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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1904
Page
17
Clearance sale offers thin wash fabrics for midsummer wear from stock. Bright crisp materials at reduced prices including Lot y Batiste Lawns with white and champagne grounds, dots and figures, and lovers knot designs in red brown and light blue.
Regular price 24c per yard. Very fine quality cloth with dainty dots and neat figures on white ground. Printings mainly black with neat effects appealing to quiet tastes. Ideal texture for short waist suits. Width 36 inches.
An advertisement describes 124c a yard fabric with white grounds and mercerized stripes half an inch wide. It touts 3-Fancy Printed Lawns with sheer, dainty figures, dots, and fine printings, launderable due to mercerized yarn, 2g inches wide.
An extremely fine sheer fabric offered in woven blue pink green champagne and gray stripes. The advertisement showcases 10c a yard pricing against regular 18c, highlighting the delicate Hamiton Lace Madras texture.
Yardage of 12ica fabrics at regular price 374c and 8ca yard 25c plus remaining summer wool dress goods in lots including German fancy mixtures Champagne cadet blue light gray with blue green or red dashes and lace voile lace etamine tancy panama suiting in tan black with white dots ideal for suits skirts now and fall.
Seventeen dozen plus eight more dozen women's imported Swiss ribbed lisle thread vests with hand crocheted fronts offered. Priced at 37 and a half cents each with value listed as 50 cents. Located on the main floor on F Street.
Two MIT classes five and ten years out publish volumes with hundreds of biographies. They detail graduates’ careers from engineering and science to law medicine and business, showing steady income growth, public works impact, and international travels, with adventurous or civic roles amid global postings.
Mrs J E Crutchet with Miss Mabel Donn heads to Atlantic City for weeks. John D Long and son Pierce visit the ex secretary’s Maine home. Benjamin Yost vacations at Asbury Park staying at the Victoria. Ramsay and wife at Bennington Center Vermont. Others include Atlantic City stays by Brooks family and Alice Baur, plus hospital leave for Col J T Kirkman. Many Washington figures spend summers at Cape May, Round Hill, and Rehoboth Beach.
Fashion notes describe three sleeve styles for coats and remodels the full sleeve with flaring cuff the regulation roll over cuff and the club sleeve cut in three sections with hidden seam. Material quantities for medium size listed and May Mapton pattern No 4789 offered by mail for 10 cents.
Report of the New Willard nuptials for Robert H Patchin and his bride with intimate guests including Mrs C H Patchin Des Moines Ira Patchin Ira H Bennett Robert B Armstrong Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Harold Mahin at the Saturday ceremony with Washington guests listed at St Louis hotels and a humorous note on anti vivisection society by Lord Liangattock from the Chicago Chronicle and a joking exchange about why men marry plus Gertrude Atherton farewell to wife
At headquarters a pet mouse dies after a cat intrudes while detectives recall the rodent’s friendly visits. Detective Hartigan chased the cat through the alley but it quickly vanished. Earlier, a monkey and owner from the First precinct caused a separate rooftop chase ending with the monkey surrendering to Officer McTaggart, then amusingly misbehaving on a trolley ride.
Halter Post criticizes Senator Charles W Fairbanks for allegedly ignoring the right to petition Congress. He recounts attempts to advance a memorial measure funded by deceased soldiers estates to honor colored servicemen. The piece notes endorsements from many colored Americans and previous presidents, and mentions failed amendments tied to army legislation.
A lengthy critique argues Archbishop Messmer’s anti socialism stance clashes with Christian teaching. The piece contends socialism serves labor needs and questions archbishop authority on private property and marriage. It calls for unity among socialist factions to challenge plutocracy in November.
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