Woodward and During store hours change to 5 o clock Saturday 1 PM
The heated term store will close at 5 o clock on weekdays and at 1 PM Saturdays. The notice lists Woodward and During as the location affected by the new hours.
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1906
Page
9
The heated term store will close at 5 o clock on weekdays and at 1 PM Saturdays. The notice lists Woodward and During as the location affected by the new hours.
Advertisement notes continued promotion of bed blankets at reduced prices from manufacturers. Seconds are slightly imperfect but offer substantial savings. Crib blankets measure 36 by 50 inches priced at 1.25 per pair. Availability includes various sizes and color effects with mix patterns. Store location cited as Second Door Eleventh Street.
Readily usable summer linens advertised for cottages and daily use. Irish Damask Cloths in Bleached white with various sizes and napkins offered. hemstitched linen scarfs, towels, napkins, and bed sheets shown. Specials include 27 inch louse linen at a yard price, and assorted cottons and muslins with multiple yard and piece pricing. Second floor Eleventh Street.
Undergarments for women are featured at low prices with handmade chemises, gowns, drawers, corset covers, and petticoats on offer. Prices range from $1 to $3, with French Percale and Nainsook fabrics, hand embroidery, and lace accents. Located on the third floor Eleventh Street. Also advertised are Pure Food Department items and soap, cosmetics, and toiletries for sale on the tenth floor at Rieter.
The Bonapartes join Washington society at Lenox Berkshire Hills Resort for three weeks as Mrs Clarence Edwards hosts dinners and Miss Grace Rainey and Mrs Marie Elizabeth Boettcher stage entertaining summer gatherings. Invitations for Dorothea Augusta Boettcher’s marriage at Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church are issued.
The estate of Francis H. Smith valued at about 195000, with real estate 40000 and 200 shares of Union Savings Bank worth 60000, passes to his son EB Quincy Smith who is named administrator with the will annexed and to receive all the stock of F H Smith Company and 85 shares of the bank stock. Dyer Smith gets 12000 cash and 30 shares of bank stock. The residue after specific bequests is to be shared with Mrs Holden.
Taps for veteran Thomas H. Martin senior vice department commander GAR marked his burial at Rock Creek Cemetery with three volleys and bugle taps. Kit Carson Post led the service at Hamline Methodist Church assisted by clergy, with honorary pallbearers from the Department of Potomac and active pallbearers named from the post and local community.
Rummage sale items include blue pink and pearl tint Carlsbad China tea cups and saucers, fruit patterned and floral designs. Also porcelain pieces like blue mottled jars and Victorian style sets with gold trim, oatmeal sets with pitcher bowl and plate, berry bowls and covered sugar bowls with cream pitchers, and tea and coffee pot stands in pink blue or green. Prices range from 9 to 98 cents per item with multiple descriptions and variations.
Special to The Wantington Post Richmond Va August 20 Mrs Waldorf Astor formerly Miss Nannie Langhorne of this city and Albemarle County will not visit the Old Dominion before returning to England. The Astors have been indisposed since arriving in America and cannot attend entertainments in their honor. They sail for England September 1 with Miss Note Langhorne and proceed to Cliveden the gift from William Waldorf Astor to his son. Death of Mrs Pauline Cake Cape May New Jersey widow of J F Cake and daughter of Jonas Miller died Sunday at her Cape May cottage after more than a year ill ness. She was connected with presidents and public figures during residence in Washington and is survived by three sons and two daughters. Burial in Cape May where she had lived twenty years. U
Relatives and Grid Iron Club members attended the funeral for Robert M. Larner at his home 29 Eighteenth Street yesterday at 1 PM. Rev John D La Mothe of the Church of the Epiphany led the Episcopal service. Burial followed at Greenwood Cemetery. The Grid Iron Club sent flowers and adopted resolutions at a special meeting, naming pallbearers Richard Lee Fearn John Schriver F Handy N O Messenger.
A Sunday gathering at Good Samaritan Home Seventeenth and G streets discussed uniting temperance organizations. Thomas Maloney presided as leaders including John C Moore Henry M Beadle James P McGinness Edward Hannan John A Cale William Hickey Clark Soran Thomes J Copan Matthew Malloy Downey John Harvey Charles Downey and others spoke. A Chicago Tribune note mentioned proposals and responses from participants.
A American diplomat and a Prussian officer aboard a Paris Luxembourg train exchange confidences over passports and deception. The encounter escalates from light teasing to threat as each man weighs trust, danger, and a hidden document that could alter their fates in war looming over Luxembourg.
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