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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1904
Page
7
Summer goods offered at half price or near that level include desirable wearing apparel outerwear and underwear for men women and children. Items suited to the hot season help make city or country homes cool and pleasant with attractively low prices.
Several stylish hats offered at half the usual price to clear surplus materials. White Chip Hat and Lavender Chiffon Hat priced at $5.00, with trims including tan straw tunban and blue straw with violet accents. Display on the second floor, Tenth street.
Clearance sale features thin wash fabrics for midsummer wear with bright lawns and crisp textures from stock. Lot 1 1000 yards Batiste Lawns white ground prints 64c yd. Lot 2 2500 yards Batiste Lawns white and champagne grounds with dots and lovers designs. Lot 3 fine cloth dots prints 12 to 13c yd. Lot 4 Fancy Printed Lawns mercerized stripes and floral printings. Lot 5 Honiton Lace Madras sheer with blue and green stripes, white ground lace nets.
A sale promotes reduced prices on women and girls bathing suits and related accessories. Featured Are suits of Brilliantine, Aiciiang, Mohair, and Surf Cloth in varied styles with trims, priced from 2.50 to 6.00, down from higher tags. Also a range of infants and children garments and layettes on third floor, with pillows and cases included.
A sale of men’s summer wear features thin underwear, featherweight night gowns, neglige shirts, two piece suits, straw hats, wash ties, and umbrellas. Neglige shirts include a 10 dozen Madras and Per tale lot at 50 cents, plus $1.45 to $1.50 items. white and colored shirts reduced to $1.50. Pajama specials offer 15 dozen checked nainsook pajamas at $1.00 per suit. Main floor F St.
A basement sale promotes an array of traveling requisites including trunks of various sizes and styles, suit cases with leather or linen finishes, and leather bags. Prices range from 30 inch trunks at 2.75 to leather hand bags up to 1.25 for 18 inches, with special values on leatherette and odd one of a kind pieces. Equitable Building Basement.
Washington society records a Paris wedding of Mrs. Padelford to Viscount de Breteuil. Washington hosts and guests, with duties and breakfasts in Paris and Bar Harbor. Also reports on Grace Fuller wedding to Elmer H. Brown in the city. and society gatherings at Ashantee Avon and other fashionable retreats. Notable names include Adele Grant, Earl of Essex, Duke and Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, and Barons de Koffmann.
An elaborate wedding reception followed the ceremony with 500 to 600 guests in a brilliantly illuminated house and grounds. An orchestra performed in the parlor, baritone solos by Wilson Oliver and accompaniment by Paul Oliver filled the evening. The party featured Japanese lanterns, American flags, and a Marine Band program.
Detroit July 20 The Su preme Tent Knights of the Maccabees debated rate increases and outlined new rating systems. Thirty amendments to the laws were adopted. Officers elected include supreme commander Mrs Lillian M Haltleter and supreme trustees Mrs Helen M Bragbeer and Mrs Ellen Bi Downer. A trolley ride for visiting knights capped the day.
Reports from Music Hall detail James E. Dolan's call to form an insurance order under Hibernian auspices, a national home for aged members, and abolition of the stage Irishman caricature. Treasurer O Brien cites a 928361.43 cash balance and Ladies Auxiliary officers are elected.
Navy officials propose a regulation to prohibit enlistment of aliens in U S naval service with limited exceptions for those entitled to reshipment under law and Asiatic station selections. The measure aims to advance Americanization policy across the fleet.
Admiral Barker and Trieste governor Count Goess presided at a banquet aboard the Mayflower after a formal dinner, with toasts to President Roosevelt and Emperor Francis Joseph. Barker later hosted a reception for Austrian officials. The American fleet will sail to Fiume and Gibraltar. Navy reports on sickness aboard ships remain unconfirmed, with old medical notes showing good health overall.
Georgia will be represented by a full National Guard brigade at Manassas, Virginia, next September after an arrangement with Maj Gen Corbin and Acting Secretary Oliver. The plan uses the state quota with no extra U S cost beyond the original allotment, despite a shortfall of about 600 men.
Navy Department states no orders were issued for the Cunard liner Slavonia to depart Brooklyn Navy Yard where she is undergoing repairs. The vessel has been docked for painting, a job expected to take only one or two days.
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