Charity fete revives Harbor Hill tableaux in grand Long Island setting
A star studded Harbor Hill party transforms the Makay home into Venetian Oriental and Grecian tableaux for Nassau Hospital benefit. Society figures led by Mrs Whitney and Mrs Burden will star as patrons, with dancer Lillian Finerson and a large invited train arriving by special train from New York.
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Long Island
Washington Post
Rosslyn
Clarence H Makay
Joseph Landensmith
Bastin
Nassau Hospital
Mineola
Mackay
Henry Payne Whitney
Olover Bird
Pemey
Thompson
Robert =. Bacon
Helen Hamilton
Mariel Winthrop
Oo Sergent Crani
Wiborg
J. HO Alexandre
Joseph KE Davies
Twieyd Warren
James & Raven
Lillian Finer
Landen
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Vanada
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Hartesary Rumsey
Insertine Osborn
James A. Burden
George F. Baker, Jr
Greece
Bath
Arthur Scott Burden
George Whittney
Leenie Burrill
Anwelia Schuyler Brown
Frances Reese
Marian
Maud Kennedy
Mary (Ass T'Anfield
Wiberg
Tweedy
James R. Eustis
Frederic Kernochan
Eric
Winston
Lawrences
Bertier
Francis
Marlee Roche
Lawrence
Pennsylvania Station
New York
Limelock
Teachers Institute to Meet in City Churches
Superintendent Thurston announces a teachers institute for white and colored schools this Thursday and Friday. Sessions will be at First Congregational Church and Mo Street High School with speakers including Dr Harvey Bloomfield, Dr Andrew W. Filson, Dr Henry Neu land, and Professor Albert Bushnell Hart. The program will cover vacations demands, morals through literature, and practical teaching ideas with a question box and round table work.
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Tenth
Scho
Mo Street
Thirston
Washington
Bloomfed
Boston
Vacatlana
Andrew Wo Filson
New
Albert Bushnell Hart
Harvard
Thurston
Women’s Clubs Merge to Form National Council in 1916
Delegates from seventeen national women’s groups decided to consolidate under the Council of National Organizations of Women. The new body will replace the National Council of Women of the United States and convene in Washington in November 1916. Mrs Percy V. Pennybacker of Austin, Texas, leads the effort with other officers to guide the movement and memorialize Mrs Woodrow Wilson with a sanitary housing project.
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Council of National Organizations of Women
Ienesting
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National Council of Women of the
United States
Percy V. Pennybacker
Austin Tex
Fede Hon
Council of National Organizations
Washington
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Archibal Tork
Marccal
Woodow Wises
Revolt in British South Africa and German Southwest Africa
The piece notes unrest in British South Africa and German Southwest Africa amid jubilation for the Union of South Africa. It cites German agents allegedly failing to quell revolt among the Thatch pempe and questions whether discontent stems from German influence or revived grievances against Britain. It highlights Botha’s rise as prime minister in Pretoria following Bannerman’s shift in London.
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Union of South Africa
England
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Ntd
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Gen
Botha
Pretoria
Campbell Bannerman
London
Mrs Taft Returns to Washington for Taft Wedding
Mrs William Howard Taft arrives in Washington on her first visit since leaving the White House to attend son Robert A Taft’s wedding to Martha A Bowers. The party includes Henry W Taft and Louise Taft. Taft to stay at Willard Hotel, with Wilson’s greetings and flowers in tribute.
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White House
National Capital
William Howard Taft
Washington
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Troyd Bowers
Taft
Mabel Boardman
Willard Hotel
Carman Case in Film Speeds to Her Count
Mineola New York a six reel feature on the Carman murder case is proposed. Dr Edwin Carman husband of the defendant says offers range from 8000 to 100000 for rights. The plan would depict the trial and crime from the Carman house to Mineola jail and county courthouse with insiders.
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Carman
Bailey
Mineola
New York
Vitagrand Company
Caillaux
Bulldog Guard Who Kept Master Safe Until Friends Arrived
Detroit October 16 A.F. James Marnell a well known actor became very ill while his wife Viva was in Cincinnati for a singing engagement. Their bulldog Frog kept watch over Marnell and growled at intruders until friends arrived. Coroner ruled natural causes. Marnell praised his dog as his best friend and refused offers for Frog even in dire need.
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Mich
James Marnell
Viva
Cincinnati
Frog
Bulldog
Marnell
Ranmers
Hkirgess
Marnel
Marnells
Miles
United States
Marnett
Twilight Sleep Indorsed by 100 Homeopaths at Flower Hospital
New York reports a Flower Hospital meeting where over 100 homeopathic surgeons and physicians discussed twilight sleep. Dr H C Allen of Brooklyn presented a paper arguing narcotics offer a better sleeping treatment than hypodermics, with a clinic demonstration supporting the narcotic method. The convention favored narcotics over hypodermics.
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Twlight
Homeopathic
New York
Flower Hospital
Be. Danforth
H. C. Allen
Brooklyn
Allen
Peer and Girl Tango Into Wedlock Then Annullment
The Washington Pat reports a couple known as Lord James Doug x Moore and Anabel Hen nae wed in April at the Astor and sought an annulment in supreme court aided by Justice Giegerich. The bride was sixteen at elopement. marriage lasted about four months before separation. Lord Gray, 22, educated at Eton and Oxford, came to the US as an engineer for a Carnegie Institute expedition and has interests in aviation and racing cars.
