White Canvas Pumps and Marbridge Pumps Lot Offerings
Odd lots incomplete style assortments and broken sizes for 162 pairs of white canvas pumps and bronze kidskin marbridge pumps. Included are Colonial Plain and buckled styles in sizes ranging from 3 to 7B with Spanish heels. Also listed are marbridge pumps in bronze vamp ivory kid skin quarters with varied sizes and hand-turned heels, plus women’s black kidskin pumps in multiple sizes. Most pairs priced 4.00 to 7.00, third floor G street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G Street
Sale of 20 Dresses Priced at 29.50 Each
A sale of 20 dresses at 29.50 each features smart sports and afternoon dresses for women. One of a kind models include white and colored georgette crepe, crepe de chine, foulards, wool and silk jersey blends, with colors white black copper navy mustard and purple. Third Floor G street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Misses Department Wardrobe Sale At Gatreet Third Floor
Misses Serge Gabardine and Wool Jersey suits in mustard and tan for ages 16 and 18 priced at 8.95, marked down from 25. Additional wool checked junior suits with belts and skirts for ages 13 to 15 at 8.95, reduced from 319.75 to 325.00. Also three Misses Afternoon Dresses in mustard and tan with large collars and long sleeves at 19.75, down from 29.50 and 35.00. Third floor Gatreet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gatreet
Friday Sale of Kimonos and Dressing Sacques
Cotton crepes and lawn kimonos in plain colors and figured effects belted or loose styles. A highly in demand garment at this time. Special price one dollar each. White lawn dressing sacques with sailor collars scalloped cuffs. Special price fifty six cents each. Third floor F street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F Street
Georgette
Friday Hat Clearance Slashes Prices Across Trimmed and Untrimmed Styles
A Friday sale offers trimmed hats in multiple colors and styles once priced at 5 to 8 dollars now cut to 2 dollars each. Untrimmed colored hats and select ready-to-wear sports hats drop from 1.50 to 3 dollars to 50 cents each.
Splendid Tailored Wash Skirts Offered at $1 Today
Advertises white skirts on Friday at $1 each with serviceable materials pique linen and gabardine. Several styles available. Extra size pique and rep skirts $1.15. Third floor G street location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G Street
Sale of Tennis Rackets at Deep Discounts
A sale offers tennis rackets priced at 1.35, 2.25 and 2.75 each with imperfections rarely visible. Sizes weights and models vary. Fourth floor Tenth Street.
Weddings in Charlottesville Highlights Blended Marriages
In Charlottesville July 26, John Randolph Bishop of Roanoke and Reva Eveline Hawkins of the county wed this morning at High Street Baptist Church by Rev. Henry W. Battle. Also announced: Mary Carrington Herring to Harrison Watts Jr of Washington, D. C. on July 23 at The Cedars. groom with the Engineers Reserve will sail for France soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Charlottesville
John Randolph Bishop
Roanoke
Reva Eveline Hawkins
Henry W. Battle
High Street
Frank Hunter Herring
Mary Carrington
Harrison Watts, Jr
Washington, D. C
the Cedars
Red Cross Open Book Criticism Of Aid Plans
Henry Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, told editors from about 40 women's magazines that the Red Cross will be an open book and fully public about its work. He said every cent will be spent carefully and plans will be announced as they mature, with the public as partner in guiding actions. Miss Mabel Boardman urged kitchen projects to make jams and preserves for soldiers, suggesting chapters establish kitchens to send jam to every American soldier by Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Boardman
Red Cross
Seventeenth Street
Henry P. Davison
Red Cross War Council
Henty
Mr. Davison
American People’s
War Council
Mr. Davidson
National Organization
Eliot Wadsworth
Harvey D. Gibson
W. Frank Persons
Jane De~lana
National Committee of Nursing Service
Florence Marshall
Women's Bureau
Helen Scott Hay
Bureau of Nursing Service
Mabel Boardman
Washington
Central Committee of the Red Cross
Misa Boardman
Demand for Immediate Retrial of Tom Mooney
San Francisco July 26 A demand for the immediate retrial of Tom Mooney on a murder charge connected with the preparedness parade dynamiting will be made by his attorneys following the acquittal of his wife Mrs Rena Mooney on a similar charge. Attorney Maxwell McNutt said the State's case failed and further effort to link Mooney to the July 27 1916 blast is futile. Mrs Mooney prepared to leave the jail as she commented on the outcome. District Attorney Fickert said he is undecided on retrying Mrs Mooney on another indictment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Tom Mooney
