Married life under pressure at New York hotel
Helen visits Mrs Merwin, a promoter's wife, in an expensive Aldorf suite. Mrs Merwin reveals debt, gambling and drinking by Frank, a failed London venture, leaving them unable to pay weeks of hotel bills. She hides the truth with costly gowns while trembling between hope and humiliation. Helen plans to help.
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Wabel Herbert Urner
1Dorf
Helen
Mrs Merwin
Merwins
Aldorf
Fielen
Denver
Mrs. Merwin
Mr. Merwin
New York
Mramien
London
Frank
Helen Ailmost
Flelen
Daly's
Howard de Walden
Mise van Raalte
Gertie Millar
Lady da Walden
Miss Millar
Quaint apron effect yoke dominates new gowns
An oddly shaped yoke creates drapery in many imported gowns this season. The one piece dress features a side closing, with a skirt hinting at drapery and tabs holding it in place. Insets of net add texture, patterns available through Washington agencies.
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Lal
Peete Lord
Vera
Mexican Style Stuffed Peppers From Mrs Albert Burleson
A Washington kitchen reminiscence recalls Mrs Albert Burleson describing a Mexican cook who became a family institution. Ursula, master of the metate, prepared tamales and tortillas, helped with a stuffed peppers recipe using Bermuda onions, tomatoes, almonds, olives and raisins.
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Albert
Washington
Ursula
Idney
Burleson
Mexico
The
Duby ‘Sondiente
Notable Women Writers Born on November 3
Two writers born on November 3 are Mary Teresa Craigie also known as John Oliver Hobbes and Isabella McDonald Alden known as Pansy. The report notes Craigie’s Massachusetts birth in 1867, life in England, a unhappy marriage, conversion to Catholicism, and prolific output including Some Emotions and a Moral. Alden, celebrated for Sunday school books, is said to have written 76 titles.
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John Oliver Hobbes
Pansy
Wrear
Mary Teresa Craigie
Isabella’ McDonald Aiden
Mrs. Craigie
Massachusetts
England
John Olver
Wobbes
John
Oliver
Cromwell
Hobbes
Mary Teresa
Ion
Craigie
London
Alden
Emily Anne Eliza Sheriff
Girton Women's College
Froebel
McClure
Style and pockets lead the peg top skirt craze
Janet Harry reports in New York Evening Telegram on the new peg top pocket skirts defining a bold hip carried silhouette. The piece highlights practical pockets, shifted fronts, and the fashion show influence from Maison du Paree to street style with playful hints of jockey vests and speed inspired hats.
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Maison du Paree
Flossie Fifth Avenue
Janet Harry
New York Evening Telegram
Carnegie Hero Award Given to Wright and Dillard
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded its top honor, a gold medal and $2,000, to Charles N. Wright and William L. Dillard for rescuing R. Augustus Baty from a 2,600 foot cliff at Whiteside Mountain on May 14, 1911. Baty was pulled from near the brink after a two hour thirty six minute ascent, with Wright and Dillard guiding him to safety. Dillard received a silver medal and $2,000. other heroes and totals are noted, with about $93,000 disbursed in immediate awards and pensions to various recipients and relatives.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Charles N. Wright
Highlands, N. Co
William L. Dillard
R. Augustus Baty
Dillard
Baty
Whiteside Mountain
Fools Rock
Wright
Clay Snyder
McMechen
W. Va
Arthur J. Hertman
West Wheeling
Ohio
Officers Take Second Ride to Mount Vernon and Back
Fort Myer officers completed the second of three required test rides without incident. Seventeen officers plus three orderlies joined the Mount Vernon round trip, lasting about seven hours with brief rests every hour. Cel EH. D. Davis led the operation. The final ride occurred yesterday.
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Fort Myer
Mount Vernon
Orderiies
Cel EH. D. Davis
Simple Home Treatment For Superfluous Hairs
A beauty column item outlines a home method using powdered delatone mixed with water to form a paste applied to the skin. After a short wait a wash removes the paste and hair, claimed to be painless with the original package ensuring strength and purity.
