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...that time, Miss Googins & mother were in Burlington. Iowa, at the home of her uncle, a banker named George C. Swiler. Mr. Swiler, on Saturday, got a marriage license for the young couple and the fateful news was at last out. The night before Elliott and Anna Dall drove in from Chicago. That afternoon he and Miss Googins, refreshed by a swim, were married by a retired Congregationalist minister (the Roosevelts are Episcopalians), on the Swiler lawn overlooking the Mississippi. The bride wore white georgette crepe. The groom, who also received a ring, wore flannel trousers, camel's hair...
Married. Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son; and Ruth Googins, 23, of Fort Worth, Tex.; in Burlington, Iowa...
Vermonters in Burlington had the chance of drinking their first beer, which does not become legal in the State until May 1, on ferry boats in Lake Champlain, whose waters are under Federal jurisdiction...
...Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, onetime section laborer, and President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, onetime news butcher. Three times during the day the meeting disbanded. Three times it reconvened. At 9.20 p. m. a decision was reached...
...Coffman Bell, of Los Angeles, California; Ralph Philip Boas, Jr., of Norton, Massachusetts; Morton Clark Bradley, Jr., of Arlington, Massachusetts; Leon Brooks, of Brookline, Massachusetts; John Coert Campbell, of Bronxville, New York; Warren Leonard Claff, of Randolph, Massachusetts; Alfred Harvey Daniels, of Rochester, New York; Harold Eugene Dow, of Burlington, Vermont; Samuel Duker, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Albert Charles England, Jr., of Pittsfield, Massachusetts; John Lincoin Finan, of Waltham, Massachusetts...