Rena Mooney
Maxwell McNutt
Mooney
Italian King Thanks U S For Mission Return Messages
The White House released messages between President Wilson and the Prince of Udine to mark the safe return of the Italian mission. The prince reported to King Victor Emmanuel and conveyed the king’s sentiments of appreciation, while Wilson voiced U.S. gratitude for the mission’s visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Udine
White House
Victor Emmanuel
Officers Honored For U Boat Sinkings In War Crabbed Desk
Secretary Daniels awarded letters of commendation and provisional promotions to Andrew Copissaki s and Harry Waterhouse for commanding the Morenj and Petrolite crews when sunk by German submarines. William J. Clark earned praise for commanding the guard on the Silvershell, credited as the first American armed ship to sink a submarine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniels
Andrew Copissakis
Harry Waterhouse
William J. Clark
Belgian mission head dines with minister in city visit
Aron Moncheur head of the Belgian mission lunched with Minister Baron Cartier yesterday. The mission members dined at the Lafayette in the evening. Postmaster General and Mrs Burleson and Miss Lucy Burleson were in town and viewed privately the moving picture production of Mrs Burleson’s adaptation of O Henry’s The Gift of the Magi at the film company offices. This is her first dramatization of another’s work though she has produced several original sketches professionally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aron Moncheur
Baron Cartier
Lafayette
Mrs Daniels to Assist at YWCA Reception
Mrs Daniels will assist Mrs William Hamilton Bayly and the YWCA directors at the opening reception of the new boarding branch, formerly Mount Vernon Seminary, at Eleventh and M streets tomorrow from 4 to 6. The staff includes Miss Florence M Brown, Miss Estelle Foster, and many others. the building will accommodate 80 girls by August 1 and be named Elizabeth Soares in honor of the former owner. Admiral Gleaves has arrived in Washington and has named his wife and daughter for a few days. Other society notes cover guests in New York and Cape May, with Godoy family travels and summer visits noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniels
William Hamilton Bayly
Young Women’s Christian Association
Herbert E. Day
Estelle Foster
Thomas B. Cramer
John C. Letts
Charles W. Richardson
Mabel Thurston
Association
Mount Vernon Seminary
Eleventh
M Streets
Florence M. Brown
George W Stone
James and
Bigelow
House Committee
Huckingham
Payne
Woodpurn
Copenhaver
Smith
Gardner
Elizabeth Soares
Jose F. Godoy
Mercedes Godoy
Adele Godoy
Julio Godoy
New York
Albert Godoy
Francisco Godoy
Godoy
Washington
Q Street
Habana
Cuba
Carlos Tose Godoy
Mr. Godoy
George Godoy
Mrs Carter Hosts Wedding Plans at Clopper Church
The wedding of Hobart Henry Ramsadell and Miss Josephine Boland is set for tomorrow at 9 30 in St Rose Church Clopper. A breakfast will follow at the Boland home and guests include Ramsadell family and friends from Washington and Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart Henry Ramsadell
Josephine Boland
Germantown
Mad
St. Rose Church
Clopper
Boland
Eulalie Boland
Paul Charles Ramsdell
Hobart Ramsdell
Charleston
Ramsdell
R. Goodwyn Rhett
National Chamber of Commerce
Walter D. Rogers
McAlpin
New York
Ballet to Aid Ambulances at Belasco Theater
An Adolf Bolm ballet benefit at the Belasco Theater August 9 10 and 11 supports American ambu lance service on the Galician front. The lineup includes Bolm Roshanara Ratan Devi Itow and others with a full symphonic orchestra. Also notes republican and congressional family travel details and a two week Canadian Great Lakes Atlantic City tour by M J Collins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolf Bolm
Thea Belasco
Bolm
Diaghieff
Mile
Roshanara
Ratan Devi
Michio Itow
M. J. Collins
Canada
Great Lakes
Atlantic City
Maryland Avenue
Red Cross Aids Guardsmen at Washington Camp
District of Columbia Red Cross announces a committee will supply the Washington National Guard encampment with magazines tobacco cigarettes comfort bags and more as at Tort Myer and other camps. Subscriptions include Frederic Atherton 3000 through R Tuckerman and Continental Life Insurance through P J Williams 1256 with other gifts listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District of Columbia
Red Cross
District National Guard
Frederic Atherton
R. Tuckerman
Continental Life Insurance Comdary, Inc
Richmond
P J Willams
Thoman M. Post
Maxwell Wood
Victor Kauffmann
Maas
Converse
