Milestones: Dec. 24, 1928

Engaged. Helen Train, daughter of Author Arthur Cheney Train (Mr. Tutt stories) of Manhattan & Bar Harbor; to Charles Dewey Hilles Jr., Manhattan lawyer, son of the potent New York State Republican.

Married. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., most famed of U.S. poloists; and Mrs. Margaret Mellon Laughlin, daughter of Banker William Larimer Mellon, of Pittsburgh; in Manhattan.

Married. Anton Seidel, farmer's son, and Theresa Schwarz, village belle; in Sotine, Jugoslavia. There were 2,750 invited and uninvited guests who consumed, during nine days and nights of celebration, six cows, 16 calves, 600 chickens, 300 turkeys, 20,000...

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