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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1914
Page
12
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Swedens Minister Ekengren returned to Washington from Bar Harbor after a summer legation stay and a stop in New York en route. The note lists numerous social guests and forthcoming events including a October 91 wedding at St Johns Church Washington for Laurie Hellen and Thomas Wilson Bowers with Taft family attendance.
Master Stefano and Miss Agnes de Cellere return to Chevy Chase after autumn in Manassas Virginia. Mrs Alexander Mackay Smith closes Sea Harbor mansion and visits New York with her daughters before winter in Washington. Gibson Fahnstock returns to Washington from New York and stays at the Shoreham until November. Grant Church and family depart for Los Angeles. Mrs Francis Nash and Miss Carolyn Nash to join a debut party hosted by Mrs John Wister at the Hotel Powhatan. Lieut Comdr H B Soule and Mrs Lowe visit the Hotel Astor New York, on official business. Pedro Cuadra finance minister of Nicaragua returns to the Hotel Powhatan after New York. Mr and Mrs R Augustus Heaton return from Chelsea New Jersey.
Mrs Crystal McQueston Mann wife of a prospector plans to join her mother’s Kokrine tribe in Alaska’s Yukon backcountry. She will live a primitive life for months while her husband pursues gold in the virgin Alaskan soil. The couple recently married and Mrs Mann is the daughter of a Kokrine tribal member who helped Leroy Napoleon McQueston return to civilization. Argentina to Aid Celebration. Buenos Aires will be armed by a dreadnought at Hampton Roads next January for the Panama Canal opening naval review. Admiral Betbeder, ex navy minister, to command the battleship.
In Abingdon near The Meadows, Miss Nelly Wheeler Robertson married Dr. James Coleman Motley. The ceremony followed a summer of arrivals in Washington and Virginia, with family members in attendance and a silver Derby setting marked by Mary's Meadows china. The event featured music by Miss Griffin and Miss Phillips and a traditional bridesmaid line, all within a restrained family gathering.
Marion resident Miss Charlotte Barksdale recounted escaping Berlin with five companions in a packed cattle car lasting over two days. They faced crowding thirst hunger and rough soldiers while watching Russians en route from Archangel and glimpsing the Kaiser from afar during wartime travel.
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Prominent jurists from four states gathered in Cincinnati to honor the memory of late Supreme Court Justice Horace H. Lurton. Justice William R. Day presided with fellow circuit court of appeals judges Warrington Knappen, and Dennison, and most Federal district judges in the circuit in attendance. Ohio Supreme Court justices and Hamilton County judges joined in the observance as speakers included John J. Vertrees Judson Harmon A C Angell and Edmund F Trabue.
New York city October 6 Philip K Walcott junior member of Hawkins Delafield Longfellow leapt from a fourteenth floor window of the firm’s downtown skyscraper. He was 36, well connected in clubs, had a lucrative practice, and had married Annie E Goedkoop three years ago.
The Duke of Richelieu and the Marquis of Ganey join French ranks while high society figures such as the Marquise de Breteau and Helen Macdonald Stalle have notable connections. Meadowbrook fox hunt ends in a kill despite a dry hot morning, with prominent attendees listed. A major charity horse show planned for Madison Square Garden in December aims to raise Red Cross funds, with New York officials and society patrons involved. A Green Tree fair by Whitney heirs boosts Red Cross relief and a pony prize is awarded. Helena Brien wed Count Maximiliano Calaciccahi at the Academy of the Visitation, with post wedding plans in Rome and Canada.
In Alexandria the Woman's Auxiliary of the Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met with about 0 delegates. Mrsritten- Jon presided as reports from branches outlined the year’s work. No officers were elected. a musical entertainment closed the gathering. Also reported is the death of 4 year old Melina Lucas at 412 North Fairfax Street, with carbolic acid and landanium noted in the scene. coroner Dr. T. Marshall Jones deemed no inquest necessary. Lee Camp United Confederate Veterans elected delegates for the Newport News Confederate Veterans meeting, naming Hooker C. Hall, J. W. Haremond, Marshall, Davidson, and Warfield. adjutant Warfield of Ler Camp assists Gen. J. Thompson’s staff.
Brown and Grand Commander attend a city revival led by Rev. Lee Starke of the Methodist churches. Music directed by Henry K. Field accompanies services, which move next week to Trinity Methodist. Charles Cleveland dies in Washington and will be buried at Demaine Son chapel at 4 pm with Rev. Edgar Carpenter officiating. Union Cemetery burial follows. Charles Cleveland son of the late William Cleveland, age 5. Washington Memorial Lodge No. 7 Beattiga Rite Masons to confer the fourth sixth ninth and fourteenth degrees Friday evening at the Masonic Temple.
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