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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1909
Page
13
Our store announces hours 8:30 A M to 8:30 P M until further notice. Friday’s Remnant Day highlights attractive remnants with strong value across classes. Early inspection advised as many small lots contain prime bargains and sell quickly.
Special purchase of Valenciennes laces including laces sedges and insertions matching, widths from 34 inches to match trimming lingerie dresses underwear and more. Various values from 1.00 to 173.00.
A bold clearance sale lists various portieres and drapery accessories with discounted prices. Items include velvet and silk designs, with marked down values from several dollars to over twenty, plus bulk quantities and special deal notes. The text shows multiple price points and product names in a dense catalog style.
A sale listing offers Irish linen shirt waists from Tiske, Clarke & Flage in styles including plain tailored and tucked long sleeves with front closures. Sizes 32 to 42 priced at 3.30, with numerous remnants reduced from 6.75 to 5.06, 2.00 to 1.00, or higher cuts like 11.50 to 3.79, plus imported handmade lingerie shirts and linen madras variations with deep discounts.
Local circular lists linen Huck towels at sale prices. Ads offer white hemmed towels with immediate use, prices around $3.00 per dozen and various sizes mentioned. Obscure notes reference Cuban heel, dyed blue, and laced edges, with unclear dates and mixed garbled phrases.
The ad lists various framed paintings and photogravures with deep discounts from original prices. Items include German Village prints in gilt frames, a Quiet Spat painting in a deep gold frame, a shadow box frame piece, and hand colored engravings. Prices range from modest to nearly a thousand dollars with reduced sale figures throughout.
A sale listing shows Cheviot Coat Suits in multiple colors with semifit cuts, satin lining, and gored skirts priced around $10 each, originally $15. Also listed are blue cloth two-piece dresses, tan voile princess dresses, imported woven outfits, and assorted long coats and coat-suits, with numerous reductions from high prices to approximately ten dollars.
In the fur department several items are reduced from high prices. Isabella fox shawl scarf dropped from 225.00 to 18.75, a brown marten scarf trimmed with poude and fails, and a Japanese mink shawl scarf cut from 2700 to 20.00. An electric seal fur set with lug muff and hat is marked down to 10.00.
A dated sale blurb lists Misses Department garments with deep reductions. Garments include Garnet orvadcloth suits with black satin, box coats, and full skirts, reduced from 135.00 to 10.50 each. brown garnet jackets. cheviot jumpers. novelty coats. plain skirts. heavy galatea dresses in dark blue and tan. all with marked price cuts and sizes noted.
The China Department offers numerous pieces at reduced prices including Austrian and French china. Items include three piece sets at 31.25 each, celery and salad bowls discounted, decorated luncheon and cake pieces marked down, and several covered dishes and sauce tureens with varying reductions.
Shopworn housewares on sale with large markdowns from nickel plated dishes to wash tubs and baskets. Items include teapots jelly molds wash boilers and more with discounts ranging from fractions of a dollar to several dollars at Century Furniture Posh Fifth Floor Eleventh Street.
A diplomatic corps dinner at the White House hosted by President and Mrs. Roosevelt drew fourteen guests including Miss Eleanor Woodward of New York and Miss Martha Ross of Evansville. Rear Admiral and Mrs. McGowan hosted later that evening. a large state-side gathering featured pink azaleas and exotics, with nine embassies represented and many ministers listed among attendees.
Social notices list Mrs Richard Butler hosting a dinner for Secretary of the Navy and Mrs Newberry at the Rochambeau with guests including the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs Garfield acting as well as several senators generals and diplomats. Other dinners honor Mrs Faith Simpkins and various officials while Mrs John Van Rensselaer and Mrs Archibald Graela announce upcoming at home afternoons at the Rochambeau and Sixteenth Street residences. A district Episcopal reception for Rev George Calvert Carter marks the fifth anniversary of his tenure.
Snapshot coverage notes the Metropoli tan Opera House gathering with Mrs Hollins Smit McKim in box No.7 and several other society figures in elaborate gowns. The piece also recounts a Havana reception hosted by Minister Ewin V Morgen and a Manhattan Opera House appearance by Cortlandt Field Bishop and guests.
This afternoon a charity performance at the Belusca benefits Italian earthquake victims with Washington society in attendance. Young society women sell programs and act on a program committee including Mire Chew and Miss Mary Chew. Guests include Mrs. Plochot with sister Mrs. Charles Sead from New York and Mrs. Montgomery with Miss Montgomery from Portland after a Berlin winter.
Mims Claire Ingalls daughter of Dr. and Mrs J K E Ingalls wed Roy M. Smith of New York at her parents home on Ninth Street. Rev George P. Wilson presided with Rev H C Ingall assisting. Guests included relatives and close friends. couple depart for southern bridal trip amid brief reception.
Special to The Washington Post Baltimore Jan 14 Miss Gaither became the bride of Lieut Julius Curtis Townsend son of Mr and Mrs Townsend of Keokuk Iowa. The ceremony was at 7 30 o clock at Christ Church with Rev Dr Edwin B Niver in the presence of a fashionable assembly. A reception followed at the Gaither residence before the couple departed for a trip south. Among out of town guests were Charles Littell Harry W Gaither L P Downs and many others from Philadelphia Annapolis Louisville and Cincinnati.
Mrs. George O. Robinsor of Detroit Michigan, newly elected president of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will be guest of honor at a reception this evening from 8 to 10 in Rust Hall Northwest. She founded the deaconess work of the Methodist Episcopal Church and seats Rust Hall and Sibley Hospital as part of the philanthropic program. Mrs Robinson is married to Judge George O Robinson of Detroit, founder of a large San Juan Puerto Rico orphanage. Washington Methodists will greet her with Bishops Hartzell and Cramton present along with Dr Wilder of the National Training School.
Investigation disclosed that Miss Carothe Nabuco, daughter of the Brazilian ambassador, narrowly escaped death when her carriage was wrecked on Sixteenth Street and Scott Street. She was en route to a Swedish Legation dinner, later continuing in another vehicle after the accident.
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