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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1910
Page
7
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A detailed newspaper notice of an August sale of wash fabrics in the Cotton Dress Goods Section on the Second Floor G street. Lot by lot pricing includes Printed Cotton Voile at 12 1/4c, Alfalfa Suiting at 15c, Batiste Lawn at 10c, Dotted Swiss and Imported Irish Linen Lawn with varying specials, Imported Chambray and Mercetuzed Foulard at 12 1/4c, and Imported Madras and Gingham at half price with regular prices listed.
New Dimity Spread in Corded Dimity style is very light weight and easy to launder. Shown in full bed size with special price at $1.65 each. Also 11-4 Crochet Bedspreads in Marseilles patterns offered at $1.35 each. Second floor seventh st. W. has just received and placed on sale.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe various beverage bottles including Rose's Lime Juice and White Grape Juice, with mentions of locations such as Fifth floor and Tenth st. The text lists brands and bottle notes in a jumbled layout, lacking clear event or context.
Panama minister Mr Arosemana departs Washington for New York Maine Camden visit. travels to Mexico for festival role. Social figures Mr William Cromwell hosts, Mr and Mrs Nesle at Camden camp. others, including Mrs Seaton Perry and Mr Duff, vacation at Lake Mohonk and White Mountains. Engagement announced in Warrenton between Miss Belle Stone and Mr George S Witmer. several officials and families noted at summer homes and travel.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Davia host their daughter and grandson visiting from Waterview arsenal as Capt. Wes son transfers to Boston. Admiral Swift and family at Richfield Springs. Col. Denny heads to California with family. Mrs. Hooker speaks on suffrage and smoking, arguing women should vote for better homes and health. Numerous others, including Judge Ralston and arrivals at the Homestead, populate a busy social itinerary with travel, weddings, and society events.
Marion Oliver daughter of the acting Secretary of War plans a long equestrian trek starting at Fort Wingate New Mexico through Mojave and Navajo reservations to surpass a 212 mile record. The party includes Mrs Wadsworth Miss Smirnoff and Capt Frank McCoy with a Moqui snake dance to cap the journey. Also noted are Cynthia Charteris and Herbert Asquith wedding gowns a 89 year old summer girl at Old Orchard Beach and Mme Delarue Mardrus as a hunter author and poet. New aviation fad a baby monoplane for women draws Yves de Villiers to showcase in San Francisco and California. A Just Government League leader condemns women smoking as subjugation to men.
Aug 8 social page lists guests and stays: Mrs Henry W Maunroe with Miss Louise Munroe and Joan and Henry Munroe at Miss Adele Kneeland in Lenox. various New York names at Maplewood Pittsfield Wendell Pittsfield and Hotel Aspinwall. Helen Butler visiting Narra Bansett Pier for nephew John M Swann’s polo injury. multiple families motor trips to North Shore and Nantucket. plans for Honolulu trip. visitors at Shadow Brook and Curtis Hotel with related engagements.
Bar Harbor Me August scene shows Frederick A Pearson of New York arriving to spend the season at the Ledge with his mother. Pennington Pearson expected for tennis tournaments to defend last summer's title. Several New York visitors, including Mr. and Mrs. William Lawrence Green, Mrs. W Plunket Stewart and daughter, and Alexander S Webb, are listed as guests at local cottages and lodgings, with social dinners noted.
A mountain buckboard party from Hot Springs includes Mrs Auden ted and Admiral W G Buehler among others. Guests dined at Daniel Woons cabin with J H Caperton. Teas and luncheons followed at Brightview Inglescote Fassifern Farm and Edmonstone Lodge as society members hosted visitors and summer guests.
Narragansett Pier Rhode Island August 3 crowds gather at the Casino for luncheons and entertainment. Notable attendees include John Carter Brown-Woods from Providence and Charles L A Helzer of Providence along with Mrs. Harold Strebelgh of New York. Others travel from Newport East Greenwich Philadelphia and Cincinnati for meals and a private musicale. Movi es and marionettes entertain after numerous dinners at local venues.
Newport Rhode Island August 8 tableaux vivants will feature Marie Antoinette Queen of Sheba Charlotte Corday Beatrice d Este and Lady Hamilton among others performed by Newport’s leading women at the Newport Casino August 23 Mrs French Vanderbilt will portray Marie Antoinette Mrs Robert Goelet the Queen of Sheba and Mrs Castleman will pose as Corday. About twenty more participants await casting with Miss Jean Wallach expected as Nell O Brien
Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt and Mrs Rose Grosvenor entertain while Prince Troubetskoy oversees posing with Henry Clews Jr. Countess Swirsky to perform four dances. The Casino registers numerous guests from Boston to New York, including Eleanora Sears, William Sands, Eliot Gregory, and Brenton Buckwalter, with many others at Rockhurst and various clubs.
Miss Teresa Fabrizio married Dominico Radice of 5 H Street Northwest in a ceremony at the Church of the Holy Comforter officiated by Rev. Father Wheler. The bride wore white messaline with chiffon and pearls, given in marriage by her uncle Frank Fabrizio of Philadelphia. A reception followed at the Carroll Institute with Nora Hill and Elsie Pucel as maids of honor, Michael Fabrizio as best man, and ushers Antonio Pietropinto and S Scalco. The couple will honeymoon in Atlantic City before returning home.
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