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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1915
Page
12
An exceptionally low price marks down various Oxford styles on Friday. Men’s dark tan Oxfords with cloth tops and blind eyelets listed in multiple sizes, plus gun metal calfskin English models, all advertised at a $2.75 to $2 price range, with original prices shown. Main floor, Tenth Street.
Friday specials on womens undermuslins including gowns with high necks and long sleeves, cambric drawers, long crepe petticoats, and fine nainsook gowns. Prices range from 25c to 50c, with reduced tag details for nainsook bloomers and corset covers. Third floor, F street.
Friday clearance offers a very good assortment of hats previously selling up to five dollars. Choice selections include hemp sailors close fitting hats Tuscan sailors made braid sailor and small hats in plain and combination colors black with colors and plain white. Excellent value in trimmed hats.
A fresh shipment of Crepe Robe Patterns arrived and will be crafted into charming afternoon and evening frocks for summer wear. Most pieces are white with Dresden embroidery, while others feature colored grounds and bold embroidery.
Friday Clearance offers reduced prices on Women's Summer Blouses with incomplete sizes. Cotton voile blouses with Valenciennes lace and embroidery, 2.50. voile blouses 0.68. black lawn blouses 0.50. other styles from 0.50 to 3.95, including messaline and georgette crepe varieties. Third floor, Gatreat.
Friday special highlights women's wash skirts priced at 1.00 each in multiple models with pockets belts and high waist styling. Sizes up to 30 waist. Also plain white rep shirts 31 to 36 waist at 1.60. Plus 34 skirts of white pique rice cloth and lawn in sizes 22 and 28 waist for 50c. Third floor G street.
A Friday sale offers Middy Blouses at 50c each from a previous 1.00 price. White Galatea middy blouses with red collar 50c. Four Misses Spring Coats in tan navy and check priced 7.75 each, down from 12.75. 380 Children’s Dresses 95c each, 6 to 14. Two Misses White Corduroy Coats 47.75 each. Six Misses White Lawn Waists 1.95. 18 Women’s Parcale House Dresses 60c each, sizes 34 and 36.
Secretary of the Navy sails from Washington for Port Washington Long Island to board the Dolphin with Mrs Daniels and their sons. He will sail to Newport for an address at the Navy War College and return mid next week.
A Washington society page item notes Miss Eleanor Landon and other young women traveling from New York and Cleveland with families to spend summer in Maine and California. Separately, Katharine Irene Evans marries Will Likens Gates in California en route to their home.
AVERILL HARRIMAN son of the late E H Harri man, has been elected a member of the Aero Club of America. Other members include Vincent Astor Henry Payne Whitney and more as the club adds notable names from high society and business. The article also notes engagements among the Duke and Biddle families and details the probate of Albert Lewisohn’s estate, revealing debts and the widow’s share.
A gold snuff box presented by Napoleon to his sister Carolina sold for 850 dollars at a Philadelphia auction this week. Buffalo bidder John Clawson won the lot. A Napoleon snuff box given to the mayor of Givit sold to Clawson for 575 dollars. Autograph letters on the French Revolution drew bids, including a Hobespierra missive proclaiming Louis XVI's death, which sold for 125 dollars.
Special cable from Paris reports that French women are working in armament mills and automobile plants with the same skill as men. At Region-Bouten and De Dion-Bouton works women handle four milling machines and gear cutters, earning about 70 centimes per hour. Renault, Panhard & Levassor, Delaunay Belleville, De Dietrich, Darracq, and other firms provide artillery and motor parts as France mobilizes for war, with both women and men operating high grade machines at full capacity.
The Barriquand and Marre works employ over twenty women on specialized machines while the Hotchkiss plant runs a separate gun department. Clement and Panhard & Levassor expand into aero engines alongside motor trucks and projectiles, with precision gauges and instruments being produced at these shops.
London June 2 dispatch from Gen French notes 58 women named for gallantry and distinguished service in the field across military nursing and Red Cross branches. The recognition highlights valuable and heroic assistance rendered to British armies.
An annual barge party will be held next Wednesday with an excellent entertainment program. Secretary Charles Welsh secured a large barge for the event, to be decorated with streamers and banners. Committees are organizing details for the affair.
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