Woodward and Lothrop Linen Sale Ends Early Saturday
During a heated term the store will close at 5 o clock on Saturdays. A broad linen sale features bleached and unbleached damask and linen sheeting, napkins, towels, dollies, and lace, with prices from 12 1 2 cents to $1.75 per dozen for napkins and up to $1.50 a dozen for towels. Second floor Eleventh Street offers a substantial, practical selection for summer use.
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Jardinieres
Jardiniere
Remnai
Milan
Madras
Women’s Umbrellas at Half Price for Seashore Use
We secured a small lot of 25 inch colored sun umbrellas. Choices include onion and twisted silk styles with plain or bordered designs and natural wood handles. Colors green blue red. Priced at 1.45 with values up to 2.50. Main floor Gat entrance.
Clearance sale of women's high class footwear
Women’s footwear at clearance prices offers a selection of Russian calfskin Oxfords and Pumps with welt soles in popular summer styles. Most sizes available at 250 per pair, originally 4.00 to 5.00. Also summer Oxfords and Kidskin Blippers at 150 per pair, previously 2.50 to 5.00. Third floor Tenth St.
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Tenth St
Our Special Folding Go-cart on Sale
Our special folding go cart offered with a full steel frame rubber tires perforated seat and back priced at 295 dollars each value 3.50 others up to 30.00 sixth four get.
Fishing Tackle in Sporting Goods Department on Main Floor
Readers attracted by Izaak Walton reference learn the Sporting Goods Department on the Main floor Tenth street stocks a full range of affordable angling gear. Three section bamboo rods, Bristol steel rods, gutty linen lines, nickel plated reels, snooded hooks, pails, leaders, tackle boxes, cork floats, sinkers, scales and landing net frames are offered with prices many under a dollar and a half.
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Izaak Walton
Tenth Street
Bristol
Eaca
Fort Ee
Va Anes
Sdeseasneren Sa Mls
Tenth St
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL WASHINGTONIANS AT RESORTS
Washington society columns note Gen Grant and Gen Chaffee reception on Governors Island with Miss Chaffee in Europe. Mrs Harrison touring Italy and France now in Munich. Rear Admiral Hughes plans Washington return in October. Miss Helen Cannon returns from Europe, Miss Black visits Oak View, and many others travel between Mackinac, Bretton Woods, and Virginia events. Senator Frye and family at Bretton Woods with Miss Briggs and Hobart car plans.-Marriages and engagements include Lula Horigan and Roy Offutt. Karl Kellerman and Gertrude Hast. Mary Bowle Franklin and Leroy Bartnett linked to West Point ceremony. Invitations for other weddings and travels appear throughout the social notices.
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Governors Island
Grant
Gen
Chaffee
Donald €. Mac Leot
Helen Cannon
Europe
Frederick Dent Grant
Gen. Grant
Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Elizabeth
Italy
France
Munich
Indianapolia
Aaron K. Hughes
New Hampshire
Washington
House of Representatives
Berkshires
Helen Black
John C. Black
India Bell Fleming
William P. Frye
Frank H Briggs
Auburn
Bretton Woods
Caroline Briggs
Garret A. Hobart
Senator Frye
Lewis C. Strang
Boston
White Mountains
Fabyans
Mary Bowle Franklin
Leroy Bartnatt
West Point
N. Y
Franklin
Thomas Franklin
San Antonio
Tex
Winfield Scott Schley
Lieut
Bartnett
Capt. Franklin
Washington social notes and travel for late summer
Listings of residents and visitors abroad and at Atlantic City and Cape May with dates and places. Includes Mrs. B. 8. Goodwin visiting relatives in Georgia and Maryland. Edna Lockwood visiting Chestnut Hill. Miss Middledorf and Miss Carlisle en route to Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. Ogram and Mrs. Schneider arriving in Atlantic City. Miss Patrice and Miss Egan at Cape May. Dr. and Mrs. Evans planning a Western trip. Agnes Wink and Robert Fugitt marry in Martinsburg. Fugitt works in the War Department.
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Edna Lockwood
Middledorf
Minz Carlisle
J. Leapley
Washington
Atlantic Birge End
New York
Thomas BP
Ogram
C. B. Schneider
Chalfonte
Atlantic City
Patrice
Carmel Egan
Harper Walsh
Cape May
N. J
Helen Grace. Smith
Porresdale
Albert Evans
California
Marie M. Conley
City
Mery C. Powell
Baltimore
Anchorage
John Feeney
Twentieth Street
Florine B. Rosenthal
Hortense
Joseph Perlman
Parkville
Mis. Nelle 3
Fulton
First Street
Young’s Hotel
H. H. Martin
Alice
Richmond Hotel
Agnes O. Wink
San Francisco
Cal
Robert E. Fugitt
Desertion of Privates at Fort Snelling Reported
At Fort Snelling a wholesale desertion of about fifty privates occurred around August 1 after pay day. The men allegedly refused to perform labor for rifle range expansion, citing fatigue and heat. No arrests reported.
