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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1911
Page
12
Readily available young men’s spring suits in blues grays and tans from Hart Schaffner & Marx. Prices start at 12.50 per suit with a wide range of sizes 15 to 20 years and include remnant and sale items on menswear from coats to trousers and accessories.
A listed sale features 20 dozen pairs of Women's Lisle Hose at 25 cents, various remnants and reduced skirts and gowns across floors, including serge and Panama skirts, and multiple imported and domestic dresses with deep discounts from 8.75 to 75.00. Names of fabrics, skirts, and sizes are given with percentage reductions and locations in the third and G Street floors.
A sale catalog highlights Swiss embroideries 22 inches wide with pattern options and special prices 60c to $1.00 per yard. Infants and children's garments in Cambric, Lawn, and nainsook finishes, plus a shoe and rug department with deep discounts on dress shoes, slippers, and Brussels rugs. Furniture and bric a brac items listed with dramatic price cuts across many items on the fourth floor and main floor departments.
Readable list shows multiple silk waist styles with reductions from high prices to sale figures. Items include salmon pink chiffon waists, embroidered rose pink chiffons, alover cream Irish net waists, chiffon cloth blouses, brown chiffon waists, colored chiffon waists, tuck messaline satin and taffeta waists, and black taffeta and striped variants. Prices reduced to about three to ten dollars depending on style.
Cravenetted Serge Raincoats in green gray and tan priced 15.00 down to 8.75 with semi fitting styling in sizes 36 and 12. Six Winterweight Long Coats in black blue gray variously lined reduced from 5.00 and 32.50 to 1.50 9. Tan Mixed Long Coats sizes 40 42 cut to 6.75. One Dark Tan Evening Coat trimmed with colored embroidery now 30.00 from 67.50. Glove sale includes Walking lore and One-clasp Waiting Gloves with reduced pricing noted.
Furniture department offers mahogany music cabinets, dining chairs, arm rockers, chiffonier and library chairs with leather seats at deep price cuts. Quartered oak pieces drop from high hundreds to mid teens, large mahogany chiffonier and dressing table reduced. Sixth floor Gut Picture Department features sepia prints and other frames with significant markdowns.
Washington social pages report Justice and Mrs Brown hosting a dinner at Rauscher's celebrating Gen John W Woster's birthday with 30 guests including Gen Foster and many diplomats. Other gatherings note the German Ambassador Countess von Bernstorff and the Secretary of the Interior at dinners plus Mrs Ballinger attending a luncheon before her Seattle departure.
Mrs. Hammond and several society figures hosted luncheons in Washington for Mrs. Francis McNeill Bacon Jr, the New York and New Jersey section head of the National Civic Federation. Guests included Miss Wetmore, Senator Wetmore, and Mrs. W. A. Gregg among others as the Congressional Club event showcased pink Killarney roses and white lilacs with a large silver loving cup centerpiece.
Monday afternoon limited admittance at the navy yard only to officers. Dr Herbert Snow of London to lecture today at the New Willard at 430 pm under the National Society for Humane Regulation of Vivisection. Senators Depew Morgan Bulkeley Fas sett and others plan travel between Washington Palm Beach Havana Atlanta and New York with various social engagements and smart gatherings noted around Shoreham Frignds School and The Hamilton.
Reports from New York describe a society spectacle sparked by the rescue of Baron Rothschild and his party from the stranded Atmah off Cuba. Capt. Dan Williams and the crew of the Silverwings were showered with jewels as a purse of over $3,000 was offered. the baron and baroness stayed aboard the ship, while a glamorous woman with a jeweled monocle drew crowds on Fifth Avenue. The tale blends high society glamour with a dramatic maritime rescue, ending with notable art and social events in the city.
A London leading article lauds Americans for their “smile cure” and cheerfulness, contrasting British restraint. It cites breakfast happiness and optimistic family routines as the route to a more buoyant daily life across the Atlantic.
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