Social and Personal Tales at Sagamore Hill and Newport
Social events feature the Walsh family attending polo at Narragansett Pier and trips from Newport by auto. Navy Surgeon General Dr. P. M. Rixey and Mrs. Rixey visit the Roosevelts at Sagamore Hill. Russian Embassy secretaries host at Magnolia with tea and tours. Engagements, weddings, and summer gatherings involve numerous Washington, Newport, and Maryland figures, plus trips to Bar Harbor and Manchester by the Sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
P. M. Rixey
Louis B. Stoddard
Thomas F. Walsh
Evelyn Walsh
Narragansett Pier
Newport
Vincent Walsh
Boston
Silas Terry
Magnolia
Miss Foraker
Senator Foraker
Colton
Washington
Monsieur de Thal
Phya Akharat
Special Remnant Day Offers Tightened Clearance Bargains
A weekly remnant sale coincides with August clearance stock, featuring lightweight wool dress fabrics in Voiles Crepes Etamines and more with yardage from 34 to 14 yards. Men’s suits shirts and accessories receive deep cuts from mid 10s to under $9, plus silk ties and lisle socks at reduced prices. Main floor sale highlights include brown cheviot jackets, eton suits, taffeta shirt-waist ensembles, and white lawn panels with lace and eyelet embroidery.
Remnants of High Class Cotton Dress Goods Sale
Remnants of fine cotton dress materials offered in 4 to 9 yard lengths at less than half price. Printed French organele remnants sold by the yard at reduced rates, plus domestic cotton dress goods remnants in 2 to 8 yard lengths. Lawns dimities percales ginghams for low prices. Danish cloth also offered. Secord floor-gst.
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Tate Gingnams
Secord
Friday Bargains in Lace Curtains
Clearout sale on Brussels Net Tamborr Net Renaissance and White Cluny lace curtains. Notable price cuts include multiple pair lots with former prices shown. Also offers on Portieres and Armure tapestry borders with reduced pricing. Fourth floor G Street.
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Prs
Rowe Armure
Tito Tym Reseda
Friday Bargain in Women's Umbrellas
A small lot of 25 inch Colored Sun Umbrellas offered at near half price. Items include onion and twisted silk varieties with borders, in green blue and red with natural wood handles. Seashore or mountain use noted. Special price 45 cents each, values listed as 200 and 250. Main fluor-G street entrance.
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G St
Friday Bargain in Women's Cotton Hose
A promotional note advertises 40 dozen pairs of women’s fine black cotton hose with double soles and high-spiced heels in sizes 8 to 10. Priced at 20 cents for three pairs, regular value 25 cents per pair, located on the main floor Fat.
Friday Bargain in Summer Corsets
Summer Corsets offer 6 dozen nets with straight front and medium hip sizes 18 to 30. Special value 50 cents per pair. Third floor Eleventh street.
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Eleventh St
Bed Department Price Reductions on Enamaled and Felt Items
Listing shows 181-2ft white enameled bed with brass escroll and heavy posts reduced from 150 to 1000. 141-2ft white enameled bed with end brass rods reduced from 11.50 to 141-cft felt mattress soiled reduced from 100 to 900. 131-2ft felt mattress soiled reduced from 800 to 700. Second floor F street.
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F St
Boys Department Bargains Strike with Deep Reductions
In the Boys Department, numerous suits and shirts see steep price cuts. Items include 11 brown linen Russian blouses suits, 16 sailor blouses, 20 faton collar sailor blouses, 18 youths long pants suits, 18 fine all wool jackets, and 24 wash worsted shirts. Also offered are 12 pairs white duck sailor pants and assorted madras and pique pieces, all on sale third floor tenth at.
Wrapper Dept. 10 Mourning Wrappers on Sale
Retail notice lists Black and White Mourning Wrappers with face edged collar and cuffs in sizes 36 38 and 40 reduced from 190 to 1.00 each. Also 5 Blue and White and Black and White Striped Percale Wrappers trimmed with braid sizes 36 and 8 reduced from 1.50 to 100 each. Located third floor G street.
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G Street
Misses Wardrobe Sale On Fourth Floor G Street
A department store advertises girls clothing on the third floor G Street with items including 4 gray all wool homespun suits for ages 14 and 18, 12 gingham dresses, 19 linen dresses, 6 quimpes, and 1 suspender dress all deeply discounted from earlier prices.
