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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1915
Page
7
Athena underwear for women offered in 28 shapes and 38 fabrics at Filene’s Boston. Features include shoulder stays, sloping sleeve and shoulder, curved armhole, elastic cuff, 3 G cornered gusset, and seat pockets. Ankle length options with Dutch or low neck styles. other union suits begin at $1 and vests at 50 cents.
Filene presents two Grace corset lines with flossed bones and heavy hose supporters. Styles include silk embroidery and lace finishes, with Spring models priced around $2. Each corset comes with expert lacing service, and mail orders from Filene are filled on the Third Floor.
Gray Lingerie Shop dedicates a corner to crepe de chine items with trousseau gowns, drawers, bodice covers, chemises, and dansant skirts. Prices start at 1.95 for envelope chemises and combinations and 3.95 for gowns. Colors include pink and white.
Black petticoats in silk, satin, and taffeta range from $2.95 to $7.50 with sizes up to 56 inches. Big black silk petticoats and black lace evening styles sell between $3.95 and $15. Mercerized cotton and jersey petticoats go from $1 to $1.95, with larger cotton petticoats $1.25 to $2.25. Filene's third floor offers mail orders.
Filene stocks new maid aprons including lawn styles with embroidery on skirt and straps and turnover collar and cuffs. Prices range from 29c to 5 for various styles including parlor, cooks, colored kitchen, rubber and silk personal maids and waitress uniforms.
Souvenir page highlights seven new Bo Peep rompers with smocked patterns and new white rompers featuring a beauty patch. The trim med with two color crocheted buttons adds decorative detail.
White belted chinchilla or walking coats cost 4.50 with white corduroy options at the same price. Linings run 1.50 for cotton and 3.95 for silk. Long and short coats with capes range 2 to 12.50, with fabrics including wool batiste and cashmere. Hooded capes for babies priced 3 to 7.50, fur coats 20 to 25, many coats matched to caps and other fabrics.
Lima Peru January 12 Japanese warships continue patrols along the Peruvian coast seeking the German converted cruiser Prinz Witel Friedrich. The armored cruiser Asama docked at Payta for provisions then left, while the British steamer Oriana returning to Liverpool may be targeted. Japanese forces press to intercept the Witel Friedrich.
War Department bills to strengthen the army and create a reserve corps were discussed in an open Senate military committee session with Secretary Garrison and aides presenting. He urged an officers reserve and coast artillery measures to ensure 350000 wartime troops and coastal defense capacity against potential threats.
Senator Dupont opposed a bill to add 1000 officers to the mobile army arguing it creates nearly a thousand second lieutenant vacancies and disrupts colonel and lieutenant colonel ranks. Secretary Garrison said war college drafted the bill and aims to preserve current army efficiency with a prompt committee briefing.
The U S cruiser Tennessee and the collier Jason reached Alexandria Sunday evening after a fruitless attempt to embark refugees at Jaffa due to rough seas. The Tennessee had to return for coal, amid widespread disappointment among the refugees gathered there.
Rome telegraphs that Germany denied arresting Cardinal Mercier is true only technically. The Holy See seeks reparations and expects a German explanation while Belgium’s Cardinal is praised by King Albert for upholding truth and rights.
About 1500 refugees of multiple nationalities wait at Jaffa as the Tennessee departs on its mission. The Jason sails for Beirut and then Genoa Phasus Marseilles and Plymouth to arrive Feb 15 carrying San Francisco Exposition exhibits. Germans and Austrians have sent their Genoa exhibits.
The former British collier Farn now flies the German flag and arrived at San Juan Porto Rico under a German cruiser Karlsruhe lieutenant. The crew included 14 Germans and Chinese. Farn had sailed from Barry Wales in September with cod bound for Montevideo and was captured in October by Karlsruhe before being taken to the Canary Islands.
Noury B, chief of the general staff of the Third Ottoman Army Corps, sent by the Sultan to investigate the Turkish defeat at Sari Kam, has been captured by Cossacks near Urgan, reported by the Tiflis correspondent of the Bourse.
Creditors of the Henry Siegel Company hear again that the 10 percent dividend due last June remains held up by litigation. The building owners seek the full 1.9 million owed on the lease, preventing the agreed 20 percent total for creditors and leaving only the 10 percent distribution.
Norwegian steamers Alfred Nobel and Bjornstjerne Bjornson loaded with lard bacon and Chicago packing house products have been detained in British ports since mid November. Cargoes are consigned to order at Copenhagen. Nobel left New York Oct 20 and reached Liverpool Nov 17. Bjornson sailed Oct 27 and entered Leith Nov 17.
Owners assert ships sailed from the United States before Britain's Oct 29 warning and that belligerent supplies must be tied to firms. The Swedish steamer Fridland loaded with packers products is held after alleged manifest fraud listing rubber as gum. Cargoes of Fridland Nobel and Bjornson are detained for prize court review.
Foreign office reports the delay stems from the owners asking time to complete evidence. Britain offered to auction the cargoes, but owners refused noting bacon not fit for the English market and other supplies unsuitable for London trade. Government proposed release if surety bonds equal to invoice were posted. Owners say items are perishable and government should pay invoice price, as with copper. Packers say trade with Denmark was large and government wrongly assumes foodstuffs for neutral Europe are for Germany.
Geneva reports from Friedrichshafen that Germany has set up a base for Zeppelins near Ghent Belgium. Four Zeppelins of the latest type and several aeroplanes are at the new airfields, from which the recent Calaig raid was launched.
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