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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
29
Special remnant sale offers deep discounts across departments led by women undergarments in fine muslin cambric and nainsook. Third floor outfits include shawls and wraps with marked reductions on white silk and wool options. Men’s wear features ties, nightshirts, bath robes and shirts with substantial price cuts. varied stock across third floor and main floors.
A set of Women's Black Silk Petticoats in rustling taffeta with a deep flare tucked flounce and full sectional ruffles priced at 3.93 each, value 5.50, located at Third Ncor Eleventh street.
A special purchase of Linen Torchon Laces in edging and insertion styles to match in widths from 1/6 inch to 2 inches. Suitable for trimming garments, underwear, and aprons. Priced 3 cents per yard, 10 cents, and 12 3/4 cents. Main floor front.
A short notice advertises white goods on sale featuring Waist Patterns of embroidered batiste at three yards per pattern priced at 1.95 dollars each with a value of three dollars. Sold on the second floor eleventh.
Manufacturer samples of Women's Ribbed Vests with low necks and no sleeves, slightly soiled, all sizes. Special price 15c each, values 19c and 25c. Also samples of Women's Knit Underwear including vests, drawers, and combination suits in summer weights. Entire lot offered at substantial savings from regular prices on Mala floor F st.
Bargain sale of children’s muslin drawers finished with hem and tucks for ages 4 to 6 years. Good, substantial garments offered at 12 1/2 cents per pair, value 18 cents. Location on the third floor at Eleventh street.
Children’s cotton hose on sale with 25 dozen pairs of fine ribbed black hose in medium weight, sizes 6 to 10. Excellent quality offered at a special price of 12 to 14 cents per pair on the main floor.
A catalog of fabric prices appears listing cotton dress goods in 4 to 7 yard lengths, various ginghams, silks, chiffons, madras, printed delaines, and lawn fabrics with per yard costs. Second floor G street area noted for the display.
A sale featuring new spring women’s suits in serge panama and novelty checks with plaited skirts and satin lining offered at 16 50 to 19 75 each, plus remnants including gray caracal jacket 10, black velvet jackets 10 each, oyster white evening cape 20, white broadcloth evening coat 25, olive satin evening coat 38 90, and Cravenette raincoats 7 60, third floor.
A sale of women s skirts in plaited Panama cloth offered in blue black and brown for general wear at 5 00 each. Remnants include chiffon Panama skirts in black navy and brown with braid trim priced at 7 50 each. Black chiffon broadcloth skirts in gores reduced from 18 50 to 12 50. Third floor six stations.
Miss Helen Seagrave Ffoulke married Emanuel Havenith Belgian Minister to Persia in a noon ceremony in the tapestry gallery of the Ffoulke residence Washington with more than 30 guests including ambassadors and ministers. The ceremony officiated by Mgr OConnell featured a lace veiled bride in white satin and a procession with ushers. Afterward a breakfast and drawing room reception followed. Guests included prominent diplomats and Washington society members. The couple planned to sail to Antwerp then Brussels before moving to Tehran.
Washington society details a flurry of diplomatic and guest dinners. Invitations list Chilean minister, Chinese minister, Ambassadors, and numerous Mrs. and Ms. hosts amid a week of receptions, social duties, and a Havana gala hosted by Gov. Magoon.
The Washington social world notes the engagement of Vera O Rourke to Carl A Doubet, with dignitaries from the ad hoc commission and charity circles in attendance. A charity ball for rural Catholic charities, under Knights of Columbus, is planned for April 21 at the New Willard Hotel with patronage from Cardinal Gibbons and local leaders. Plans and patron lists are being finalized by the Knights of Columbus subcommittees and general committee meetings in the temple on E street northwest.
Alfred L. Seligman, financier and youngest in the famed family, declares he has abandoned Wall Street to pursue art. He works in a studio on East Fifty-ninth Street, painting, sculpting, and modeling clay, saying art is art for art’s sake and poverty would not lure him back to banking. He discusses beauty as spirit and muscle, praising working women and Bruenhilde as ideal. Several social figures are noted for collecting Sheffield plate, with the story continuing on page eleven.
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