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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1915
Page
12
Woodward and Lothrop markets an array of occasion wear with new coats skirts sleeves collars and cuffs. The store highlights a range of materials including imported gabardines tweeds serges and checks in shades such as Holland blue navy putty and black.
Attention invited to showing of new spring gowns including afternoon and evening wear with lace embroidery and dainty trimming. Silk blouses in Georgette crepe and crepe de chine priced from 5.00 to 10.75 dollars feature collar options, eyelet embroidery, and handkerchief waist styles, on the third floor of G Street location.
AKRY WORCESTER SMITH, a wealthy sportsman, invites inmates from Worcester county jail to a Memorial Day party at his 600 acre Lordvale estate in North Graf ton. He promises steeplechase stunts over the bars and asserts the outing will soften their outlook and correct impulses less harshly than jail time. The inmates reportedly accepted.
Returning Austro Hungarian ambassador and Mme Dumba entertained informally at the embassy. The Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs John E Osborne hosted a 24 guest dinner at the Willard. Lectures at the Washington Club and Playhouse drew large crowds. A Christ Child Society benefit at the new Masonic Temple featured T A Daly and Georgetown artists. Miss Esther Slater’s hospital date cancels her Washington visit. The Belasco hosted Aida with notable boxes. Peruvian Minister Pozet ill at home. Representative Stayden heads to San Antonio, Mrs Stayden stays in D C.
Gov Reed and Mrs Reed from Connecticut stay at Grafton. Mr and Mrs Pratt of Boston at Willard. A tea hour featuring songs by John Frederick Leech. weddings in Boston and travel to San Francisco and Yellowstone noted. Numerous guests hosted at Wardman Park and Willard for musicales, luncheons, and dinners for aristocratic and diplomatic figures, including Col and Mrs Cornwallis West and Miss Jeffrey the violinist.
An old adv style piece promotes lifting hair from the ears with fluffy strands and soft draping. It praises a shampoo preparation marketed for about three cents a use, claiming improved luster softness and quick drying with even color. Dandruff and dirt claimed to dissolve, stimulating scalp health for growth.
Miss Marie Bond sixteen and James Dr Baker of Kempton Maryland wed secretly after she left home for work. Parents Ira and Mrs Bond refuse forgiveness citing her age. They met in rain outside the department store and traveled to Frederick Maryland where a license was obtained and Rev. H. Laman performed the ceremony. Bond questions the marriage’s validity under Maryland law.
A dispute in New Lebanon NY pitted Mrs. Sarah Bradley against Major Early over the custody and care of Nelson Gates, an elderly wealthy farmer. Justice Stafford ordered habeas corpus proceedings to determine placement under a court appointed committee for his person and estate amidst evasive replies from Mrs. Bradley’s household and a tense custody fight.
Serena Helen Hine claims a 10 cent home in Turtle Lake area described as eight hundredths of an acre of triangular land eight by eight feet. The land office record notes no three year occupancy requirement and Miss Hine grows tomatoes cabbage and clover on the tiny plot while the Interior Department approved its description and status.
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