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...Isabella Greenway. She operates large copper interests in Arizona left her by her late husband. Longtime intimate of the Roosevelts. she was a bridesmaid when they were married in Manhattan on St. Patrick's Day 1905 in the presence of T. R. and to the accompaniment of a roaring Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full...
...party back $43,000. Left behind in charge of national headquarters was Louis Mc Henry Howe, the Governor's confidential secretary. Mrs. Roosevelt was to join her husband aboard the Pioneer at Williams, Ariz, where she would be visiting Mrs. John C. Greenaway, a bridesmaid at her wedding 27 years...
Like the advertisement-girl who was often a bridesmaid but never a bride, Vacuum Oil Co. has many times been rumored as about to ally with Standard Oil of New York, has just as many times failed to complete the alliance. Last week the merger was announced, with just one hitch. The hitch was that both companies are fragments of the old "Standard Oil Trust," and strong will be the belief that what the Supreme Court has rent asunder no man may dare put together. To argue against this, the companies will maintain, when the government brings a trial injunction...
...eight bridesmaids were divided evenly between Sweden and Norway, and only one was royal, Princess Ingrid, only daughter of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Fröken Irmelin Nansen, daughter of Polar Explorer Fridtjof Xansen, was Norway's premier bridesmaid. The others: Swedish, Elsa Steuch, Alfhild Ekelund, Madeleine Carleson; Norwegian, Ranghild Fearnley, Elizabeth Broch. Wedel Jarlsberg. Froken Jarlsberg is the daughter of the great Court Chamberlain, and Froken Ekelund's father was the late fabulously rich Swedish industrialist. Gunnar Ekelund. The pale and puffy blue stuff of which all eight dresses were made was the gift of Princess...
Married. Henry ("Spider Boy") Bulson, to Margaret ("Princess Alahula Harvy") Berry; on the stage of the Harlem Museum, New York. An 8-ft. 4 in. best man, a 36-in. flower girl, a 783-lb. bridesmaid attended the couple. Bearded ladies, tattooed men, sword-swallowers, fire-eaters threw good luck coins as the "Spider Boy" proceeded down the aisle on his hands...