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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1905
Page
7
Woodward and During announce store hours closing at 5 on weekdays and 1 on Saturdays. A large consignment of new Black Taffeta Silk Skirts in multiple plaited, food quality silk with white embroidery and smart full cut. Two color options white or tan and French blue. Waist lines neatly tucked. Priced at 15.00 each, value 25.00.
A center counter displays a remaining selection of this season's best Girls' White Dresses. Styles include sheer lawns and dotted Swiss with fine lace and embroidery trims. Sizes 6 to 13 offered at a special price of 3.75, down from 6.00 to 7.50. Third floor.
Light weight Batiste Corsets offered in a full range of sizes. Featured makes include J. B. Corsets and Nemo Self-reducing models suitable for slender figures. Prices start at $1.00 with several styles priced around $5.50 to $27.00. Located on Eleventh Street.
Wonmien's Summer Shoes offers reduced prices on oxford styles including Kid, Box Calf, Patent Calf and white canvas options plus Kid Slippers. Special clearance pricing applies on all in stock pairs. Also advertised is a lawn swing for four at $4.35 with a value of $5.00 on the fourth floor eleventh street.
The wedding of Miss Katie Wilko j and Mr. Thomas Vans Greens in Atlantic City surprised many. Miss Greene, promoted music worldwide, and Mr. Greene, an operatic tenor, may resume local work after their honeymoon. Other prominent society news includes Lodge and family returning from Europe, Miss May Franklin’s engagement to Lieut Roy Bartlett, and several touring and visiting figures at Newport and other social hubs.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Pastor Taylor and Mrs Taylor, a Christian Church gathering, and plans to give or receive something. Lacks clear names, dates, or outcomes, leaving the event largely undefined and vague.
Roland of Altenburg awakes amid a surreal daydream and, after a chase for a young woman believed to be Miss Lockwood, navigates a tense meeting with Mr. Lockwood at the Empire Building. He asserts his right to pursue Miss Barrington while Lockwood warns against pressing the matter. The scene ends with a wary standoff as August approaches.
Remains of Roy Stand, Civil War and Spanish American War veteran, arrive from Morristown New Jersey by Pennsylvania Railroad. Funeral will be at Arlington Cemetery with military honors, attended by local patriotic societies and a delegation from Mrs Stone.
The long time Christ Church pastor Rev. Charles D. Andrews D D died yesterday afternoon in St Paul Minnesota at age fifty nine. He had left Washington in 1838 to serve in Christ Church and afterward became rector of Christchurch street southeast. Remains may return for interment in the city. He leaves one brother and ten sisters in Baltimore and a brother in Beaten Church. He was unmarried.
Capt Horace M Reeve, military attache to the U S Embassy in Mexico, died of typhoid fever Tuesday night at his father Col Felix Reeve's residence at 68 Ninth Street NW. Reeve had served two years as military attache and was visiting his father from Washington after a trip to Mexico City.
Capt. Reeve, 36, born in Tennessee, died after a period of illness. He graduated from West Point in June 16, 16, and was appointed second lieutenant in the Third Infantry the same year. He served on Genates staff in Cuba during the Spanish American War and later in the Philippines. He was promoted to captain on February 9, 1901 and assigned to the general staff in July, 1903. His brother Ernest M. Reeve is a first lieutenant in the Fifteenth Infantry, stationed in San Francisco.
Fragmented text references color taffeta including antire and paper on receipt. mentions a department and a caston of thaws. lists 4974 and ww cents per item with unclear context. No coherent event or names clearly identifiable.
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