5800 Boys Sought To Join Washington Boy Scouts
The campaign to recruit 6800 boys in Washington begins with a recruiting station at 402 Ninth Street open daily 8 am to 9 pm. Events include parades, band concerts, and nightly stereopticon shows through August 4. Deputy Scout Commissioner J Woodridge Patton leads the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Boy Scouts
Ninth Street
WF Street
Boy Scout
J. Woodridge Patton
Welcome to Japan's Envoys Reception Aids Named
Elaborate plans are in motion for the reception of the Japanese mission to the United States. Consul General Ransford Stevens Miller from Seoul and Col James A. Irons from Honolulu have been invited as mission aides. Third Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge Long will proceed to the Pacific coast to greet the party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Ransford Stevens Miller
Seoul
Korea
James A. Irons
Honolulu
Breckenridge Long
Pacific Coast
Ordway Camp Restricted Hours At Patterson Tract
Camp Ordway near Patterson tract becomes a guarded military reservation as visitors are limited to hours from four to nine pm on Saturdays and from noon to nine pm Sunday. A recruiting office opens, recruits are examined, mustering in completed, and officers including Adjutant Wilfred Broughton and Sanitary Officer Lysis White named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ordway
Patterson Tract
District National Guard
Louis C. Vogt
Battery A
Vogt
Wilfred E.broughton
Cavalry
Lysis C. White
James H. Washburn
Langdon Moore
Homer M. Mohr
Chinese Offer to Fight for U.S. Army
New York July 26 A letter to President Wilson from Tien Tow Liu a Columbia University student offers military service of 1500 Chinese natives and American born sons of Chinese parents. He says 300 Chinese in New York have been drilled three months and envisions a separate unit in the American overseas army. Liu is nephew of the late Gen Huang Sing who led the revolutionary army in 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
China
United States
Tien Tow Liu
Columbia University
Wilson
Tien
Chicago
San Francisco
Huang Sing
Chinese Revolutionary Army
Spain Restoring Order After Unrest
Madrid reports quiet returning after strikes and unrest. An official Valencia dispatch says martial law has been lifted and normal conditions prevail across the region. Striking workers are to resume labor in other cities tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Spain
Valencia
Capsules and Capsule Globe to Preserve Lottery Drawn Numbers
The big glass lottery globe holding the 10,000,000 wen will sit beside the Liberty Bell in Independence Hall Philadelphia containing the ten numbers drawn for the lottery day pasted on cards. Capt. Charles R. Morris who originated the globe and capsule scheme will oversee the historic display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Charles R. Morris
Navy tempers mother's grief in New York
Agnes Reinhardt of East Fifty-eighth Street expresses pride in her son Luis, drowned after falling from an American warship in French waters. Navy letters offer condolences and note the body cannot be returned now, but the family may raise the matter again after the war. The mayor of the French town sent a tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
France
Agnes Reinhardt
East Fifty-eighth Street
Luis
Washington
Want Friends to Get Gifts
New York July 26 Objections of war relief donors to contributions being used for purposes other than those specified were voiced by John Moffat executive secretary of the Federal council of allied war charities after a council meeting on cooperation with the American Red Cross. The statement said relief distribution appears deadlocked. It is extremely probable that affiliation with the Red Cross can be achieved. American women will exert energy to aid sons or brothers in the army and would not want gifts by donors to go to Armenians Syrians or Russians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Moffat
Federal Council of Allied War Charties
Council
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Moffat
Hotels to supply 3200 cooks for Army
United States hotel men organize to furnish 3200 cooks for the national army. New York will provide 1000, Chicago 600, with Joseph Miesel of the Sherman Hotel named chairman of a national committee of sixteen hoteliers to oversee the effort for the quartermaster department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Quartermaster’s Department
Washington
United States
National Army
New York City
Chicago
Henry G. Sharpe
United States Army
Joseph Miesel
Sherman Hotel
Eixteen Hotel
Masses Ordered Held Up Over Anti-Conscription Claims
