain of the California State Association. all will represent the association at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition day.
Special to The Washington Past Portland Ores July engagement announced for Miss Margareta Brooke daughter of the late Lt E H Brooke Twenty first United States Infantry and granddaughter of Lloyd Brooke pioneer of Portland. Richard V Look of Louisville named as fiancé with plans for a church affair in Washington in the near future.
Special to The Washington Poet Chicago July 9 Miss Marjorie Lorimer third daughter of former Senator William Lorimer wed Charles J Parker at St Clement's Roman Catholic Church in a quiet ceremony. The sister said the marriage came as a surprise to friends and family. Parker, 22, a salesman, previously eloped with Loraine Nelson in January, a marriage later annulled by Judge Sullivan.
The Invitation committee of the General G A B R citizens group postponed its meeting to Wednesday July 14. Mrs Elizabeth Brown Daggett national WRCo secretary met GAR leaders and praised arrangements for the women encampment visitors. Luncheon honors were hosted for Daggett with other WRCo leaders present. Survivors discuss a September reunion of the old Sixth Corps at Fort Stevens linked to the GAR national encampment.
Special to The Washington Post from Narragansett Pier Rhode Island masses enjoyed the beach and country club scene. Notables including Mr and Mrs Morton Snellenberg of Philadelphia visited the Imperial for their honeymoon while others from Newport and Washington joined luncheons and dinners at Casino and Reading Room. Vanderbilt guests arrived aboard Nirvana and Miss Marguerite Shonts checked into New Chiff Hotel as summer plans unfold.
Bar Harbor society members attended a cabaret tea at the Swimming Club in Bar Harbor. Notable guests included Miss Josephine Gibson, sister of painter Charles Dana Gibson, and Mrs William Lawrence Green. Attendees from Boston, Washington, and Chicago were present, with social arrangements hosted by multiple local ladies and visiting dignitaries.
Mme Dumba wife of the Austro Hungarian Ambassador hosted a luncheon at the Poplars Lenox with guests including Mr and Mrs Woodward Haven, Mr and Mrs Frederick Delafield, and Prince Alfred Zu Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst. Brig Gen Theodore Schwan and Mrs Schwan attended a luncheon in Stockbridge with Brig Gen John Brown Kerr and Mrs Kerr. Mrs Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt returned to Shadowbrook Lenox to meet visitors from Newport. Cortlandt Field Bishop drove to Hyde Park NY to dine with Mr and Mrs Frederick W Vanderbilt. Mrs Samuel Abbott of Rome currently with Miss Clementina Furniss in Lenox.
A group of twenty automobile salesmen and sales agents from across the country arrived at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia for a weeklong visit hosted by H W Howe of Detroit. They played an improvised baseball game between single and married men, swam at the springs, and later engaged in tennis and golf before a brief meeting. Members include Charles F Hennessey of Atlanta F H Sides HD Lough and J H Felts jr.
George W Stevens, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, arrived this morning with Walter Maraden of Richmond and R I Best of Philadelphia to open their cottage on Coneland Hill for a week. Also present were Charlotte, 4 E Burkhardt, Cincinnati, and R B Bawards of Richmond, who is accompanying the group.
A large crowd is anticipated in Atlantic City this Sunday as pleasure seekers from Washington and New York travel to visit. The advance guard has arrived and will be housed in local hotels while hundreds more arrive by train. by afternoon the boardwalk and beach will show a holiday atmosphere. Weather is fine and bathers enjoyed the ocean though water remains cool for some newcomers. A social highlight was a brilliant dance at the Chelsea Yacht Club hosted by Commodore and Mrs Samuel H Swan, an annual entertainment.
Perry Belmont of Washington will spend the season at Saratoga Springs in the villa of August Helmont. The Washington Fest notes a dance at Dorothy Stone Smiths Broadway cottage with Moss Marguerite Menges and Miss Evan Burrows Fountain. Fountaine has insured her feet for 56000 dollars and her hands for 25000 dollars.
Katherine Gould of New York sues her stepfather J W Dayan of San Francisco to recover control of property surrounding the Timothy Hopkins residence near Stanford University. She seeks to use the property as a home for needy girls, alleging a deed produced after her mother’s death improperly conveyed the estate to Dayan. The suit questions the legality of that transaction.
Special to The Washington West reports the birth of A daughter to Mr and Mrs James Cox Brady at Sea Verge in New Jersey. The infant’s uncle is Nicholas F Brady. The Brady family ties link to Lady Victoria Jay Perry of Ireland and England aviation fame. Mr Brady is the son of the late Anthony N Brady. The couple married October 14, 1914, at Sea Verge.
The article sketches varied summer social scenes. President Wilson lectures on leg use at his grandson’s nursery, then a deer sighting pleases the child. Mrs Robert M Thompson hosts tea at a Japanese tea house inclosure in Southampton. Bar Harbor forms a war relief committee with local and visiting supporters to aid European refugees. Edith Townsend of Brint Maw marries Dr Hunter Scarlett in Paris, aided by Sophie Perot. Philippe Coudert welcomes a Paris-born daughter, continuing a long artistic lineage.
Morning service at 11 30 with sermon by the minister and an assistant. Christian Endeavor meeting at 7 30. Evening service in the Covenant tent on James Street. Special note on subject Mans Call and Ged 8. An Oriental reward in the Ruble. Episcopal, St Johns Church at Sixteenth and I Streets with Rev Coward Slater Dunlap and George Williamson Smith listed.
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