National conservation congress to discuss forest and water power
A fifth national conservation congress to be held November 18 to 20 in this city will devote most of its program to forest and water power conservation. A long list of delegates from states across the Union is announced, including senators, representatives, professors, and officials.
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National Conservation Congress
Union
Albert M. Read
D. A. Smith
Scott Ferris
Claude Weaver
Bird
McGuire
T. P. Gore
Robert L. Owen
William H. Baldwin
W. T. Denison
C. O. Lobeck
Silas N. Barton
G. M. Hitchcock
George Norris
Charles H. Sloan
John 4. Maguire
Moses P. Kinkside
Dan V. Stebens
M. O. Leighton
John F. Shafroth
H. Wills
Joseph A. Holmes
David White
C. D. Walcott
B. W. Donn, Jr
Nathan
Henry B. F. Macfarland
John P Heap
J. V. Craig
Harry P. Letton
George Shiras
Gilbert H. Grosvenor
L. M. Smith
F. W. Coville
Leonard H. Wilder
Foster Elliott
William E. Andrews
Ellen C. Lombard
Giles Scott Rafter
Arthur A Birney
Fr. H. Newell
Lydia A Williams
Duncan J. Fletcher
W. S. Stratton
Howard Sutherland Charles Herbert Stockton
J. C. Eliott
Ulysses G .B. Pierce
Willis J Fowler
Samuel S. Ashbaugh
Josephine Arnold Rich
H. M. Clabaugh
Paul B Dunbar
A. L. Pedree
A. B. Caramins
Janet Richards
James Lansburgh
Elizabeth Brown
J. Edson Briggs
Silis Logan
Horace W. Towner
Dunnigan
Alexander T. Vogelsang
Wiliam F Hancock
Sarah Croissant
Ralph Kahn
Arthur Ramsay
Wiliam D . Bigelow
Augustus Knight
Joseph James
Mary D. Carter
Sarah Clemons
Carl Smith
Mary L. Johnson
Ada Lair
Isaac Reynolds Mott
Ernest Francis_ Burchard
Harrison Hastman Patten
Cyrus Cline
Carl A. Carlson
Charles C. Yates
Arthur Cole Spencer
Owen Burt French
Charles Edward Munroe
Clyde Kelley
Edward Gilmore
L. 3. Rowe
William H Bixby
Henry 8S Graves
W C Langfitt
T. Is Burton
Thomas Thacher
P S. Ridsdale
Frederick H Newell
Thomas H. Tulfey
Cuno H. Rudolph
Balthasar , Meyer
P. P. Classon
Stratior
Farmer dies saving woman in wagon accident near Sunbury
Wol. 2-rank White, a farmer from Irish Valley, died Friday while trying to rescue Mrs Sarah Vought as her horse ran wild and crashed into a four mule team. Mrs Vought was badly injured and dying in hospital. White was crushed beneath his own wagon in the ensuing struggle.
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Sunbury
Rank White
Irish Valley
Priday
Lfe
Sarah Vought
White
Celebrate Mikados Birth Lights Landmark Imperial Celebration
In Tokyo on November 2, 156000 children cheered Emperor Yoshifue on his first birthday since accession. A military review lantern processions and a grand ball marked the nationwide celebr ation with schoolchildren marching to the palace and widespread rejoicing.
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Tokyo
Yoshifue
Divide Washington population by reading The Washington Post
A provocative quote splits the population into readers and nonreaders of The Washington Post. It asks which group would be more desirable as customers for a business.
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Washington
$500000 Park Statues Gift from Ellen Samuel
Philadelphia announces that the late Ellen Philips Samuel left half a million dollars for statuary along the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park. The statues will depict American history from early settlers to the present, effective after her husband’s death.
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Philadelphia
Fairmount Park Art Association
Ellen Philips Samuel
Schuylkill River
Fairmont Park
America
Samuel
Cat and dog welfare drives large estate bequest
In a contested will case, Miss Ewen, aunt to John Ewen, bequeathed most of her 200000 estate to animal charities. The surrogate reserved judgment as Surrogate Cohalan yesterday heard the matter, while the nephews challenge the will.
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New York
Madeira
Caroline G Ewen
Cohalan
John Ewen
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