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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
13
Large lot of high quality silks offered this morning, selected from cream stock. Includes armure tafetas and chiffon taffetas in diverse colors, with new season values from 39 to 75 cents and up to 1.50. Featured fabrics include Directoire silks and changing effects, all underpriced for early season.
Special values offer boys all wool suits in sizes 8 to 17 with knickerbocker pants in latest styles. Lot specials priced at 7.50 to 9.00, 11.00 to 12.50, with multiple lot options and market-competitive discounts. Items emphasize fine materials and attractive patterns from the latest trends.
A vintage advertisement lists white and decorative blouses with attached collars, laundering details, and bulk pricing. It promotes silk petticoats in black and white with flounces, muslin undergarments, corsets trimmed with lace and beading, and cambric gowns with simple stitching, all at special sale prices.
Girls dresses and garments advertised for clearance in madras, percales, lawns and stripes. Includes She Tots Madrasa dresses in plain colors and dotted effects, many trimmed with braid or tucks, sizes to 14, special price 1.25. Also woolen gowns and lawn jumper dresses with dots, plum colors and borders, sizes 6 to 14, special price 2.95. Sailor suit and plaid dresses in red trim, sizes 8 to 16, special price 3.93.
Infants and children’s long and short dresses in neat styles with modest prices. Nainsook slips with bow fronts and hemstitched hems. Short dresses feature yokes with tucks and hemstitched cuffs. Gingham creepers are gathered at the neck and bottom with neat checks. Prices noted for various sizes.
Guatemalan minister He ware travels to New York for a few days. Senator and Mrs Peabody Wetmore and the Misses Wetmore spend late August at Carlsbad. Miss Harriet Ogden Deen’s engagement to Commander Roger Welles CT SN is announced. Augusta Falls engaged to Lieut Horace Fletcher Spurgin coast artillery corps with December wedding. Mrs John Bent hosts dinner in Newport. Miss Anna Cockrell returns to New London after a visit. A Newport ball at Masonic Hall features Elisha Dyer cotillion leader Walter Coles. The mink coat gifted to the Princess of Wales by Nova Scotia subjects valued over 8000 dollars. Miss Mary L Thompson of Rye faces persistent marriage proposals from Ernest von Gillman, a Hartford riding teacher, who admits wooing her since 1899. Miss Alice Grosvenor to marry Dudley Davis of New York. Newport friends coordinating gifts. retired policemen guard gifts for her Emmanuel Church wedding.
Gossip notes Valleus Enginases the Earl of Granard visiting Mr and Mrs Ogden Mulls in Newport. The earl keeps a strict daily routine of long walks tennis swims and meals followed by more activity. The piece comments on dress and social tone amid evolving fashions.
William Selby Shanley Jr and J C Williams hosted a Forts Peck dinner with guests from Long Branch to Lakeside gatherings at Mason and Mahkeenac shore. Notables include Mrs. Oscar Insigi and Mrs. Richard Stair Dana among bridge and luncheon attendees. Courses, gardens, and a Lenox golf match framed a week of summer society events.
Newport August social notices detail Mrs Norman Hapgood hosting a dinner and dance at her villa for about 60 guests with American beauty roses, plus entertainments by Mrs Gibson Fahnestock Bayard Thayer and Lispenard Stewart. Luncheon events, bridesmaids plans, rehearsed guest lists, and villa leases highlight a bustling social scene in Newport as residents and visitors arrive and depart for Europe and local venues.
The twenty first annual New York Club luncheon was held indoors at War dels Port au Peck Long Branch amid rain and chilly weather. Notables attending included John Foster Dr Harry E Shaw Frank Chevalier R H Hughes W Weisse L R Benjamin William Quick Clarence Van Note Z Willson Charles K Lexow Monroe Rothschild James Dunne James Hef fernan Dr Charles E H Cattanach J Herrington Alexander Clarke Henry Rose Thomas Lennon Charles Higgins Edward Liszt HG Stevens Joseph Mc Donald Thomas Heinemann and others. Sales for future circus seats and boxes outpace expectations as patrons flock to the Deal Country Club despite the rain.
In Bar Harbor on August 28 Mrs Casi mir De Rham Moore hosted a dinner at the Chalks with guests including Mrs Charles B Wright Mrs Robert Endicott Miss Fenno Cary Miss Dorothy Watts Miss Bette Gurnee Miss Dryden Miss McFadden Miss Moore Miss Taylor Miss Carrie Hatch and several gentlemen. Mr and Mrs George A Draper similarly entertained at their villa with Dr and Mrs Preston J Satterwhite and others. Mrs William P Draper hosted an informal luncheon at her villa for Mrs Henry F Dimmack and Mrs Robert Wadicott hosted a luncheon at the Swimming Club with Constance Pratt Belle Gurnee Catherine Perier Grace Moore Helen Frith Louise Frith Eleanor Erving Gladys Endigoit Ruth Lawrence Dorothy Watts Charlotte Delafield Anna Deliew and the Ogden sisters.
Ethel Barrymore, Charles G Gates, David B Hill and others dock in New York aboard the Mauretania and Balthazar. Barrymore plans her Utica theatre opening Sept 38 in Lady Frederick. Henry Howard discusses German American yacht race plans for next year and claims on Brown & Co. fortunes. Senator Hill and Senator Hale comment on politics and monetary policy.
The State of Kentucky appeals a Western District of Kentucky ruling that the McChord law authorizing the state railway commission to fix rates is unconstitutional. The case involves all railroads in the Easton district and follows a prior ruling by Judge Hyane reversed on irregularity. An injunction against rate enforcement was issued by Judge Cochran and appealed for final Supreme Court action on the statute’s constitutionality.
Special orders by the War Department appoint a board of army officers to meet in this city to prepare plans and specifications for a building with office and storage facilities for artillery, engineer, ordnance, and signal stores at coast artillery posts. The board includes Lieut Col Solomen W. Roessier, corps of engineers. Lieut Col Orn B. Mitcham, ordnance. Maj Charles McK Saltzman, signal corps. Maj B. Frank Cheatham, quartermaster. Capt Robert R. Aberneths, coast artillery corps.
Cable advices to the States Department show the Merida of the American Red D Line carrying U S mail for Curacao has been refused clearance papers and delayed in arrival at Caracas. The vessel had previously called at San Juan Porto Rico and the Venezuelan port of clearance denial remains unclear.
About 500 marriage offers poured in after a misprint said Anna Rowe was unmarried. She is acting to hold the place in line for her husband at the Fond du Lac reservation drawing slated for September. St Paul and Duluth papers had misreported her status, prompting many to offer. The War Department reported Mahila sent a requisition for sixteen veterinary surgeons to aid efforts against horse and caribou diseases in the Philippine islands.
The State Department announced that American missionaries Miss Holliday and Miss Miller were escorted from Tabriz to the Russian frontier at their own request by Consul General Doty. The note urged readers to consult tomorrow's Sunday Post for full details.
Col George W Goethals, chair of the War Department appointed commission, issues an order directing heads of departments to replace alien clerical workers with Americans on the Isthmus of Panama. Transfers set for September 1 as the building and municipal engineering divisions wrap up. Damages from canal construction settlements will total up to $300,000.
Short breath and palpitations signal weak heart action, be relieved by Dr Miles Heart Cure. Chronic heart trouble sufferers may gain, with testimonial from Lielie Thomas of Sandusky Ohio who says she regained health after two years of pain and breathlessness and lost 14 pounds after starting the remedy. The offer includes a money back guarantee if the first bottle fails.
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