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Mrs. Graham and Mrs. Wall & White are requesting a pleasure of your company at an informal discussion on the life of Emily Post.

Today, please feel free to bring a companion.

Dress in Consequential.

The End

Let's talk about Emily Post.

But first, let's drop her into history.

In 1922, the first facsimile is sent over foam lines in Washington, D.C.

and the first microfilm device was introduced.

Speaking of technology, the BBC and many other stations around the world began commercial broadcasting.

The International Astronomical Union adopted stellar classification system created by astronomer and jump cannon,

and it's still being in use with some modifications.

Insulin was first used to treat diabetes in humans, and the ice cream treat Eskimo pies were patented.

In 1922, Ulysses by James Joyce and readers Digest were first published, as was a blue book that has taught generations proper behavior written by US Socialite,

novelist, journalist, decorator, Emily Price Post, etiquette in society, in business, in politics and at home.

Emily Bruce Price was born on October 27, 1872 in Baltimore, Maryland, the only surviving child of Bruce Price and Josephine Lee Price.

Mama was the daughter of an extraordinarily wealthy coal baron.

New money, you might say, but ties going back to the Mayflower.

So the money was new, the bloodline was as old as you could get in the United States.

And now she was like nine times removed from the Mayflower.

It was Priscilla and John Alden for those of you who are Mayflower, groupies, fans, a fish and autos.

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