Miss Elkins and Duke of Abruzzi Romance Across Oceans
The Elkins family publicized a high profile romance as Katherine Elkins, prominent Washington social figure and daughter of Senator Elkins, became involved with the Italian Duke of the Abruzzi. Rumors of an engagement, royal objections, and sensational headlines followed through debates on marriage eligibility and Dowry figures, with Elkins sailing for Europe in 1909 as familial denials persisted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Katherine Elkins
Abruzzi
Italy
Atlantic
Miss Elkins
Hitt
United States
Duc d’Abruzzi
Washington
Publc
Mount Vernon
Eilkinses
Misa Elkins
Margherita
Elkins
Miss Elking
Europe
Stenamahip
Lapland
Misa Rulkins
Senator Elkins
Ohio
Missouri
New Mexico
Congress
West Virginia
Senate
Davis Elkins
Henry Gessaway Davis
Maryland
Davis
Bikins
Hobson Elected a Wife Member of World WCTU
Representative Rich mond Pearson Hobson of Alabama was elected a Wife member of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union at the New York convention. The body endorsed a $100 membership fee and pledged funds for temperance work in Alabama. Delegates from Maine, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky added $3 for the cause. Eva Hoover Thacher announced plans for local prohibition zones around government reservations. Rosalind Countess of Carlisle was reelected president, with Lilian M. N. Stevens as vice president, Anna A. Gordon secretary, and Mary E. B. Sanderson treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Alabama
Congress
United States
World’s Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Annie K. Wiesel
Hobson
India
Maine
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Eva Hoover Thacher
Washington, D. C
Rosalind Countess of
Carlisle
Lilian M. N. Stevens
Portland
Anna A. Gordon
Evanston, Til
Mary EB. Sanderson
Canada
German Singers Merry First Weekday Entertainments
German societies in Washington held weekday entertainments at the Washington Saengerbund on 425 C Street NW and the Arion on 1007 E Street NW, a historic first. The Arion program featured a ladies dance the Moonlight Waltz, with committees named for refreshments and leadership. the Washington Saengerbund offered a concert preceding dancing, including soprano solo by Mrs. Robert Fatt tenor numbers by John Klein alto solos by Mrs. Hather Gumprecht and violin solos by Anton Kaspar, ending with two guets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arions
Saengerbunds
Washington Saengerbund
Arion
C Street Northwest
E Street Northwest
Walt
Eleanor Schwarz
Minnie
Schuerger
Sophie Helphenstein
Annie Hohman
A. Schwarz
J.bruegger
Henry Wassamann
F. Reckeweg
B. Daiker
L. Olesenskiy
Robert Fatt
John ©. Klein
Hather Gumprecht
Anton Kaspar
Recital and lectures highlight Washington social calendar
Washington society news describes Billy Hitt and his bride Katherine Hiking preparing for a blind recital at the National Library for the Blind with Mrs. Ray Ransdell, plus readings by Mrs. Alfred Mordecai. Brundage, Ferguson, and Benson address Eckington church union. Gompers attends a benefit for Federal Labor tinior at Poll with bureau officials. Bishop Currier departs for a Thanksgiving visit. Scheideman lecture plans announced in Washington, with a bridge benefit for Georgetown University Hospital and upcoming meetings of several societies. A Tekoma Park rail proposal is deferred and a Harvard Club lecture set at the University Club. Texas tests report speeds exceeding contract requirements aboard the Texas.
Miss Elkins and the American Heiress in Society Rumors
A Washingtonian Billy Hitt returns from Europe to court Miss Misa Elkins, who declares she has come back to be an American. The tale contrasts Elkins social leadership and athletic pursuits with her May to December romance rumors while detailing the Elkins family lineage and public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle
Misa Elkins
Elkins
West Virginia
Hitt
Yale
Metropolitan
Chevy Chase
University
Albi
Washington
R. S Reynolds Hitt
National
Willliam
Billy Hitt
Europe
Duc d’Abruzzi
Switzerland
Paris
Miss Elkins
Miss Leishman Civilly Weds at Versoix in Switzerland
Miss Nancy Leishman daughter of John G Leishman former American ambassador to Germany wed the Duke of Croy in a civil ceremony at the Versoix town hall. The wedding party included royal and diplomatic figures with a planned religious ceremony the next day and a listed set of presents including jewelry and silver service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Switzerland
Nancy Leishman
John G. Leishmen
Germany
Duke of Croy
Versoix
Duchess of Croy
Engelbert
Anton
Leishmans
Central High School bids set for Thirteenth Clifton site
