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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1910
Page
7
Special Midsummer Prices on Upholstery and Decor
Special midsummer prices on upholstery cabinet and drapery work repair and refinishing of furniture making draperies window shades fly screens parquetry floors and decorative papering. Free design plans and estimates by expert decorators. orders now ensure readiness for fall and lower costs. Mail or call for representative visit.
August Clearance Lace Curtains Continue
The notice promotes continued August clearance of lace curtains including imported and domestic patterns. Stock comprises two to five pairs per pattern and offers immediate savings of one fourth to one third off regular prices. The sale highlights small and broken lots remaining in stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thesa
Bar Harbor Willow Chairs At Special Price
Willow chairs arriving this week will go on sale this morning at a notably attractive price. Handcrafted from French willow, the chairs are roomy and comfortable, ideal for summer use with cool, pleasing appearance. Special price two dollars and ninety cents each, with cushions at one dollar extra. Optional staining at one dollar extra. Fourth floor. Additional lot of Bar Harbor Willow chairs available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Harbor
Atlas Mason Fruit Jars and Accessories Sale List
A catalog listing Atlas Mason Fruit Jars in various sizes from pints to 2 gallons, wide mouth jars, Jelly Glasses, plain and optic styles, and related accessories. Also includes prices on jar tops, rubbers, wax, and preserving utensils such as spoons, strainers, seeders, paring knives, and para wax.
Colonial Glassware Prices Listed for Bowls and Tumblers
A historical price snippet shows Colonial glassware with listings for berry or salad bowls from 15 cents, water pitchers from 25 cents, cruets from 15 cents, bonbon dishes, mayonnaise bowls and plates, finger bowls and plates, sherbet glasses, water tumblers, and sauce dishes priced per dozen or by set, with several garbled or cut entries indicating low prices and unclear dates. The reader sees typical early catalog pricing patterns and typographical noise.
Garden Hose of Reliability Fifth Floor
Advertisement praises a durable garden hose offered at 12c per foot and stresses value over cheaper options. It promises long service, easy maintenance with an eggb and fasteners, and emphasizes brass fittings and leak-free joints. Located on the fifth floor.
White Canvas Hammocks Sale PricesListed
Durable hammocks with valance and deep valance offered at reduced prices. Extra large options advertised with notable discount from former prices. Located on nth street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nth St
Beekman Winthrop Returns From Long Island Weekend
Navy officials and social figures return to Washington after weekend stays and travels. Navy Admiral Nicholson and Assistant Secretary Hale are back from visits to the Pacific coast and New Jersey, while Louise Tate and Emmett Atkinson wed in Massachusetts Avenue with immediate post ceremony travels planned. Other military and diplomatic figures, plus society members, head to Atlantic City, Newport, and Canada for extended stays or gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Tate
William Clark Tate
Bedford City
Emmett J. Atkinson
Newark
N. J
A.C. B. Cutler
Massachusetts Avenue
R. Swift
Dirat Congregational Church
W. F. Crown
Zerega Announces Daughter Isabel to Pinckney J
Dominick R. Zerega announces the engagement of his daughter Isabel Catherine Zerega to Mr. Pinckney J. The notice presents a formal family union with the couple named and the petitioner listed in a traditional society style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Dominick R. Zerega
Miss Isabel Catherine Zerega
Mr. Pinckney J
Among the Berkshires Lenox August Visitor Strings
Lenox hosts a summer influx with many New York Boston and Philadelphia couples at area hotels including Aspinwall Curtis and Maplewood. Guests include H Reiman Duval John Carstensen Homer Gibney J J Gorman and E L Meyers plus families. A motor tour begins for Delafield while Sedgwick and Knoll families host visitors in Stockbridge and Manchester Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox
Mass
H. Reiman Duval
