Useful Gifts for Babies at Fourth Floor Deals
A catalog of baby essentials and gifts from the Fourth floor on Eleventh Street. Folding bath tubs, rubber bath aprons, enameled dressing tables, safety pins, scales, and wicker baskets with floral enamel details. Teething rings and sticks, mother-of-pearl items, wash cloths, towels, and white enamel bassinets. High chairs in oak and mahogany with sanitary enamel trays and charming painted back panels, priced from $4.80 to $11.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold
Tohneon
Atock
Het Walter
Rand
Eleventh Street
Baby
Useful Leather Gifts for Women in Silk and Velvet
One of the largest leather handbag stocks displays silk velvet seal and morocco pieces in varied styles and sizes. Velvet handbags with coin purses and mirrors range from 20 to 25 dollars, with envelope purses priced from 1 to 12.50 dollars and soft leather purses from 3 to 12.50 dollars. Leather goods over 1 dollar are marked free of charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Velvet
Seal
Morocco
Electric Household Necessities Christmas Sale Listing
A period advertisement promotes Electric Household Necessities with a range of items and prices for Christmas shoppers. It highlights Table Toasters Grills Coffee Pots Urns Chafing Dishes Hot-water Kettles Heating Pads Curling Irons and Gib Irons plus a traveler iron, all shown with various price points. The copy mentions Ebirths on Eleventh Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleventh Street
Desperado Debonair Hat Finishes Modern Street Wear
A black velvet hat with a striped ostrich plume at the front adds a charming finish to a contemporary young woman’s street costume. The piece exudes debonair style without leaning to gaudy flair, offering a refined accessory option.
Washington social season filled with weddings and visits
Washington society rounds out a busy weekend with multiple weddings including Miss Gladys Safford and Durward Grinstead at St Thomas Church and Miss Sophy Stanton Johnston and Capt Lucius Mason in St John's Church. The scene also features diplomat ties with the Page family at Pinehurst and numerous society dinners, receptions, and house moves shaping the winter social calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Mayre Safford
Durward Grinstead
Louisville
Washington Society
Safford
Washington
St. Thomas’ Church
Rauscher’s
John Stevens
Boston
Lelia May Stevens
Hisie Downing
Stewart Clement
U S. A
Shoreham
Sophy Stanton Johnston
Lucius Randolph Mason
USA
St. John’s Church
Eleanor Johnston
Mason
Camp Hancock
Military Wedding in Epiphany Church Miss Derryle Law Weds Col Carey Brown
A Saturday ceremony at the Church of the Epiphany united Miss Derryle Law and Col. Carey H. Brown with Dr Yimon Baruch performing the rites. Attendants included Miss Elizabeth Berry Col B G Chynoweth and ushers Col Steese Col Fox Col McCaffery Maj Robb and Maj McLean. The event featured blue and red floral decor and the couple and guests hosted several post wedding events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Harlow
Richard
Louise Thoron
Lucy Jewett
Chicago
Harriet McKim
Harriet McKee
New York
Alan Goodrich Kirk
Robert Chew
Monroe Kelly
Alva Sternhard
William Miller
United States Navy
Alston M Law
E B Latham
Geodetic Survey
Col
Brown
Walter Reed Hospital
Baruch
Eighteenth Street
How to Weather Marriage by Helen Rowland
A 1918 column lampoons dinner hour tensions in marriage noting the modern dinner is unpredictable. It contrasts past routine with present delays, jokes about wives awaiting husbands and the dread of his unpredictable mood on return. The piece argues for timing flexibility and highlights the burdens of dinner expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Rowland
Austria
Copwright
the Press Publishing
Col Brown Returns to Command at Camp Forrest
Col Brown, a West Point graduate who spent eleven months at the front in France, has been sent back from overseas to take command at Camp Forrest where about 10,000 men are in engineer replacement training. Mrs Brown has been John B Densmore’s private secretary since April. Col Chynoweth spoke at Cafe Sovraii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chynoweth
Brown
John B Densmore
Col. Brown
France
Camp Forrest
West Point
Women take first turn at police headquarters phones
Women answered the telephones at police headquarters for the first time in the department's history. Mrs Gertrude M herna of 45 New York avenue northwest and Miss Hazel Wolf of 615 Fourteenth street northeast served as telephone clerks. The role handles messages from precinct stations, citizen complaints, and arrest reports routed through the city exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude M Herna
New York Avenue
Hazel Wolf
Fourteenth Street
Telephone Clerks Appointed After Successful Experiment
Superintendent Felice Pullman announced the experiment proved successful and added two clerks, Miss Isabelle Ricketts and Miss Margaret M Clasby, to begin work today on the blotter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felice Pullman
Isabelle Ricketts
Margaret M Clasby
Predicted World War Between Socialists and Capitalists
New York attorney Deoarge EK Marshall told the Secular League at the Pythian Temple that a near world war will be fought between socialists and capitalists. He argued ballots offer no recourse and progress has only come via revaluation as in Russia and Germany. A government employee, AB Johnson, attempted to refute but was denied the floor as a nonmember. Johnson left voluntarily after a disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandmamma
Grandpa
Hubby
Jadine
Deoarge EK Marshall
New York
Secular League
Pythian
Russia
Germany
B Johnson
Car
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Woodward & Lothrop
Paris
Burlington Cafe
Vermont Ave
JR Sothoton
J. H. Small & Sons, Inc
Waldorf-Astonia
15Th & HO
Madison Or
L. L. Perkins
United States
Milwoods
DISON
Gibson Co.,inc
Grafton Hotel and
de Sales St
Harrington Mills,Proprietor
Steinway
Little Mothers’ Aid Association
New York City
U. S
London
Walter Hines Page
Pinehurst
C. G. Loring
T J Walsh
Montana
N. C
Frances Holl Crit
Herbert Floyd Clough
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church
Mr Clough
Richfield
H F Taff
Takoma Park
Wis Ress Gravener
Highlands
Togzi
Pitt Scott
Cassidy Cook
Italy
Malcolm McConside
William Morton Grinnell
Miss Grinnell
Washington Club
William F. Dennis
Hazeling
Frankfort
Capt. Dennis
Maj
Dennis
Henry St. George Tucker
Laurel
Belgium
Mme. Havenith
M. Havenith
Brussels
Blaine Etking
Charleston
W. Va
Emikins
William E 'Chilton
George FE. Hamilton
Country Place
Rockville Pike
New Hampshire Avenue
Misa Nannie Hamilton
Ward Thoron
Nent
Robert B. Osgood
Danvers
Thoron
Lieut
Benjamin W. Thoron
James McDonald
Frank L. Pleadwell
John Terry Thompson
New London
Conn
Thompson
Charlies T. Thotapacn
Robert Bartle Miller
Ninth Regiment
Kathleen Marie Sabin
L. Sherwood Sabin
Gaston Avenue
Dallas
Tex
E. H. Diamond
Yvonne Sabin
Miller
Misses Battle
Quantaco, Va
Dr. Miller
Coles
Roy H. Coles
Charles Mayer, Jr
Farnsboro Apartments
Daln & W Mertin
Barv SovnsCo
Pennaave
Douvet de Laines
Kann’s
Department
Alace Theater
Loew’s
Claramount
Sporting Life
Marcus Loew
Maurice Tourneur
Manhattan Opera House
England
National Sporting Club
PaLace Theater
Paramount and
Artcraft Pictures
Lasky Ees
Adolph Suror
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