Bids for the new Central High School at Thirteenth and Clifton streets northwest will open Saturday. An appropriation of 900000 dollars funds the building and 300000 for an adjoining athletic field. Plans by Municipal Architect Ashford call for indoor work this winter with spring on farms demonstrations. Officials visited McKinley and Central High Schools, while Ernest Daniel leads a plan to teach agriculture in public schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central High School
Thirteenth and
Clifton Streets
Ashford
Ernest H. Daniel
Board of Education
Fairtex
Watson Davin
Business High School
Davis
Vienna
Fearful burial alive case prompts will to inject poison
Rudolph Ravenburg an army surgeon general employee left in his will that ten grains of potassium cyanide be injected before burial. The undertaking funeral director says embalming suffices to prove death, while the will and oral instructions echo the same demand. Ravenburg, a Civil War era veteran and Columbian University medical graduate, left minor bequests to daughters and a widow executrix. Funeral held at Lehigh apartment with Rev. George F. Dudley conducting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Ravenburg
Surgeon General of the Army
Ravenburg
Arlington
Charles R. Ravenburg
Washington
United States
Harvey
Grace Stephens
Gertrude Ravenburg
Elizabeth Wissinger Ravenburg
Columbian University
George Washington University
Lehigh
George F. Dudley
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. Hitt
Henry Gassaway Davis
Hite
Mr Hitt
Halhemurat
Elvis
Parks
America
Palm Beach
Missa Elking
Mr. Sarto
Rome
Archae
T. U
Alabama Organization
Photos
Mies Elkins
Billy” Hitt
Representative Hitt
Katherine Hiking
Senator Elkina
Henry Gass-away Davis
National Library For the Blind
Ray Ransdell
Alfred Mordecai
H. C. Brundage
Bekington Presbyterian Church
Eckington
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Protestant Church
L. M. Ferguson
F. Benson
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Mr. Ferguson
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Bureau of Prepaving
Joseph E Ralph
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Frank H. Ferguson
Bureau
Willam &. McKinney
John B. Colpoys
Emmett L. Adams
Ming Agnes O'Donnell
Gertrude McNulty
Misa Ann Rappaport
Miss L. Levair
Misa Winifred Hurdle
Charles Warren Currier
Cubs
da Ia
Currier
Key West
Fla
Habana
Phillip Scheideman
Reichstag
Socialist Party of Washington
Socialist
Scheideman
Baltimore
Rauacher’s
Georgetown University Hospital
Isaae Gang
Milton Alilea
Alice Riggs
Blanche Hull
Mary Downs
P. P. Mullett
Joseph Stragsburger
James A. Cahill
C. R. DuFour
American Pomological Society
The
Eastern Fruit Growers’ Association
Society of Horticultural Science
New National Museum
Erlicka
Bureau of Ethnology
Peru
Anthropological Society
National Museum
Tekoma Park
Baltimore and Ocean City Railway Company
Carroll Avenue
Presbyterian Church
Takoma Park Sanitarium
Oliver F. Cutts
Harvard Club
University ‘Club
Texas
Rockland
Druggiatz
B. W. Groves
Miss Leishman
City News
Supt. Davidson
Supt
Thurston
McKinley High
Central High
Robert C. Starr
Census Bureau
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Appointments
Department of Labor
Starr
South Carolina
Retail Merchants’ Association
Chamber of Commerce
Stanton J. Peelle
United State Court of Claims
James H. Hayden
Stanton C. Feelle, Jr
Beard
Hayden
F. A. Fenning
F. M. ‘Achford
Samuel 8. Barney
Anti-Balcon League
Bonard
Hquordealera
A. E. Shoenaker
Anti- Saloon League
Setence
Supreme Court
Leslie E. Batton
George Washington University Law School
H. E. Kelley
Tressurer
F. E. Anderson
William Vogel
New York City
Millington
George Fort
Treasury Department
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
W. T. Eddingfield
Isabelle Mott
Eugene B. Wills
John B. Savage
Cublis Gap
Peter A. Yent
Crooked River Range
Ight
Roy Rollington
Southwest Reefight
Supreme Counci
Washngton
Navy
Roosevelt
Breckinridge
Civil Service Commission
Gonsaga College
Notre Dame College
Francis W. Vaughn
Vaughn
Calvary Baptist Sunday School
Railway Post Office
W. C. Calvert
L. Jones
EB. Cc. Pugh
R I. Shuman
W. H. Sheppers
I. C. Matlack
C. M. Nelson
Misa Pauline Hern
Central Union Mission
Louisiana Avenue Northwest
Holy Land
James H. Willis
Vermont Avenue Baptist Church
Wea
Columbia
Lodge
No. 10
Royal Arcanum
Old Masonic Temple
Naval Battalion
Water and
O Streets
Blanche M. Dalgieish
Will
U. S
Victor
E.f.droop & Sonsco
Steinway
Rabe
Neu
Vermont
Syru
John H. Magrude Fine
Connecticut Ave. Peseiger EK St
Xander
Nelson
Victor Records
George B. Kennedy
Wilson & Mayers
Roe Fulkerson
Ticlan
F St. N. W
Willard Hatel
Qnau
Byron
Adams
St. N. W
Diamond
Munich
Distree
National Menital Brewing Co
Balentine
XEX
Newark
Ale
Neading
Shoemaker Co
Eta
G Cravenette
Reliable Goodyear
F Street N. W
Masonic Temple
Leese
Peta Jheaias
A. Leese
Eos
Chase
Schubert Pianos
Schubert
Joseph Hall Chase
G Street
Lewspar
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!