American heiress to wed penniless English nobleman in fashion season
Miss Drexel of Philadelphia, daughter of Anthony J Drexel, will marry Viscount Maidstone, eldest son of the Hart of Winchilsea and Nottingham, in Westminster's St Margaret Church. The ceremony, hosted by London society and attended by leading families, is set for June with a lavish continental tour to follow.
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Washington
Mat
Baretta Drexel
Mic
Anthony J Drexel
Viscount Matd- Aline
London
England
Edward VII
Len
Letty’ Mamoru
Tathind
Sybil Fellowe
Ramsay
Kerathys ii
Ives
East Kent Yeomanry
Memhay
Wirdea
Northeshun
Haron Finch
Ertay
Wear
Reo
Kirby Hall
Maidstone
Philadelphia
Hrony
Drexel Jr
Marjor, Ironld
Mins Drexel
Aborn Opera Week Mix at National theater
Aborn English Grand Opera Company opens a second week with Carmen and Faust as the featured pair while Il Trovatore yields to Alda later in the week. A matinee 26 and 50 cents starts the run. Belasco hosts The Little Minister with Violet Vivian. Columbia stages The Road to Yesterday. Casino presents continuous vaudeville with Country Choir and Heusel Walsh. Gayety tours The College Girls. Arcade resumes wrestling bouts with Joe Turner defending the title and cash prizes per minute.
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National
Aidas
Aborn
English Grand Opera Company
The
Bizet
Casino
Heusel and Walsh
Mistway
Joe Turner
Turner
Yhetriet
Columbia
South
Day Purchases Petworth Home In Illinois Avenue
John F. Day buys the residence at 3928 Illinois Ave Petworth a red pressed brick front home with white mortar blue slate mantled and a wide porch. Willige Gibbs Daniel brokers sold to Annie V. Anderson the seven room house with full tiled bath furnace heat on a 28 by 90 foot lot for about 34 600.
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John F. Day
Illinois Avenue
Willige, Gibbs & Daniel
Annie V. Anderson
Illinois Ave
Petworth
Society News Says Lawn Fete Aids Georgetown Hospital And More
Society continues with a Georgetown University Hospital lawn fete despite threatening skies. Guests from Charlottesville Washington Richmond Brookline Summit Chicago and Pittsburgh attended. Highlights include piano violin performances, a French dance in costume by Girls' Friendly Society, and proceeds aiding parish debt. Cora Lee Trevolla and Rollin Farquhar Webber wed at noon with post wedding plans to reside at 112 Fourth Street Northeast.
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Georgetown University Hospital
Aled Riggs
Dudley Morgan
Punch
W H. Hardesty
Gowans
Milton Alles
McNeil
Stobiman
Parker
Miss Parker
Misses Bell
Wilder
Philip Lee Scantling
Rector's Aid Society
St. Margaret's Church
O'Elock
Col Truesdell
Nineteenth Street
Columbia Road
John J Lawrence
Judson Clements
Royal B Bradford
Levellon Brown
Humphrey
Mose
Carotene F Smith
Edith McKelden
Fort Myer
Edna Burgess Doe
Elsom
Girls' Friendly Society
Brastow
Aielen MacGrotty
Rose Bradford
Charles J. Wrafley
A C Fenton
Arthur Giles
Redwood Vandergrift
LeRoy Gough
Cora Lee Trevolla
Rollin Farquhar Webber
George A Miller
Ninth Street
Social notes of Washington readers departing for travels and weddings
Secretary of the Bureau of American Republics and Mme Yanes sail for Argentina aboard the Tennyson, with routes via Brazil and Uruguay, as Mr Yanes attends the Pan American Congress in Buenos Aires. Swedes in Bar Harbor, Ginsburgs and Hammonds at Hot Springs, and wedding details for Miss Elizabeth Bertran and Snowden A. Fahnestock Jr. at the Gotham. Receptions, house closings, and D A R events appear with multiple households planning summer residences and gatherings in June.
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Bureau of American Republics
Mme Yanes
Washington
Sal
Tennyson
Argentina
Yanes
Pan-American Congress
Buenos Aires
Brazil
Uruguay
Ekengren
Cheres. Waffaires
Sweden
Bar Harbor
Mme. Ekengren
Veteran walks 60 miles for Memorial Day parade
Willam H Moser, a 86-year-old Civil War veteran from Mine Township, Columbia County, walked 30 miles to Danville for the G A R Memorial Day parade and returned home the same day. The journey took about twelve hours each way. he served in both the Mexican and Civil Wars and was not upset by the long trek.
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Washington Post
Indianapolis
Willam H Moser
Immine Township
Columbia County
Danville
Dimock Sides Washington Memorial Drive to Build Hall
Mrs Dimock heads the George Washington Memorial Association and has raised funds toward a 40,000 hall honoring Washington. Prominent donors include Carnesi Morgan and Hill. she departments fundraising into schoolchildren and regional committees to broaden appeal nationwide.
