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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1916
Page
10
Women seek correct styles and best quality and will find a large and refined collection. Hemp pralas and lacy braids in black white and spring shades headline trimmed hats. Sailor and Broad-brim hats in hemp and glazed straw featured with factory flowers berries foliage feathers and other trimmings. Third floor Fatree1.
Capital Society hosted a large welcome dinner for Miss Gladys Mackay-Smith and Mr. William Bell Watkins’s wedding party at St Johns Episcopal Church. Out-of-town guests numbered about 160, with a dance follow up. Several prominent attendees and boxes at a National Theater recital highlighted a bustling social day in Washington.
Admiral Benson hosts and entertains notable guests at the White House reception while New York figures join Archibald Gracie’s circle for luncheons and dinners. Psi Upsilon fraternity honors Secretary Lansing and Counselor Polk at the Metropolitan Club. Departures include Capt and Mrs Bristol leaving Washington for Pensacola.
Mrs Edward D Anderson hosted a bridge party at Woodley with guests including Mrs Aultman Snyder Rice Bingham Ellis Mann Koerper Wilson Chase Thomas Snowden Cameron Munroy McFarland Landers Hill Dodge Reynolds Flagler and her guest Mrs Maury Jordan Sibyl Hayes daughter of Representative Hayes of California. Ruth McCall daughter of Massachusetts governor was luncheon guest of the party. Also in Washington were Mrs Martin Littleton wife of former Representative Littleton of New York and arrivals Horace Bulloch Vaughan Jealous William Willcox and Miss Bulalis Willcox H E Coffin John Chandler Cobb Beatrice Cobb Hildegarda Cobb of Philadelphia and Boston residents.
Mrs Richmond P Davis hosted in Stoneleigh Court with Mrs a Bayard Schindls and Mrs Joseph Tracy assisting. Singers Mrs Gordon Robinson and Mrs Walter K Wilson performed. Guests include Mrs Willard Saulsbury in Wilmington. Mrs Jay E Hoffer hosted luncheon for Mrs Beverly Dunn of New York. many others from Philadelphia New York and Washington attended at the Shoreham and Loretta apartments. The National School of Domestic Arts and Sciences held an assembly dance with 106 couples in the Willard red room. Governor McCall's daughter hosted luncheon for her guest Miss Ruth McCall.
Margaret Auchmuty Mackay daughter of the late Dr and Mrs Barnard Mackay of New York married the Very Rev Frederick Warren Beekman dean of Bethlehem Cathedral Pennsylvania at the Church of the Heavenly Rest. The ceremony was officiated by bishops Talbot and Lawrence and Rev Shipman with her brother Richard T Mackay giving her away. A reception at Sherry's followed and the couple will reside in South Bethlehem. The account notes a family anecdote about a great grandfather’s coat and a possible coonskin cap.
The piece describes a blue and green wool plaid coat with a fringed military sash and Girondist style collar. It mentions Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Ingersoll of New York sailing from Florida aboard the yacht Psyche IV for a month of cruising in Southern waters.
Berlin dispatches describe Haumont and Brabant as left in fantastic ruins after German artillery. French guns largely overmatched, unable to threaten German positions. Fort Douaumont repeatedly shelled as recapture attempts failed. Verdun itself seen mostly spared, western fires extinguished, villages between the forts burning amid changing weather.
An morning 10 80 lecture at the Unitarian Church for Belgian relief features Mrs Walter G Wilmarth and Mrs Holtzclaw Gawler as singers with Miss O Tool e giving harp selections. A silver collection will be taken up by little girls. Wedding Notice shows Catherine Higgins and Ralph B Little married in Hagerstown at First Baptist.
A dense church directory lists services across Presbyterian Episcopal Catholic and other faiths. It notes ministers and timings for sermons Sunday school morning and evening services, midweek events, and musical programs along with venue addresses and special speakers from St Johns to Unitarian All Souls and various societies.
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