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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1906
Page
7
A broad range of personal care and household items offered at clearance prices. Includes wearing apparel for men, women, and children, outerwear, underwear, and a full line of outing and sporting goods for indoor and outdoor use. Emphasizes seasonally suitable products to keep homes cool and pleasant.
Reduced prices on remaining stock of Boys and Girls Straw Hats and Boys Wash Suits. Broad-brim Sailors 93c, Milan Straws 1.50, White Pique Hats 0.23, Russian Blouse Wash Suits 1.50, Russian Blouse Wear 1.95, sizes 2 to 7 years. Third floor Tenth St.
A catalog of travel garments for women including kimonos pajamas negligees silk petticoats and underwear with prices such as five dollar kimonos ten fifty piyama sets and five dollar to five twenty five dollar skirts in black white and chosen colors. Readable items emphasize railway and steamer travel wear with several attractive prices.
Special sale offers Women's Oxfords at about half price in Dongola Kid and Dull Calf Blucher styles with welt soles and Cuban heels. Sizes 4 to 6 C and D lasts priced at 1.95, marked down from 3.00. Misses and children's Dongola Kid and other patent tip and welt sole Oxfords priced 1.73 to 2.30. Third show on Tenth St near Arnold Knit Night Drawers for Children advertised with features and sizes 2 to 8 years.
An advertising block touts Washington themed souvenirs and a range of women’s dresses. Listings include Son French Lawn Dresses, Persian Lawn Dresses, White India Linen Dresses, and French Lawn Dresses in long-waist and high-ornamented styles with lace, insertion, bertha trims, and three rows of insertion, offered in multiple sizes from 6 to 12 at prices from 4. to 8.75.
A catalog style list of toiletry items including soaps, tooth powders, creams, pastes, and washes. Items named include Pears soap variants, Colgate toilet water, Listerated tooth powder, Sozodont products, W & L and W & J brands, Mennen powder, and other cosmetic preparations. The text reads like an old advertised inventory with brand names and product types.
Antique listing of Washington view items including metal trays quadruple plated loving cups and embossed view pieces. Includes post card albums cloth and leather covers with card capacities from 96 to 400. Prices range from 10c to $2.50 per item.
Jewelry notes describe solid silver and gold filled items for summer wear. Enamel Violet Shirt-waist sets, pearl stick pins, collar supporters, and gold filled pins feature jeweled designs. Oxidized silver brooches with rhinestones, enamel violet pins, and French gilt hair barrettes are listed with low prices on the main floor display.
Social and personal notes from Washington report gossip that Miss Ethel Seckendorff and Fleming Newbold are engaged. A November wedding is hinted, with Miss Beckendorff described as one of the city's bright young social set. Nearby items note numerous summer travels and family departures among prominent residents and visitors.
Representative Nicholas Longworth and Mrs Longworth were jolted but uninjured when their car's steering failed near Wuerzburg Bavaria. After a brief rolloff into a ditch they rode to Baireuth by rail with the Longworth party arriving in time for the opera.
Several hundred Americans attended the opening of the thirtieth Wagner jubilee in Beireath Beireath with wide European presence. Attending were the Prince of Bulgaria Prince Max of Baden the hereditary Prince and Princess of Reusk the younger Princess Werb of Württemberg Prince Rupert of Bavaria and John P Jackson the American Minister at Athens and Mrs Jackson. Alfred Barry sang Iseult and Mary Wittich Isolde under conductor Herr Mottl.
Trustees of Harriet Lane Johnston estate move to erect the first Buchanan memorial on the eleven to eighteen acre tract near Mercersburg Pennsylvania where the log cabin birthplace stood The plan includes a large bowl shaped monument with iron fencing and possible Congress donated site in Washington D C The will directs swift action and grants the land to the state for public benefit.
The body of Lady Curzon was buried today in Kedleston churchyard with only immediate relatives present. Bishop Weldon officiated. Wreaths came from President Roosevelt and King Edward among others. A memorial service followed at St. Margaret's, London, with the King and royal family represented. Simla services honored Lady Curzon with high officials including the Earl of Minto and Gen. Kitchener present.
Walter Berry of this city is named a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in Paris. The foreign office announces officers Henry Cachard Walter Gay and James Deering. Chevaliers include Dr Ernest Laplace Walter Mercy Marie Paul Vetan Dejoux and Edonira Pesoll.
Matthew Blacklock rises from tram boot to broker wealth by buying Mansquare coal mines and seeks an alliance with Anita Ellersly. He woos her through social schemes, quashes rivals, and uses money to force a match while Anita challenges him with sharp wit and moral conflict.
From the New York Medics Journal this piece argues that rich men wed young working women without causing social harm. It contends intermarriage benefits the gene pool, critiques aristocratic isolation, and praises natural selection while noting Europe and Austria as examples of social caste. The article contrasts wealth and duty, urging appreciation of mixed unions.
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