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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1908
Page
29
A local retailer touts a wide range of girls and misses fashion for the coming season. New Peter Thompson Suits in all wool, coats, jackets, linen and pique dresses, white lawn dresses, guimpes, and more are showcased in navy, brown, and checks. Sizes 6 to 20 years, with various coat and jacket suit styles and colors.
Two special values offered for children's hosiery with long-standing customer satisfaction. Tibbed black cotton with double knees and toes priced at 12 1/2 cents per pair. Broad ribbed and double-knit fancy stockings selling at 25 cents a pair. Main floor.
Catalog copy lists children's gingham outer garments for ages 2 to 5 years including overalls aprons rompers and creepers. Describes styles with pockets pockets collars piping and gathered necks in pink white and checked patterns. Prices shown 30 to 50 cents. Located on the third floor near the eighty ninth street area.
Demonstrations showcase Huntley & Palmer biscuits English biscuits and Wafer Biskits with a focus on de lightfully prepared goods. Colonial and Tourist Coffees, Imperial Cheese and peanut butter are presented with emphasis on sanitary packaging. Quaker Oats Minute Tapioca and Altamont Water are demonstrated with ready to serve options. Choco-Lactine chocolate mix promises quick, complete dessert and cake icing without cooking.
The Southern Cotton Oil Co. culinary expert Miss S F Bonner offers a test of special lessons using Snowdrift and Wesson Oil at 10 am to 12 pm and 3 to 5 pm. Delicious cakes and pastries will be served to attendees.
Washington society gathers at the White House Willard and other venues. Features include dinners for Mrs Fairbanks Mrs Knox Miss Merriam and debutante Grice Jarvis. Notables: British Ambassador Deputy and Mrs Carter Dryden Mann and Gary, Belgian Minister and Baroness Monceur, and many senators and representatives attend. A Valentine themed luncheon at Willard honors Pennsylvania wives. Miss Van Wart hosts at the Waldorf. NYC social events include a Sherry's dog ballet with Lady Astor and Mark Twain.
A remarkable divorce splits a prominent New York marriage. Justice Davis grants an Interlocutory decree against Howard Bayles, a mining engineer and chairman, after a single alleged transgression. Janette Logan Bayles, daughter of the late Walter Seth Logan, announces she will resume her maiden name. The case, heard secretly by referee Edward Wise, features high society figures at its center and recalls the couple’s celebrated wedding at Brick Presbyterian Church two years earlier. Bayles, from an old family, resisted the breakdown amid strong social pressure as Janette contemplates her future wealth and status.
An unusual exhibit of tapestries embroideries and textiles opens today at the Corcoran Art Gallery under the National Society of Fine Arts. The private view for guests occurred from 9 to 11 last night and the show runs through February 39. Notable loans include pieces from Theodore Roosevelt Metropolitan Museum Boston Museum Seymour R. Locks the Barberin collection A W Drake and Mish E R Scidmore. Washingtonians Larz Anderson and Senator W A Clark also loaned items.
The Lincoln Emancipation Association of Northern Virginia hosts a Rob erts Chapel event in Alexandria to honor Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass with speakers from the Peace and the Board of Education. Robert H. Terrell and Richard R. Horner are named among the speakers.
A long list of names and affiliations from hotels in multiple cities is summarized, listing guests from Baltimore Boston Chicago Philadelphia New York City Pittsburgh Richmond California Stamford Delaware Indiana Georgia Michigan Kentucky Ohio Ohio to Pennsylvania Rhode Island Texas Washington and Wyoming with hotel names such as Willard, Mendota, and Raleigh. Names include C W Exhbard A F Katler William Winkelman John L Fiske and many others, with repeated references to Metropolitan New Willard Arlington and other properties.
District Health Department will use postal cards, once reserved for addresses, to educate the public. Acknowledgment cards remind about birth registrations and about clean food sold at markets, dairies, and eateries. Dr Woodward notes printing costs are minor and fines may be charged for new card editions. The department sends six to seven thousand acknowledgments yearly.
The body of artcur W. Fergusson, late executive secretary of the Philippine government, was sent aboard the transport Sherman from Manila to San Francisco and will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery. By presidential instruction, his funeral will be official and carry public honors appropriate for a deserving official.
A new prize picture showcases a contending entry in the educational contest, capturing the excitement and community interest in this ongoing event.
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