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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1904
Page
8
Midsummer wash fabrics offered in a clearance sale. Desirable bright crisp materials from current stocks. Lot Y-Batiste Lawns described as fine sheer white and champagne grounds with dots figures and lovers knot designs in red brown and light blue.
Lot 2 Tatiste Lawns offered in a very fine quality cloth with many dots and neat figures on white ground. Printings mostly black in neat effects likely appealing to quiet tastes. Material suitable for short waist suits, width 36 inches, regular price 24c per yard.
A vintage classified style ad touts mercerized yardage at 17 cents per yard. It highlights 3 fancy printed lawns on white grounds with half inch wide stripes and decorative figures, dots and prints, noting the material launders well due to mercerized yarn.
A fragment describing 10c a yard fabric sale with regular price 18c and a lot of Hamiton Lace Madras described as extremely fine and sheer with woven color stripes of blue pink green champagne and grays. The text ends mid description of the fabric.
Readable fabric list shows bulk lots with regular prices and sale discounts. Lot 1 German Fancy Mixtures in champagne cadet blue gray with color dashes. Lot 2 Lace Voile in green and light gray. Lot 3 Lace Etamine in navy white and gray. Lot 4 Tancy Panama Suiting in dark tan black with white dot highlights.
Summer Underwear offers 18 dozen women's imported Swiss ribbed lisle thread vests with hand crocheted fronts. Priced at 37 1/2 cents each, value 50 cents. Main floor F street.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates of five and ten years out publish life histories of 600 to 1709 peers. The volumes reveal careers from engineering to diplomacy, law, and business with salaries from 1,500 to over 40,000 yearly. Many aided public works globally, while adventures span Europe, Asia, and colonial service, illustrating the practical impact of technical education.
Mrs J E Crutchet and Miss Donn head to Atlantic City for weeks. Former Secretary John D Long and son Pierce stay at his Maine home. Benjamin Yost travels to Asbury Park and stays at the Victoria. Rear Admiral Ramsay U N and Mrs Ramsay in Bennington Center Vermont. Many Washington residents vacation at Sea Girt New Jersey Ocean City Maryland and Cape May. Col J T Kirkman UT S A returns home after leg amputation. Senator Stephen B Elkins and party travel to Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs.
The fashion note outlines three sleeve styles the full sleeve with flaring cuff, the regulation sleeve with roll-over cuff, and the club sleeve with a three-part cut. It details material requirements by size and announces May Mapton pattern No. 4789 in small, medium, and large bust sizes, available by mail for 10 cents.
Brief notice of Mr and Mrs Robert H Patchin marriage with intimate attendees including Mrs C H Patchin and Ira Patchin. Washington hotel guests listed along with Livingstone family and others. Quirky clipping covers anti vivisection society incident and a literary farewell poem by Gertrude Atherton amid miscellaneous items.
Sergeant Burns mourns as a cat and a stray mouse clash at headquarters in a comic death. Det Hartigan pursues the cat through Seventh Street crowds while a monkey escapade unfolds with a Marine Corps owner and McTaggart guiding the chase to a station. The monkey ends up at the barracks after a playful trolley ride and a sip of drink.
Halter Post criticizes Senator Charles W Fairbanks for ignoring citizens right to petition Congress. The piece recounts a failed effort in prior congresses to fund a memorial national home for deceased colored soldiers from estates, noting support from Grover Cleveland and McKinley and involvement by Hoar in the Fifty-eighth Congress. The author stresses the need for good men beyond warry.
In a heated exchange, a writer attacks Archbishop Messmer for opposing socialism, arguing the church fights modern progress and that true socialism serves workers. He defends social reforms as necessary for labor and national prosperity while condemning clerical interference in private life and property.
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