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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
9
The New York Washington Paris department store marks a Saturday close at 5 pm with a display of travel garments including kimonas pajamas negligees silk petticoats and bathed coats. White goods line features English linens poplin linen and longcloth with yardage and wide widths priced from 28c to $2.25 per piece on the eleventh floor.
A newspaper advertisement offers clearance prices on season's mat tings and matting rugs and sewing machines. Heaviest China mattings priced at 27i4c a yard, finest 116 warp at 27M4c, fine Japanese 0c to 30c, extra fine rice straw 4c, several rug sizes priced from $2.30 to $6.00, comparing with higher former prices. Also promotes Fourth floor sewing machines with oak cabinets, five year guarantee, repair service, and a demonstrator on site.
The notice urges repair and reupholstering of furniture as the best time for fall and winter service. It notes current shop availability allows more time and careful attention, with less crowding than later in the season, and directs to the Fourth floor G at.
Washington society circles reported two weddings and many social notices. Miss Dorothea Augusta Boettcher married Robert Howard in a Concordia church ceremony with relatives attending. Another prominent couple, Edith Lawyer and Montgomery Schuyler, celebrated a formal wedding at a relative’s residence with a late breakfast and a Washington reception. The column lists numerous social engagements, trips, and local registrations, naming families, residences, and travel plans across Washington, New York, and Europe.
New York Aug 2 J Q A Ward dean of American sculpture announced his secret marriage to Mrs R M Ostrander Smith widow of artist. The 76 year old tied to a 50 year old bride after a months long discreet honeymoon at her Newburg home. Ward said he preferred privacy but the public revealed the union.
Mrs Reginald Vanderbilt III underwent an operation this morning for a sight internal trouble at Sandy Point Farm Portamouth. Dr William T Bull of New York Newport led the procedure with Newport Hospital nurses in attendance. The operation was very successful and a swift recovery is expected.
The Steamship Empress of China arrived from Yokohama with the body of Rear Admiral Charles J. Train, commander of the US China Squadron, who died at Chefoo on August 4. The body will be taken to Seattle then Annapolis for burial with funeral ceremonies planned for Wednesday if the body arrives by Tuesday.
A U S army attache Gilbert Hardy recounts detention in Luxembourg after a mistaken passport swap with a German officer. He endures police interrogation and surveillance, then is briefly separated from a mysterious visitor in a dark Luxembourg room, hinting at intrigue and a forthcoming mission.
In city notices John Cr Slater of Ananeler returns home after surgery for jaw disease at Georgetown University Hospital. The morning note lists probate of the late Pater Vierbuchen estate to widow Helmina Vierbuchen with Julius H Vierbuchen as executor. Also mentions Dudley Loncray arriving from Pocatello for his father Captain A Toncray’s burial with military honors.
A bundle of portraits of William Jennings Bryan has gone astray, prompting inquiries at embassies and hotels. The Washington Post Dispatch reports attempts to locate the large Diets graphe portraits Bryan had taken during his London visit have yielded no results.
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