Proxy Bride Refuses Dutch Proxy Marriage Pact
Miss Eugenia Campbell of Denver and John Fieter Scholten of Java had a proxy wedding in January but the union remained unconfirmed. Campbell, unhappy with Java, returned to Denver after Scholten, a Dutch army officer, completed his proxy ceremony in Batavia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugenia Campbell
Colorado
Sweetheart
Denver, Cole
Mies Eugenia Campbell
Denver
John Fieter Scholten
Java
Misa Campbell
Miss Campbell
Scholten
Cripple Creek
David H. Fouse
Batavia
Woman Fights Cougar With Pipe While Carrying Baby
Mrs R F Burkhard saved her baby and herself near Taholah Washington on November 16 by using a iron pipe against a charging cougar. She encountered the animal on a mountain trail as it pursued a fox and fought back when it attacked tearing at her clothing while the infant clung to her neck. The cougar eventually fled after the brief battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aberdeen
Wash
R. FE. Burkhard
Taholah
Burkhard
Baptists Reelect Wilbur At Columbia Churches Meeting
The second session of the Columbia Association of Baptist Churches met at Grace Baptist Church. Dean W A Wilbur of George Washington University was reelected moderator for a third term. About 768 Baptists attended. Officers elected included Rev James W Many as clerk and R A Bagley as deputy clerk. The group reported $25,000 raised for orphans and $189,417 in church expenses with $179,958 for missions and benevolence. Membership reached 9,469 with 11,680 in Sunday school. Several pastors spoke on benevolence and district work, and the session continued into the afternoon and evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Association of Baptist Churches
Grace Baptist Church
W. A. Wilbur
George Washington University
Thin City
James W. Many
R A. Bagley
Gratz E. Dunhum Treasuler
Baptist Home For Children
H. T. Cousins
Anacostia
E. E. Richardson
Congress Heights
E. M. Ramasey
Randall Highlands Church
William ¢. Marseglia
Italan Baptist Church
J. Compton Ball
Th Metropolitan Church
W. Many
East Washington Church
GG. Johnson
Humanual Church
G. Neil
D D
Philadelphia
American A Russian General
Dr Philip Newton of Washington is described as the only American general in a European army. A West Point graduate, he served in the Philippines and San Francisco before joining the Red Cross in Kiev. He married Princess Shahofskaya of Petrograd and rose to surgeon of the czar’s Sixth army corps with the rank of general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Newton
Washington
Petrograd
West Point Military Academy
Philppines
Smithsonian Institution
San Francisco
Misa Alice Dorothy
Nixon
Red Cross
Kiev
Rusa
Shahofskaya
Sixth Army Corps
War Chiefs and Typical Serb Veteran Fight Desperately Against Odds
Away In the backwoods of Europe a small nation fights overwhelming odds. The Serbs, weary after three years of warfare, are described as hardy peasants with a simple, cooperative society. They admire courage, hospitality, and democratic equality, while seeking aid from the allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Danube
Dushan
Kossovo
Karageorge
Therty
Crawford Price
Fappénw
Bulgaria
Women spies use novel methods to carry contraband
Special Cable to The Washington Post from Parla reports Geneva dispatches detail Austria or Swiss frontier security methods for women travelers. An officer says military documents were found under a plaster on one spy. A slinged arm spy had a message in a tube welded into a wound. Women are searched in bathrooms after strip and scrub with hot water revealing secret tissue paper strips and concealed notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Parla
Geneva
Spirit messages from colonial woman claim eerie contact
Special to The Washington Post Boston Nov 16 Dr Morton Prince a leading New England physician and psychologist spent hours with Mr and Mrs Curran of St Louis to solve alleged communications from Patience Worth. Curran asserts the spirit spoke via a Ouija board as Prince probes subconscious theories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Boston
Mass
Morton, Prince
New England
John W. Curran
St. Louis
Nantucket
Plymouth
Dr. Prince
Woman Credits Frustola Traxo For Avoiding Surgery
Mrs. Carrie Heflin of Coats Kansas says a remedy saved her from an operation, claiming Frustola and Traxo relieved gall stones and benefited her brother as well. She notes Fruitola lubricates intestinal organs and aids digestion, with products supplied by Pine Plantatories and available through O Donnell's drugstore in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Heflin
Coats, Kans
Pretty Girls Are Often Lacking Intellectually Says Institute Head
Cambridge, Nov 16. Dr Walter F Fernald head of McLean Institute told Radcliffe girls that brains of the prettiest girls cannot compare with those of less attractive sisters. He showed pictures of several beautiful women all over 25 and claimed none had more mental power than a child of 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Walter
F. Fernald
McLean Institute For
Radcliffe
Fernald
Loyal Lady Paget Refuses Escape As Bulgars Close In
Lady Paget, captured at Uskup while caring for Serbian wounded, declined to flee with her hospital staff as Bulgarian forces advanced. Sir Ralph Paget raced from Nish with provisions in a last bid to reach her, arriving just before the town fell and finding her steadfast amid the retreating soldiers and civilians.
