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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
21
June is the peak month for brides graduates tourists and family outings. Our establishment offers extensive provisions for June including trousseaux gifts for brides outlays for graduates equipment for travelers and outing parties comforts luxuries and furniture for the summer home.
An advertisement promotes exquisite French lingerie for June brides and others. It highlights hand made undergarments with lace, trims, and scalloped edges, offering varieties in pink, blue, and albes color schemes.
Comprehensive listing of gift items for brides and graduates with prices. Jewelry sets sterling silver candelabras crystal gift boxes watches and purses dominate, featuring brands and ranges from $3 to several hundred dollars. Items include silverware platters jewelry boxes and accessories, with many pieces priced between $150 and $2,500.
Lower prices on cotton goods advertised by Amical declare reductions by leading cotton manufacturers. Offers include hemstitched linen pillow shams, sheets, and towels with bulk pricing and a special on old bleached towels. Location noted as Berond floor eleventh street.
Branlian Ambassador and Mme Nabuco entertain at dinner Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Mrs Straus return from tour Senator and Mrs Elkins depart. Many society figures travel for summer, weddings and receptions noted with details of attendees and venues across Washington and Europe.
Paris press reports a busy week as Panis season peaks with the flower fete in Bois de Boulogne and a Grand Steeplechase for a purse of 325000 drawing society attendance. Eugene Fische Dandola wins the event as American and foreign visitors attend horse racing and boat competitions leading to the Grand Prix at Longchamp next Sunday.
June 7 in St Petersburg the Emperor and royal family will travel by rail to Reval due to rough Gulf of Finland weather. Imperial yacht crew and a fleet of destroyers escort the journey as an interview shifts to the roadstead at Reval. King Edward aboard the Victoria and Albert with Queen Alexandra, Princess Victoria and others receive a large reception. German and British royal entourages exchange honors as torpedo boats and aircraft escort the royal yacht toward Reval.
Adolph Spreckels, son of Claus Spreckels, reportedly married Alma de Bretteville, a former San Francisco actress, in Philadelphia last month. The couple allegedly sailed for Europe afterward. The union surprised Spreckels friends who knew him as a bachelor and a promoter. de Bretteville had previously sued Charles Anderson for breach of promise, a case that ended with him ordered to pay.
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