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The photo shows Miss Noel Johnston (left) and Miss Marie Tailer of New York City, aboard the RMS Olympic, departing New York.. Another photo taken at the time by photographers Underwood & Underwood was published in The Washington Times on July 09, 1914 (Home Edition, Page 3) — LOC Chronicling America The caption reads: "Miss Tailer has been motoring abroad for the last ten weeks, driving her own car upwards of 5,000 miles. She said she was looking forward to an athletic summer in the Berkshires. Miss Tailer said the best feature of Europe are the roads, which are better than the ones in this country. She also denied she was engaged." Her engagement was announced five months later. Marie Tailer (c.1895-1937), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lee Tailer, was married November 3, 1915, to S. Bryce Wing (c1890-1975), son of Mr and Mrs L. Stuart Wing of New York.  Marie died of a heart attack in 1937, and her husband remarried in 1939. [1] [2] [3] Noel Johnston (d.1979), daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Herbert Johnson, was married April 14, 1915, to William H. Appleton (b.1883). He was the son of William Worthen Appleton and the late Anna Dublois Sargent Appleton. Mr. Appleton, a Harvard graduate, was in the cotton brokerage business with Stephen M. Weld & Co. He later joined the insurance firm of John C. Paige & Co. Inc. Miss Johnston was the granddaughter of the late John Taylor Johnson, who for many years was President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Their engagement was announced in September, 1914, immediately after Noel returned from Europe. [4] [5] On December 31, 1915, they gave birth to a son, William Worthen Appleton, II., who, after graduating from Harvard, taught at Columbia for more than thirty years. [6] [7] Some years later Mrs. Noel Johnston Appleton married D. Wooster King, of New York City, on September 24, 1932. [8]  

Marie Tailer – "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"

During his visit to Newport, Rhode Island in 1913, His Imperial Highness, The Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866-1933), was struck by the beauty of American women. According to published reports, The Grand Duke "collected photographs of the women he met in Newport, especially at The Casino and Bailey's Beach."

The Grand Duke was particularity smitten by Miss Marie Tailer of New York City, who was visiting Newport at that time, and he was "anxious to obtain a photograph of her". He declared that Miss Tailer was "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World". [1]

This pronouncement was picked up by newspapers across the country (if not the world), and photos of Miss Tailer were published for some years afterwards -- always with the "Most Beautiful Girl in the World" moniker in the caption. [2]

IMNHO more flattering photos of Miss Tailer than the one above can be found in The (San Francisco) Call and The (Georgia) Evening Ledger.

There are several photos of The Grand Duke in the Bain Collection on Flickr:
 
                  "Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch"   From Bain / LOC
                             


 

Noel Johnston www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107975013 Marie Tailer www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107969190

it was may be there last meal but the picture magnific i love black in white picture

On page 15 of Votes for Women - Friday 15 March 1912
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On page 6 is a report which begins

The atmosphere on Thursday evening at the London Opera House (two days after the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence) was electric with that undaunted spirit which in this Union never dissipates in emotion, but is translated into action. The blow that had fallen on the Union through the arrest of its leaders had made its friends rally in full force, and the huge house was packed from floor to ceiling with an audience of men and women entirely sympathetic and absolutely unwavering in confidence and loyalty, who stood up in a body to applaud and cheer the speakers. Outside, the seething of the crowd and the trampling of the mounted police ; inside, perfect quiet, except for the cheering and applause.

From the front page we learn that Votes for Women was edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, appeared weekly and cost 1d (or 1½d by post).

A fine 1909 poster in suffragette colours -

Via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votes_for_Women_(newspaper)

It was an exciting time for the paper. On page 1:

Meantime, the other leader roams the earth, the ocean, or the air. Without being in the least like a Boojum, Miss Christabel Pankhurst has silently vanished away, and none knows whither, least of all the eminent detectives of Scotland Yard. Fond of hunting as the British people are, it is a peculiar thing that their sympathy is almost always with the fugitive, and we doubt if Sherlock Holmes himself would have a chance for their favour against a successful Vanishing Lady. So day by day, as the police went searching the British Isles, enquiring with simple guile at the residence of every noted Suffragist in the kingdom, the interest grew with laughter.

Wikipedia:
Boojum - A fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark; a particularly dangerous kind of snark
The narrative follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, a creature which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only crew member to find the Snark quietly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that the Snark was a Boojum after all.

(OR a phenomenon in physics associated with superfluid helium-3 OR a chain of Mexican restaurants in Ireland)

Casas Grandes, a town in northern Chihuahua state southwest of Columbus, New Mexico, was General Pershing's main base when he began his pursuit of Pancho Villa in March, 1916. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10614F73B5B1773...

Thanks for the information, which narrows down the probable date. We'll add some information when we next update the description.