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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1908
Page
7
An unusually important remnant day offers mass prices to close out broken lots odds and ends from the week just ending. Most items are fresh seasonable and easier to buy than in days past with many goods offered at less than half price.
Bargains in the men's clothing department feature specials on three piece suits and vests in dark and white colors. Prices include limited stock with items valued at 12.15, 18.00, and 29, offered at reduced rates around 13.75 each.
Bargains highlighted in the Pien’s Furnishings Department sale feature discounts on nightwear and linens. The ad lists prices per item and mentions madras negligee styles with halved discounts and assorted shirts and slips.
Bargain notice for about 50 pairs of lace curtains left from the sea sale. Patterns are unique, display and handling slight. Curtains on special at $6.00 each, values $18.00 to $30.00 per pair. Fourth floor location.
Mien's Straw Hats advertises a Friday bargain with special inclusions from Sen Milans and this season's Paras sic goods praised as perfect. Old catalog phrasing highlights discounted prices once at four dollars.
A fragment lists boys trousers and jackets with prices, noting denim items and related garments. Readers see references to knickerbockers, jackets, and sales terms, indicating a department store notice of children’s clothing.
Advertisement notes a Friday sale on muslin underwear with drawers and corset covers. Items described as neatly trimmed with laces and embroideries, featuring terms like 50 cents. Promotional language uses older spellings and fragmented phrasing typical of a classified insert.
Women's Swiss Rebbel Liste Thread Vests with hand crocheted fronts and great elasticity offered at 35 cents each. Located on the Main floor of the store on F street.
Forty dozen pairs of women's lisle thread stockings offered at 23 cents a pair with plain and lace ankle styles in Rembrandt and Richelieu ribbed patterns. Value stated at 35 cents. Located on the main floor at F Street.
White Goods sale offers include 36 inch Pure Linen in tan or natural 25c a yard value 37 4c 1 900 yards All linen Sheeting 90 inch 1 00 a yard 36 inch Mercerized Madras for gowns special price 112 3c a yard 10 pieces 36 inch Near Linen imported kind special price 19c a yard Second floor Eleventh st.
Valenciennes Laces and German Valenciennes insertions offered at 60c per dozen yards. New stock matches prior ads, suitable for trimming summer dresses, children's frocks, underwear. Values range from $1.00 to $1.75. Main floor G St.
Millisery Department offers for immediate clearance trimmed and untrimmed hats at reduced prices. Hats priced at 2.00, 1.00 and 0.75, with many values up to 2.50, located on second floor at Tenth Street.
A sale on women's 16-buttonlength silk gloves in white black tan gray and pongee. Splendid quality fine and elastic each pair is one dollar versus values of one fifty to two dollars. Main floors G street.
Bargains on bedspreads 100 11 crochet Marseilles hemmed ready for use at 75c each. Crib comforts also for sale at 1.75 each with silk mousse line and silkoline on the reverse. Second floor G street.
Washington society column reports Mr and Mrs Algernon Burnaby honeymooning at Bretton Woods N H after York Harbor wedding. Mr and Mrs Murray Cobb return from Atlantic City. engagements announced for Miss Florence A W Knod e to Mr Richard M Webster. many officials and diplomats including Cortelyou Coolidge Knox Yoacham Paster and others travel to Europe or attend summer events. several Washington residents head to Newport Bar Harbor and Paris for visits or extends stays with family and social engagements noted.
Gossip notes in Paris discuss a push among New York society to exclude divorced individuals from upper circles. Prominent names, the Gould and Danehy families, travel for mining work, while Mrs Palmer plans a 5000 mile journey. A fashion survey describes large hats, white frocks, and jeweled glove sets as symbols of the season.
Mrs Adolph Heller leads a charity event at the Deal Casino on July 28 to benefit Washington Heights Hospital with support from prominent East Coast women. Cecilia Loftus impersonations will entertain while young women sell flowers and confections. tickets available at hotels and box office.
Newport R I July 23 Charity fair and garden fete at Stone Villa Bellevue avenue raised several thousand dollars for St. Marys Orphanage Providence. Summer colony ladies sold goods and hosted stations while notable guests and visitors from New York Boston and Philadelphia arrived at local villas.
