Social and Personal News from Washington and Shore
Mugaiman and Miss Lebo meet four years ago while crossing the cement. Miss Juanita Miller arrives at Saratoga after a month at Elberon to spend the summer with relatives. Wedding: Miss Alice Skillman Boswell and Mr Frank Morrison wed at 314 Maryland Ave. Various social notes name Miss Virginia Schatter, Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs. Boswell, and many Washington figures. trips to Bar Harbor, Belgrade Lake, and Newport noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juanita Miller
Joaquin Miller
Elberon
Saratoga
Hattie Leland
Circuit
Bas -Re
Anak Wilt
Maine
Mabel Board
New York
Howard
Reeside
Washington
Bar Harbor
Belgrade Lake
Mabel Boardman
Uncles
W. Murray Crane
Windsor
Mass
William H. Hovery
Willam H. Emery, Jr
Connecticut Avenue
Ney
Burnaby
Bretton Woods
York Harbor
Shon
Nelson Page
Fraulein Walters
Nori Shore
William J. Boardman
School Street
Manchester
S. Parkman Blake
Jersey Teane
West Manchester
TL. Vitz
James McMillan
Robert Treat Paine,jr
Prides Crossing
Ainstia Poe
Baltimore
Charles Poe
Ki Street
Social Gossip on Fashion Realm and Newport Yachting
A lively column surveys fashion minded society from Newport and Boston. It notes a sparse Newport yacht race won by Avenger, then shifts to small shops, royal life of Queen Alexandra, and the Boston coterie of horse lovers, titled brides, and engagements including Miss Carrie Redmond and Mr Arturo Ovena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
New York Yacht Club
Avenger
R. W. Summons
North Star
Electra
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Wibridge T. Gerry
Busy Day at Bar Harbor With Social Events
Bar Harbor Me reports a busy day featuring a women’s tennis tournament at the swimming club a putting contest won by Louis A Riley and Miss M Riley of New York a dinner dance at Keno Valley Club hosted by Mrs William Perkins Draper for her daughter Violet Cushman and a large guest list with notable attendees including Danish minister Baron Haymerle and Austro Hungarian embassy figures a tea at Silver Birches hosted by Mrs Philip Livingston a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and loans of Impressionist paintings from Richard Olney to the local art museum
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Harbor
Ang
Kebo
Louis A. Riley
M. Riley
New York
Endicott
L. F. Brigham
William Perkins Draper
Hebe Wright
Charlotte Delafeld
Daria Blasell
Harvey Inglis
Constantin Brun
Howard S. Hosmer
Robert ‘Minis
Miss Jameson
Washington
Boston Symphony Orchestra
August Clearance Upholstery Department Sale
Special clearance sale on all summer goods and fabrics including lace curtains cretonnes and window coverings. Included are metal framed win doors screens and drapery values from 10 to 13.50 per pair, with various lengths and patterns offered at reduced prices.
Odd Portieres and Rich Ad Designs Featured
Odd portieres and rich, effective ad designs highlighted with varied values. Prices shown range from 12 to 25 dollars per pair, with descriptions suggesting high quality and fashionable options for home decor.
Silk Damask and Valued Garments Feature in Local Trade
Partial OCR text mentions silk damask and velvet items with prices and ages. It hints at a listing of fabrics or garments, highlighting a value around S300 and a 2 year term. The readable fragments suggest a trade or sale notice detailing materials and prices without full context.
Imported Cretonnes at Colorings Sale
Fragmentary notice advertising fabrics and coverings with terms like felons and cretonnes. Mentions daily colorings, stripe patterns, price 30 cents and a general sale offer.
Sherwood's Metal-frame Window Screens Notice
Fragmentary OCR text describes Sherwood's metal frame window screens with unclear measurements and odd phrasing. It references ventilation, width, and a numerical value resembling 2422853 inches and a price mention 0c. The readable content is highly garbled and does not form a clear sale or notice item beyond product mention and dummy measurements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonny
Stock Screen Doors and Vamiplete Hardware Sale
Storage text describes a sale of stock screen doors with fixtures and values. Includes sizes 2.0500, 2.8x6.8, 2.8x7, and 2.108610 feet with pricing. Wale priced at $2.50 each.
