Toiletry and Bath Requisites at Woodward & Lothrop
Woodward & Lothrop occupies the square from 10th to 11th streets offering a vast assortment of Toilet and Bath Requisites. Perfumes from Coty Houbi gant Roger & Gallet Vantine Colgate and others, extracts sachets soaps and cosmetics evoke oriental fragrances. Located at the G street entrance this display extends invitingly for discerning shoppers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coty
Houbigant
Roger & Gallet
Vantine
Colgate, &c
Singapore
India
G Street
Exquisite Perfumes and Extracts from Europe and America
A catalog of fragrances and extracts including Coty’s Jasmine de Corse L’Origan de Coty La Rose Jacqueminot La Violette Pourpre Violette Cryper L’Effiuert de Coty Aeolian Gardenia and Houbigant’s lines with prices such as 2.40 and 4.00, plus Royal Cyclamen and other scents from Colgate’s and 4711 Cologne. Prices vary from 85 cents to 4.25 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasmin de
Face Powders and Bathing Requisites List of Items
A catalog style listing of cosmetic powders and bathing reagents including Piver faces powders Azurea Le Trefle Incarnat and others from Roger & Gallet Kentheric and Colgate. Prices appear inline with varied cents and dollar amounts and several bottles and odors noted. Some OCR garble and stray numbers present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piver
Roger & Gallet
Levy
Murray & Lanman
Florida Water
Lambert
Hair tonics and bottles advertised with prices
An advertisement lists tonics and hair care bottles including Pinaud's Hau de Quinine Barker's Hirsitus Ayer's Scalpinol Dabney's Shampoo and Scalp Food Ahdelsen's Bay Rum priced at 80 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinaud
Barker
Ayer
Dabney
Scalp Food
Bott
Vintage Soap Advert Fragment with Numerous Brand Names
A fragmentary 19th or early 20th century soap advertisement lists many brands and varieties. Items include Luxurious Violet, Cucumber and Almond, Witch Hazel, Auditorium Bath, Colgate violet, Brown Windsor, Elderflower, Honey, Glycerin, Tar, Pumice, Pears, English Elderflower, Lubin, Japanese Rose, Johnsons Palm Olive, and Palm Oil soaps among others with prices per cake or per dozen noted in cents. The exact counts and some spellings are garbled but convey a broad catalog of soaps and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armour
Auditorium
Colgate
Windsor
Roger & Gallet’s
Societie Hygienique
Eleays
Glenn’s
Williams
Piver
Lubin
Johnson’s
W &L
W.&l
Eyue Ake
Tte
Paver
Araarta Oekaki
Johnson
Miscellaneous Toilet Needs and Sets in Various Prices
An advertisement lists sponge bags, toilet cases, manicure sets, hot water bags, powder puffs, buffers, and celluloid and Parisian ivory toilet sets. Items are offered in multiple price points from pennies to several dollars, with single-piece options and engraving of initials or monograms available.