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United
Pras
Monastir
Ralph Paget
Uskup
Stef
Nish
Howard Stuart
American ‘Sanitary, Commission
Ita
Stuart
Sir Ralph Paget
Sir Ralph
Lady Paget
Tattoos and War Badges Adorn WWI Britons
London reports reveal men tattooing sweetheart regimental badges on their arms as devotion to units in the war effort. Theatre managers plan matinee-only performances due to conditions, and wartime thrift extends to drying potato peels for fuel. Isle of Man wartime visitors total 38,786 this year vs 404,481 prewar and 615,726 in 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isle of Men
Flood heroine bride after saving Austin crowd
New York and Washington report Helena Birkey of Austin Pennsylvania became known as the flood heroine for staying at her switchboard to warn townsfolk during the 4 years after the Bayless mill dam broke. She married Michael J. Hyland in Alegany New York and will honeymoon in Rochester. The couple met by a fifty fifty courtship with Hyland in Rochester and Birkey in Austin.
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New York
Washington Post
Austin
Flood
Michael J. Hyland
Hyland
Helena Birkey
Bayless Mill
Rochester
Olean
Tam
Alegany
Fies
Baylesa
Courage under fire keeps nurses at hospital during retreat
Wards personally directing the care of the wounded urged her to leave with him at once. She refused. Sir Ralph pleaded tearfully to depart. She gathered her staff in the hospital office and told her husband they owed too much to the men under their care to abandon them now. He kissed her good bye and returned to Nish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph
Nish
Japanese Peeresses Dance at Coronation Feast in Kyoto
Five beautiful Japanese maidens in rich kimonos danced an ancient kagura and gosechi sequence at a state banquet in Burakuden Hall, Nijo palace, Kyoto, to celebrate Emperor Yoshihito's coronation and the grand harvest festival. The emperor, foreign dignitaries led by Ambassador Guthrie, and thousands attended as imperial and diplomatic pages applauded.
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Kioto
Japan
Yoshihito
Diplomatic Corps
George W., Guthrie
Guthrie
Burakuden
Nijo Palace
Diet
Army
Navy
Yuki
Suki
Shigenobu Okuma
Malevsky-Matevitch
Hei
Malewsky
Naturally Curly Hair Plan Promises Soft Fluff and Lasting Waves
A vintage advice snippet touts a simple nightly routine to create the appearance of natural curls. It suggests brushing and moistening strand by strand with a pure slime line treatment, claiming morning waves look natural and the effect lasts. The plan warns against greasy residue and mentions a small amount of drugstore tallomerina as a stimulant.
Quay Estate Divided Among Five Children in Beaver
Judge Richard S Holt ordered the principal and interest from the trustees of the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay's estate paid to his five children. The amount was set at 47163 dollars with a distribution provision of 4000 dollars annually to A G C Quay. The decision arose from a friendly suit over the will's clause. Senator Quay died in 1904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver
Richard S& Holt
Matthew Stanley Quay
A. G. C. Quay
Quay
Social Center Conference At White House Discusses Southwest Work
A White House meeting Monday with Margaret Wilson Mrs C N Chipman and Miss Annee Beers focused on social center efforts in the citys southwest. Chipman leads the Jefferson-Amdion Association and Beers oversees Washingtons eighth division schools as mothers clubs expand community welfare programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Wilson
Mrs. Chipman
Miss Beers
The
White House
Margaret Wilson
C. N. Chipman
Misa Année Beers
Chipman
Jefferson-Amdion Association
Washington
Public Schoola
Misa
Southwest
Southwest. They Told Her That: These Mothers’ Clubs
Rother
Sing Sing to remove visiting room kissing screens
Inmates at Sing Sing prison will have the kissing screens in the visiting room removed, a concession sought since Thomas Mott Osborne became head. Keeper McClellan will stand as moral censor, ensuring no uncensored letters drugs or firearms pass between visitors and convicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Daaining
Sing Sing
Thomas Mott Osborne
McClellan
Susan E Dickinson Dies At 82 In Scranton
Miss Susan E Dickinson noted literary woman and journalist died in Scranton today from pneumonia at age 82. A regular contributor to leading periodicals for half a century, she wrote for the New York Herald and New York Tribune and served as a Civil War war correspondent for the latter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Susan E. Dickinson
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