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G Street
Boys Straw Sailors on Sale in Hat Department
Hat department offers 15 boys straw sailors in plain and mixed effects at 250 each, with price slash from 00 and 175. Also 2% boys or girls straws in proan blue and red mixed effects reduced from 10 and 175 to 390 each. Milan straw sailors with brim and ribbons cut from 150 and 20 to one each. 1¢ Milan sailors with rolling brims reduced from 250 3.00 and 3.75 to 100 each. Third floor Tenth st.
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Milan
Tenth St
Millinery Department Hats Sale on Second Floor
Women's untrimmed hats reduced from Be and $10 to 2c each. Trimmed hats cut from 800 and $10.00 to $5.00 each. Four trimmed hats trimmed from $5.00 and $38.00 to $3.00 each. Second floor Tenth street.
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Tenth St
Tennis Racket Deals in Sporting Goods Dept
High grade tennis rackets built from white ash and gut strings are on sale. Three rackets reduced 42 percent from seven dollars. Individual rackets marked down from two dollars to a dollar and fifty. One and three quarter pound rackets cut to twenty five cents. Bamboo split rods with cork handles reduced from one hundred to eight each. Main floor tenth et.
Travel goods dept reduced trunk and case list
Travel goods department shows marked reductions on leather bags suit cases and trunks. Items include a 1 inch brown grain leather bag from 750 to 850, a 1 inch bellows leather suitcase from 1400 to 660, a 1 inch double suitcase from 1600 to 8560, a leatherette suitcase from 3395 to 196, a 30 inch canvas covered trunk from 1600 to 795, a 4 inch trunk from 1860 to 8950, and a 2 inch steamer trunk from 1500 to 10.00 in basement equitble building.
Shoe Department Sale of Women's Shoes at Deep Reductions
In the Shoe Department on the Third floor at Tenth St, 14 pairs of Women's Black Kidsin Oxfords with patent tips and turn soles in assorted small sizes are reduced from 350 to 1.50 per pair. Also 17 pairs of Women's Patent Coltskin Oxfords with welt soles and ribbon laces in varying sizes reduced from 4.00 to 1.50 each.
Sewing Machine Cabinet and Automatic model on sale
Sewing Machine Dept offers a 1W cabinet model in an oak case with full attachments and five year guarantee, minor wood mar. reduced from 3760 to 3000. Also a drop head automatic with full attachments and five year guarantee, minor wood mar. reduced from 40.00 to 35.00. Second floor G street.
Bargain Screen Sale on Second Floor G at Store
Screen Department offers pieces from $6.00 to $1.00 after price cuts. Items include a French tapestry panel 1 fold, a 3-fold Taffeta G screen, a 3-fold Weathered Oak screen, and a Cherry-finish Fire G Screen. Reduced prices mark a clearance in the second floor area.
Lamp Department Banquet Lamps and Shades Sale
A sale notice lists lamp items with marked reductions including Banquet Lamp from 3.50 to [?], Gas Drop Light from 250 to 2.00, Large Red Lamp Shade with fringe reduced from 4.00 to 1, Japanese Lamp Shade damaged from 3.276 to 1.75, 1 inch Red Lamp Shade chipped from 15 to 1.00, and 3 Red Silk Candle Shades with further price cut. Fifth floor.
Basket deals at Fifth Hour on Eleventh Street
Readable items list baskets and bags with marked price cuts at Fifth Hour on Eleventh Street. Includes Birch Bark and Japanese Straw Scrap Baskets with reductions from 85c to 60c and 1.26 to 0.10, plus Indian scrap and straw hair receivers, damaged bags, and small laundry baskets with prices slashed to 36c to 50c.
Linen Patterns Sale in Second Floor Wardrobe
Hand embroidered linen waist patterns cut massively from 600 dollars to 3.60 each and 750 to 375 each, plus 1000 to 6.00 each. Embroidered linen suit patterns reduced from 12.50 to 7.00. Located on second floor eleventh street.
China Department Sale of Porcelain Sets and Dinnerware
A department sale lists deep discounts on china items including a 100 piece decorated English porcelain dinner set marked down from 1800 to 1260, an imported decorated covered dish at 8 cents, and a French china soup tureen reduced to 1.25, with various plates cups and jars priced to clear on the fifth floor.
Furniture Department Bargain List Delights Shoppers
Sixth floor Good All items in this furniture sale feature dramatic markdowns. Rustic lawn chairs and high back rustic chairs drop from hundreds to under five dollars. Rattan rockers and settees see prices cut to single digits. The sale includes Old Hickory pieces and woven cane items with substantial discounts.