Porch Shades Offer Breezy Privacy for Porches
Porch shades turn a porch into an extra room by blocking sun while letting in a cooling breeze. Made of thin linden strips woven with strong thread, they are light, durable, and colors won’t fade. Sizes 4x7.8 ft to 10x7.8 ft priced from 2.00 to 5.00.
Moonlight Night Fashions at Narragansett Pier Resort
A perfect moonlit evening drew a crowd to the Matthewson ballroom in Narragansett Pier for national dances and songs. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Duryea led a program including Hungarian Spanish and French dances and a Greek cymbal dance while New York guest Rene La Montague entertained at a Casino luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Narragansett Pier
Piazare
Rene la Montague
New York
Austin Sands
Herbert C. Pell
Newport
William Stockbridge
Boston
C. L. Vaughan
George Mercer
William 2. Porten
Kansas City
George Morgan
Chicago
James MacArea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Water Hill
Mayrea
George, Shrady
Nathaniel C. Campbell
The
Mathewson
FP. A. Robbins
Robbins
Hartford
the Mathewson
J. Church
James
Chureh
Ww. J. Sturgis
Robert F. Maddox
Atlanta
E. F. Darreil
Dorothy Darrel
Stonington
George H. Taylor
John G. Milburn, Jr
al &. Goodyear
Buffalo
N. Y
John Mallory
Pittsburg
Gladstone
Lenox Social Season Ripples Through August Dances
Lenox Mass August social calendar features Mrs Giraud Foster hosting a large luncheon at Bele Fontaine and Mrs Clayton Giles entertaining in the Curtis Hotel. Over 100 attended a Maplewood Hotel dance for early partakers, with guests Carmen Martinez Jessica Bishop Katherine Peck and Harriet Peck among others. Families and travelers including the Dixey and Hoffman groups arrive at Aspinwall and Tanglwood while prominent figures such as Mr George Cabot Lodge expect to return from Europe. Various names from New York Baltimore and Philadelphia surface at breezy corners and local homes as flower exhibits and summer visits continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Mason Hasell
Lewis Gruger’ Hasell
George Borwick
Robert Hudson Borwick
Berkeley
Saquare
West London
Jamplen, Lacy
Berkeley Square
London
Robert Borwick
Hasell
Bionde
Misa Haselt
Venus
Miss
Haselt
Europe
Hxirope
Paris
de Trobriand
Janes
Woodtoak
Greenwich
Conn
New London
Alice Hasell
Italy
Borwick
Oxtura
Katherine
Harriet Peck
Pittffeld
Edmund Randolph
New York
Newport
Aspinwall Yeaterd
Gao" C. Bryant
Ansonia
Thomas de Foul
G. Williams
Baltimore
Q. Gates
Eleanor Gates
Daniel Bacon
W. R. Hotaling
Richard C. Dixey
Rosamond Dixey
Frides Crossing
John L. Thorndike
Nina Gaither
Francis Burrall Hoffman
Drew Hageman
Henry Winthrop Gray
the Willows
George Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Gray
Thomas Biddle
Philadelphia
Emily Biddle
Alice Schenck
Wellesley
Wiliam Pollock
Lenox
John J. Wysong
Holland
Harkness
Aspinwall Hotel
Adele Kneeland
Bar Harbor
Samuel C. Reed
Uteaton Ball
Stobridge
Brhce Clark
Henry Dibblee
Rock Lawn
James Howard Kidd
Wabar
Mass
Willlam Francis Bartlett
Pittsfield
Newport social rounds mix luncheons and golf club plans
Newport on August 11 sees Mrs C Ogden Jones host a second Monday afternoon at home with callers at Mideliffs, while Mrs Elbridge T Gerry hosts luncheon and Mr and Mrs Augustus Ja entertain for Ambassador Thomas J O'Brien. Anna Sands hosts lunch, Mrs Craig Biddle hosts dinner, and Newport Golf Club hints at a Saturday annual meeting with many new member nominees including Henry Barton Jacobs and Reginald Vanderbilt among others. Registered at the Casino were Phillip O Mills Henry Martin and Percy R Pyne with visitors from Philadelphia and Boston noted at Rollins Moose Place and Bellevue Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
C. Ogden Jones
Mideliffs
Elbridge T. Gerry
Augustus Ja
Thomas J. O'Brien
Japan
John PB. Merrett
Richard Gambrill
