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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1906
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop highlights complete outfits for boys and girls and accessories for seashore country mountains or city summer living. The store features ready to wear garments for children and babies plus other outfittings prepared for today.
Readable from an old listing, this brief advertises boys and girls clothing across sizes 5 to 18, featuring linen Norfolk jackets, wool sailor suits, bloomers, denim overalls, washable blouses and shirts, pajamas, bathing trunks, and straw sailors. Notes itemized price ranges and mentions second-floor display on Tenth Street.
The Summer Goods Department advertises toys and playthings for summer use at home, seashore, or mountains, plus hammock sets, croquet, lawn gear, sailboats, and garden tools. It also lists infants and children's clothing and footwear, with varied prices and sizes across the first floor department.
The advertisement promotes summer muslin undergarments including corset covers drawers gowns petticoats and long skirts with lace embroidery and tucks. It also lists a Saturday food sale on the fourth floor featuring Verdelli lemons fresh grapes cantaloupes toasted corn fritters ginger ale imperial root beer and fresh Georgia peaches with prices per dozen or basket.
AGUST is a vacation month prompting many professionals to travel, leaving a quiet market for a men’s furnishings sale. The event offers half price and lower on suits and negligees with sizes available across combined lots. Notable reductions include $10 and $12.50 suits for $8, and $13.50 to $18.00 suits spanning $10 to $11.
A compact note on Neglige Shirts noting a reduced assortment compared with the season start yet still offering many choices. Prices range from 6 cents to $2.00, with several items priced at $1.00 $1.50 and $2.00, emphasizing lower costs.
Plain colors in lisle and cotton with neat designs and bold colorings. A special one at 25c represents the ends of several 50c lines. Sizes in combined lots are complete with extreme colorings.
All season’s men's straw hats including panamas are marked at half price on the main floor. No leftovers. $1 hats now 50c, $1.50 hats 75c, $2 hats $1, $3 hats $1.50, $5 hats $2.50, $7 hats $3.50. Fat department store.
Advertises summer corsets from P. D. Corsets and Nemo Corsets in batiste and straight front styles. Details prices and models, including P. B. Corsets, Nemo Corsets, P. XN. Corsets, and Girdie Corsets, with elastic attachments and hip styles. Located on the third floor Eleventh St.
A compact list of beauty and hygiene items including Listerine, Pears soaps, Cutiura soap, Calgate Toilet Water, Pinaud Eau de Quinine, Sozodont products, W and L antiseptic powders, Mennen talcum, and related items. The note mentions quantities, prices, and display location on the main floor of a store.
Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris sails for England on her annual visit Miss Ethel Roosevelt completes sixteenth book of souvenir postcards Doings of Newport society Commissioner of Patents and Mrs Allen leave for Northern New York till autumn fishing and motor trips various society visits and travels among Boston New York Newport Windsor and Mount Pleasant with noted diplomats and guests including the Malarajah and Mabaranee of Baroda and Miss Roosevelt collecting postcards and war pictures from Asia and the Pacific
A chatty Newport item describes Whitneys’ elegant basket cart drawn by three Shetlands delighting town children, with warnings of road accidents. Mrs Parhall warns that many children driving could end in calamity. Also notes engagements and gatherings including Miss Elaine Stirring and Joseph Chase’s musical afternoon with Mrs Oldberg, plus travels and visits of various society members.
William A. Scott resigns after a year as Washington Y M C A department secretary to become secretary of the Houston branch. He came from Keokuk Iowa. Harry W. Arnold of St Louis is named religious secretary to replace him, succeeding Wilson who left for Dallas. Through Pullman services via Seaboard Air Line with two daily trains and cafe dining cars. Office at 142 Paave.
Friends and relatives fill the home at 1201 Q Street NW for the funeral of V Baldwin Johnson. Chaplain Charles C. Pierce conducts the Episcopal service as Masons, merchants, and civic groups attend. Interment is private.
The will of Mary F Waite daughter of the late HR Waite Supreme Court Chief Justice 1874 to 1888 was filed for probate. It bequeaths cash sums from 1000 to 7000 to various individuals and names heirs and personal effects including jewelry and heirlooms. A West End Virginia church project will lay its cornerstone with Bishop Van De Vyver officiating and a local preacher delivering the sermon.
Matthew Blacklock rises from boot black to millionaire through brokerage then faces a ruthless tangle of Textile and National Coal deals. He moves against Langdon Roebuck and Merrille, pressures banker Corey, and schemes to announce a coal reorganization while risking ruin as Textile stock rockets. The chapter ends with intense threats and a debt-laden crossfire.
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