Special Remnant Day UK sale offers vast linen discounts
A weekly special sale features remnants and August clearance with attractive prices. Linen Dollars for men and boys in multiple styles, surplus stocks from American collar makers, some soiled but mostly clean. Sizes 12 to 18, half-dozen lots. cuffs 9.5 to 11. Special Madras Negligee Sits, plain white Madras, straw hats, and sundries priced to close. Also damask cloths and Huck towels offered in bundled lots.
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America
Friday Bargain on Women's Silk and Lisle Gloves
A sale offers Women's 16 button length Silk Gloves in black white and tan at 73 cents per pair with value to 1.50. Also White Lisle Thread Gloves in 16 button length at 75 cents per pair with value to 1.25. Major for-gst.
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Majin Foor
Friday Bargains in Men's Clothing Dept
Bargains in men's wear highlight three piece suits and two piece skeleton outfits in brown green and gray tones. Prices range from 9.50 to 25.00 with reductions from 18.00 and higher. Store location cited as Main Thoy Tenth St.
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Men’s Furnishings Dept
Men’s Clothing Dept
Friday Bargain in Silk Petticoats
Int of women's black taf feta silk petticoats with accordion plaited flounce and full ruffle offered at 395 dollars each. Value listed as 5.5. Located on the third floor at Eleven St.
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A. Int
Fleventh St
Friday Bargain on Trimmed Hats in Clearance
Immediate clearance sale offers two lots of women’s trimmed hats with large discounts. Hats priced at 32.00 each were 86.00 and 8.00. another lot at 8.50 each were 10.00 and 12.00. Sale on second floor Tenth Street.
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Tenth St
Friday Bargain in French Chemise
A small lot of Women's French Hand-made Chemises with front richly embroidered in floral sprays. Neck and armholes finished with scalloped button hole edge and eyelets run with pink or blue ribbon. Priced at $1.19 each. Values $1.75 to $2.00. Third floor Hjeventh st.
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Hjeventh St
Friday Bargain in Valenciennes Laces
We have secured another lot of Daint French and German Valenciennes edges and insertions matching the earlier advertisement. Widths range from 1 to 7 inches, suitable for trimming summer dresses, children's frocks, and undergarments. 60c per dozen yards. Values from $1.00 to $1.75. Malin floor six.
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Valenciennes
Social and Personal President Invited to New York Society
New York Society guests include diplomat Mr. OBrien the Japanese minister to Japan, with President Roosevelt among about 20 invitees. Ethel and Theodore Roosevelt Jr attend Manchester events, and many Washington figures plan summer travels, weddings, and social gatherings at Newport, Bar Harbor, and the Thousand Islands.
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New York Society
Beto
Orient
Ethel
Theodore Roosevelt
Manchester
Decker
James
Lindsay Garden
Georgetown
Thomas J. O'Brien
Japan
Japanese Society of New York
Hotel Astor
New York
President Roosevelt
O’brien
Eisa Ethel Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Charles A. Munn
Maza
Friday Bargain in Women's Lisle Hose
Women's Lisle Hose offered in plain black white and tan. Fine quality hose sold at special price 35c per pair or 3 pairs for $1.00. Item located on the main floor of the F street store.
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F St
Friday Bargains in White Goods
White Goods sale list offers 500 yards 45 inch Mercerized Batiste at 30c per yard, valued 50c. Another 200 yards Tan Linen 36 inches wide priced at 4s per yard, value 37 1 4c. Second floor Eleventh Street.
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Se Yard
Eleventh St
Boys' Clothing Dept Clearances Across Youth Suits
Local department store advertises deep reductions on boys wear. Listings include long trousers suits size 19 with 35 inch chest, Worsted knickerbocker sets, all wool knickerbocker suits, various waist sizes, blue serge sailor styles, wash Russian blouse suits, khaki Norfolk jackets and khaki automobile coats with prices slashed from several dollars to a few dollars. Third floor at Tco Ninth Street location.
