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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1910
Page
7
Remnant sale Friday on G Street offers 25 dozen pairs of men's medium weight cotton socks with double heels toes and soles at six for $1.00, plus heavily discounted remnants including tan walking shoes shirts underwear and suspenders. suits and overcoats discounted to $9.75, trousers to $2.75, and Lot 1 fabrics $9.75 each while Lot 2 fabrics go to $15.00 each. Third floor G street.
Friday Special features heavy weight boys wash suits with sailor collars and military neckbands in white and colors, priced at 1.95 each, with reductions from higher prices. Includes Madras blouses, cotton pajamas, khaki flannel blouses, sailor tam o’shanters, and telescope cloth hats in various sizes, all marked down. Third Floor North tenth street location.
Clearance offers in the Third Floor section feature boys clothing with reduced prices on wool suits knickerbockers and overcoats, and white serge blouses. A wide range of fabrics, including calicoes, ginghams, serges, bâtiſte, and loupe prints, are discounted by fabric yard and by piece on the second floor.
The Fifth floor offers deep cuts on glassware and decorated china. Items include 8 inch and 3 inch cut glass pieces, chipped or imperfect pieces discounted from original prices to under one dollar, plus French and Japanese china in assorted pieces with reductions from dollars to low figures.
A limited run of 50 women's black taffeta silk waists priced at 2.95 each, with plain tailored styles. Navy blue and black taffeta waists also cut to 4.50 each from 5.75. One olive green messaline satin waist reduced to 9.00, hunter's green satin waist listed. Blouses in chiffon cloth see reductions to 12.50 and 7.50. Third floor-Gst.
A Friday sale offers a miscellaneous collection of high grade shirt waists from regular stock at substantial savings. Prices are cut across several items from $10.00 to $6.75, $7.50 to $4.75, and lower, with multiple quantities discounted to as low as $1.50.
Black panna velvet coat suit with satin trim and braid buttons, 32 inch coat and hobble skirt, size 36. Reduced from 150 to 95. 13 piece black velvet coat suit with braided chiffon yoke and sleeves, size 36, reduced from 150 to 95. 18 piece wistaria coat suit, braided yoke and sleeves, hobble skirt, size 36, reduced from 135 to 95.
Several skirts reduced in price including Worsted skirts in gray and brown pin stripes with flounce to hobble effect at 87.5 to 100 each. Navy Blue Panama Skirt with 24 inch waist 49 inch length cut from 5.00 to 3.75. Black Voile Skirts full plaited style 30 and 42 inch waists 40 and 41 inch lengths cut from 4.75 to 7.50 each.
Pur Department offers reduced prices on fur muff sets, coats, and girl and women's garments. Items include Australian opossum muff set, natural fisher raccoon set, ponyskin coat, Hudson seal coat, gray squirrel set, and girls dresses and sweaters with marked-down prices from 2.95 to 57.50. Third floorG Street.
In the Bed Department a 14-foot white enameled bed with brass trim is marred and cut from $1450 to $9.75. A 13.6-foot bed is marred and reduced to $11.50, while an 18-foot bed with heavy fillers and brass trimmings drops to $11.75. Three white enameled beds and sizes 3 ft to 4 ft with bow feet trim are marked down to $3.30. Also on sale are shopworn dray and scraper items, a dented tin bread box, dented cakey chest, a 5-foot ginthes bar, Rogers nickel dessert spoons, sheet-iron roasters, and an opal bathroom shelf, with various reductions noted. Fifth floor Eleventh St.
Society continues with guests of John Fowler of Williams College visiting in Washington. Mrs. Lynch travels with Perry Belmonts before returning to Paris. Winthrop of Boston stays with Beekman Winthrop. Brandegee family in New York then Waldorf. Mrs. Newgarden hosts tea with aides. Weeks travels to Boston for a short stay. Yale troupe to perform Il Ventaglio at the Columbia Theater with prelude luncheon for Washington Indian Aid Society. Cornell and Yale social events pepper the week with dances at the New Willard and box-party guests, including Justice Hughes and other prominent society figures.
Miss Elsie Browning entertained yesterday for house guest Miss Amelia Doughty of New York alongside guests Miss Dorothy Herberger, Miss Isabel Johnson of New York, Miss Mildred Bacon and her guest Miss Annie Ganford of Nashville, Miss Ida Norment Smith, Miss Nina Van Arsdile, Miss Helena Oyster, Miss Harriet Lothrop, and Miss Marian True. Other luncheons and box parties noted include Miss Anne Lovick Kondrup’s Chase’s box with several guests, Mrs. Grayson Dulin hosting January guests, and Cadet Charles Janvrin Browne visiting during Christmas furlough. A reception honored Col. C Mason Pendleton’s birthday anniversary at Mrs. Brida W. Shepard’s home with about 100 invited friends splendorously received. Families and guests from New York, Florida, Nashville, and Bermuda are mentioned with travel plans and at-home dates through January.
Dr T J Allen outlines diet guidance from 1910 noting a merchant losing 8 pounds on toast and milk for three months. He argues milk is not ideal for adults, often poorly digested, and that pairing with toast improves digestion and balance of nutrients.
Christopher Meade, Civil War veteran and War Department clerk, died Wednesday. Funeral from 1307 Third Street NW tomorrow conducted by Rev James H Taylor with Lebanon Lodge No 7 in charge. Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery. Meade enlisted with Company H Eleventh Massachusetts vols. Pallbearers chosen from Lodge 7. Cairo Stables-Styish Carriages for hire listed at 1618 M?st.
He was captured at Malvern Hill and confined in Libby prison for eight weeks. Wounded at Chancellorsville, he earned fame in the War Department for saving nearly $1,000,000 on government mail contracts. His wife, a son, and four daughters survive.
Funeral rites for James Cecil Hooe Washington businessman who died at his Bluemont Virginia country home last Wednesday of tuberculosis will be held at noon tomorrow at the Church of the Incarnation Reverend William Tayloe Snyder will officiate pallbearers include Franklin K. Lane Richard V. Quahan Samuel G. Blythe Louis A. Coolidge Beet C. Bone and Elisha Theall Body to be brought from Bluemont on a special car attached to the 10 30 train arriving in Washington tomorrow morning and taken directly to the church
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