Safeguarding Submarines Plan Lifts Shackles Included
The Navy approves naval board recommendations to safeguard submarine crews. Submarines with inexperienced crews will operate only in waters no deeper than eight fathoms. Each vessel will have lifting shackles and be accompanied by another ship equipped with lifting apparatus to surface the sub quickly if machinery fails.
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Navy Department
Naval Board of Construction
Military orders grant officers varying leaves and assignments
Leave of absence and duty moves affect many officers across Artillery, Infantry, Cavalry, and Engineers. Senior leaders, including Col Kerr and Lt Crimmina, receive extended or new leaves while others report for promotions, examinations, and board duties. Naval movements note arrivals and sailings of several ships along Atlantic and Pacific stations.
Submarine Shark Boat Invented by Cleveland Man
Luther G Thompson unveils a shark shaped submarine proposed for Navy use. It sinks by diving blades, with steering gear suited to its aquatic design. government evaluators study its potential adoption. Also reports on Maj Charles R Taylor's death at Fort Sheridan and other Philippine Army deaths as Army and Naval academies announce admissions.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Ohio
Luther G Thompson
United States
Navy Department
Charles R. Taylor
War Department
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Taylor
Military Academy
Kentucky
Sixteenth Infantry
Emperor Honors Dr Jung for Medical and Archaeological Work
German Emperor awards Dr Franz A R Jung of Washington DC the Fourth Class Crown order amid news of his marriage, travels, and long residence since 1880. Known as physician, archaeologist, and collector, he speaks four languages, runs a home museum at 1229 Connecticut Ave NW, and is married to Sophie Noordhoff Jung.
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Germany
Printess
Cecelia
Meckienberg
Schwer
Franz A. R. Jung
Dr. Jung
Nordhoft- Jung
Sophie Noordhoff
Westphalia
Bast
Sophie Nordhoff-Jung
Jung
France
Russia
Connecticut Avenue
Mled As
Nomé
Thipple of Seats Opens Lafayette Theatre with The Liberty Belles
Opening performance at the Lafayette marks the theater and Fred Bereer s musical organization. Anna Israel from Washington plays the Pink Pajama Girl with notable Washingtonians and a list of principals and supporting performers from Washington. The week offers new acts, vaudeville, and a naval bombardment novelty, plus films and other attractions at the Academy.
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T the Lafayette
Fred Bereer
Harry B. Smith
The
Washington
Anna Israel
Tennis Adel
Mae Marrinan
J. Frank Gibbons
Herbert Garter
Huff Residence Sold to Newberry for Navy Assistant Secretary
One of the year's largest home sales closes as Thomas Huyck sells Rep George F. Huff's Sixteenth Street residence near Scott Circle. Buyer Hon Truman H. Newberry of Detroit will be Assistant Secretary of the Navy from December 1, succeeding Dar ling. Price about 35000. Huff plans a larger Dupont Circle house on his own property.
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Navy
Newberry
Thomas Bryan Huyck
George F. Huff
Pennsylvania
Sixteenth Street
Scott Circle
Truman H. Newberty
Detroit
Dupont Circle
Huff
Old National Intelligencer notes on electro magnetium debate
The DC National Association of Stationary Engineers met at Pennsylvania Avenue and Twelfth Street NW. Joseph I Keefer read a August 31 1860 National Intelligencer article on Benton’s resolution seeking a Senate report on electro magnetium experiments. Prof Henry praised Page’s demonstrations and Rogers’s dynamo work. The piece tied to Harewood House and early Washington figures, then filed as an archival reference. The event also reports a postponed reception for Ninth United States Infantry Association president Capt Frank W Ramsay due to Ramsay’s absence, with duty at Sea Girt.
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National Intelligencer
National Association of Stationary Engineers
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania Avenue
Twelfth Street
Joseph I. Keefer
Benton
Congress
Senate
American Scientific Convention
Joseph Henry
Smithsonian Institution
Page
John Fleming
Prof. Rogers
Philadelphia
Rogers
Keefer
Charlestown
W. Va
Harewood House
Samuel Washington
Gen. Washington
Dolly Madison
George Steptoe Washington
G. J. Washington
California
San Francisco
Society
Ninth United States Infantry Regimental Association
Frank W. Remeay
Ramsay
Rich's Semia nnual Reduction Sale on Footwear
Rich's announces a semi annual reduction sale offering very splendid savings on footwear. Customers buy four or five pairs at a time to take advantage of the discounts as stocks are cleared. Many items are described as desirable and fashionable and priced below cost to prompt purchases for immediate and future needs.