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Fco
Infants' Department reduced children's wear on third floor
In the Infants' Department on Eleventh Street, items include 7 white embroidery hats with tam o shanter crowns and large ribbon bows reduced from 2.75 to 3. Each. 1 white pique reefer with large collar reduced from 3.00 to 2.00. 2 white pique reefers with scalloped edges and pearl buttons reduced from 8.75 to 2.40. 4 white India linen dresses with square yoke and lace trimmed reduced from 2.60 to 1.00.
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Eleventh St
Corset Office Sale Slashes Prices On Belts And Corsets
On the third floor eleventh at Corset Department new stock is marked down. J. B. Corsets in medium bust to 82 inch ranges priced at 1.79 per pair, previously 2.00. Corset H coutis medium bust and hip with elastics reduced to 1.25 from 1.75. P. D. Corsets coutis medium bust and hips size 56 cut from .96 to .35 per pair.
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J. B
Jong Alp
P. D
Black Dress Goods Reduced Prices on Various Fabrics
Second floor Gist offers discounts on black dress goods including 81-2ds checked batiste 5 yards 47 inch storm serge and 44 inch voile Lupin s with reductions from 4.54 to 3.50 and from 7.88 to 6.00 while English serge and melrose cloth see cuts.
Cotton Dress Goods Sale Prices Across Yard Lengths
Textile sale listing offers 422 to 8 yard lengths of printed organele at 6¢ per yard and various fabrics including Lawns Dimly Gingham Mousseline and Silk priced from 12½¢ to 81½¢ per yard. Second floor-6 at.
Miss Helen Joyner Visits Relatives in Local Area
Miss Helen Joyner of Amberat county Virginia arrives for a four month stay at Nibrah cottage Bendecck Heights to be a guest of relatives. Miss May Horn visits friends in New York. Miss SuJan Horn travels to Atlantic City to join sister Miss Fannie Horn.
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B.C. Decker
Maoriha M. Decker
James Lindsay Gordon
Dumbarton Avenue
James M. Henry
Nibrah Cottage
Bendecck Heights
Catpetin Mornins
Helen Joyner
Amberat County
May Horn
New York
SuJan Horn
Atlantic City
Fannie Horn
Chat of Well Known People Shows Baronne Takahira in Washington Society
Washington welcomes Baroness Kiyo Takahira daughter of the Japanese ambassador bringing a change to society's fashion. She favors Oriental dress while speaking French and German and may visit New York soon for social events as Newport endures a severe storm and scattered strike of lightning on several properties.
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Washington
Kiyo Takahira
Tokyo
New York
Newport
Sarah Bernhardt
Fashion at the Resorts West End Long Branch N J
A district social at Deal Golf Club featured a gingham and calico dress dinner and country dance. Guests included Mrs. Laurence Hutton and notable society figures from New York and Newport, with events, arrivals, and travels noted around Long Branch and nearby resorts.
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West End
Long Branch
N. J
Deal Golf Club
Joseph M. Byrne
Thi
Walt
Golf Club
Laurence Hutton
New York
Harvey Durand
Hiberon Hotel
Harold T. Creighton
Bayshore
Long Island
Paul A. Sorg
Lakewood
N.Y
Buffalo
Alvin L. Strasburger
Cedar Avenue
Europe
A. KK. Streikar
Stephen McFartland
Frederick Gerken
Hollywood
Atelia Schwab
Heler Loewenstein
Blanche Wolf
Maxine Stern
Hilda Dryfoos
Edith Reinheimer
Enen Emanuel
Norma Hahn
Elaine Freeman
Ada Looty
Goldman
Burke Villa
Hollywood Avenue
Beatrice Schwab
Hermann Cottage
Ocean Avenue
Childwold
Adirondacks
Polo Games Draw Small Newport Guests at Narragansett
Unfavorable weather reduced polo attendance at Point Judith, but a few Newport summer colony members visited from the Mirage yacht guest list including Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burden and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Phipps. Luncheon hosts included Paul J. Rainey at the Casino with various extended parties and arrivals at the Pier and Mathewson through August.
