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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1909
Page
11
Display of linen tailored suits frocks lingerie dresses and blouses in sheer white fabrics with laces embroidery and fine materials. Latest models in riding wear and dresses shown in Costume and Joel Departments on the third floor G Street.
We display straw and silk hats including Pheaver styles in new models for travel and veranda wear. Also hosiery of silk, linen, and cotton with patent leather, black and tan, and white shoes. Ties, pumps, and other somber accessories. Riding and diving goods offered.
Spring High-Grade Wash Fabrics announce a new 190M collection featuring silk satin brocade poplin chiffon mull and cotton poplin velvets and voile. The line touts exclusive materials like Japanese silks chiffon lisse and embroidered French poplin, aimed at dainty gowns and southern resort wear with dainty designs not often duplicated.
MO2T comprehensive assortment of White Cotton Materials is here to select from, representing the best products of America, as well as those of England, Ireland, France and Switzerland. The stock also includes many novelties of direct importation, which cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Inelated are Persian, French, Victoria and Swiss Lawn, Handmade avissts French Batiste, French and Swiss Organdie, Wash Chiffon, French Nainsook, Masalin, India Linou, Plaid and Striped Dimity and Nainsagh, Embroidered Swiss and Batiste. French Percale, &. Eng file Macias in new patterns. Linens in all weights for costumes, chil dess dresses, infants' outfits, lingerie, and art needlework.
A Washington stage column reports a shift in dramatic roles led by Belasco and Walter, predicting the traditional adventuress will yield to a natural, morally pointed heroine. Reviews praise Laura Murdock’s frailty as a counterpoint and credit Miss Frances Starr in The Fushet Way with advancing the change. Social notes list dinners, marriages, and gatherings among officials, diplomats, and Washington society.
Washington lodge of Elks pre p tels minstrel production for February 1 2 3 at Hikes Hall with Fred J Mersheimer heading a committee. Top local talent to present skits songs and jokes with a new wardrobe and possible street parades if weather permits. Professional Night follows with local theater acts aiding the program. Proceeds go to lodge charity interests.
The piece follows Duchess Chaulnes and the newborn duke in Paris with Miss Roberta Ray photographing in dim light. It covers the duke’s christening plan at Chateau Darapierre, the Shonts family, and remarks on Lady Rosemary Cairns and other society figures, plus fashion updates and a marriage note for Lady Violet Eliot to Lord Charles Fitzmaurice in Calcutta.
The Mississippi Society held a Saturday evening meeting at the Pythia Temple to elect and install officers for 1809. Officers named include President J u. M. Glark and first vice president B. a. Humphries with several other posts filled. A vocal program followed with solo, quartet selections, and a song by Miss Lilian Chenowith before refreshments.
Stanley A. Kann eighteen year old son of Lewis and Hattie Kann died after a brief illness at his home 8 Evshth street northwest Friday night around 11 o clock. He had worked in the jewelry business with his father and was a graduate of local public schools. He belonged to the District National Guard and the Washington Iron Association. Funeral services will be held at his home this morning at 9 o'clock with Rabb Stern officiating. The body will be taken to Baltimore for burial.
The text argues that people with pure blood avoid colds better than others. It cites physiology and a blood-serum idea, claiming the medicine strengthens mucous membranes and organs, and supposedly recovers the system after a cold unlike any other remedy.
New York reports a tall wealthy Italian count Luigi Ciccino arriving in Woodhaven to wed Giovanna Neapolitano daughter of Carmine Neapolitano of Shee and Leather Street. The pair, after a brief courtship, had their banns published at Saint Remen Catholic Church in Woodhaven.
Special to The Washington Post Boston January 17 Theodore Roosevelt will take warm Maine knitted socks on his African trip. The pieces were spun in Aroostook County with one maker blinded. Roosevelt writes to Mrs Caldwell of Sherman Mills appreciating the gift and sends Merry Christmas wishes with a photo of himself.
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