East Islip
Long Island
John Carstensen
Daniel Bacon
Homer Gibney
Thomas Murray
John R. Bowen
J. W. Greene
J. J. Gorman
E. L. Meyers
New York
Aspinwall
A. W. Preston
Boston
Marshall Kernochan
Newport
John J. Wysong
Elien Buckler
Alexander Sedgwick
Stockbridge
Helen C. Butler
Davis Ketchum
Charles ¥. Lott, Jr
8. L. Rapelli
John Muir
Curtis Hotel
C. Hartman Kuhn
G. Heide Norris
Philadelphia
Manchester
Newport Welcomes Fleet to Summer Newport
Newport Rhode Island stockholders of the Newport Casino elect officers for the year led by President Senator George Peabody Wetmore and Edwin D. Morgan named governor for four years. Social events flourish as Rear Admiral Schroeder hosts receptions aboard the flagship Connecticut and Jamestown remains a hub for officers with dinners and dances across Newport and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport, R. I
Newport Casino
George Peabody Wetmore
George R. Fearing
George L. Rives
Wiliam Watts Sherman
Egerton L. Winthrop
Frank K. Sturgis
H. A. Taylor
Edwin D. Morgan
H McK. Twombly
Holis Smith McKim
Reno
Schroeder
J. Pierpont Morgan
Bay Harbor
Ogden Mills
Ocean Lawn
Mrs. Mills
Earl of Granard
William Fullam
Mississippi
Rhoda Fullam
Harold Brown
Europe
Seaton Schroader
Commodore
Gerry
Ava Willing Astor
Adirondacks
Muriel
Barton Willing
Misa J. Bigelow
John du Fais
Arthur
Notable Guests at Northeast Society House Party
A list of prominent names from New York Berlin and Tuxedo Park attends a house party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Harriman. Other figures include Mrs. John Mun son Hawley, P. and R. Randolph of Narragansett Pier, and Harold Vanderbilt joining the gathering. The Secretary of the Navy George von L. Meyer and his family have returned to Hamilton Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. &. R. Randolph
Narragansett Pier
Harold
Vanderbilt
Harriman
Secretary of the Navy
George Vonl. Meyer
Hamilton, Mass
Narragansett Pier Notes of August Guests and Luncheons
A Raleigh of social dining and arrivals at Narragansett Pier outlines guests and luncheon hostings. Charles C Rumsey and others sailed from Newport aboard Sultana. Luncheons entertained Beadleston Milburn Waterbury Hazard Reynal Rawlins Prince Jr. Nutting hosts. Notables include Lowndes Coombs Macy De Peyster Talbot Huldekoper Rutherford Palmer Cochrane Warner Sullivan Wilson Miller and Campbell families visiting Massasoit Manor Arlington and Gladstone locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shinglenook
Frederick de Peystar
de Peyster
New York
Massasoit
Harold R. Talbot
Rb.’ Talbot
the Atlantic
A. C. Huldekoper
Philadelpha
Mathegrson
John A. Rutherford
Francis I Palmer
J. P. Fowler
A. W. S. Cochrane
Franklin M. Warner
Leonard Sullivan
W. B. Wilson
Burdett G. Wilson
Troy
N. Y
W. B. Miller
G. Miller
Philadelphia
William Leonard
Manor
Wakefield
Wilgon
Burdette G. Wilgon
Arlington
Gladstone
John B. Campbell
Emma Campbell
Muriel Campbell
Larchmont
Receptions at Warm Springs Honoring Two Authors
One of the season’s largest receptions was held yesterday on the broad piazzas of the Colonial Hotel at the Warm Springs Hot Springs Virginia. Miss Mary Johnson and Miss Ellen Glasgow were the honored authors with Mrs. John L. Eubank, Mrs. George T. M. Gibson and Mrs. Frederick R. McGuire among the hosts and assistants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Qld Colonial Hotel
Warm Springs
Mary Johnson
Ellen Glasgow
John L. Eubank
George T. M. Gibson
Frederick R. McGuire
Sarah and
Louise Gibson
Society Guests Dine and Golf at Warm Springs and Homestead
Society here and at the Warm Springs were among invited guests. The day featured tennis on the lawn, a luncheon at Warm Springs hosted by Rear Admiral Thomas Ferry for Dr. Delano Fitzgerald, and informal tea with Justice and Mrs. Horace Lurton. Arrivals at the Homestead included Miss Josephine Rogers, Miss Rossie Heagi, Col. Brent Arnol, W. B. McFarland, and other guests from New York, Cincinnati, Struthers, Atlanta, St. Louis, and Louisville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warm Springs
Thomas Ferry
Delano Fitzgerald
Justice
Horace Lurton
M. E. Ingalle
Berdamin C. Tillman
Edward Crozer
Harrison Boykin
Charles Biddle
W. H. Jackson
Ethel Bert Talbott
Benjamin Williamson Keen
Bishop Talbott
Mytland Alexander
W. H. Green
Alice #. Burpage
J. D. Cassels
Cincinnati
W. B. McFarland
J. L. Paugher