Gerton I. Winthrop
R.livingston
Beeckman
Egerton L. Winthrop
Elisha Dyer
James Laurens
van, Alen
Clarence W. Dolan
Sedgwick
Jay
Lorillard Spencer
Robert Sedgwick, Jr
Henry R. Sedgwick
Stabley ‘Mortimer
Robert Goelet
Granville Kane
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Peter F. Collier
George Henry
Warren
Phillip
Henry Martin
Percy R. Pyne
Strawbridge
Philadelphia
Mure
Hdward J. Berwind
Bayard Thayer
Boston
Rollins
Moose Place
Bellevue Avenue
Charles Wilson
Washington
Theodore M. Davis
Erocsat Howe
Bateman’s
Currency printing inflates post office night work force
G C Thompson departs as chief clerk of the Republican National Committee saying farewell to post office staff. The Bureau of Engraving prints extra currency, increasing need for examiners and counters. About 150 night printers are employed now, up from under 100 earlier, with many staff and transfers noted. Several employees recover from illnesses and take leave, while others aboard vacations travel to Atlantic City Boston New England and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Thompson
Republican National Committee
Bureau of Engraving
Tol' A
National Guard
Potomac Forte
Margaret O Brien
Baltimore
Elizabeth F de Lay
Boston
Yemain
New England
New York
A. P. Weinerth
Maggie Doody
Dug
Ireland
Doody
Alma Rosen
Canada
M. T. Creelman
Bureau
Brooklyn
George G Thomson
Chicago
Thomson
London
Ontario
G. ¥. Shaw
John M. Longan
Postmaster General's Office
Mias
Lillian A. Norton
Diviion of Finance
F. BE
McMillan
New Hampshire
Government staff take leaves and vacations across departments
Department of Agriculture officials and others from the bureau of plant industry and related offices are listed for extended leaves and vacations. Names include Willet Hays, William Marcy, Joseph Healey, Harry Armstrong, Frank Hiatt, Helen Burr, Jessie Springer, David Moise, J. Meloy, Miss McCutcheon, Dr. Mohler, Mary Baxter, W. P. Cox, R. S. Albee, P. Gouchenour, Q. F. Jones, Dr. Zell, W. M. Long, Dr. A. K. Fisher, Anna Pierce, Miss Draper, John Wright, J. E. Pennybacker, and others. Some journeys span Atlantic City, Virginia, Maine, Pennsylvania, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, and England, with several awaiting returns or new postings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William DL. Marcy
Bureau of Plant Industry
Mr. Marcy
Italy
France
Germany
Switzerland
England
Joseph Healey
Fire Room
Rockaway Beach
Long Island
Harry Armstrong
Frank H. Hiatt
Atlantic City
Mus. M
Helen Burr
Bluemont
J. Meloy
Bureau of Animal Industry
Staten Island
Margaret MrCutcheon
Washington
Pennsylvania
Mohler
Hismarck
S. Oak
Mary A. Baxter
W. P. Cox
Albee
Bureau of Plant Industey
P. Gouchenour
Colonial Beach
Q. F. Jones
Vienna
Dr. Zell
Bureau of Plant Idustry
Anna L. Pierce
Office of Public Roads
Portland
Anne E. Draper
Auburn
John C. Wright
Maine
J. E. Pennybacker
Census Bureau Promotions And Leave Notices
The census bureau reports salary raises from 420 to 040 a year for Gunwald Gondergon and announces second mate promotions in the Lighthouse service with salaries rising to 720. Joseph Niporginski gains 600 to 860, Orland Lyn 440 to 480, and Sanford Scott 445 to 480. Several officials receive leave of absence through late August and September, including J G Agnew and Roy Vt. Carty, with multiple trips to England, Chicago, and Pennsylvania. W A Gwyer plans three weeks at Atlantic City, and E A Chaffist receives no leave while at the Lighthouse Board, with Rackaway Reach noted for a ten-day stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunwald Gondergon
Mgehthouse
Kxeeners
Joseph Niporginski
Orland Lyn
Sanforg Scott
H.C. Dickinson
Bureau of Standards
New England
Roy VT. Carty
1Reau of Standards
D.E. Thomas
Bureau of Standson
England
Wales
Chaves F. Spensler
Ihe Bureau of Standards
Spensler
Pennsylvania
W. A. Gwyer
