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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1908
Page
25
In the current heated term the Woodward & Lothrop store will close at 5 o'clock on weekdays and 1 o'clock on Saturdays. Customers shopping by phone should call Main 5300 and request the Mail Order Department, with orders to be executed with the least possible delay.
Announcing a fresh stock of Girls and Misses Summer Dresses offered at a quarter to one third off regular prices. Items include India linen, percales, lawns, dotted Swiss, and lawn jumpers in white and dotted or figured patterns. Prices range from several dollars to under five dollars, with many pieces in sizes for children and teens.
A local store offers boy and youth summer wear at reduced rates including serviceable suits, wash suits, and knickerbocker shorts. Highlights feature special prices from $1.00 to $1.25 a pair and hats priced around 25 cents, with many items originally priced higher. Limited sizes noted for children.
Clearance sale offers remaining stock of children lingerie hats at reduced prices. Items include embroidered mull lace and ribbons, with plain pique options. Prices range from 1.00 to 9.00 dollars, with several styles marking down to small sums. Located at Eleventh Street.
Advertises Summer Belts II Everelastic belts in London shop, listing plain and embroidered linen belts with prices from 0.90 to 2.60 each. Notes white embroidered linen belts with pearl buckles, white tanen belts with stitched edges, and scalloped edge variants. Also promotes a hair comb with rib bonds at 25 or 0 cents and mentions main floor location.
A large assortment of Jos dren's Light Hous Foxes has arrived and will be displayed along the sidewalk at night. The items come in various colors and can be folded and carried in a grip or suitcase.
An advertisement for Koch Paper Toys describes handy cuttable items for children. The toys are noted as fascinating and instructive, especially appealing for seaside or mountain settings, with the address given as Fourth floor Eleventh street.
Readable fragments describe linen and art fabrics for leisure needlework at a seashore center. Items include drawnwork pieces, centerpieces, napkins, bands, corset covers, cushions, and various fabrics priced in old currency, with notes on付款 quantities and materials.
Social and personal guests at Sagamore Hill span diplomats and millionaires, with callers from Narragansett Pier to Morristown. Highlights include Mrs Palmer’s Chicago return and wedding talk, fashion notes on gowns, and chatter about racing attendance and euphemisms for refined breeding.
Arrangements may be completed for a Newport coaching parade this season as residents and visitors anticipate the annual event. Notables such as Center Hitchcock, recovering at Chanler villa, and various social figures from Newport and beyond are mentioned among those entertaining and lodging at local villas and inns along Bellevue avenue, Narragansett Avenue, and the Cliffs.
A Long Branch social scene reports a Pleasure Pier sailing and crabbing party hosted by Mrs. Mark J. O'Brien of Chattanooga at Chateau O'Brien. Guests included Col M J O'Brien, Dr and Mrs R J Ellis, and other notable visitors. A later casino ball invitation signals lavish entertainments for July 31 with two bands and an audience of about 2500 attendees.
Mrs William Sloane hosted a luncheon for her sister Mrs Eliotter Shepard in Lenox at Elm Court to mark her birthday an annual pattern. Miss Charlotte Barnes hosted tea at Coldbrook garden house while the Misses Barnes often entertain there. Miss Goodman hosted luncheon at Yokun Villa and Mrs S Parkmen Shaw led a Redwood luncheon. Edith Wharton dined at the Mount. Winifred Rogers will visit Four Brooks Farm Tyringham with a lunch in her honor. The Alexandre party arrived at Spring Lawn with dinner hosted by Mrs Alexandre. Guests arrived at Curtis Hotel from New York included Mrs Benjamin Welles H Rieman Duval and Mrs Nannie G Duval. Several guests returned to New York, among them Miss Gertrude Hoyt and Mrs Stuyvesant Wainwright. Rowland D Allen hosted a Laurel Lake fishing party noting good dawn bass. The Aspinwall saw arrivals of the Gibsons and Colstons among others. Mrs John King returned to Boston after a Bates villa sojourn. Dr and Mrs Austin Riggs left Stockbridge for Dark Harbor Maine to visit Dr McBurney.
Mr Robert Gibson Jr of New York plans to wed Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones in Trinity Church San Francisco on August 15 with Bishop Nichols officiating. Attendants include Lieut J C Burnett and William Gibson as best man. ushers include Lieut Brainard and Nelson Thomasson Jr. They will honeymoon along the Pacific coast and later reside at 108 East Fléry Second Street New York. Raincoat fashion notes highlight a shift to fitted, vivid colored coats.
Narragansett Pier July 24 At the Point Judith Country Club a first table d hatch dinner of the season drew villa colony guests and hotel parties with music and lawn moving pictures. Notables included P S P Randolph and Mrs Irving Chace among many entertainers and arrivals from Madrid Philadelphia New York Paris and Providence attended or registered at local hotels and clubs.
Bar Harbor Me July 4 social roundup notes luncheons at Bagatells and Swimming Club hosted by Mrs George Kraper and Mr and Mrs Putnam. Guests include Miss Berwind and Miss Frances Alexander, plus a neighbor island picnic with Edith Pulitzer and Victor Cushman. A small bridge party was held by Mrs Stirling at Lyman House, and the steam yacht Liberty with Joseph Pulitzer sailed to New York.
Funeral services for Maj. J F Meline assistant treasurer of the United States were held at St Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church at 2 pm. He died at his residence 211 O street northwest. Interment followed in Rock Creek Cemetery with a long list of pallbearers and honorary pallbearers.
John A. Van Rensselaer, arrested on threatening letters to his mother, was deemed sane by Bellevue Psychiatric Ward chief Dr. Gregory. Gregory found no trace of insanity, though Van Rensselaer was highly nervous, and he will be sent back to the Tombs for disposition of the case.
The report notes a mixed food market with high prices and scarce local crops due to drought. Cabbage, turnip, cucumber, celery, beans, and peppers suffer, while late summer and fall crops may improve if rain arrives. Watermelons, cantaloupes, and Georgia peaches appear, with fresh shipments from New York State and North Carolina. Local apples show a promising fall harvest.
The article describes nightly visits to Chevy Chase Lake with a lively scene of amusements. It notes Marine Band concerts, pony tracks, and a full river excursion on the Jamestown steamer with a large dance deck, orchestra, and refreshment room. Tickets are available at the Norfolk and Washington excursion warehouse.
A verse playful plea for varied candidates, questions why a sought after figure must be seen in many trades. It imagines a candidate found farming plumbing baking boiler making painting or piping while cameras watch to drum up votes and even a whiskered man lets his wife barber.
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