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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
12
REMNANT DAY Clearance Men's Suits at $25 and $20 with half the stock left. Norfolk suits at $20 in new season models. 50 pairs trousers reduced to $3.95. White cotton Bedford skirts $1.00. Heavy black silk serge $1.50 yard and black satin duchesse 55c yard. Second and third floors listing locations and sizes.
Friday Special features Linen and Ratine dresses for morning wear and vacation use. Fine French linens with hand embroidery, embroidered collars and cuffs, and contrasting applique styles. Ratine dresses show deep silk girdles and Russian blouse effects with vibrant color options from pink to white, sizes 16 through 44.
Robe Patterns offer a small assortment of Voile and Crepe patterns in solid colors with self embroidery. Ratine patterns in two toned effects appear in blue and white pink and white violet and white and gray and black. All white embroidered floral and eyelet robes join Beau tiful patterns. Special price seven dollars fifty cents each on main floor three storied.
Frantic Friday sale offers small lots of women Oxfords and Pumps in many styles and sizes. Prices cut from 3.50 to 5.00, with items in gun metal calfskin patent calfskin kidskin and Russia Galtskin finishes. Picked from third floor tenth at storefront location, while supplies last.
Men’s Self-striped white Madras pajamas in a ve neck style with pearl buttons and frogs. Special price is $1.00 per suit, down from $1.25. Main floor-F street.
Friday specials offer Cheviots Worsteds and Fancy Mixed Woolen Boys suits sizes 7 to 18 at 2.95 each, down from 5 and 6, with remnants including 20 double breasted all wool blue serge suits sizes 9 to 18, reduced to 6.45, plus 18 Russian blouse wash suits and other items like golf caps and Bik Ties at marked cuts through the third floor of the new building.
A newspaper feature describes The Cookbook of Left-Overs from Harper’s, a collection of 400 ways to use leftover foods. It urges women to collate personal recipes in blank pages after each chapter and notes The Post offers the book for a coupon and 35 cents, with continued offer via The Sunday Post and 3 cents.
Secretary of State entertained the Brazilian envoy and a large delegation of diplomats and officials at tea and dinner at the secretary’s residence. The guest list included ambassadors, ministers, and aides from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, and other nations, plus U.S. cabinet members and Supreme Court justices. A Pan American Union luncheon followed at the Pan-American Building honoring Dr. Lauro Muller with remarks by John Barrett and Secretary Bryan.
Rear Admiral and Mrs Reamey closed their Connecticut apartment and head to New York before traveling farther North for the Sammet. Mr and Mrs William J Boardman left Washington for Manchester Massachusetts for the summer. Mrs Clarence Moore returns to Washington after a stay in New York. Mr Robert J Wynne and daughter Mrs Hugh Reland Prench travel to New York for pelo games. Mrs Henry Wilson leaves Washington for a cottage at Jamestown. Miss Dorothy Taylor leaves for Buffalo to attend the marriage of Miss Emma Carroll and Mr Eugene Persson at the end of the month.
Miss Paylor spent last week at Annapolis and will join her parents in Virginia. Mrs Andréew B Duvall announces the engagement of her daughter Marjorie to Walter George Pfeil of Passaic. The wedding will take place in autumn. Chauncey Hackett returns to Washington from Hamilton Mass. Mrs Harry Lowman arrives in Washington for a short visit. Mr and Mrs J H Wurdeman sail for Naples to spend the summer in Europe. Frances Fuller returns from Kansas City for her son Louis de Saussure Fuller’s marriage to Grace Burrell Allen at the Allen home in Kansas City. The bride wore white charmeuse chiffon with satin roses, lace, and lilies of the valley. Beulah Chambers sails from New York for a summer tour in Europe.
Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson arrives on the Olympic for a two week run in a drama based on Judith earning $10,000. Her relatives, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, urged restraint. She defends Oriental dress and comfort over modern fashion, saying it suits future styles and is affordable. The report mentions a broader scene of royal and high-society life, including weddings, residencies, and historic vases.
A season's fashion note highlights a Nattier blue charmeuse afternoon gown. The design shows a front skirt breadth overlapping the lower back in two new ways, with a chiffon corsage and translucent styling on the bodice.
The piece notes Audrey Shea marrying Lieut Morrison in New York with a quiet ceremony after a staged wedding plan. It mentions lavish tastes and family wealth, plus a reportedly disputed Rembrandt purchase by Benjamin Altman and other collectors. Also covered are quiet marriages of Dr Rupert Norton and Cerilia Hendrickson in New York and linked Boston and Harvard connections.
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