Judge Hough of the Court of Appeals signed an order delaying the Masses and ordering the publishers to show cause by August 2 why the paper should not be barred from the mails for alleged anti-conscription statements. The move followed Judge Hand’s recent decision that Portmaster Patten had no right to refuse the mails to the publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brightwood Assn seeks all night service on north Penaworth line
William McK Clayton, president of the Brightwood Citizens' Association, asks for an all night service along the Washington Railway and Electric Company line north of Penaworth. He cites increased overtime work due to war conditions as the reason for the request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William McK. Clayton
Brightwood
Plan Conferences On Retail Prices
The District council of defense special committee report on retail deliveries led to plans for conferences with the Retail Merchants Association and the Retail Grocers Protective Association to study economy measures. So far there are no wide rent increases for apartments or houses. the council seeks notice of any rent raises to be sent to room 604 in the District building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Council of Defense
Retail Merchants Association
Retail Grocers’ Protective Association
Brady estate contest ends in out of court settlement
The will of Diamond Jim Brady, who died with more than 5 million, was settled today in New York. A sum near one million was paid to Daniel Brady, Harriet Mathieu, and Mary E. McGee with a drawing of objections. Probate will occur Saturday by consent. The war influenced the compromise and charities stand to receive much of the remaining estate, including a large bequest to New York Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James Buchanan
Diamond Jim
Brady
New York Hospital
Patriotism Day Urged by Educators Across Nation
New York July 26 Educators from many parts of the country adopted a resolution urging a patriotic day in schools. They asked President Wilson to set a date for a clear concise war explainer as part of a National Security League campaign to awaken the nation. The league will launch a New York State campaign September 15 with ten teams of four speakers touring the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wilson
National Security League
League
New York State
Scots Seek Independence City Longing for Scotland’s Freedom
The Scottish Nationalist Committee announces a nationwide propaganda drive to win support for Scottish independence among people of Scottish ancestry in the United States. Secretary Marion A. South says the goal is to form active organizations in every state and major city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Scottish Nationalist Committee
Scotland
Marion A. South
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
Woodward & Lothrop
Paris
Department of Agriculture
New F Street Building
J. H. Small & Sons Inc
NeWaldorf
Washington— Astoria
Bth
Haos Madison Ave. Main
The
Highlands
Conn. Ave
California
la Carte
BH. L. Gott
North 1240
Burlington
Vermont Ave
Thomas Olacle
Tenth Street
Polk
Stone
McCumber
State Department
Hotel
Grafton Conn. Ave. & de Sales St
Harrington Mills Proprietor
H. P. Davison
Servants of
the People
May Retry
U. S
Prince of
Silvershell
John
M. Zimmermann
Buppe
Bouse
Wauvey
Man Behind
Tiler
Mrs Daniels
Admiral Gleaves
M Casenave
L. Warrington Cottman
Green Springly Valley
Beatrice Bend
Mexico
Henry P Fletcher
Willard D. Straight
Westbury
Long Island
George W. Vanderbilt
Cornelia Vanderbilt
Cape May
Admiral
Newport
Edward J. Stellwagen
Poland Spring House
Poland Springs
Maine
Margaret Monteiro Berry
Farragut
Overton
Montgomery County
Maryland
Maj
William Overton Callis
Re Faeroe
Herbert E. Kays
Kays
Margaret Fechteler
Mr. and
Mrs. Carter
Walter & Harban
Poland Springs, Mo
Glenn O. Carter
Omdr
Milne
Ralph Koch
George F. Cottle
Andrew F. Carter
Gerald Howze
Natalie Blauvelt
Piermont-on-the-Hudson
Harold Walker
Paul Bartlett
H Street
Chevy Chase
Walker
Lillian Birney
South Yarmouth
Hallie Davis
Elkins
W. Va
Armstead Davis
Count de la Greze
M. Louia ‘Aubert
City
Theodore Richards
Jamestown
FA. 1
Dorothea
Lillian
Quin
Percy E. Quin
Renza Brown
Natchez
Miss Brown
Agnes Hart Wilson
James Thomson
Mia. Denwood White
Helen Virginia Wallis
Agnes Messick
Neely Bowie
Mitchellville, Va
Anne Martin
New Orleans
Marjorie Davidson
Minnie and
Katherine Letts
Malin
Dartin
Frank D. Scott
Alpena
Mich
Douglas Worthington Scott
Scott
Congress
Edward Requin
the Highlands
Patterson Tract Camp
Japan
U.S
Columbia
Kann Sons & Car
ST. ST
Penna Ave
Choice
Jersey
NAVY
Allied War Charities
Judge Hough
Judge Hand
Defense Council
W. &J. Sloane
N. W
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!