Winged Sleeves and Pastel Fashions Dominate Spring Styles
A fashion feature notes winged sleeves in butterfly hues and soft flowered draperies marking spring designs. It highlights Princess Mary’s pastel frocks, three piece outfits for variable weather, and florally themed gowns seen at Newport and Palm Beach, with Mrs. Medill McCormick and others in black velvet and beaded gowns at society events.
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Princess Mary
Mrs. Harding
Capitol
McCormick
Davelyn
Mary
Trousseau
Washington
Palm Beach
Sylvanus Stokes, Jr
Newport
Gowns at official reception feature blue and silver tones
Assistant Secretary Mayhew Wainwright wore a deep blue gown with several flounces and long ends, while Mrs. James Marwick in silver cloth surplice gown with a long train, and Mrs. Joseph Frelinghuysen in meteor embroidered black crepe with a large black plume hat. Mrs. T. H. Caraway appeared in old blue velvet with matching hat and sable fur scarf.
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Gladys Hinckle
Charles J. Townsend J
David Meaden
Episcopal Eye
Bar and Throat Hospital
William A. Shodenburg
O. A. Mayhew Wainwright
George
Iline
James Marwick
Joseph Frelinghuysen
Marwick
Congressional. Club
Famed Old Church to Celebrate 120th Anniversary
The First Baptist Church of Washington marks 120 years since its 1802 founding with a week of events led by Rev. Dr. Henry Allen Tupper. William Jennings Bryan will give an address Tuesday evening while Col. John Temple Graves speaks on Armageddon Wednesday. History traces from 1802 through rising activity in 1918 under Dr. Tupper.
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First Baptist
Mother Baptist’ Church of Washington
Henry Allen
John Temple Graves
Sassio
Uniter
Congress
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
William Parkinson
Charles A
Tupper
German Princess and Fake Counts in Riviera Scandal
Special Cable Dispatch reports a Riviera society scandal involving a German princess, a unfaithful wife, a Portuguese consul’s widow, a grasping jeweler, and two fake counts. Mme Empes eloped with Langella to Milan and San Remo, removing 700,000 francs of securities beforehand. Police halted the couple as their plans unraveled. Langella and the jeweler faced charges.
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United States
Hiviera
Edants
Mme. Deven
Dén Empes
Nice
Mme
Hmpes
Langella
Milan
San Remo
Langélla
Coratto
Mme. ‘Empes
Sghaumbui
Lithuanian Jews aided by joint relief program
The American joint distribution committee allocates 24,000,000 marks to rehabilitate Jews displaced by war in Lithuania and expeltees from Russia. Funds will support construction and immigration policies under a new constitution, with details presented to the second Congress of Jewish Communities. Also noted is Philip Sousa returning to conduct in March, celebrated by Masonic circles as a welcome home for a long-absent brother.
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Kovnd
Tuthuadia
Jewish Courelito
Lithuania
Hei
Tehn
Philip
Sousa
Wthich
Hiram
Eureka
Columbia Commandery
Bride’s vial and a warning on wedding day complexion
A fragment from Strigkland Gillilan’s Wayside Tales describes a bride’s dressing table scene. A small cut-glass vial rests in her bouquet as a friend chides the wedding day complexion, noting the vial holds remedy or vanity lore.
Latin Temperament Pardons Social Pecadillos in 1922 Case
A narrative notes a wife slapping her unfaithful husband’s face after a police guard and tears, while she sends her lawyer to arrange reconciliation. Securities remain untouched, and the Latin temperament grants pardon for such social indiscretions.
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Jowel
The
New York Herald
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Brooklyn
Enganier SC
G Street
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Copenhagen
Georgette
Ludlow
Spring ‘Designer Quarterly
Florida
Medill McCormick
Senator McCormick
Gifford Pinchot
Women’s Trade Union League
Harting
Harding
Mrs. Coolidge
Mrs. Pope
Alexander Pope
Duncan Usteher
William Jennings’ ‘Bryan
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Riviera
Mme. Mpes
America
Eighth ‘and
Louvre
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