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Narragansett Pier
Point Judith
Newport
Paul J. Rainey
Arthur Burden
Howard Phipps
Alexander Brown
Rainey
Robert E. Shrawbridge
Philadelphia
C. Knight
Kenneth Murchison
Kate Moore
James Sprunt
Olivia
Gladys Smith
Jackkson
New York
Randolph
Alexander F. Hobbs
Provdence
F. C. Berry
J. G. Clark
J.H. Wright
Is Automobile Party
Reginald Brooks
Wiliam H. Kiser
Peel
Atlanta
C. S. Crage
M. H. Treadwell
W. C. Coffin
Mary Coffin
Boxcullivan
Pittsburg
Gladstone
Charles L. Cowperthwait
Philadelphi
H. B. Frebon
MacDonald, W. Va
Adele Alden
Middleboro
Mass
The
Atlantic
Double Veil Sparks Newport Social Gossip and Dinners
Newport society debates the double veil trend at Casino sightings with Mrs Philip Lydig and guests. Miss Sands and Miss Scott wear two veils while Misses Sherman drop them. The Lydigs host a dinner dance and several gatherings anchor a lively social day as hot baths, theater rituals, and aristocratic visits color the Newport scene.
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Newport
R. 1
Philip Lydig
Philip M. Lydig
Lydig
T. Shaw
Warner
James 4. Swan
Clambake Club
Reginald C. Vanderblit
Lenox Society at Kirmess Denotes Lenox Social Whirl
Lenox society at the Kirmess charity in Pittsfield featured the Marsovian dance with Carmen Martinez Jessies Bishop Harriet Peck and Marshall R Kermochan among performers. A villa set from Lenox backed a voting contest while numerous Lenox visitors and hosts were listed. Proceeds from a Curtis Hotel sale for Sea Breeze Home totaled 225 dollars. date noted as August 6 with local Lenox report ending abruptly.
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Emily Bacon
Constance Folsom
Kate Cary
David T. Dana
Frederick & Delafield
Daniel P. Griswold
Wiliam Pollock
Charles Astor
Giraud Foster
Bellefontaine
Belle
Elizabeth Shotter
Shadowbrook
Hamilton Fish Kean
Saranac Lake
Lenox
Robert Winthrop
Ethelwyn
Robert W. Paterson
Sag Harbor
Long Island
Henry Monroe
Adelg Kneeland
Bar Harbor
David Lydig
Thistle
Mase
eBe
Hot Waves At Oyster Bay Draw Bathers To Sea
Washington lad diver Matthew Tighe Jr of Washington is featured as a leader among young divers at Oyster Bay Long Island. Bathing and fancy diving draw crowds at Ship Point where a raft and diving board stand in 60 feet of water. Master Tighe is expected to compete in a swimming and diving tournament this summer.
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Oyster Bay
Long Island
Ship Point
Chaimman
Matthew Tighe
Washington
Hart Cottage
Wedding Abroad at Grindatone Neck Bar Harbor Me
Aug 6 Bar Harbor wedding across the bay as Miss Isobel Wetherill wed Samuel Jones Henderson in St Christopher's by the Sea. Immediate friends attended the ceremony followed by a wedding breakfast at the Wetherill villa and a large garden party reception in Mount Desert. Philadelphians Dr and Mrs BH Chapman hosted, with Miss Norris and Mrs Bell assisting. tea poured by Mrs Frederick Pierson and Mrs Huldekoper. music by a 20 piece orchestra and about 200 guests attended the event.
