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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1919
Page
14
The Rack of Printed Voile Dresses offered at 17.50 presents flowered dotted and figured designs in artistic voiles and plain linens with tunices and trimming details. Daily new models replace those sold, many reduced from higher prices. The Rack of Organdie Dresses at 24.50 features white black and colored organdies with pleatings and lace trims, plus white net ensembles and coordinated fichus and cuffs. New models added daily at price reductions.
Two groups of misses blouses designed for the miss offered at lowered prices. Models in white and colored organdies, lawns and dimities with contrasting cuffs, some with crochet or pleatings. Slipovers with novel necks and organdie inserts. Notable prices at $2.25 and $2.95 on the Fourth floor.
The Misses' Section on the Fourth Floor markets a new shipment of all wool jersey bathing suits with straightline styles and attached bloomers in many colors. Prices range from 3.00 to 7.95, with sizes 6 to 14 in cotton or wool options and sizes 16 to 18 in wool up to 7.95. Also offered is a unbleached muslin middy with sailor collar priced at 2.25.
An advertisement touts the Hoover Electric Cleaner and Sweeper for home cleaning. It claims the device removes dirt from carpets and rugs, picks up threads, and leaves floors clean with minimal effort, likening it to a carpet beater broom and sweeper in one.
Washington social rounds highlight dozens of moves as prominent figures host and visit across Virginia Maryland and North Carolina. The list includes diplomats ambassadors and military officers with spouse travel from the Willard to Bluemont Cape May and Jefferson and events around Annie Myers Crenshaw and Ensign Charles Leslie McCrea weddings.
Capt Archibald Roosevelt is moved from a downtown hotel room to Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago with trench fever and lingering gas exposure from France. Doctors say his condition is not serious and he should be discharged in a few days. Mrs Roosevelt and two children are due in Chicago tomorrow as he begins employment with Sinclair Refining Company. Washington delegates to the International Christian Endeavor conference opening tomorrow in state New York are listed.
A British piano maker cites 43 000 German pianos to flood markets at cut prices aided by government subsidies tied to manufacture costs. The report notes postwar surpluses, cancelations of orders to cheaper American and Canadian instruments, and continued piano buying by Britons despite economic strain. It also reports President Wilson commuting a death sentence for Second Lieut Halder H B Perry for a December murder in California.
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