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Henrt F. Dimock
Whitney
George Washington
George Washington Meorial Association
Andrew Carnesi
J. P. Morgan
James J. Hifil
Washington
The King's Dog Caesar at King Edward Funeral
The dog Caesar appeared at King Edward VII's funeral, surprising many as a symbol of the monarch's affection for animals. The piece notes soldiers with arms reversed and cites Rudyard Kipling on dogs' bonds with British soldiers, reflecting the king's universal popularity and animal kindness.
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New York Sun
Sun-Sir
Howard VII
Caesar
Khdare
Stowe
Henry V
St Paul's
Abbey
Chesterton
Edward
Rudyard
Lahore
India
Alexandra
Leeds
New York
MISS M. A. MHARG WEDS PAYMASTER G R VENABLE
Miss Marian Adelaide McHarg daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry K McHarg of New York and Stamford married George Richard Venable paymaster USN of Marion Va in St John s Episcopal Church Stamford Conn The Rev Luke White officiated and a reception followed at the McHarg home Gen Horace Porter attended the ceremony The newlyweds will reside in Portsmouth where Venable is stationed
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Stamford
Conn
G. R. Venable
Marian Adelaide McHarg
Henry K. McHare
New York
George Richard Venable
USN
Marion
St. John's Episcopal Church
McHarg
Strawberry Hill
Luke White
Pulaski
Ir White
Venable
University of Virginia
Former Representative Knowles Dead in Deadwood
Freeman Knowles aged 64 died of pneumonia in Deadwood South Dakota on June 1. He spent twenty years editing newspapers here and was widely known as a socialist.
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Knowles
Deadwood
S Dak
Freeman Knowles
Pittsburg Wedding for Miss Katherine McCook Miller
Miss Katherine M McCook daughter of Mr and Mrs Willis McCook of Fifth avenue Pittsburg married Henry J Miller son of Mrs William Miller of Washington DC at St Pauls Roman Catholic Cathedral Pittsburg Rev Regis Canevin officiated at 11 am Bridesmaids ushers and guest list included Eleanor McCook Ella Cassidy Eleanor Dupuy Frances Thorn Norris Miller Lee Miller Webster B Holmes and others from New York Washington and Cincinnati Willis F McCook father of the bride a noted Pittsburg attorney and director in the Equitable Insurance Company attended as host family guests came from Washington DC and other cities
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Washington Post
Pittsburg
St Paul's Roman Catholic Cathedral
Fifth Avenue
Katherine M McCook
Willis # McCook
Herry J Miller
William Miller
Washington, DC
Regis Canevin
W Edgar Reed
Eleanor M McCook
Ella K Cassidy
Eleanor Dupuy
Frances Thorn
Norris Miller
Bribal
Stobert Miller
Harold F Wardell
Robert Burns
New York
Lee Miller
Weds Joseph Pulitzer in St Louis and Nellie Wickham
Joseph Pulitzer of New York and St Louis married Nellie Wickham of St Louis at the Wickham home in a Presbyterian ceremony. Attendants included Ralph Pulitzer and several New York and St Louis figures. A lawn reception followed before the couple departed east. George S Oliver, editor of the Gazette Times, wed Laura Gipin Smith in Pittsburg this evening.
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St Louis
Joseph Pulitzer
New York
Nellie Wickham
Edmund Wickham
Wickham
W J Mekhittrick
First Presbyterian Church
Louise Nugent
Caroline *Lackland
Mildred Stickney
Edith Pulitzer
Ralph Pulitzer
W . Webb, Jr
Frederice Cruger
James Park
Philip Royer
Richard Kennard
E R Catlin, Jr
Andrew Drew
St Lome
East
Olver
Pittsburg
George 8 Oliver
The
Gazette Times
United States
George T. Oliver
Laura Giipin Smith
Persifer F Smith
New Psalm Brook Adopted by United Presbyterian Assembly
Philadelphia notes a revised psalms book adopted after a heated debate. Rev W A Campbell of Mercer opposed the revision, arguing it contains human hymns and free renderings, challenging the church's psalm-singing identity while urging unity with the Presbyterian Church. Industrial conditions were condemned and resolutions to improve workers’ conditions were adopted at the closing session.