Bar Harbor welcomes a rainy but lively day with Bowling Green hosts a reception for Misa Ilebe Wright Mary Scott and Muriel Morris. A large swimming club bridge party hosted by Mrs J P Jackson and Miss Jackson features a lively dancing set at the Malvern. Dr and Mrs S Weir Mitchell dine at the club. John S Kennedy and family issue cards for August 4 reception at Kenarden. Mrs Philip Livingston plans a tea on August 10.
At a Berkshire Hunt meeting in Lenox yesterday the hunt ball for September 11 was approved for Sedgwick Hall or another local venue with a Curtis Hotel dinner. Meanwhile social rounds continued with dinners at Shadowbrook and Curtis Hotel hosted by Mrs Nash and Mrs Rutherford. Guests included Mrs Livingstone, Walter Berry, and Mr Van Rensselaer, with receptions planned at Brigey villa and at Stockbridge's Red Lion Inn.
Reginald Vanderbilt's Phoebe Watton captured the Wind sor Challenge Cup at the Atlantic City Horse Show Association exhibition in Atlantic City New Jersey on July 23. The cup requires three wins to hold. Red Marquette All There Irish Race Keswick Majestic and Keswick Hunt Club also won various classes.
Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Stetson widow of Join B Stetson was married today to Count Santa Eulalia of Portugal in Philadelphia. The ceremony was small at her estate. They will sail for Europe, then return to establish a home in Philadelphia. The count, once favored by King Carlos, is a sculptor and painter with estates in Portugal and holds Malta knightly rank.
Central Labor Union invites President Roosevelt and Judge Alton B Parker to deliver principal addresses at Labor Day events in Benning on September 7. A Labor Day committee report promises the largest city celebration yet with a tournament mule race motorcycle race circus carnival and a painters versus typographical union baseball game.
Official reports detail canal work from May 4, 1904, to June 30, 1908 with 40,933,575 cubic yards removed from the canal prism and accessories. In fiscal 1998 total excavation reached 27,979,378 cubic yards about 66 percent of Americans’ total. Steam shovels moved 127,457,161 cubic yards, dredges 10,399,517, and 122,797 by other methods.
The Rev G L Wilson gains government approval to visit the Fort Berthold reservation North Dakota as a representative of the American Museum of Natural History to collect information on Mandan traditions and tribal history. Herbert J Spinden of the Peabody Museum Howard University will spend the summer among the Nez Perces and related tribes to gather data on uncataloged cultural aspects.
Assistance Secretary of State Bacon will depart for San Juan Porto Rico on August 1 to investigate U S holdings in dispute between the government and the Catholic Church. He expects arrival August 6 and return August 12.
Deeds recorded show Auditorium Amusement Company plans a 3000 seat vaudeville theater on H Street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth with tearing down to start soon and construction aimed for August 15 and early November completion. Public stock subscriptions total 60000. The Fredonia Hotel and related parcels are involved with a district court ratification pending in fall.
Funeral services for Mrs Martha R B Hamlin who died suddenly last Tuesday were held yesterday at the Methodist Home in northwest Washington. The Rev Charles E Guthrie of Hanine Methodist Episcopal Church officiated. Interment followed at Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs W L Lynn sang a solo and brief services were led by Mrs Webster, president of Thomas Circle Woman's Relief Corps. Pallbearers included the Rev W L Lynn and Frank R Wright Garner Bryan W Benton and Thomas Humphreys.
Funeral services for Rapley M Cheshire were held at St Pauls Catholic Church and burial followed at Mount Olivet. Survived by wife Bertha and five children Myra Mabel Nana Ward and Raymond all of Washington. Pallbearers named H Nunson J L Duncan T Hodgson W P McCausland D Lockwood Joseph Little.
The Treasury reports a stay of execution in a case from Cincinnati shielding the marking rules on distilled products. Justice Department orders immediate appeals by district attorneys in Cincinnati and Peoria to the U.S. Court of Appeals. The stay keeps in force the Treasury markings regulations until the appeals court rules.
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