Rug Department Sale Reductions Mark Bath Mats
In the Rug Department several bath rugs and mats show marked-down prices. The 36x72 inch Saratoga bath rug is cut from 3.50 to 2.36, the 30x60 inch Saratoga rug from 3.50 to 2.50, and a 124x48 inch Saratoga rug drops from 2.25 to 1.76. Also reduced: 6x12 foot yen rug from 2500 to 17.36, a 1 roll Japanese matting from 100 to 7.50, and a 1 roll China matting from 10 to 7.00. Fourth floor-Gat.
Housefurnishing Dept Bargain Sale List
Anne Dorner describes reduced prices on stove items infant bath bread box and kitchenware. Numerous goods marked down from dollars to cents including nickel teapot coffee pot and alcohol stove with several damaged items noted. Fifth floor Eleventh at the store location.
Notable Summer Movements Across Washington Society
Justice and Mrs Oliver Wendell Holmes retire to Beverly Farms Mass for the summer staying until October. Several families plan trips to Atlantic City Buffalo Niagara Great Lakes and mountain resorts. A pretty home wedding chief among social events, Miss Sara Watts Washington wed Walter Howell Lee at the Washington home of her parents. Local court notes mention Ralph Given and A R Mullowney swapping duties in the Police Court.
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Clara McCoy
Louisa McCoy
Hamilton K. Derr
Hagerstown
D. Huddell
Annie Spangler
Tilly Dunn
Daisy Rush
Richard Rush
Rush
Spencer Murray
Annapolis
Connecticut
James D. Murray
Mra. Murray
Murray Hill
Mr Murray
Mra McComas
Joseph P. McComas
St. Anne's Church
Adirondacks
Miss Rush
John Daniell
San Rafael
Cal
George Dunn
Washington
Dalzell
Yellowstone Park
Portland
Ore
John J. Hemphill
Bancroft Place
Maryland
John Scott Ferguson
Pittsburg
Miss Ferguson
Manchester
Ferguson
Justice
Mra
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Beverly Farms
Mass
Mra. Holnes
Newport
August Noack
Misa Florence Noack
Buffalo
Niagara
Great Lakes
Deiffenderfer
Mountain Lake Park
Sara Watts Washington
Walter Howell Lee
Thomas
Rebecca J. Washington
Frederick W. Albert
Freeland Peter
Mark
S “Ghureh
Les
Fifth Baptist Parsonage
Wilson Eppley
Mary Mabel Sullivan
Brown
Miss Eppley
Eugene R. Pendleton
New York
Hamstein Points
Abner C. P. Shoemaker
Thomas Blagden
J. Stern
Leona Stern
Norfolk
Attorney Given
Ralph Given
Hugh Taggart
A. R. Mullowney
Mr. Given
Saratoge
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Woodward & Lothrop
Paris
Rileys
Sagamore Hill
Frank Kelly
Gonzaga College
Nellie Kelly
W. H. Abercrombie
Ocean Side
Magnola
Henry Kirk Porter
Porter
Hegeman
Bar Harbor
Susan Pollock
Penna. Ave
May Manton
Dress Goods Department
Men’s Department
Women’s Suit Dept
Brussels
Bed Department
Millinery Department
Sporting Goods Dept
Shoe Department
Sewing Machine
Screen Department
Basket Department
Linen Department
China Department
Furniture Department
Rug Department
Ieee
W. L. Mastersom
Stoneleigh Court
Florenge
Susie Kendall
Atlantic City
Saratoga
Gordon Crawford
Henry BE. Pellene
Conm
E. G. Parrell
Blue Ridge Mountains
F. H. Richards
J. M Coleman
Lilly Williams
Emma Lucas
Earl Coleman
Little Gem Cottage
Colonial Beach
Anna A Baker
Indiana
NL Y
T. Percy Hickling
Pennssyvania
Jean IF. P. Dea Garennes
Wimodaughsis
Hatreat
Messrs
Haden and
Simmons
M. G. Agnew
A. G. Agnew
Alabama
Hyckiex
Inter-Ocean Building
Bigelow Axminster
Lansburgh Furniture Co
Ninth St
Pa Ave
Cheney Bros
Redkroad
NEW Publications
Ryan
The
Equitable
Alfred Henry Lewis
Human Life Pub Co
Hoston
Human Life
Liebig
Cremo and
Cubanela
People’s Pharmacy, Inc
M. G. Gibbs, Mgr
Seventh and Eye Streets
N. W
Fussell
M. T. Fussell
Broadway
N.Y. Ave
Munyon
Munyon CO
Phil
Sunday Post
SSEAT
Atlantic & Pacific Teas
Matin
Cor
7Th & E
Knabe
Angelus
New Angelus Music
Itlan
Irdinia
Virginia
Gangareea
City House
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