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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1906
Page
9
Boys and young men receive deep discounts on a wide range of apparel. Featured items include wool suits, linen and duck wear, bloomers, hats, straw sailors, shirts, blouses, bath robes, pajamas, gym wear, and bathing trunks with prices from 25 cents to several dollars. Numerous sizes and color options available, advertised in a cluttered sale catalog style.
A Seaside and mountain wear feature highlights Peter Thompson suits in wool and wash fabrics. It promotes girls and misses summer dresses in white lawn, linen, and guimpes, traveling coats, and white lawn dresses with lace trims. Prices range from $1.50 to $15.50, with selections for kids and misses in white, linen, and lawn fabrics.
Summer clothing for infants and young children offered in a busy catalog style. Items include long slips, muslin skirts, and camisoles for ages up to two and a half years, with embroidered trim and lace details. Prices listed as small and varied, promotions announced from the third floor of the Eleventh Street store.
Everal items in women's cambric petticoats trimmed with faces embroideries and insertions. Stock broad with low prices. includes lawn trimmed petticoats lace and embroidery, and corsets and girdles for housewear. Third floor Eleventh Street.
Advertises Boys and Youths Oxford Ties in patent calfskins and gun metal, ages 8 1 2 to 2, priced around 1.75 to 2.50. Also Misses and Children's patent leather Gibson shoes with tin sole, various sizes, advertised at 1.75 to 2.00 per pair. white canvas dress and button shoes with Velcro-like snap? noted, assorted sizes and prices.
Black cotton hose of excellent quality offered in all sizes at a special price of 21 cents per pair or five pairs for a dollar. Sold on the main floor first. A small lot of twenty five dozen pairs remains, in women’s medium size.
Fragmentary advertisement lists high grade toilet articles including powders soaps and detergents. Mentions large sizes and a main floor display with various brands such as Pears and Hinds soap, and a reference to a Woodjana product.
A fragmentary advertisement lists pure food items and prices including Colonial Grape Jnes, Garger Ale, California Navelade, Walter Baker products, various gels and preserves, peanut butter, coffee blends, tea, fresh produce, root beer extract, potatoes, lemons, baked goods, vinegars, and confections. It mentions a location on Fifth floor Tenth Street and references prices in cents per unit.
Prince Roudacheff of the Russian Embassy visits Washington en route to Tennessee. Former Senator Henry G Davis guests of Col. John McGraw at Webster Springs. Mrs. Shaw and daughters sail Maine coast, then Des Moines visit. Numerous society figures travel, host events, and attend trips to Atlantic City and Virginia resorts amid a light social season.
The body of Mrs Manon Terry widow of Rear Admiral Terry will be buried beside her husband in Annapolis. She died recently in Dresden after years abroad and was daughter of the late Gen David Stewart from Detroit. Admiral Cooper will oversee the funeral arrangements.
Japan determined to conduct a thorough investigation after several Japanese were killed and twelve captured in a St Paul Island raid by poachers. Masanae Hanihara, second secretary of the Japanese Embassy, will travel to Sitka and then to the trial in Valdez to confer with U S officials. He will coordinate with State Treasury and Commerce and Labor departments to secure cooperation. The Japanese government aims to uncover the truth with no intended trouble.
The McCulloch crew reports a new volcanic island near Fire Island and Fogossof Islands in the Bering Sea about fifty miles from Dutch Harbor. Thousands of seabirds nest in rock crevices while steam and sulfurous fumes rise from the site.
Secretary Shaw denies rumors of government bond purchases and defends his financial judgment. He states no relief is imminent and vows action only when necessary. He departed Washington for New England and will visit Boston Monday to inspect a site for a new approvers store building.
The State Department outlined a new tariff agreement with Spain, noting the United States Minister in Madrid signed on August 1 with Spain's minister of state. The pact grants the United States the Spanish minimum tariff rate and most favored nation treatment, excluding Portugal. The proclamation and decree will issue, and the arrangement should take effect September 1 in both nations.
The General Land Office released official maps of the proposed State of Oklahoma for the first time. Demand is so high a fee is charged. Frank Bond led the drafting, showing the old border between Oklahoma and Indian Territory removed, with Oklahoma counties shown and Indian Territory restructured into thirty recording districts awaiting convention action.
A cable from Damon Corral secretary of interior of Mexico to the Mexican Embassy denies reports of a revolt or anti foreign movement. It states order and peace prevail, prosperity is apparent, and foreigners enjoy safety and protection as in civilized countries.
The American consul at Port au Prince advised the State Department that the Haitian president signed an immediate decree. It requires all import duties to be payable in American gold or Haitian paper currency at 200 percent depreciation. Half of duties fund government expenses, the other half retire recurrency.
In a tense interlude on a Luxembourg train, Captain Giroux confronts a Yankee envoy who has impersonated Prince Edric of Prussia. German agents Wiepert and Vossburg seize control, arrest the pretend prince, and threaten diplomatic fallout as identities blur and peril rises.
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