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Bar Harbor
Isobel Wetherill
Samuel Price Wetherill
Philadelphia
Samuel Jones Henderson
Willam H. Wyeth
New York
St. Christoper's-by-the-Sea
PLAN FINE FLOWER SHOW FOR WASHINGTON FLORIST CLUB
The fall chrysanthemum show organized by the Washington Florist Club will be held at the Masonic Temple on Minth and F streets from September 22 to 4. Readied at a meeting hosted by William F. Gude at 2900 New Hampshire avenue, the event is expected to be the city’s most elaborate. George C. Shaffer was elected to replace Secretary McCauley, who resigned and will leave the city for Chicago to take a new post, while McCaunley received a silver roving cup from the club.
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Newport
Alfred Vanderbilt
James Barker
Middletown
Pendleton
Nat- Yagansett Avenue
Mile
Anne Fallierés
French Republic
J. J. E. Lanes
Church of the Madelaine
Paris
Gallots
Rome
Fallieres
Galiois
Madam
Mademoiselle
Lake Shore Drive
Pen
Chicago
Harold McCormick
John Alden Carpenter
Hazel Martyn Trudeau
Honore Palmer
Assembly Hall
Washington Florist Club
Masonic Temple
Minth
F Streets
William F. Gude
New Hampshire Avenue
George C. Shaffer
McCauley
McCaunley
Army Navy to welcome world champions rifle team in New York
Washington officers from Army Navy and Marine detachments depart today to greet the American rifle team that won the world's championship at Olympia. A New York welcome party from Governors Island joins the delegation. President Roosevelt may attend the arrival aboard the Sylph as the steamship New York reaches the harbor.
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Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Washington
New York
William P. Hall
Adjutant General's Department
R. EK. Evans
United States Army
H. P. Haines
United States Marine Corps
Wiliam
Bimma
Governors Island
G. 8 Anderson
H. C
Helstand
O. B. Mitcham
Ordnance Department
Roosevelt
Camp Pleasant fund drives push to $360 goal
The auxiliary committee of the summer outings committee of Associated Charities met at 811 G street NW. Mrs Marla Hays on reported $16 raised at Kenilworth for Camp Pleasant. Elizabeth Brown and Lacey announced church collections totaling $313.36, turned over to treasurer Andrew Parker as the drive aims to reach $360 for proper camp equipment.
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Associated Charities
G Street
Marla Hayson
Camp Pleasant
Kenilworth
Elizabeth Brown
Emon Baptist Church
Friendship Baptist Church
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Ebenezer M. E
Elizabeth Lacey
Union Wesley Church
Crouse
St. Paul's A. M
Andrew Parker
Sale of Old Warships At New York And Philadelphia
The Navy Department approved sales of the wooden sailing St. Mary at the New York Navy Yard and the Shearwater at Philadelphia. Butler & Co. of Boston bid 35 052 for St Marys, while Samuel B. Wilson of Philadelphia bid 1 536 for the Shearwater. St Marys, built 1844, 1025 tons, served as a New York nautical schoolship. Shearwater, built 1887, steel schooner, trained naval militia in Philadelphia until degraded.
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Navy Department
St. Mary
New York Navy Yard
Sheawater
Navy Yard
Philadelphia
St Mary's
Butler & Co
Boston
Shearwater
Samuel B. Wilson
St. Mary's
Washington Navy Yard
State of
New York
Atlantic Works
Naval Militia of
Pope Receives Americans After Audience at Rome
Rome August 6 Pope grants audience to two American pilgrims including 21 priests from New York and Newark dioceses led by Rt Rev James H McGean and J J McGrane Archbishop Farley presents 1600 dollar offering from the party and receives blessing The article lists numerous physicians licensed to practice in the District by the board of medical supervisors and several names including Robert S MacKnight Harry M Tayloe Philip R Terry and others.
