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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
39
A prominent New York silk house offers a vast stock of bright new silks. Every piece selected for quality includes armures tafetas and chiffon taffetas in multiple colors and patterns. Prices range from 39 to 75 cents a yard, with strong fashion note and early season underpricing Spanish.
Special values offer two lots of boys wool suits at concession prices. Suits are knit in knickerbocker style for sizes 8 to 17 with latest patterns. Lot prices listed as 500 each, with various 7 30 850 and 9 00 tags. Special pre, 750 each. Valrex 10 00, 11 00, 12 50.
Readable stock list offers boys blouses with attached collars in white and novelty finishes, priced per lot with bulk discounts. Also advertised are silk and muslin petticoats for women in black and white with flounces, and various cambric garments and undershirts priced for quick sale. Includes stocked undergarments with trims, piping, and pink accents.
A sale offers girls dresses and suits in madras percales lawns and other fabrics in plain white dotted striped and colored patterns. Listed items include madrasa dresses with braids tucks and back fastenings, lawn jumper dresses with dotted designs, and sailor style outfits all at special clearance prices.
Infants and children’s long and short dresses offered in Namsook and gingham styles with hemstitched trims, embroidery, and front plaits. Prices shown as modest, with sizes for infants and 1 to 2 year olds. Includes bishop style dresses with turn-over collars and cuffs.
Guatemalan minister Heare travels to New York while Mrs Peabody Wetmore and Miss Wetmore linger abroad. Engagements announced include Augusta Falls to Lieut Horace Fletcher Spurgin Coast Artillery and Harriet Ogden Deen to Commander Roger Welles. Newport party scenes feature Miss Gale, Brig Gen Sharpe, and social rounds with various hosts, gifts, and a famed mink coat tale.
Valleus Enginases the Earl of Granard has stayed with Mr and Mrs Ogden Mulls at Newport. He keeps a strict daily routine with long walks tennis and swims. The piece quips about dress and social restraint and notes some people prefer ready made clothes.
A sequence of social gatherings hosted by prominent figures including Mrs. Woolley former Long Branch mayor, William Selby Swan, J Frank Shanley Jr, and J C Williams. Attendees from New York and Boston regions attended dinners, bridge parties, and luncheons at Fort Peck Lakeside Lakeside Westchester area notices about arrivals, golf matches, a kite contest, and upcoming Lenox season preparations.
Newport events feature many dinners and luncheons at villas and clubs. Notables Fahnestock Thayer Stewart Grosvenor Sedgwick and Grosvenor guests attend social functions as houses host visitors and renew leases. Various locals and out-of-town guests arrive or depart, with Miss Maria de Barrill planning a Europe trip and others visiting Newport residents and families.
The twenty first annual New York Club luncheon at War dels Port au Peck on the Shrewsbury was held indoors due to chilly weather. Notables including John Foster, Dr. Harry E. Shaw, Monroe Rothschild, James Hef fernan, and many others attended, with box and seat sales ahead of expectations as plans for the society circus proceed despite rain.
Bar Harbor Me August 28 society note describes Mrs Casi mir De Rham Moore hosting 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 others. Mr and Mrs George A Draper hosted a villa dinner with guests Dr and Mrs Preston J Satterwhite and several 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 numerous attendees.
Ethel Barrymore Charles Gates son of John W Gates Bishop Gibson Robert A White and other prominent figures land in New York after voyages aboard the Mauretania and Balth, with Barrymore to open in Lady Frederick in Utica September 38. Henry Howard discusses next year’s German American yacht race and future racing prospects on the Great Lakes. Senator Hill and Senator Hale comment on politics and Taft in England and New York affairs.
The State of Kentucky appeals to the Supreme Court from a Western Kentucky ruling declaring unconstitutional the McChord law authorizing the railway commission to fix rates. The case involves all Easton district railroads, with prior reversals and injunctions shaping the high court showdown on the statute’s constitutionality.
War Department special orders appoint a board of army officers to meet here to prepare and submit tentative plans and specifications for a building containing office and storage facilities for artillery, engineer, ordnance, and signal stores at coast artillery posts. The board includes Lieut Col Solomon W. Roessier, Lieut Col Orn B. Mitcham, Maj Charles McK Saltzman, Maj B. Frank Cheatham, Capt Robert A. Aberneths.
Cable advices to the States Department report the Venezuelan embargo on Curacao is delaying the steamer Merida carrying U S mail. The vessel of the Red D Line was refused clearance papers and shows a delay in arrival at Caracas after previously stopping at San Juan Porto Rico.
Anna Rowe holds place in line for Fond du Lac reservation drawing opening in September. Reports misidentified her as unmarried prompting many marriage offers from across the country. Her husband remains unnamed. a war department requisition seeks sixteen veterinary surgeons to combat animal diseases in the Philippines alongside ongoing government efforts.
The State Department said American missionaries Miss Holliday and Miss Miller were escorted from Tabriz to the Russian frontier at their request by Consul General Doty. The move follows safety concerns and underscores ongoing regional tensions.
War Department directs all departments to replace alien clerical workers with Americans from a government list. Transfers to take effect September 1 in the building and construction divisions. Col George Goethals notes retention limited to exceptional cases and aligns with Taft directions. Damages from canal construction settlements capped at 300000 dollars.
A vintage testimonial touts Dr Miles Heart Cure and Nervine as cures for heart weakness, palpitation, and breath difficulty. The user claims dramatic past suffering, dramatic weight gain, and a money back offer from Miles Medical Co. The piece imitates old patent medicine advertising.
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