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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1906
Page
21
Rushed sale note lists trimmed highlights for boys clothing including wool suits, bloomers, play outfits, straw hats, shirts, and swim trunks. Items feature marked down prices and sizes, with emphasis on all wool pieces and washable fabrics, plus girls and boys accessories.
Advertises girls and misses summer wear including wool suits wash materials shirt waists separate skirts lawn guimpes serge reefers and traveling coats in popular colors. Highlights dresses white lawn options trimmed with lace costs from five to thirteen fifty plus selections of travel coats and guimpes for girls and misses with varied sizes and prices.
A colorful listing from the Third floor at Eleventh street promotes summer clothing for infants and little children. It highlights long slips, short dresses, petticoats, muslin skirts, and cambric garments in a range of sizes, with prices noted and embroidery details described to appeal to shoppers.
Women’s white petticoats in cambric with embroidery and lace trim offered at low prices. Includes trimmed and width-adjusted designs from $1.50 to $2.25, plus Evita styles and cotton lawn options. Complete corset assortment with front and back lacing, sizes 15 to 40, including Nemo self-reducing models. Third floor Eleventh St.
Catalog lists children's footwear options including Ausges and Chikhions Qaford Ties in patent kadskin and box gaiters, boys and youths Oaford Ties in patent Seltskin and calfskin, Gibson ties with stay heels, and white canvas dress shoes. Prices range from about 1.75 to 2.50 per pair with various sizes and finishes, plus teen and misses sizes in white canvas. Third Hour Tent display noted.
Black cotton hose of excellent quality in all sizes offered at a special price of 21 cents per pair, with a deal of 5 pairs for one dollar. Located on the main floor, a small lot totaling 25 dozen pairs in Women’s Medium and other sizes.
A fragmentary ad lists toiletries and cleaning agents including High-grade Toilet Articles Jennen's Talonm Powder and 30 Physicians and Surgeons' Soap. Mentions large and quart sizes with prices around 25c and references to various brands like Frostula Hinds' Hone and Pears scented soap. Main floor G street location indicated.
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper listing groceries and prices. It mentions Colonal Grape Jones, Gorger Ale, Alamiton Lime Juice, Walter Baker products, Knox and Plymouth Gelatine, Peanut Butter, Queen Coffee, Rajan Tea, Imperial Root Beer Extract, Virginia herring, fresh tomatoes, lemons, freshly baked cakes, table vinegar, and homemade beaten biscuits. Locations show Abe to Fifth floor Tenth st and price marks like 1.25 and 10.
Social and personal notes from Washington and Newport highlight visits by Prince Roudacheff of the Russian Embassy en route to Tennessee, former Senator Henry G Davis staying with Col. John McGraw, and Mrs. Shaw and daughters sailing to Maine. The Ber ger supper dance for debutante Miss Fithel de Koven at Newport promises brilliance with flower favors and a new lower dance. Various diplomats, officials, and families travel, visit, or reside across Washington, Newport, Maine, and Atlantic City, with engagements and movements detailed.
On the Batayla arrives Hoboken with the body of Mrs Manon Terry widow of Rear Admiral Terry who died in Dresden. She will be buried at Annapolis beside her husband, daughter of the late Gen David Stewart and sister-in law of Rear Admiral Philip Cooper. Admiral Cooper led the procession at Annapolis. The body of Mrs Ellen Stuart Terry widow of Commander Terry will also be interred at the Naval Cemetery in Annapolis after death in Dresden.
Japan plans a thorough inquiry into the raid on St Paul Island in the Pribilofs where several Japanese were killed and twelve captured. Masanae Hanihara, second secretary of the Japanese Embassy, will lead the investigation, meeting U S officials and possibly traveling by revenue cutter to Sitka for the trial proceedings.
Thousands of seabirds nest in rock crevices on a newly discovered volcanic island near Fire Island and Fogossof Islands in the Bering Sea. The eruption site, about fifty miles from Dutch Harbor, features a 400 foot peak and a steaming vent, likely to serve as a landmark for nearby vessels.
Secretary Shaw dismissed rumors he planned to buy government bonds as baseless. He said rumors are persistent and he would act only as conditions require, while failing to offer any advance information. He left Washington for New England and will visit Boston Monday to inspect a site for a new approjeers store.
The State Department states the United States and Spain signed on August 1 an agreement delivering the minimum tariff rate and most favored nation treatment to the United States. Portugal is excluded. The President will issue a proclamation and Spain a decree. The arrangement is expected to take effect September 1 in both countries.
Official maps of the proposed State of Oklahoma were issued for the first time by the General Land Office. Demand was so high the office began charging a fee. Prepared by Frank Bond, the map eliminates the boundary between Oklahoma and Indian Territory and replaces counties in Indian Territory with thirty recording districts.
A cable from Damon Corral, secretary of interior of Mexico, to the Mexican Embassy denies rumors of a revolt or anti-foreign movement. It states that order and peace prevail nationwide and foreigners enjoy safety and protection.
The American consul at Port au Prince advised the State Department by cable that the Haitian president has signed an immediate decree. It requires all import duties to be payable in American gold or Haitian paper currency at a 200 percent depreciation. Half of duties go to government expenses, the other half to retire repurrency.
On a train to Luxembourg a U S envoy reads a newspaper report of a royal betrothal while a German plot unfolds. The Yankee Hardy is mistaken for Prince Edric of Prussia and then forced to swap passports. An arrest follows as Wiepert and Vossburg claim imperial orders, and Hardy faces captivity and a tense room confrontation with Captain Giroux.
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