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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1910
Page
7
Special sale on men's neglige shirts in printed percale and madras with striped colors. Coat style with attached cuffs, all sizes available. Regularly $1.00 to $1.25, now 69 cents each, or 3 for $2.00. Limited stock of 30 received and placed on sale.
Special midsummer prices prevail on reupholstering repaving refinishing furniture making draperies window shades parquetry and hardwood floors and decorative papering of apartments or houses. Color schemes draperies furnishings match and estimates offered by Laport designers at no charge. Orders placed now ensure readiness in fall and save money versus waiting.
Final clearance offers for all broken lots dropped patterns and discontinued lines of imported and domestic lace curtains. Nearly every style included with high grade goods and desirable patterns. Some lots contain multiple pairs. Great opportunity to save, offered at far less than regular price.
Sale of portieres and fine upholstery fabrics including tapestries brocades silk armures damasks and reps. Special values listed: Silk Armures and Reps two dollars per yard value three fifty. Silk Damasks two fifty to six dollars per yard value four to ten. Silk Brocades four fifty per yard value seven fifty.
An advertisement touts basketware for every purpose including a basket refrigerator that stays cool with a small ice piece for fourteen hours. It markets dog and cat traveling sleeping baskets in several styles and sizes with prices sleeping baskets from 1.50 dollars and traveling baskets from 2.00 dollars.
Wide mouth fruit jars in pint to gallon sizes with plain and optic finishes, dozen quantities. Atlas Mason jars offered in quart, half gallon, and one to two gallon sizes with assorted tops, rubbers, and tulip rubbers. Mason porcelain-lined jar tops, jar rubbers, and parffin wax available in dozen or package quantities.
Secretary Knox travels with Mrs Knox and friends along the North Shore stopping at Narra been traveling in the miehel je gansett Pier to Pointe-au-Pic Canada. Numerous Washington residents and guests motor to Atlantic City and Niagara Falls as part of extended trips with家 families and social circles.
Newport RI August 23 Mr and Mrs Frederick H Prince hosted a dinner and dance with guests including Mrs French Vanderbilt Lord Rocksavage Lord Grosvenor Reginald Brooks Philip A Clark Robert B Van Cortlandt Reginald C Vanderbilt Payne Whitney Lawrence Waterbury and numerous other prominent families. The event followed by a large Casino tennis attendance and a yacht arrival by George F Baker Jr aboard Viking. Several notable guests and society events continued through the week with plans for additional dinners and entertainments in honor of visiting dignitaries and naval officers.
Races on Narragansett Pier beach drew a large crowd. Winners included Robert Sullivan for the Casino cup in the dress suitcase race, R. P. Smith for the Imperial cup in apple and bucket, Wistar Randolph for egg and spoon and Elm Cottage cups, Jonh R Fell for the quarter-mile dash sweepstake, and Scudder Marsman of St Louis in the quarter-mile open race. Notables dined at the Casino and Gladstone hotels, with several New York and Ohio guests listed.
A homely saying is linked to science as a writer argues worry and abnormal mental states, especially in women, cause thinness. Change of thought, not diet, is urged to increase weight, advising to drop the brown study habit and laugh to grow fat.
A devotional essay urges steady, useful living by women. It counsels focusing on impact on others, embracing cheerful contentment, and acting with resolve rather than chasing imagined misfortunes. It also notes personal growth comes from uplifting interactions and purposeful daily tasks.
Lenox Mass August 23 travelers and locals arrive at hotels including Wendell Greenock Inn Aspinwall Curtis Hotel and Beverly noting visits by Perkins Burrows Schermerhorn Somers Armstrong Sherman and others. Residents like Haven Bownd Barnes Burden Carpenter Hamilton Chandler linger towns from Pittsfield to Newport on motor trips and autumn plans.
Mrs Benjamin C Tilghman of Philadelphia hosted an al fresco tea at the Casino in Hot Springs yesterday afternoon assisted by Mrs Walter McMichael. The guest list included Justice Horace Lurton and many others, followed by a luncheon hosted by Mr Delanoy Fitzgerald.
Yesterday at Wassifern Parc guests included Mr and Mrs George T M Gillkon and others with Miss Sarah Gibson and Rear Adm Thomas Parry. A dinner at Ingres Aight View hosted by Miss Gladys Ingalls followed by a luncheon by Mrs Edgar Bright and a lawn party at Fern Villa. Bishop Beverly Tucker hosted a Fassifern luncheon with eight guests from Dunns Gap. Wiltem Felton hosted a dinner at the Oaks for the ges Louse and Se ran Gibson with several attendees from Pitts Bire New York Homestead guests included J R Grant T Alexander Baxter and William Harris WW Johnston W P Coleman Frank F Miller and Mr and Mrs Albert Rogers.
Paris reports the engagement of Count Jean de la Greze to Miss Etesher H Steele daughter of Charles Steele. The couple plan to wed in New York where de la Greze serves as an attaché to the French ministry of foreign affairs.
At the birthday party of Ft Widener aged 8 at the Pinard cottage in Newport a two ring circus entertained 5 Jam Hea cottage settlement children. Acts included clowns trick ponies an educated mule dogs and a sleight of hand performer. Guests wore favors and gifts.
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