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Philadelphia
General Assembly
United Presbyterian Church
W A Campbell
Mercer
Campbell
Presbyterian
Bride of Ensign Nichols Weds in Baltimore Park
Miss Cilla Vincent Kuhns daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Kuhns married Ensign Newton Lord Michals USN son of Rev and Mrs George Edward Nichols of New Haven Conn The ceremony was conducted by Ensign Emanuel A Lofquist with ushers Lt Wilbur Thyng C8 Mooc Ensign Donald T Hunter and Ensign Frank R Berg The maid of honor was Miss Mary Emily Cassard and bridesmaids included Miss Marie Fieldling Dashiell Miss Sallie Warfield Cockey and Miss Louise DM The couple will reside in Philadelphia where Ensign Nichols is stationed Also married in Rockville Md was Miss Lucy May Heim of Goshen to Mr William Stacey Bet of Avery with Rev R White officiating
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Philadelphia
Devon
Countess de Conturbia
Edward K. Rowland
Count von Bernsterg
Rowland
Count von Bernstorfe
Alexander van Rensselaer
John Fett
Edward Browning
Frances Sullivan
Reba Sampel
Sullivan
Wemuel Artemus
J Angelo Devereux
Leland Thompson
Cheviot
Kitty Smith
Phyllis Hare
Mra Powell Evans
Mary Caldwell Gordon
Kate Gordon
Alexander van Rennselaer
Charlie McCann
Baltimore
Samuel P. Huhn
Frederick Strawbridge
Charles Randolph Snowden
Charles B Penrose
William J. Clothier
Victor Mather
Richard P McGrann
McGranh
Pern Gaskill Hall
James Francis Sullivan
J. Gardner Cassatt
Elizabeth Pierce
Daisy Coxe Wright
B. Frank Clyde
Frederick Schmidt
Elizabeth Chew
Bether Bowen
George H. Earle
Frances I Gowen
Philippus Miller
von A. Cabeen
A. J. Drexel Paul
Florence Bell
Mildred
HB. Cassatt
J Gardner Cassatt
David Sharp
Spencer Oiig
Devon Inn
Washington Sust
Clla Vincent Kuhns
Joseph Vincent Kuhns
Denmere Park
Newton Lord Michals
USN
George Edward Nichols
New Haven
Conn
Emmanuel A Lofquist
Liewt Wilbur Thyng
Donald T Hunter & S
Rockville
Lucy May Heim
Goshen
William Stacey Bet
Avery
Louise May Lbay
Wiliam Wagner
Kensington
R White
The
Baptist Church
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Tralind
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Prince
Prince Pote of
Peck
Edoward
Miss Drexel Mls
Drexel
Grosvenor
Uire
Jess Weliemin
Belasco
Little Minister
Ben Greet
J M. Barrie
Maude Adams
Belasco Patrona
Greet
Violet Vivian
Babble
Columbia Tplayers
Fta
Minnie Dupree
Helen Ware
Alice Gale
White Whittlese
Robert Dempster
Academy—Vaudeville
Academy
Broadway
Seymour Furth
Margaretta Drexel
Mildred Carter
S Iain Smith
Charlottesville
Huth Halford
H. D. Flood
Frank J Methling
Charles Bolling
Elien Bagby
Bernard Jones
Col’ Joseph Button
Richmond
Douglas Gordon
Gould
Brookline
Mass
Harry Vincent
Summit
Nog
Richard Watson
Chicago
Cary Langhorne
Lynchburg
William R. Ayilett
Newport News
John Wilson
Lieut
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Mass Hlale McLean
Atlantic City
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Frederick W Pratt
Walcott
Denton Morford
East Melrose Street
Chevy Chase
W.dlburn H. Steel
Oyster Bay
Larchmoor Manor
Edward McCauley
Rhode Island Avenue
Joseph Wood
New York State
the Daughters of the American Revolution
John Haye Hammonds
Hot Springs
Gibson Fahnestock
Snowdén A. Fahnestock
Elizabeth Bertran
Gotham
Eleanor Butler Alexander
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Bertron
Gibson A. Fahnestock, Jr
Harriet Alexander
Helen Coster
Anne Douglas Graham
Howland
Davis
R. Thornton Wilson
Francis Burke Roche
Edward Blagden
Ernest M. Stires
Samuel Reading Bertron
West Fifty-fourth Arrest
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Emily McLean
Walter, MaLean
Annapolis
D. A. BR
Donal Mclean
D. A. R. Commiittee
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Central Oil & Gas Stove CO
Washington St
Besten
Masa
Yaetery Gardner
Mees
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Bluecher Hussar
Princess of Wales
George
Queen Mary
Helen Agnes Post
Nellie
Charles Eliot
Georges
Lord Barrymore
Adair
King George's Court
Miss Post
James Wadsworth
Geneseo
N. Y
Arthur Post
Miga Post
Margaret of Connaught
Stockholm
Cora Countess of Strafford
Adele Colgate
M. A. Mharg
Thousand Islands
Adirondack Mountains
Adirondack
Catskill Mountains
Saratoga Springs
Green Mountains
New York Central Lines
Antral Nal Rial
Maces i As
Bradfield CO
Atlanta
Harry J. Miller
Katherine McCook
St. Louis
Bride OF
Ensign Nichols
Ella V. Kuhns
Denmere Park, Md
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