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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
15
A broad department sale promotes a vast establishment's leftovers described as cleanest nearest-perfect odds and ends. Items are this season's production in newest styles suitable for personal and home use, all offered at exceptional values.
Clearance sale on third floor G street offers half price and less on entire stock of women's woolen dresses including serges, broadcloths, cashmeres in rose green raisin dark blue and black with various styles. Also shirt waists and lingerie waists at about half price and a lot of girls and misses college suits in Co-ed and North Pole effects at one fourth to one third off. Includes navy gray raisin and plaid options with tailored jackets and plaited skirts.
A large collection of girls and misses coats offered at a fourth to a third off regular prices. Styles include serges cheviots bread cloths and other attractive fabrics. Full length trimmed with braid and buttons some lined some unlined sizes 6 to 14 offered at and likely discounts.
Attention to a large assortment of elegant furs now offered at special prices. Featured sets include Imported Baum Marten with scarf and muff priced at 50.00, Natural Wolf set in cream shading to brown with scarf and muff at 50.00, and Russian White Fox set in finest white fox with scarf and muff at 125.00. Values listed as 75.00 and 150.00 respectively.
A holiday sale offers immediate clearance of cotton dress goods with 214 to 7 yard lengths. Prices include 10 to 36 cents per yard for items like Printed Percales, Flannels, Batiste Lawns, Himalaya Cloth, Dotted Chiffon Cloth, and Silks. About 400 remnants remain on the second floor G Street at W.
A society note from Washington describes invitations capped for a White House reception on Tuesday January 4 with Mrs Charles Anderson of Cincinnati visiting Taft. The piece lists many hostesses and guests, including Miss Helen Taft, Mrs Boardman, and numerous social luminaries at dinners and cotillions, with decor of holly and mistletoe and a large guest list continuing on the next page.
Functions for Miss Pilling and Miss Ruth Pulling showcased a debutante season pace. The sequence included luncheon, tea hosted by Mrs Ransail Goes with Katherine Brown, and a dinner for her at Ithwich Place followed by a cotillion at the Club of Colonial Dames on Connecticut Avenue. Guests at a tea at Mrs Hoes’s Rhode Island avenue home were young, decorated with poinsettias, as Mrs Green Clay Goodloe and Miss Gouverneur led the tea table.
The schedule lists reception times and inviting groups at the White House on New Year’s Day. 11 00 A M includes the Vice President cabinet and diplomatic corps while 11 20 A M covers Supreme Court justices and federal judges, 11 30 A M governors and legislators, and 11 45 A M military officers. 12 15 P M lists Smithsonian and civil service officials, then 12 30 P M various veterans and fraternal organizations, and 1 00 P M welcomes citizens.
A lavish season event at the Colonial Dames Club featured Mrs James C Puling and guests including Miss Marion Leutze Miss Katherine Brown and many others. The cotillion showcased five dance figures with favors such as parasols gold wands and fans. An orchestra provided music and a buffet supper followed the second waltz as dozens of belles and cavaliers danced.
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