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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
7
Friday bargains promote extra value as managers push to clear remnants, odds and ends, short lengths, and assortments across departments. The store highlights home use items and personal goods with emphasis on price per value for today’s shoppers.
Sale notice for upholstery and window shades at half price. Damaged items include silk portieres, mercerized fabrics, and willow shades, with numerous lots priced from $5 to $20 per pair or piece. Limited quantities, immediate clearance, colors include green, red, maroon, and crimson.
A crowded social column reports Cuban Minister hosting Ambassador Jusserand and Mme Jusserand, other diplomats sailing for Bar Harbor and summer Europe, with Bar Harbor trips and long lists of weddings and multiple ministers traveling. The piece records weddings, receptions, and journeys of officials, including family members and servants, plus notes on social engagements across Washington and allied capitals.
Fragmented OCR text shows a sale notice for Turkish Tawe's items with irregular pricing fragments. It lists regular prices and small lot items with vague descriptions and stray numbers, lacking clear product names or dates.
Readable fragments describe a bargain on women s hosiery including samples and remnants with plain colors stripes and weave effects in various styles and colors. Mentions values and irregular sizes and multiple item types such as silk and stretch hose with embroidery and assorted gauge finishes.
Bargain sale offers women's Oxford ties in multiple sizes and widths. Describes nubuck and calfskin variants with Cuban heels, ribbon laces, and welt soles. Sets values around $300 to $350 per pair, with heavily discounted prices, including a lot of mixed sizes and styles. Third floor retail display.
From a top umbrella maker we offer 3 tding Super Repousse Hindles on Paragon frames with union taffeta covers. Prices cut nearly in half from values of 1000 to 1400 dollars, 673, 775 and 1400, plus remnants and men’s silk umbrellas with stag horn handles and sterling caps. Main floor G st entrance.
A wave of society gossip centers on the Belmont family and a Texas woman claiming to be the late Mr Belmont’s daughter. The claimant, varyingly named Louise Whitney Felmont Clarke, questions birth ties and seeks settlement, while Mrs Belmont denies knowledge of any letters or settlements. The tale unfolds amid sensational press coverage and social scrutiny in New York, New Jersey, and Galveston.
J Pierpont Morgan, greeted as doctor and puzzled by Yale honoring him with LL D, reflects on Cleveland’s death aboard the Provence en route to Europe. He comments cautiously on U.S. economic improvement, then plans vacation following his niece Lisma Juliet Morgin’s wedding at Tuxedo.
June 2 report lists four new peers, ten privy counsellors, eleven baronets, and twenty five knights. Notable names include Patrick MacMonnell intersecmur, George White Liberal whip, Charles Fitzpatrick chief justice of Canada, and W H King named to the Order of St Michael and St George.
Harriet Snell once known as Harriet Snellident sang in Stake and accused Thornton Snell, president of St Joseph Valley Bank, of cruelty and misconduct. She seeks divorce and alimony. Snell, a bank leader, is described as a gentleman with a wife and other women. The defendant is identified as Thomas Snell of Clinton, who has since died.
The Merry Makers Pleasure Club held its fourth annual excursion to Marshall Hall yesterday with three boats and nearly 7400 attendees. Afternoon bowling for prizes preceded evening dancing. Officers included President J P Goodwin, Vice President Cook Ingle, Treasurer LP Steuart, and Miss Hessle Rush among scholars. Arrangements were led by committee chair T P Steuart, H F E Hunts Perry, and C E Engle.
The Texas Attorney General plans to sue Security Oil Company and subsidiaries in a Trust Act case seeking penalties and the sum of six million six hundred twenty dollars. The defendants include The Gators Pierce 611 Company, Fulger Payne, Standard Oil Company, Navarre Refining Company, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad, and related entities. The suit targets alleged violations of anti trust laws and asserts the defendants owe the state six million six hundred twenty dollars.
Rei Robert E Browning, formerly of retail, leaves New York aboard the Cunard liner Mauretania for Shanghai to teach at St Johns University. He is joined by his brothers William L Browning and Dr A J Browning and by Mrs William L Marcey. The party will tour Europe for two months before Dr Browning continues to China.
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