Leupp Returns to Indian Bureau After Four Months
Commissioner Leupp of the Indian Bureau resumes duties after a four month investigation of Northwestern agency conditions. He resolved long standing disputes among the Klamath and ended relief distributions to the Winniberago, who faced whisky related complications. He visited Standiffe Reck Agency to aid Indians seeking division and an exceptions commission among Taitians.
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Leupp
Indian Bureau
Klamath
Pastors Change Posts at Local Catholic Churches
Several assistant pastors are reassigned among local Catholic parishes. Rev. James Smyth moves from Sacred Heart to St Patrick's. Rev. Eckenrode of Baltimore replaces him at Sacred Heart. Rev. John J Cooper, son of a railroad official, takes over at St Matthew's Arch to succeed Rev. J D Sterling. Relocation details note college backgrounds and ordinations.
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James Smyth
Church of the Sacred Heart
Fourteenth Street
Whitney Avenue
St. Patrick's Church
Father Eckenrode
Baltimore
Rome
American College
John J. Cooper
Pennsylvania Railroad
St. Matthew's Arch
J. D. Sterling
Father Cooper
St. Charles College
Hoy
Br Je
Ramee
Tone Lateran
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Eleventh St
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Donald C. MacLeod
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Lula A. Horigan
Georgetown
Roy Offutt
8 Mary’s Church
Alexandria
Karl Frederick Kellerman
Department of Agriculture
Cumberland
Mid
Gertrude Hast
George P. Hast
Cornell University
Hast
State Normal School
Kellerman Jeason
Kellerman
Ohio State, University
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Falls Church
Portland
Old Orchard Beach
Mayes
Waterville
Kennebec River
Frank C. Henry
Mount Pleasant
N. H
John Robertson
Capitol Hil
Fauquier White Sulphur Springs
T. Ogier Huston
Mt. Pleasant
Philippinas
Dr. Huston
Seventh Cavalry
Manilla
Whitney
Capt. Whitney
Fort Screven
Henry W. Clossan
Columbia Road
Misa Frances Howell Randolph
Virginia
Cecela Mason Timberlake
Nannie Gilmore
R. C. Gimore
Alabama
William Bailey Lamar
Tallahassee
Fla
Asheville
N. C
FEMMA
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Tia
Beaufort
Goodwin
Albert GB
Fuger
Artillery Corps
George Delss
Artillery
Godwin Ordway
Sera
Kramer
Tenth Cavalry
Harrison J. Price
Second Infantry
Nathaniel F. McClure
Fifth Cavalry
James T. Kerr
General Staff
Martin
Crimmina
Seventeenth Infantry
Shelby
Leacure
Fourteenth Infantry
Henry M .Andrews
Charles A Romeyn
Second Cavalry
Ita Station
Harry P. Wilbur
Wille B R. Vanse
Key ‘West Barracks
Jere B. Clayton
Fort Leavenworth
Kans
David Baker
Harry W Bethany
Third Infantry
Henry M Andrews
Clarence B Hoss
318Th Company
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Mias
National Cemetery
Edgar Russell
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Paul Jones
Victoria
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Dale
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Dahlgren
Columbia
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Rockettrom
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Perry
Fort Angeles
Breamerton
Dupont
Chattanooga
Rockport
Sheridan
Manis
Manila
Eee Sheridan
Fron
Twelfth Cavalry
Corp of Engineers
Philippine Amny
Philippines
Henry Allo
Willam I. Heoff
Hospital Corps
John W. Hankford
Twentieth Infantry
Naval Academy
Annapolis
John W. Quilifah
Georgia
Walter A. Diwards
William N. Porter
William PF. Leland
Kansas
Oscar C. Greene
Bretelles
Fashion Department
Emperor
DR. June
Order of the Crown
Faize
America
Chase
Wil
Bert Leslie
Robert Dailey
Mina Maud Emery
William Mowry
Jack Worworth
Dha
Edward Greene
Amy Werner
Prosa
Valero
Straita
Korea
Louise Dreemer
Dills-Nowlan
la Helis Vordalla
Longchamps
Langdon McCormick
Lawrence Marston Pipy
Mittenthal Brothers
Academy
Lyceum Theater
T. ‘W. Dinking
Innocent Maids
Edward Baily
Sven Ruth Jordon
Zerrow
Ming Day
Euport
B. Rich's
Stora
Rich
Dese
Gaseh Ashe
Biren
B. Rich’ S Sons
White Mountain
Alaska
Christian Xander
Seat Atlantic & Pagifig Zeals
Mata Star
WM. Knabe & CO
F St
R. P. Andrews Paper Co
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