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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1914
Page
10
R. H. Stearns and Company advertises summer suits coats dresses blouses and bathing suits at reduced closeout prices. Wool blankets small lots napkins towels and linens priced per pair or per dozen with examples including wool blankets 60x90 at 9.00 per pair and 70x82 at 6.00 per pair. Several coats dresses and blouses offered for clearance with strong emphasis on fabric and color varieties.
Readable text lists closeout prices on crepe de chine blouses lace silk chiffon bathingsuits and kimonos. It notes fine nainsook garments with special pricing and tiered discounts up to 15.00 for Japanese kimonos and 5.50 for outerwear pieces. Garments include corset covers negligees and tea gowns.
A grocery list style display shows fine crepe night dresses with open and closed fronts, trimmed with ribbons and lace, plus skirts, dresses, rompers, and boys and girls garments. Also includes duotone fabrics and parasols, stationery sets, and linen pillow cases with bold sale prices and bulk value notes.
A major order of fine Huckaback towels was placed with Emil Rudolph & Sohne of Oberoberwitz Saxony from an importer who has stopped selling their goods. The transaction highlights a shift in sourcing for weavers and textile buyers.
New York reports Miss Elsie Stevens and Miss Margaret Andrews, currently in Switzerland with their mothers, as society debutantes causing anxiety for their welfare. Miss Andrews, once announced to be engaged to Vincent Astor, is an avid swimmer rower and yachtswoman. anecdotes tell of Mrs Harriman in London, Reginald Vanderbilt seeking a stoker role, and Stanwood Mencken buying labels for luggage.
Pennine Range reached Mystic wharf from Fowey England with no wireless and carried china clay destined for Portland. Two English stowaways were seized by Captain Manning and face deportation. Rochelle with nearly 1,000,000 gallons of molasses arrived off New Haven and South Boston reporting an uneventful voyage from Cuba and fog in the last 24 hours.
About 50 black and blue hats trimmed with ribbons and fancies. Early season values 16.59 and 15.00. Offered on Monday at 5.00 and 7.50 Each. Wash dress goods Fancy Voices Novelty Tissues and Irish Dimities. Formerly 25c yd, all at per yard. Belise French Novelty Crepes and other silks and voiles. Formerly 60c to 1.50 yd, small lot mostly dress lengths, all at per yard. White dotted crepe voile and striped batiste, regular price 59c, all at per yard. Silk petti coats in crepe de chine and satin varieties, 3.75 upwards. Thomson corsets and ventilating corsets in assorted sizes.
Edward H. Jones deputy tax collector at Owensboro and Miss Blanche Goode wed on the court house steps in Evansville at 1 a m to escape daytime heat. Robert G. Ly tuahe and Miss Blanche Simmons of Owensboro witnessed the ceremony conducted under gas lights.
Harrisburg Illinois August 9 a restaurant owner found new hatchling in an ice box from Norris City. He opened the refrigerator to take two eggs and heard a chick chirping from inside the egg. The chick is doing well and thriving.
An eight foot alligator escaped from Richard A. Everson estate and roamed the town yesterday. It ambled along the main highway snapping at people, animals, and birds, causing widespread fear and excitement for several hours.
Pedestrians fled as the five foot to larger alligators escaped from a Mt. Dora Fla shipment. A small posse pursued the animal, which charged through the town into the woods before Arthur Howland lassoed it. The largest of the trio escaped yesterday.
Berlin reports three motor cars with large sums of money were seized by German forces as they attempted to cross the Russian frontier. The Empress and imperial family members assist in catering for reservists marching through Berlin. A Russian official and the public prosecutor from Kiev’s Beilis case entered German barracks at Doeberitz. Socialist H Hermann Wendel has volunteered for German service after a Paris-tinged speech.
Miss Rosie Bell Speaks and Robert Hackley were united in marriage standing on the Maryland West Virginia state line at the Harper's Ferry Bridge. The ceremony took place on August 9 near Hagerstown Maryland according to local reports.
Four steel express cars holding gold coins and silver bars valued at 13.6 million dollars were moved from Bar Harbor under guard by 40 messengers and detectives. The cargo from the Kronprinzessin Cecilie was shipped abroad from New York ten days earlier.
The regular New York express train reaches New York by tomorrow morning and Portland at 9:30 with transit to Worces ter. Forty tons of treasure are transferred from the revenue cutter Andriscoggin to the Maine Central terminal at Mount Desert Ferry. Detectives and messengers are aided by marines while the cargo is moved to the wharf. Warships anchor in upper harbor near Bar Island as the Warrington alters position to monitor neutrality rules.
British and other foreigners in China fear Japan may join an assault on Tsintau as talks unfold between Tokyo and London on its future status. German cruisers reportedly search the Yellow Sea chasing ships while British, French and Russian merchants seek port safety. Shanghai reports say the British Pacific fleet moved north with two French cruisers.
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