Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1770-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress. Learn more
Image provided by: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, NC
Newspaper Page Text
PAGE SIX She's Friend of President’s Son Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., is house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene duPont, at Wilmington, Del., for festivities marking debut of their daughter, Ethel; but rumors of a prospective engagement of the President’s son and the heiress are discounted bv the duPont family. The two are shotvn. V ' (Central Press) » F. D. R.’S MOTHER CHATS WITH QUEEN V A. llk JM , jpi imy v K| j||| SmSL V I ck^j, " ,„ ■ In- the private apartments of Buckingham palace to which few visitors are admitted, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the president, enjoyed a quiet chat over teacups with Queen Mary and King George of Great Britain. The Dicture. a composite. shows ASTOR WEDDING IN OLD CHURCH, |^ I H&fc' By jj^K^Jillß I m ■ «i \>: WhßwW^^^mß i b -S» I :| JHHI| m Hl mgNgß* / \ HH H / P jM| TH I v. ' \ t[ 'wrf / JyH| ’ • > In Trinity church at Newport, R. 1., a quaint old edifice unchanged aince revolutionary days, Ellen Tuck French, daughter of the so .prominent - Francis 0. • »'• - V how the three appeared during Mrs. Roosevelt’s visit, with Queen Mary, left, and the president’* mother, right. The eighty-year old Mrs. Roosevelt was called “the most effective ambassador of goodwill ever sent to Great Brit ain by the United States,” French, will become the bride of (John Jacob Astor, 111, on June 30. Astor, his fiancee and the interior, of the church are pictured in Ua - w* abovpy -- henderson; (n. c.) daily dispatch, Saturday, june 30, i9S4 1 ‘'TuckyY* a Million-DoUar Girl to Astor Gifts estimated to total more than $1,000,000 were conferred on Ellen Tuck French by J. J. Astor V befori their marriage at Newport. Gifts included the $250,000 mansion at the resort, $50,000 diamond and ruby bracelet, $75,000 engagement ring and $200,000 antique diamond ring pictured above. A $500,000 trust fund is also reported to have been provided. (Central Press) - * _ Scenes From Harriman Mills “Blue Eagle” Battle 4EBR&L' ■ :>• ' ' " J • " •• •■•/S, - ' jgk }s i 1 m * iw!f*r \ IT @£l«i<aiaaßilg a H BpISP: * ';. '■ ' ''•■ 8§88&&*£§&. . -ftiM *l*3” . .4 ;?- '.;:? : ' y .<-" --...#„ '■ v ' xfe - .l— « H| W Jgf :: J | . ■•■:«k . f" W Ji V m ~ TsjSJr.. This layout shows scenes in con nection with the controversy of the Harriman Hosiery Mills of Harriman, Tenn., and the NR A, over the withdrawal of the fac tory’s Blue Eagle because of vio lation of employes’ right to collec MRS. DALL MOVES TO LONELY RANCH NEAR RENO fife? . , The new Nevada residence where i Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dali is liv ing while waiting for a divorce from Curtis Dali is pictured 1% • 4 Uiosen as Presidents Companions on Long Trip i I I H '■.■& '^l R .;:■ ■'■ySjß BHffigl fflh| |» < <: ; i v ? !1 If Bpjjppi' .i 1 twrtna and ’nival subjects! M# ’ k; £G*atrai£z»ml ...-C_-.._—. ~:L| r t| ■ tive bargaining. This has re sulted in a virtual stopping of business, closing the plant, and making almost the entire laboring population of Harriman, 635 workers, jobless. Top, the Harri man Hosiery Mills, which was the above. The ranch home, to which Mrs. Dali moved from a Lake Ta hoe residence, is a lonely building on the shores of Pysamid lake. 40 first large unit to experience NRA discipline; inset, Polk Tarwater, owner of the factory which re fuses to reopen until its Blue Eagle is restored; bottom, mill stokers parading down Harviraae i, main street in protest. i miles from Reno, and i& owned by Mr. and Mrs. William Shepherd ’ Dana, New York social registrites. Her children are with Mrs. Dali. r -i OUR yesterdays When Women Students Won Right To Study With Men at Oherlin Oberlin’s noted conservatory of music. THERE WAS a time when a tury. however, a movement for trade school or a high school edu- equal education facilities for men cation was considered enough for and women began growing a. a girl. This was due to the belief pioneer in coeducation was Oberlin that the home was the only appro- : college, at Oherlin. O. w hich in 1841 priate place for a woman, and granted the degree of AB to worn household duties, at least at that en as well as men. Oberlin also time, didn’t require advance learn- was among the first college* to ad tag. Early in the nineteenth cen- mit negro students — rOUR ,YESTERDAYS When the Now Wholesome Tomato f Was the Poisonous “lave Apple n _ Tomatoes —once considered poisonous. ■ JKOW CONSIDERED one of the people used to keep them In their tnost wholesome and important homes for display until they rotted, garden vegetables, the tomato not The tomato, of the family Solan-; so long ago was considered poison- aceae, is a native of South Anieri-. ,ous. It formerly was called “love ca in the region of the Andes ftPPi©”.and Instead of eating them. mountains- r" War Planes Test Alaska Route - 1’ nWW \ prince *-**-... _j _ > Vjsso*o» { A V\ c a jnt b> //. Ev ' RC6IN/CW_ If u- MI Bryl wMHm&TotV s % from 6 !? B *?* r^ l A^Piu 0U - t problems are attached to sending air forces flight of m i even s war with an eastern power, in a mass ?oute shown plan l f 8 f «>m L Washington to Fairbanks over the Lt Col a^? V / e .’ Thirty officers and enlisted men under • Henry H. Arnold (inset) are making flight in seven hops. I CQsntmlPjiesgJi M 5