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Mrs Russell Houstons baby arrived to day from S? to visit her Mother-in-law-Mrs Alan. P? Houston. Mifs Carrie Wood, visiting Mrs Houston -

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Thursday, July 23, 1903

It is a perfect day, after breakfast, Mr ?Badger x went to Lake Forest to visit Mrs T.T. Shreve, & Mrs Ballard, and also to visit Mrs Alan Houston, This afternoon, Mrs Embry Swearingen, went into the city, and took lunch with Mr C.W. Angell. her Uncle William Angell has been very ill with Carbuncle on his neck, but is better, after lunch, Mrs Swearingen went to stay to dinner and all night with Mrs L.S. Badger, and Adele, My son Sheridan is in town, so they had a lovely evening. Mrs David B. Fisk was buried to day at Rosehill She leaves three children, D. Milton Fisk, Henry E. Fisk, and Mrs Bennett B. Botsford.

+The death of Pope Leo XIII has caused much regret. he was liked by all, at Rome July 23rd from sunrise to sunset, thousands passed before the body lying in state - in the Basilica of St Peters, many knelt in Prayer at the Catafalque, a large body of Italian Soldiers guarded the grounds, their presence there was unprecedented, in the history of Modern Italy - an indication of better relations between government an Vatican