Washington social notes honor dinner for Taft guests
Invitations were issued for a December 19 dinner honoring President Taft and Mrs Taft as the first in a series of official dinners. Capt Graham L Johnson hosted a lunch at the Chevy Chase Club for Miss Helen Taft with 62 guests including high officials and military figures. Various society events followed at the Chevy Chase Club and in Washington, with many notable attendees from diplomacy, the military, law, and journalism, plus travel and residence updates for numerous families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SherMan
Taft
Graham L. Johnson
U. A
Chevy Chase Club
Misa Helen Taft
Whckrsham
Army
Leonard Wood
W. W. Wotherspoon
Johansen
Misa Nagel
Nichols
New York
Misa Colton
B. H Rton
Matthew
Ridley McLean
Comar. Lang
Cary T. Grayson
Frederick Faust
Frank Els
Bristol
Williams
Davis
William Marrow
Chauncey Hackett
Washington
Legation
Alberto Yoacham
David D Porter
Marjory Ide
Spain
Beekman Winthrop
Mra
H. B. Kane
Adele Colgate
Lady Stafford
Winthrop
Com. T. Retzmann
A. Platt Andrew
Clary Ray
Marguerite Barbour
James F. Barbour
Gladys Perin
Rose Wood
Irene Daly
Adele Daly
Baltimore
Katherine Baxter
Louisville
Catherine Britton
Russell Train
Capt Train
Miss Barbour
Surgeon General of the Navy
Mrs. Stokes
Ean
the Highlands
Winifred Davis
Richard C Moore
John 8
Gittings
Ashburton
van Wyck
Mrs Whitridge
Nina Gaither
Louisa White
Miss Thomas
Dorothy Gittings
Gladys Gittings
William Barrett
Lieut
Cameron
Baron Hardenbrock
William
Bowie Clarke
Henry May Gittings
Paul Pearsall
Senator
Depew
Basque sheepdogs enter England via Lady Castlereagh at Rutland lodge
Lady Castlereagh discusses Basque sheepdogs, bred from Rascoe, noting they are not replacing bloodhounds. She praises bloodhounds for crime detection when used promptly, recounting training efforts, and extols their antiquity, dignified appearance, and affectionate nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castlereagh
England
Viscount Castlereagh
Springfield
Oakham
Rutland
Rascoe
Rascoe, A Dog Belonging To My Sister, Miss Chaplin
Lady Bountiful
Also Mentioned on This Page
Paris
America
Ideal
Belsailek
Fieurs D’armour
Aitets
Peau D’espagne
Anes
Mrs. Sherman
Bex
Denmark
Countess Moltke
Vogue
French Academy
Red Cross
France
Turkey
Alice Wright
Daniel Thew Wright
Eliza Morgan McMullin
Oakland
Cal
John Hays Hammond
Frank Andrewa
Massachusetts Avenue
Mas
David D. Porter
Ninteenth Street
Maj. Porter
Hanna
Mark Hanna
Mrs. Draper
Gen. Draper
Miss Draper
Mrs. Ten Eyck Wendell
Europe
Julia Coleman Young
Nan Barclay Young
Wil
Italy
James Barclay Young
Milan
Senator Warren
Wyoming
New Willards
Pershing
John J. Persh
Ing
Philippines
Charles H. Patterson
Lieut Patterson
Benoist d'Azy
Mme. d‘Azy
Countess de Nicolay
Christian de Nicolay
Franc
d’Azy
Comtesse de Nicolay
Marquis de
Charles Francis Carusi
Mr. Carusi
Earl Farr
Preston Gibson
Casing Theater
Countess Luise Alexandra von Hernstroff
Fred C. King
Henry L. Kip
J. W. Morrissey
W. T. Price
Seth Sprague
W. R. Chapman
Walter G. Mulliner
Tirflow
Scott Circle
M. F. Snyder
Ross, Snyder
Altamont Springs, Fla
Swift & Company
Washington, D. C
George Gould
Cairo
Directoire Wis
Reseda
Irichen Square
Peedee Eeees
Stoneleigh Court
Connecticut Avenue
L-Street
Shi
J. H. Small & Sons
New York Corner
Ant ‘Waldorf-Astoria
Broadway
F. E. Chapin
Kodaka
the, Highlands
George A. Mills
Galt & Mbro
Pennsylvania
Avenue
Marinello
Abrefgie
Juliet Ostrich Feather Shop
G Street Fit
Seos
V. D. Rosen
Benois Blag
Ith & Gas
N. We
Cornwell Fon
Edam Came
MBERT
Gorgonzola
Parmesan Stilton Sap
Sago Gonda Neufchatel
G.G. Cornwell & Son
Penna. Ave
Union Trust Company
Uth and Hsts
N. W
Edward J. Stellwagen
Jeloff
O. J. DeMoll & Co
12Th & G Sts
N.W
Louvre
Philipsborn
Sulu
Liebster
Arthur G
Borden
Opachive
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