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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1910
Page
12
An ad listing cabinet-made window screens with rustless wire cloth, sealed frames, ventilation options, and spline-secured cloth plus Vador porch shades. Includes ready-made screen doors in hardwood, finishing options, sizes and prices, and a call to contact for models and estimates.
The notice lists pricing for quarts per dozen and half gallons per dozen, indicating wholesale or retail beverage container costs. No further details on brands, sizes, or quantities are provided in the readable text.
The article lists numerous prominent figures departing Washington for summer posts and travels. Mentions include Vice President, Mrs Sherman, Mrs Richard Townsend heading to New York then Europa, Spanish minister and Mme de Riano moving to New York, Secretary of Commerce and Labor returning from Marion, Mass., and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop staying through summer, among others. Also notes Duke and Duchess dArcos sailing to Europe and various politicians planning August trips and departures to Florida, Massachusetts, and Canada.
Mr and Mrs Robert Henry Renshaw of the University of Virginia announce the engagement of their daughter Julia Wickham to Alfred Randolph Barnes of Baltimore. The marriage is planned for September. Miss Cannon, daughter of the Speaker, sails for Europe and will motor through the Austrian Tyrol with friends. Mrs J Sloat Fassett sails with her children to spend time at San Sebastian. Senator and Mrs Gamble of South Dakota have left their Portland apartments for New York and plan visits to Amsterdam before returning West. Carl Joerissen and family have left Hochambeau for Murray Bay in Canada for the summer.
Newport society gathered on Independence Day for a lawn reception hosted by Mrs James P Kernochan with 300 guests including army and navy officers. The day featured vaudeville, a planned Peter the Great monkey act, and a notable wedding for Dorothy Randolph to John R Fell at Wild Field Farm Narragansett with 800 guests, the ceremony on the piazza and a lavish lawn breakfast followed by a cruise aboard Georgiana II.
London reports a quiet wedding at St Marys Cadogan Square uniting Miss Dorothy Deacon and Prince Antoine Albert Radziwill. The match faced opposition from the prince mother and followed a postponed ceremony due to English legal documents.
The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company opened its eleventh store at Eighth and I streets southeast. Charlies Norris, formerly with the Seventh Street main store, becomes manager of the new branch. The opening day showed strong demand and the week features extraordinary specials and souvenirs for customers.
Miss Alana Marriam Burns daughter of Mr and Mrs Marry L Burns married Rev Frank Bourne Cowell pastor of Germantown Baptist churches The ceremony was conducted by Rev J I Winger and Rev O N Henderson with Miss Grace L Burns maid of honor and bridesmaids Miss Grace L Watkins Miss Mary Dorsey best man Harry G Cowell and ushers Rev W J Young and Herbert Brown A reception followed at Edgar A Vins on Germantown The couple planned an extended New England trip and will reside in Cedar Grove after returning. Free photography lessons offered by Y M C A Camera Club at 8 pm with course including developing printing mounting enlarging and lantern slides H c Bickel president said many enrollments and committee on instruction named
Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh departs Washington for a summer trip to Dublin New Hampshire where he will stay at his summer home. He will stop in Phoenixville Pennsylvania on the way to speak Thursday at the old homestead week celebration now underway.
W Bertrand Acker chief of the miscellaneous division in the Interior Department left Washington for Hot Springs Arkansas to inspect the government reservation there. His office oversees national parks and reservations.
Maj Gen Leonard Wood, currently commanding the Department of the East, will assume duties as chief of staff of the army, possibly at the start of next week. The War Department has no word on his movements since notice of his departure from Montevideo about a month ago for New York via Southampton, with arrival in this country around July 10.
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