performed the ceremony. The wedding announcement ran on the front page of the May 23 Geneva Republican, next to a story about a Selective Service bill just passed by Congress, requiring men ages twenty-one to thirty-one to register for the military draft. “Mr. Friedman came to Riverbank soon after his graduation from Cornell University and was employed for some time on experimental work in the Riverbank greenhouses,” the paper wrote of William. “He later took up the work in connection with the Bacon
