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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1906
Page
11
An annual August sale of fine fluffy wool blankets offers 300 pairs at quarter to a third off regular prices. The goods, known as seconds, come from a top East manufacturer with only slight imperfections. Sizes cover single to extra wide beds plus crib blankets, in white red gray and plaid, priced from 85 cents to $9 a pair. Second floor Eleventh St.
Social notes detail Washington residents planning extended trips abroad and to resorts including Mrs J B Aleshire and daughters to West Point and Europe, Dr Sterling Ruffin to Canada, and many others heading to Newport Cape May Atlantic City Ocean City Mackinac Island and lakeside resorts for the season with family and guests.
Wendell Wo Mischler assistant private secretary to the Secretary of War has been called to Murray Bay Canada He will leave this morning accompanied by Mrs Mischler They will be gone during August and September
Mrs Agnes Miller wife of John P Miller of Washington and mother of Charlotte W Miller and John P Miller Jr died at Providence Hospital after a four month illness. Funeral from 1423 Chapin Street at 10 20 a m tomorrow burial private in Glenwood Cemetery. She was daughter of Captain Thomas D Walker and leaves three Walker brothers in Brooklyn and husband with two children.
Society notes reveal Mrs William M Postlethwaite will announce Carolyn Postlethwaite engagement to Hal Cobb of New York, a Beaux Arts student in Paris. Wedding date not set. the event expected in Washington. Also updates on Miss Hallowell sunshine poetry concert at Chevy Chase Inn and a Bits column anecdote about a London news editor urging speed then condense.
A reader recalls a piano recital moment at the Cleveland Scene. Miss Thumper notes an old gentleman’s joke about a nocturne. Mr Chumper replies the man was not a great player but once a piano tuner.
A Newport photographer arriving to cover a society talk is assaulted by Harry Lehr on the avenue near the Casino. Lehr seizes the camera, retrieves the plate after threatening to break the camera, and damages a porcelain vase. The crowd disperses as Lehr and his wife leave, promising to pay damages.
Matthew Blacklock, a broker, schemes to break into Roetiack Langdon Mellville's inner circle and woo Anita Ebersty. Plot twists include debt, a thwarted engagement, and a perilous pursuit amid upper crust tensions as Blacklock risks ruin through risky bets and family rivalries.
A narrator recounts a tense marriage arrangement with Anita, wife of Joe’s neighbor McCabe officiating. Class snobbery clashes with genuine affection as Anita resists an upbringing and fiancé chosen by others. The couple confront power, propriety, and a looming test of will as they plan to move to Willoughby.
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