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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1910
Page
7
EADJUSTING stocks reveals large assortments of Women's and Misses' Ready-to-Wear Outer Apparel. A Special Clearance Sale opens this morning featuring Silk and Wool Dresses, Suits, Day and Evening Coats, Imported and Domestic Waists, Sweaters. High class productions from leading manufacturers in latest styles and exclusive designs, with significant prices. Personal inspection recommended.
The ad highlights luxurious women’s wear including rich wraps coats and dresses in chiffon broadcloths satins and zibelines in fashionable colors. It lists varied price points from 9.75 to 125.00 with names of fabrics and designers and notes one of a kind Paris influenced pieces by Elise Poret Camoreyt and Robert.
A bold catalog lists tailored suits in broadcloths, velvets, serges, and gabardines with up-to-date cuts and high finish. Prices range from 15.00 to 110.00, with many mid tier options and progressively higher tiers highlighting quality and refinement.
In the Misses' Section fashion notes velvet and plain tailored erect coats in multiple price ranges from 9.75 to 22.50 for 5 to 16 year olds. Also offered are rich broadcloths, plush and corduroy styles, and a special line of school wear coats for 6 to 14 year olds with rough cloths and gray mixtures. Dresses priced from 13.75 to 22.50, all-wool options in heavy weave and popular coat style with V necks.
Christmas gift book list featuring Prof James Orr works on sin faith and modern Christianity. Also includes Man's Need of God The Secret of the Lord Norman Maclean Can the World Be Won for Christ The Golden Heart by Ralph Henry Barbour and The Impostor by John Reed Scott with illustrations. Prices range from $1.25 to $1.60.
The piece surveys aristocratic habits and attire across courts and salons. It notes Queen Mary’s needlework and sewing as royal pastimes, a Russian ambassador’s daughter at opera dress, Mrs. Jones’s public health and horsemanship in Warsaw, and the lively Monday musicale in New York with attendees in simple walking outfits. It also details wardrobes at private sales, highlighting Mrs. Baylies, Mrs. Drexel, Mrs. Carroll, Mrs. Oelrichs, and others in elegant gowns, hats, and furs.
Mrs. Theodore Marburg and her daughter Christina Marburg hosted an informal reception for Miss Helen Taft daughter of the President. A dinner followed with music by W de C Poultney guests included Theodore Marburg Bruce Cotten Isidor Rayner Louisa Whyte Christine Marburg Ludlow Willett W W Abell and Richard Pleasants. Miss Taft and party attended services at Old St Pauls Church with Mr. Marburg and Miss Marburg.
The Florence observatory reports a morning to afternoon tremor sequence from 11 to 1 o'clock, seismic instruments registering strong vibrations from a distant source in Florence Italy. The item notes the quake was likely distant and mentions local carriage hire listings at 1613 Market Street North with phone numbers.
A long catalog of novels and authors listing numerous titles and writers. Names include Jack London Upton Sinclair Anthony Hope William Dean Howells George Ade and others. The list features literary works such as The Iron Heel Prisoner of Zenda and Looking Backward along with many additional titles and authors.
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