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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1908
Page
25
Department of Women’s Ready-to-Wear Garments presents striped suits semifitting coats and full platted skirts with deep folds. Described as very attractive and especially desirable for eating wear.
A rich collection features lingerie dresses at 15 dollars with val luster lace and clung medallions in colors white tan violet and blue. Also offered are hand embroidered jumper dresses suitable for evening wear.
Fine Lawn Dresses priced at 3.50 feature princess style with tucked yoke in latte light blue brown navy blue black and white. Described as dainty dresses suitable for general wear.
Advertises faintly styled Lawn Dresses priced at two dollars featuring jumper style, fullware skirts with two folds. Describes practical and attractive designs with pretty figured effects for summer wear.
Shave has secured and offers several lots of women's oxford styles at below manufacturer price. Styles include three and four eyelet blacher cut with wide laces and two-button variants. Goodyear web soles, sizes 3 to 7, widths A B C and D. New leather, high quality, marketed as refined merchandise. Second floor Elventh St.
Maj. Tanaka the Japanese military attache will depart Washington for Shelter Island. German naval attache Capt Hebbinghaus and Mme Hebbinghaus plan final departure to New York with Mme sailing tomorrow on the Deutschland. Guests at social events include Senator Teller and families, the Burgesses, and many other prominent figures visiting from Washington, Hot Springs, Newport, and Europe, with multiple dinners, teas, dances, and a busy social schedule through August.
Gossip notes a proposed National Assembly uniting East Coast exclusives with unified balls in New York and Philadelphia, detailing member counts by city and income limits, plus social crossovers with Newport and Drexel circles. It covers Miss Drewel and British suitors, Vanderbilt Japanese tea house, and Atlantic City summer surge.
London July Whitelaw Reid and Mrs Reid hosted a Dorchester House dinner with Princess Henry of Battenberg as the principal guest. Notables included the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, James Bryce, Duke of Rutland, Charlemagne Tower, Ogden Mills, Walter Burns, Mrs Harriman, A J Drexel, Richard Burton Haldane, British war secretary, Lord and Lady Middleton, and Greek minister D G Metaxas.
Newport society notes a first Sunday night concert at the Casino drawing many summer residents. Social rounds include Mrs Mary Brady Hall’s surgery, large lunches by James P Kernochan, and gatherings with Cornelius Vanderbilt and Widener party arrivals aboard steam yachts. Prominent guests include Admiral Coghlan and Gen Pierson as Newport continues entertaining guests and residents at villas and yachts along Seaview and nearby clubs.
Heavy morning showers gave way to sun as visitors arrived by auto to Narragansett Pier Rhode Island for a bathing beach day. Luncheons followed at the Casino with guests from Providence New York and other places among the carriage parties at Mathewson Greene Inn and other hotels.
Lenox residents benefited as Mrs Frank Sturgis hosted a Clipston Grange fair for the creese science school fund. sales totaled about 1000 dollars. Notables attended luncheons, while Erskine Park trims staff to four workers as it grips tight economy on grounds. Local social rounds note guests at Heaton Hall and ongoing plans for a horse show amid questions over venue near Lenox.
West End Long Branch New Jersey July 20 crowds filled the Holywood Hotel for a weekly dance and garden party with about 1000 people and 200 tables on the lawn. At the Deal Casino, Fenrich's orchestra played as a grand parade of guests and automobile clusters formed around the grounds. The list of attendees reads like a who’s who of society including Mrs Emerson Mac Millan Mrs Henry E K Boardman Mr and Mrs Ruben R Smith Mrs Edward Lavingston Bishop Mr and Mrs L A D Percival Mrs Joseph J O Donoghue Miss O Donoghue Mr and Mrs Edward Burghard and many others from prominent families and organizations.
Bar Harbor July 20 Practically every seat taken for the first concert at the Building of Arts as the committee reports. The first program on July 25 features Alwin Schroeder and Mme Louise Homer from the Kneisel Quartet. An August 4 concert features Herbert Witherspoon and another noted artist.
Berlin July 20 Count Herman von Hatzfeldt Wildenburg councilor of the German embassy at Washington will be transferred to Constantinople as counselor of embassy. He will be succeeded at Washington by Count George von Wedel, currently second secretary of the German embassy at Rome.
Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Banking will send fourteen delegates to the annual convention of the associated chapters in Providence Rhode Island on July 3 and 4. J Henry named candidate for vice president. delegates include Wilson Wolfe Payne Henry Haynes Taylor Stowell Miller Neving Herrell Phelps Settle Flather Dexter. Hearing on Grade Today will hear commissioners discuss a proposed grade change at Twentieth Street Northeast.
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