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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1906
Page
7
Comprehensive list of summer wear and home items for travelers and stay at homes. Includes underwear, dresses, hats, linens, bathing suits, laundry and toiletries, ice equipment, kitchenware, garden tools, furniture, lighting, and travel goods like trunks and suitcases. Indicates mail and express service and low prices.
Advertises a Cotton Dress Goods department offering fresh prints in blue yellow heliotrope and lavender on white ground. Describes the fabric as very sheer and fine with regular 3 3/4 cent quality now offered at 15 cents per yard.
Printed Irish Dimities offer a hundred patterns including large and small floral prints in pink blue and green on white grounds and white figures on pink cadet blue heliotrope and green. Dimity weaves include regular stripes and cluster corded stripes. Prices begin at 25 cents per yard.
This notice advertises new printedBatiste lawns with clean-cut flower, figure and polka dot patterns on sheer white grounds. Describes making dresses, dressing sacks for morning wear and children's use. Priced at toe per yard.
Admirals and Mrs Dewey spend summer at Richfield Springs and Mrs Whitney sails for Europe while guests of President Fallieres attend the Longchamps troops review. Numerous prominent Americans and families plan journeys to Newport Bayreuth Lake Placid and other resorts as society notes festive mood and fashion changes.
Secretary Taft left Washington for Oyster Bay to confer on army brigade posts and War Department matters before his summer vacation. He will sail to Murray Bay for golf and rowing, return for the Ohio campaign, then accompany the President to Panama in November. Navy to commission cruisers Milwaukee and St Louis with crews of 577 bluejackets and marines. Milwaukee commanded by A. Gove and St Louis by N. R. Usher.
John Mason will remain with the stock company in the Columbia theater through the close of the summer season. The dramatic section announced that Mason, highly popular with patrons, will stage next week in Wheels Within Wheels, the closing attraction of the midsummer program.
Kingston Jamaica July 15 Italian cruiser Umbria remains fast after running aground on a shoal July 13. Guns and coal removed to lighten the vessel, weather favorable, as efforts continue to save the 235-ton third class cruiser built at Leghorn.
A narrator describes his pursuit of influence and money through elite social circles, pressing Sam to push him into the Travelers Club. He details plotting, leverage, and a plan to win big through racing profits while exposing faults in “respectability.” The tale follows manipulation, gambling, and the hidden costs of social access.
A narrator pursues Miss Ellersly at a racecourse club, flaunting wealth and pride. He recalls debt of honor, party faction, and a bold bid to back a horse as social standing tests him. An offer to sponsor a horse leads to public consequences and a looming political bid.
Magnolia Mass July 16 A formal announcement reveals Miss Vera Schuyler Schermerhorn heiress to widowed Mrs George Schermerhorn of New York married Robert John Randolph of Virginia two weeks ago in Rev Dr Ewart Van Stycke’s study with only the maid as witness. The couple now honeymoon in the Berkshires before Mrs Schermerhorn learns full details.
Secretary Taft plans no abolition or creation of new posts in the army reorganization. The approach is cautious, funding-limited, and staged, with a single post started at a time as Congress provides funds. Fort Snelling in Minnesota will be enlarged with a $60,000 allotment.
Provincetown Maas Julio reports the battleships Illinois and Missouri arriving from Boston after turret improvements at Charlestown Navy Yard. The ships join the North Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral Robley D Evans for war maneuvers off the New England coast.
Newport reports gun cotton stored in naval magazines and on ships along the Atlantic coast shows deterioration prompting orders for return to torpedo stations and issuance of a new supply. The article then lists Revenue Cutter service orders and personnel movements including retirements, leaves, and duty reassignments across multiple ships and locations.
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