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Rome
New York
Newark
Mer
James H. McGean
J. J. McGrane
Farley
Hig
Cardinal Erry Wel Val
Pape
Board of Medial Supervisors
Robert S. MacKnight
Harry M. Tayloe
Philip R. Terry
Herbert J. Bryson
George M. Gehringer
Eesest W. Smith
William H. Wilson
Marry A
John R. Tittietera
John M Pearteon
Janvier Www. Lindau
John Allen
Maurice Brweil
Lucien Smith
T. A. Williams
Edward D Easton Resumes Desk For Graphophone Firms
Edward D. Easton, president of the American Graphophone and Columbia Phonograph Companies, returns to executive roles after a European recuperative trip following injuries from a New Jersey rail incident. Woodmen ranks grow as Qak Camp No. 4, Woodmen of the World, Northeast Temple plat hosts several candidates with D. W. ree cnt ep and Harry Hand among speakers.
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Edward D. Easton
aAmerican Graphophone Company
Columbia Phonograph Company
New Jersey
Qak
Woodmen of the World
Tem- Pld
D. W.isree
Cntep
Harry Hand
Assessor Richards Accepts Gift With Written Thanks
District Assessor William P. Richards avoided a speech when presented with a gold watch chain and charm. The gift, from former surveyors, honored past colleagues as Richards noted in a written message expressing deep appreciation and memories of working together.
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Richards
William P. Richards
Mr. Richard
Richard
Hhe
Melvin C. Hazen
Mr. Richards
Public Grows More Careful in Mail Dispatch
July reports from the dead letter division show slight improvement in care of mail. In July 1908 the office received 1,084,225 pieces, with 932,983 delivered. 381,050 returned to senders and 4,624.05 sent for disposition, of which 3,786.14 was restored to senders.
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Stoneleigh Court
Hanover
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Olga Converse
Hather Denny
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Frank Denny
Alles Vanderegrift
W. P. Bennett
Atageachapette
J. H. Huerbrock
Henry
Haddam
Conn
Narrasanset Pier
Miss Prescott
Sherbourne Prescott
William C Morrow
J. 3
Catherine Holrook
Frankie Taunt
Culpeper, Va
J. F. Moran
Furope
Stvoie
Maurice B. Kistler
Daughters of the American Revolution
Grand Army of the Republic, Columbia
Esther Rebakah Lodges
Pennsylvania Society
Eastern Esceraterert Church
Kistler
Oleson
Ottinger
Grist
Misa Maud
T Wayland Vaughn
Stockbridge
Charles A Crompton
James Stuart
Marjorie
Jean Stuart
Maple Glen
Silcott Springs
Sweet Chalybeate Springs
Schley
Laird
Wheatty
James C. Merrell
I. W. Kate
James C. Merril
B.C Smyth
Hage
LW. Kate
Kate
M. D. Calvert
Pattie] Norris
Rehoboth Beach
George F. Schayer
Lamont Street
Tuckahoe
M. G. Pressler
J. Pressler
Ralph L. Hatl
Ruth and
Marguerite
Anston C. Dieterich
Boys’ Clothing Dept
Union Trust Co
Beh and Beats
Edward J. Stellwagan
Edson B. Old
Geo. BE. Fleming
Prince of Wales
House of Haenover
Newport Casins
Monmouth County Hounds
P. F. Colter
Sandy Point
Vanderbilt Place
Vanderbilt
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Robert Goelet
William G. Roelker
Kay Street
M. C. van Ingram
Vialt 'Col
Charles L. F. Robinson
Schuyler Crosby
Lioyad Phoenix
Marquise d’Andigne
France
Hamilton Fish Webster
Joseph F. Stone
Countess Bergldingen
Wingloe
Stone
Ernest Iselin
Muenchinger King Cottage
Double Veil
Marquis
Marquise Andingus
Parla
Hamilton Webster
Medeline Goddard
Providence
Oliver Iselin
Lenox Society
Kirmess
Matthew Tighe, Jr
Miss Wetherill
Mr. Henderson
Argo Red Salmon
Alaska Packers Association
San Francisco
California
Wome Suits
Uni
Ron the
Voile
Panama
Rep and Linen
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St. Mary’s
Pope
Catholic Church
Eddy
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Dulin & Martin CO
Philips
Eleventh Street
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