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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1910
Page
25
Remnant Day marks drastic price cuts on Hart Schaffner and Marx suits and trousers in two lots plus numerous men’s and boys’ items. Includes overcoats, shirts, socks, underwear, robes, swimming wear, hats, and linen dress fabrics with discounts from 3.95 to 17.50 per item and yardage as low as 15 cents.
An old newspaper item advertises a Friday special on women’s lisle hose. It highlights 15 women’s pairs in black gauze lisle with double heels soles toes garter tops in sizes 8 to 10 at 25 cents a pair, plus remnant listings and reduction notes for other hose styles.
Reduced prices on 'idredge Automatic' sewing machine and 'W & LL' model with slight woodwork marks. Other items include a hand machine with case and a second floor G street display. Prices cut from 60 to 30 dollars and from 35 to 5.50 dollars respectively.
Silk Grenadine Lupin's Chiffon Broadcloth Wool Taffeta Tussah Royal Chiffon Broadcloth Voile Mohair Sicilian all discounted. Items listed with reductions from old to new per piece. Includes 14 inch and 43 inch widths and various yardage quantities.
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh will travel from Dublin New Hampshire to Beverly to confer with the President and spend a few days at the summer White House. Also traveling are Secretary of State Knox and Mrs Knox with son and daughter in law and their party. Other notes include diplomats moving posts and social exchanges among Washington and Beverly attendees.
Bar Harbor Me August 11 social notes report a large reception at Baymeath Hulls Cove hosted by Mr and Mrs J T Bowen with hundreds in attendance. Various guests and visitors include Miss Gallatin of New York luncheon at Swimming Pool Club and several notable travelers and dignitaries in Bar Harbor including the Netherlands Minister Mme Loudon at Louisburg Cottage and many U S officials and diplomats touring Europe and returning to Washington and Bar Harbor for the season.
A new dance march the Marseillaise is created by M. Lefort and taught across Paris to link the nation’s Bastille Day celebrations with a street dancing tradition. The six step march and evolving figures, with partner handoffs and swings, are to be taught to schoolchildren next year, ensuring the younger generation can pass the style to elders.
In a second floor Eleventh Street display a linen department sale offers handmade Cluny lace doilies centerpieces and covers at one third off. Doilies priced from two to six dollars per dozen and bath towels sold by the half dozen with varied prices. Also offered are reinforced double cotton sheets and linen finish muslin pillow cases at special prices.
Small lot of fine fluffy wool blankets with slight imperfections offered in several sizes and prices. Available on the second floor seventh street, prices range from 2.50 to 5.25 per pair with values listed up to 7.00 for larger sizes.
Advertisement lists 2 pin striped tan skirts with 23 and 26 inch waists and 38 and 42 inch lengths reduced from 9.50 to each. Cloth of Gold skirts in full plaited style with overskirt effect 24 and 26 inch waists and 40 and 42 inch lengths reduced from 20 to 33.7a each. One black and white shepherd check skirt with overskirt effect and 24 inch waist, reduce from 12.60 to 5. White Serge skirt plain 9 gores trimmed with folds and buttons 44 inch waist 40 inch length reduced from 11.75 to 5. Third floor.
We are sole DC agents for Eddy Refrigerators with all sizes available. Prices start at 7.50. Also offered are the Tettenborn Porcelain-Lined Refrigerators.
Lenox August social notes list Cornelia Barnes leading a reading room program for Breton French residents. gatherings at hotels and villas include Mrs. Bradford funding an operating room at Killcrest Hospital, and numerous arrivals from New York, Boston, and Englewood with plans for a coaching parade and various luncheons.
Narragansett Pier hosts a polo event at Point Judith Country Club with senior championships. Guests include Harry Payne Whitney aboard Atlantic with Austen Gray party and Charles Co. Rumsey aboard Sultana. Luncheons at the Casino feature notable arrivals from Newport and New York as lawn tennis tourney kicks off August 24.
Va J H Stoddard and a string of notable guests from Brooklyn Bronxville New York and Philadelphia gather for a casino event. John R Drexel hosts a dinner featuring Charles Carey Stum sey A J Antelo Devereux H W Harrison G G Amory and other notables.
Newport Rhode Island August reports a unsettled tone among tableaux participants as managers adjust cast to fit each woman’s best character. Beatrice d'Este and Charlotte Corday roles swapped to Launcelot shield and Queen Isabella of Portugal amid quick changes. Also noting recoveries and social events at Casino and local residences with guests from Hoboken to France and notable appearances at Bateman’s and Dudley Place.
Funeral services for Thomas F. Cleaves, veteran clerk of the Senate committee on appropriations, who died at his home last Wednesday, were held privately yesterday at the residence. The body will be taken to Bridgeton, Missouri, today, accompanied by two of his sons.
Isaac Gans, now in Atlantic City, chairs the press committee for the Washington Saengerbund to entertain the Academische Gesangverein of the University of Vienna. He joins the reception committee as visitors attend a New Willard banquet with about 100 covers for an informal festival.
Three story brick and stone residence on north west Fourteenth Street bought for investment by a client of Jr V and T Huyek real estate brokers. Property will be remodeled to create a large first floor store with apartments above and held as an investment. Also note Ernest M Davia appointed deputy collector of customs at Houlton Maine.
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