Unusual Silk Dresses Offered at Half Regular Prices
A large lot of Women's and Misses' Silk Dresses in plain and changeable taffetas, messalines, striped silks, and pongees goes on sale this morning at special prices from 7.50 to 15.00, down from 15.00 to 37.50. Dainty colored lingerie dresses in batistes and lawns are priced 7.50 to 50.00, with varied trims. Tub dresses in linen and cotton blends range from 3.75 to 35.00, suited for house, street and outings. Various styles including plaited effects and the latest waistline.
Excellent Values in damask textiles and lap robes
A bulk sale ad lists Damask Table Cloths for round tables in multiple sizes with special prices 3.00 to 4.00 each. Also heavy Damask Napkins 22 inch 30.00 a dozen and 24 inch 37.50 a dozen. Bed spreads, bolster covers, and summer lap robes shown in various colors and prices. Second front seventh st offers imported linen lap robes at 2.25 each.
Special Sale of Trimmed Millinery at $10
Special sale of trimmed millinery showcasing hats from tailored to picturesque styles suited for all occasions. Materials include braids chips neapolitans and more with large colored toques flower trimmed sailors and upturned shapes in red and other colors. Exclusive designs offered at unexcelled values. dainty tasteful hats presented at 40.00 each.
Sale on Women’s Two-eyelet Eden Ties at special price
This morning a limited lot offers Women’s Two-eyelet Eden Ties in gun-metal calfekin and patent redskin, featuring Goodyear welt sole and Cuban heel. Short vamp with knob toe and shield tip, priced at 4.00 per pair, value 5.00. Third floor Teoth department.
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Teoth At
Special Couch Hammocks Headquarter Ad Excerpt
An advertisement touts Couch Hammocks as the best on the market and highlights the Special Couch Hammock as an excellent value. The item is described as made of heavy white canvas with a well-made mattress.
Reception at International Bureau of American Republics
Washington society gathers for a grand reception marking the dedicatory ceremonies at the new home of the International Bureau of American Republics. President Taft and top officials lead a line of diplomats and dignitaries including Andrew Carnegie, the Mexican and Chilean ministers, and the Brazilian chargé d’affaires among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Hemisphere
International Bureau of American Republica
United States
Iim Wi
International Bureau of American Republics
Andrew Carnegis
International Bureau of American Republic
Mme Calvo
Miister
Mme Graz
Dominican Republic
Mme. Joubert
Archibald Butt
Roosevelt Heads Paris Visit With Ovations At Opera
Theodora Roosevelt, guest of Paris, received glowing tributes at the Hotel de Ville and Notre Dame visit with Col Roosevelt, Robert Bacon, and French officials. A gala opera night featured Samson and Delilah as roosevelt received a standing ovation twice, while a military club dinner followed with Gen Breger and senior officers attending.
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Cathedrale of
Notre Dame
Roosevelt
Military Club
Paris
Theodora Roosevelt
Hotel de Ville
M Caton
Muniapsl Council
Seine
Lambue
General Council of the
M Lepine
Police
Mr. Roosevelt
Fremer Briand
M. Caron
Paria
Col Roosevelt
Robert Bacon
Mousser
United States
Comedie Francaise
Bregere
Rochampbeau Mission
Mies Carow
Luncheon Honors Mrs Rudolph and Civic Guests
Mrs Robert N Harper hosted a luncheon yesterday at her M Street home with sixteen covers. Guest list included Mrs Rudolph wife of Commissioner Canon Rudolph and numerous society members from Alexandria New York and Norfolk. The event honored Lieut and Mrs Kenneth Castleman of Norfolk as the council of the National Society of ...
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Tatt
Larg Anderson
Edward Mitchall
Misa Fish
Mayo
Norfolk
Cutter
Oden Horstmann
Sammel Spencer
Colonial Dames of America
Washington
Wiam Menry
Maryland
North- Top
Chevy Chase
Samuel Spencer
Ricks
John R Hattori
Colonial Dames’ Club
Connecticut Avenue
George Whitielg Brown
South Carolina
Hausche's
Club of Colonial Dames
Hosta Aist M. Dickingon
Lox
Richmond, Va
Nat ‘Ional Society of Colonial Dames of America
John [ Phillips
Frank Rogers
New York
Mra Phillips
Miss Phillips
Georgianna Hopkins
Misa ‘Therese Jincoln
Boston
Mra
J H Crawford
Urac
Mra W & Andrews
M Street
Kenneth Castleman
Council of the National Society of
Summer Home Furnishings and Refrigerators in DC District
Advert reads hard sell for China Glass and Kitchen Ware useful for summer homes. Promotes complete stock of dinnerware glassware and toilet ware at low prices. Claims DC agents for Eddy Refrigerators and Tettenborn porcelain-lined units. Eddy Lee Chente offered refrigerators from 37.50 with top figures up to 1535.
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Comlumbia
EDDY
Tettenborn
Eddy Lee Chente
Fashion's Fads and Fancies at Wellesley College
A fragmentary excerpt details Wellesley College's dress drama where bloomers and menswear styles faced censorious debates since a recent manifesto approved by faculty and a major college committee. It includes quotes from students about stage costumes and a lengthy digression on campus costume regulation and social expectations.
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Wellesley College
Wellesley
Alta
Barnawallaws
Excessive Mastication May Be Injurious
A fragment from a Victorian era health note quotes Prof Metehnikott warning hurried eating harms longevity. It claims excessive mastication is injurious, causing a disease labeled "Stadyfogs" among heteitherites, while noting thorough mastication plus waste exclusion influences intestine activity and nervous system balance.
