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FROM THE ARCHIVEOct 16, 1923·Washington, District of Columbia

ANNIVERSARY OF MARIE ANTOINETTE

Scanned from The Washington Times, Oct 16, 1923
ANNIVERSARY OF MARIE ANTOINETTE
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This Day in History fFHIS is the anniversary of the execution in 1793 of Marie Antoinette Queen of France and wife of Louis XVI Her lack of sympathy with the starving and her extravagances had much to do with her unpopularity BRASS A Novel of Marriage By Charles G Norris A Delightful Narrative of Domestic Life by a Popular Magazine Writer By Charles G Norris PHILIP gazing from a silken curtained window of the lljnoueine at familiar shops and landmarks as the car sped up Market street sighed happily Oh its good to be home Again he exclaimed with fervor Theres no city in the world like San Francisco Wedding Gift. For a wedding present Beckfe had given Leila the old Hamilton Vale on Jackson street. Which she had inherited from her mother and in which she herself had resided since that revered ladys death. It was an oldfashioned frame double house with expan slve bay windows on Its first.

And second stories flanking a pillared doorway surmounted by a small ornate balcony. It was square white and an iron grill Work edged a shallow mansard room. There was a low black iron spiked fence in front and a garden.

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