some elaborate weddings and mid parties
1902-12-14 - News and Observer
- Dr. Ware of the VA legislature has introduced a bill to prohibit kissing
- The above item serves as context for a poem from the Baltimore News, which I am imagining set to the tune of something from Gilbert & Sullivan, about how sad we will be when everyone is arrested for kissing
- Miss Lizzie Buffalo gets married, is 2nd VP of the NC UDC
- elaborate description of a different wedding: White liberty sattin illusion over silk & real lace
- Music recital at Peace: Mendelssohn, Leschitzky, Von Fielitz, Gennod [Gounod?], Hollander, et al
- Greenville, NC: End of the Century Book Club 4th annual meeting/party; “unusual éclat”
- Very mixed reviews of this party, down to the decor: “artistic;” “a bewildering display of potted plants and flowers”
- The overall impression of the party is something like “The house is really, really big; no one here is hot”
- Henderson: The Halcyon Club! “merry… scintillations of wit and humor” with some Coopers, Parkers, Perrys, Tuckers, etc, plus Sam Jr. Watkins and Carroll Singleton.
- Reidsville: UDC collected $31.64 in proceeds from putting on a “military play” [Ken Burns documentary intro music]; the money will soon be put toward a monument.
- Great Summer School for teachers over at A&M (electric cars travel between campus and various parts of town!)
- Want ads: lots of familiar Make Money At Home! schemes
- Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur – nothing like it on earth for skin disorders, eczema
- Wanted: man with experience to manage a table factory. Write to “G,” Burlington.