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Anabel Hennae
Sinveme
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Astor der
Anabel
Lord Gray
Eton
Orvile College
Oxford
North Pole
Department of
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Carnegie Institute
Grays Aviation School OF Instruction
College Park
Beersberg
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Gray Ban
Gi Cares
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Association of American Law Schools
United States
Girl and Father Both Elope in Baltimore Cathedral Wedding
In Baltimore yesterday a double wedding united Aloert Shober, widow with seven children, and Mrs. Cora Martin, widow with eight children, both of Cumberland, and James Lee Keech with Miss Bertha Shober of the same city. The younger couple had planned to elope, but boarded the train with Mr. Shober and Mrs. Martin. Secret plans were revealed in Baltimore and the couples wed in the cathedral before returning to Cumberland to reside.
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Whdower
Cora Martin
James Lee Keech
Bertha Shober
Baltimore
Keech
Cumberland
Cardinal Gibbons Arrives for Confirmation at St. Cyprian's
Cardinal Gibbons travels from Baltimore to Washington to preside at confirmation services at St. Cyprian's Church. He will be hosted at the rectory by Rev. Father Matthews, with a large class of several hundred children and adults, including converts, expected to be confirmed after the late mass.
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Baltimore
St. Cyprian’s Church
Cardinal Gibbons
Washington
Oliphant Engagement to Yale Student Hunter Reported
Philadelphia notice announces the engagement of Elizabeth Elkins Oliphant of Trenton to Frank Hunter of Pittsburgh. Oliphant is granddaughter of the late Senator Stephen R. Filkins and niece of Mrs. William Caner Wiederseim. Hunter is a Yale senior and son of Mrs. James R. Hunter. Oliphant’s father was adjutant general of New Jersey at his death thirteen years ago. She is also niece of Billy Hitt of Washington and Chicago.
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Philadelphia
Alexander Coulter Oliphant
Trenton
Elizabeth Elkins Oliphant
Frank Hunter
Miss Oliphant
Stephen R. Filkins
West Virginia
William Caner Wiederseim
Hunter
Yale
James R. Hunter
Pittsburgh
New Jersey
Billy” Hitt
Washington
Chicago
A Tour in the Smart World of Point Lace and Diamonds
RS JAMES F FIELDER wife of the governor of New Jersey organized the New Jersey Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution into a relief committee. A meeting at the Mleider home in Jersey City named 100 top northern New Jersey figures to collect funds. A public ball at the Fourth Regiment Armory will donate all proceeds to the Red Cross. Mrs Fielder will lead the effort and devote her time. Women’s committees will collect winter clothing for European women and children harmed by the war.
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American Bar Association
Richard Townsend
White House
Hayes
Ma Nila
Taft
Gove
Philippines
Washington
James F. Fielder
New Jersey
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Mlielder
Jersey City
Fourth Regiment
Red Cross
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Trunk Explosion Wounds Burlington Agent in Edgemont
Report describes a loud explosion on a depot platform in Edgemont Dak Oct 16 when a heavy trunk was dumped from a truck. The trunk contained a small arsenal and a revolver discharged injuring J A Weinberger the local Burlington agent who was severely wounded. The trunk owner is jailed at Rapid City awaiting trial on a charge of shipping loaded firearms.
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Mystic
J. A. Weinberger
Burlington
Wernhberger
Rapid City
Choates Celebrate 53rd Wedding Anniversary in Stockbridge
Lenox Mass Oct 1 Mr and Mrs Joseph H Choate observed their fifty third wedding anniversary with a dinner for twelve at Naumkeag Stockbridge The couple decors featured yellow chrysanthemums Mrs Choate formerly Miss Caroline Dutcher Sterling born October 16 1861 is 77 Mr Choate was 82 January 24 Both are in good health and enjoy daily walks and car rides They plan to stay in Stockbridge until mid November.
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Washington Post
Lenox
Mass
Joseph H Choate
Naumkeag
Stockbridge
Choate
New York
Caroline Dutcher Sterling
Btockbridge
Bride says kiss triggered husband amnesia in court
In New York, a bride testifies that after a single wedding kiss her husband William Solotaroff, a U.S. government botanist in Europe, became forgetful and queer in behavior. She recalls planning a wedding, his odd attire, and a postponed ceremony as Justice Blanchard adjourns the case for defense.
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Washington Post
New York
William Solottaroff
United States
Europe
Wealthy New York gem dealer mother dies of suspected poison
Divorce suit against Ferdinand I Cross cites clandestine Schroon Lake trips with another woman and a letter from his mother describing wealth at 17 Maiden Lane. A prior will contest and exhumation threat followed autopsy finding codeine sulphite in Mrs Cross’s stomach. The case implicates possible medicine poisoning and a contested $1,000,000 estate.
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Washington Post
Schroon Lake
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Supreme Court
Ferdinand I. Cross, Fawever
Annie Florence Cross
Ford
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