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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1910
Page
12
Fashionable summer dresses in colored linens ginghams and lawns offered at extraordinary price concessions. One piece white and colored linen dresses at 9.75 and 6.75 for ginghams, with high necks, long sleeves, and hand embroidered trims. Various styles and colors featured.
Special prices for immediate clearance on high quality linen coats and skirts. Suits reduced from 13.50 to 16.50 down to 7.50. Stock includes tailored and trimmed styles in oyster white black natural blues lavenders and grays. Third floor features many one of a kind sizes with plaited skirts and self toned trims.
A summer wedding in Newport united Miss May Howard, daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanton M Howard, with Dr Walter A Bloedorn of the U S Navy. The ceremony at the bride's mother's Thirteenth street home featured Marines Band music, a reception, and plans for a wedding trip to Pittsburgh Denver Omaha Seattle en route to Mare Island Navy Yard and Manila.
Mrs G A Jasan leaves Washington for Blue Grimmit for the summer. Mrs Clark Waggaman heads to Newport. Charles J Bonaparte and Mrs Cille Fames stay at Chevy Chase and Bretton Woods. Capt James Archibald returns from Turkey, Africa and Persia. Ambassador Rockhill and Mrs Rockhill in Paris en route to St Petersburg. Fred W Carpenter moves to his Morocco post via Paris. Capt Clifford and Mrs Clifford remain at Kennebunkport after weeks abroad. Reign in rest of season noted for many with summer disappearances.
Society notes recount Constance Warren and Col. John Jacob Astor at the Casino in Newport with tennis and swimming challenges, plus a gala charity concert hosted by the Duchess of Marlborough. The column also covers weddings, travels of the elite between New York, Boston, London, and Europe, and society talk on polo, fashion, and upcoming rebuilding plans near Buckingham Palace.
Mrs. William Harrison Jackson hosted yesterday with callers including Rear Admiral and Mrs William G. Buhler Mr and Mrs Austin Cabell Mr and Mrs Edward Colston Mr and Mrs H Caperton Mr and Mrs Hogar Bright Mr and Mrs Geer Cole Scott Mr and Mrs Sidney Buford Miss Scarborough Mrs Clen J Ryan Charles Clarl the Misses Wade John Scarborough Maj W Stuart Symington A T McAllister and Harry Turner Miss Mary Johnston guest of honor at an Virginia luncheon by W C Wyeth at Fass i fern farm Also lunch party with Miss Allene Bingham Miss Elizabeth Agnew and Miss Harriet W Bingham Justice Horace Lurton and Mrs Lurton arrived for week Arrivals at the Homestead included G M Chichester Gen and Mrs William Ruffin Cox Mrs C H Dow and Miss Dow Mr and Mrs E H Russell and G S Gaines J Pembroke Thom William Shepard Bryan J W Strratt Arthur L Jackson Henry C Johnson Robert M Hughes and A V R Webber of Norfolk
In Lenox and Stockbridge Massachusetts summer residents and visitors are listed. Rear Admiral Willem C Wise walks daily from 6 to 7 AM and again before twilight amid Berkshires. Numerous guests include Col Osman Latrobe, Charles Lanier, Mrs. William A.M. Burden, Preston Noyes, the Mackays, the Dixeys, the Turnures, the Gurneys, and families from New York and Philadelphia. Tennis tourney set for Stockbridge Golf Club week of September. Ranson and Rich arrive at Curtis Hotel.
A Newport era social feature notes Mrs Robert G Dun of New York hosted an afternoon at Dunmers Ocean Road villa with a long guest list including Mrs William A Freser Mrs Edward A Manice Mrs Irving H Chase and many others. Newport colony members attended luncheon at the Casino and dinner at the Casino with guests Reginald C Vanderbilt Clarence W Dolan Barclay Warburton Stephen W Roach and Emeline Roach among them. Late arrivals at the Imperial included Miss Henriette Wickes and families from Newport Philadelphia Baltimore and New York. Ernest I Manning hosted a Casino dinner for Miss Pitcher and Miss Moore. Polo players at the Gladstone were listed. Casino registrations named numerous social figures and travelers.
Newport society news reports Commodore J Pierpont Morgan honored at a Sunset Ridge dinner hosted by Commodore and Mrs. Lewis Cass Ledyard. Morgan also dined with a fishing club at Graves Point and the piece lists numerous hosts, guests, and forthcoming events at Newport.
Under the direction of Mrs Henry F Dimock of New York a benefit performance is scheduled in Bar Harbor Maine to aid the Building of Arta on August and the event will take the form of a nine act production featuring Elektra and a diverse cast amid a fundraising drive for community cultural development.
The Coburn Players present Hlektra by Euripides in an outdoor show with dancing girls from Boston to aid Greek dances. Mrs Dimock handles seating and arrangements while Myr. and Mrs. Woodbury Blett plan Briarfield occupancy this week. A summer concert series by the Symphony Players is planned for Sundays, organized by local summer residents.
Henry Walton Grinnell, known as the Yankee admiral, aged 74, married Florence Mary Roche at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. He was connected to the bride's father and served with Farragut at Mobile Bay, later advising in the Japanese navy and earning admiral rank before the China-Japanese war.
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