Washington
Atantic City
E. A. Chaffist
Lighthouse Board
Chaffist
Rackaway Reach
Williamson seeks annulment over alleged wife ad misrepresentation
Codn L. Williamson a bookkeeper of 6 FE street NW petitions for an annulment of his marriage to Manel Williams on grounds the wife did not match her matrimonial ad. He says he answered the March 1905 ad, their correspondence, and married on November 6, 1905, in this city, and asks the union be declared void due to misrepresentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manel Williamson
Codn L. Williamson
FE Street
Williamson
Body to be brought here for funeral of conductor Collings
The body of Joseph F. Collins, the Birmingham conductor slain in Brocton Alabama, will be brought here this evening. Religious services are planned at 7 o clock Thursday at his sister Mrs Clara J L Tallafarra’s residence on Fairmont Street. Burial will follow in Frederick Maryland. Mrs Collings, his mother, two brothers Frank and Albert Collins, and a seven member Birmingham civic committee will accompany the body to the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph FV. Collins
Brocton
Ala
Clara J. L. Tallaferra
Fairmont Street
Frederick
Collings
Frank
Albert Collins
Birmingham
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Ernestinse McNett
Virginia
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R. Wilson, Jr
W. Watts Sherman
Newport Cottage Colony
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Arturo Ovena
Miss Redmond
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Bakersfield
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Easton's Point
Carl Flash
Stockholm
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Topsfield
Tom Peirce
Marthe Codman
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West Islip
Amor Hollingsworth
Tennie and Racquet Club
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Hollingsworth
Zachary Taylor Hollingsworth
Newbury Street
Miss Parsons
Harbourview
Richard Olney
Falmouth
Art Museum
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Woodward
Lothrop
Antoinette
Jwaleitn
Vovues
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Marie Autoiertie
Odd Portieres
Erin Amd Pa Barry
Sherwood
Banking Dept. of Union, Trust Co
Ith and Hate
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Edward J. Stellwagen
Geo
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Edson B. Olds
Lenox Dance
Mrs. Giraud Foster
Mrs. Jay Entertain
Gertie Thompson
Sibley Hospital
Katherine B. Tracy
Helen Turner
Treasury Department
Mis
Bessie Holtidge
California
Fannie C. Elgin
Dlonvise Foley
Examni
Pacife
J. W. Hunt
Mary G. Emery
Addie E. Somers
R. W. Stewart
Leelie Lyles
HK. W. Ross
J. Morgan Scranage
George B. Clark
Carroll Reeves
Fort Washington
Government Printing Office
Mary E. Connolly
Manntype Division
Albert Potter
Franker
Bureau of Forestry
H.C. Towers
J. Towers
A. G. Varela
Bureau Photographie
George A. Bentley
Merk
Rochester
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Chesapeake Beach
Rufus K. Helphenstine
Miss Daniels
New York City
Mary BE. Foote
Sfichigam
Ocean View
Kssa
Jessie W. Springer
Division of Accounts
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David O. Moise
Solicitor’s Office
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W. M. Long
A. KE. Fisher
Bdiological Survey
Congress
William Tinnall
Hobart H. Ramsdell
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Sewer Division
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J. CG. Langan
Water Department
Sobrt A. Jarboe
Commerce and Labor
George McDonald
Ughthouse Service
Milton R. Vollmer
Bureau of
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Bureau of Manufactures
Lawrence BD. Halslip
ACME
Sumer
Bilips
Census Bureau
J. G. Agnew
Edwin G. Sperling
Cuicagu
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