A. W. Blackley
Strungton
W. H. Paxton
J.P. Westberry
Atlanta
Edward Whitaker
Mark Taylor
St. Louis
George B. Eastin
Louisville
Drama at Bar Harbor opens French pantomime series
Bar Harbor Me Aug 16 The Building of Arts hosted the first dramatic performance of the season headlined by the French pantomime L Enfant Prodigue with Mme Pilar Morin in the leading role Henry Lane Eno of New York chairs the committee Incomes and society guests fill the summer schedule with dances teas and arrivals from New York and Brooklyn plus a large Bar Harbor horse show entries closed with additional classes announced the season gathers prominent guests and events across Bar Harbor and North East Harbor summer colony
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Building of Arts
Bar Harbor
Anne Terry Gardiner
New York
Roy Pier
James T. Gardiner
North West Harbor
North East Harbor
Mme. Pilar Morin
Henry Lane Eno
Martha McCook
Winston Churchill
Albert Meaion
James Miller
Frances Rogers
Ernest Schelling
Brooklyn
Henry F. Dimerick
Elsinor
Echelland
William X. Draper
J. R. Ogden
D. C. Falls
Edwin Gould
Jean Morris
Frank Kinnicutt
Dave Hennen Morris
Hulls Cove
Photographs of the Czar and Nassau county assessments draw crowds
The article notes Emperor William II posing for humorous snapshots at Swinemunde with Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg and critiques public reactions to the photogenic glamour. It then describes Nassau County millionaires facing unusually low property assessments, naming Payne Whitney and others, while residents protest values and question fairness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingepward
Ferdinand
Baward
Wiliam
Swinemunde
Pomerania
Prussia
Theobald y von/ Bethmann-Hollweg
Maine
Florida
Nassau County
Payne Whitney
Manhasset
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Lakeville
Clarence Mackay
Roslyn
W. Gould Brokaw
Great Neck
Howard Gould
Sands Point
Port Washington
Louis Sherry
W. Gould Broton
Artanumites' Outing Day to Marshall Hall
The Royal Arcanum Hospital Bed Fund Association sponsors an outing today to Marshall Hall. A 6:30 evening boat from the wharf will carry members and friends to socialize and expand the association’s work among attendees.
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Babylon
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John Wood
Chandler Hale
New Jersey
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Arthur Murray
Coast Artillery Corps
Percy P. Bishop
North Atlantic
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Fort Monroe
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Ruth Pilling
Quebec
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Navy Department
Buffalo
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The
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John A. Johnson
Minnesota
A. J. Smith
Lamont Street
Frances Webster
Mas
Nana Young
Julianu. Young
James Rankin Young
Italy
James Barclay Young
United States
Milan
Maj
W. E. Horton
Thousand Islands
Justice Gould
Supreme Court of the District
Sliver Spring
R. W. Flournoy, Jr
Oakland
Evan Sinclair Garmergn
MA. Marr
Atlantic City
Traymore
Horace A. Taylor
Wells, N. H
Herbert Shipman
Mrs. Shipman
Mrs Shipman
Marshall Allan
Narragansett
Mrs. Edson Bradley
Edith Wallach
Mrs. Woodbury Blair
Thomas B. Huyck
Lake George
Lake Champlain
Montreal
White Mountains
Portland
Willard B. MacBurney
James Etterbrock
Maryland
Potomac
Carl M. Behrman
Bloomington
Sarah F. Clokey
Sagamore Beach
Mags
Opal Murray
Harmony
Zerega
Berkshires
E. M. Johnson
Johnson
Emery L. Johnson
EH. R. Phillips
F. R. Masters
William B. Rickey
John W. Shepard
Maplewood
Pittsfield
A. M. Bayles
Oyster Bay
T. P. Collins
Wendell
Admiral Schroeder
Lloyd Lowndes
Mrs. Lutton
Point Judith Country Club
Eleanor Leary
Emily Randolph
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Lord Rocksavage
Perry Starkweather
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Jacques Bertillon
the Post
Daily Puzzle
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Fife
Smith
Jones
Brown
Ayer
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Horlick’s
Mason's
Jardinieres
Swift's
Syracuse
BON Marche
Seventh Street
U. S. Treasury, Union Trust Company
Std and
H Sts. N. W
Edward J. Stellwages
Laumans
Hattie M. Shacklette
Price
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