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Metehnikott
American records sold at London auction at Sotheby's
The sale of historical books and manuscripts, mainly about America, featured pieces from Lora Pol warth and ROW iathwyat. Highlights included 96 copies of official papers on Spanish and French depredations in America and the West Indies selling for 125, various letters to Lord Marchmont and Bolingbroke fetching 270 and 180 respectively, and a rare Margaret Duchess of Burgundy letter to William Caxton at 255. The Hawthwyat correspondence totalled 45 400, with 13 manuscripts and 35 maps adding 2 450. Gunston Hall news noted Mason’s death and Mrs Mason becoming principal at Ivy Hill Cemetery.
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London
Washington Best
Sotheby’s Today
America
Lora Pol
Lord Marchmont
Lord Bolingbroke
Margaret Duchesa
Burgundy
William Caxton
Wiliam Penn
Pennsylvania
Baby in nightdress roams Broadway in eerie morning sight
Patrolman O Brien encounters a barefoot baby boy in a white nightdress wandering up Broadway toward 64th Street. The infant, calm and purposeful, is picked up and brought to West Sixty-Eighth Street station. Parents, Frank MacGowan and wife, realize their child was missing from West Sixty-Third Street.
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New York American
O'Brien
Broadway
Sinty-fourth Street
O Brien
West Sixty-eighth Street
Frank MacGowan
Sixty-ftth Street
West Sixty-Third Street
John
McGowannan
Sixty-eighth Street
Vat House Plea and Comfort for Desperate Child
A frightened child pleads about staying in the vat house while seeking a proper home. He clings to his mother, expressing fear and a wish for a safer place, showing relief when she arrives to comfort him. The scene centers on familial concern and a hopeful reunion.
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Johnnie Ll
Mrs Potter to receive $40000 under Ida A Richardson will
Chicago probate court reveals Ida A Richardson leaves an estate valued at $250000 with $61000 earmarked for eight New Orleans institutions. Mrs Cora Urquhart Potter, longtime resident of Staines Bridge, England, is named heir of $40000. Other bequests go to Caroline Augusta Urquhart, Cora Slocambri Braga, Georgine Urquhart, and David Urquhart, totaling large sums across Europe and the United States.
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Milton Doar
Mediterranean
Marquis Anglesey
Beatrice Herbert
Ingestre
London
Anthony J Draxel
Great Britain
Beatrica
Patricia
Olf
Sydney
David
Court
Godiely
Helen Grosvenor
Robert Shef- Bell
Lincolnshire
Duke of Westminster
Robert
Duke Falta
Helen
Constance
Barbara
Chicago
Cora Urquhart Potter
Staines Bridge
England
Ida A Richardson
New Orleans
Cora Slocambri Braga
Italy
Georgine Urquhert
Paris
France
David Urquhart
Sen Francisco
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MR. Taft
Bureau OF Republics
Switzerland
Mime Ltler
Healy
J. M Townsend
Jeweden
Mme de Lagercrants
Greece
L A. Coromilas
Mrs Bayiles
Sophie Huguenin
Mra Crowinshield
Navel
Attechs
Baronesa Preuse
Prince Tsai
Prince Tsai Tao
New Willard
Robert Roosevelt
Adolf Ladenburs
Dave
Charles L McCawley
Kethleen Bush
Nell Leapp
Mise Florelle Edson
Joseph Romanzo Edgan
John William Mciie
Coast Artillery Corps
U 5
HB Brown
Justice Brown
Mira Arthur Parker
Detroit
Parker
Mre Sherman
McGowan
Thomas H Anderson
Ju- Han James
Bowen
da Witt Talmage
Lyman Tiffany
Andrew
Henry
Burlington
Julia Thompson
Lake Forest
Ming Martha Bowers
Solicitor General
Sowers
Mra Rayner
Cambridge
Mra Gregory
Overman
Sellsbury
Wiliam Phelps Kino
N Street J
Ackerman
Atlantic City
T.R. Guest
OPERA
Monday Evening Musical Club
Laura Harlan
Justice
Harlan
Lotta Milla Hough
Miss Hardie
Earnhardt
Fort Myer
G A Burrage
Charles Hayle
Navy Yard
Benjamy
Pencong Mtr
William Core
Pittsburg
Salee
Father World
Pasteur and Marys Boyle
Academy of Fine Arta
jGarmava
Katherine Leech
John Frederick Leech
Louise Cole
Mise Leach
Tobyn Young
Baltimore
Peter Tome
Carl Smith
Mra N P Wheeler
California
NP Wheeler
Representative Wheeler
Rochester
N Oy
J Alien Farley
Mr . Wallerstein
French Lick Springs
Ind
Cincinnati
St. Bartholomew's Church
Marian Uv Townsend
Henry C Townsend
Craig Colgate
Leighton Parks
Henry Pierce Nichola
Gotham
Colgate
W Traversauller
Cnirton Algo
Paradise
Mller
Wicherd L. Morris
Lownsena
A Seton Post, Jr
Arthur Loruiss
Joseph P Grace George B Hedges Morris K Parker
John Milton Goetahius
Medorem Crawford
Mra Tromanzo Edson
Te J. Allen
Joseph B Bowles
Iimaton Hall Management
Gunston Hall
Beverley R Mason
Mason
Ivy Hill Cemetery
Alexandria
Masgorries Hdith
Clark
Kimball
T. P. Culley & Son
Si. NW
Steinway
BON Marche
Seventh Street
Louvre
Florence
Central OI & Gas Stove CO
Washington St
Fourteenth and Gate
Waldorf-Astoria
J. H. Small
Meknew
Elisabeth Davis
Huyler
Old Feathery
Plames
Juliet Ostrich Feather Shop
Antiig
Rae Eatin
Fate
Bordens
All-Baman Har Goods
Matace
H.W. Lowaly
Bards Poona
Bealthy
B. Rosenfeld
Hsu
Nhaow Spaprr
Haerive
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