To Be Made To Order Screens Shades Awnings
Restless Window and Door Screens offers Woodward Lothrop cabinet made screens. Features rustless wire, improved lock-strip, non sagging frames, bronze grille doors, woodmatched paint, top or bottom ventilation, and durable operation. Window shades: vast fabric range, oil opakes, cambrie, Scotch Holland, waterproof cloths, Hartshorn rollers. Awnings use weatherproof iron frames, wide color stripes, samples available.
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Woodward & Lothrop
John King
Scotch Hollands
Willow Furniture displays artistic durable room and porch pieces
Unfinished or stained Willow Furniture offers a wide display of chairs rockers settees tea tables swings and more. Attractive fabrics for cushions and distinctive styles like the St George chair and Palm Beach armchair are highlighted with affordable finishes and new summer decor items for interiors and porches.
Vader Porch Shades and Ready-Made Screen Doors On Display
An advertisement lists Vader porch shades in multiple sizes with prices from $2.25 to $5.50, noting green stained wood and easy operation. Also advertised is a line of ready-made screen doors in several sizes, with natural varnish finish and prices from $1.25 to $4.00, plus decorative Marquisettes in white and cream with printed designs.
Sanitary Refrigerator Promises Hygienic Quality and Value
A historical ad promotes the Sanitary Refrigerator emphasizing hygienic construction and heat efficiency. It features oak casing, mineral wool insulation, and brass hardware, listing sizes from 35 to 120 pounds ice capacity with prices from 10.00 to 22.50 and larger up to 75.00, noting floor models and variations.
Mrs. McClintock Hosts Taft Luncheon Aboard Washington
Washington social notices recount the Taft luncheon hosted by Mrs. McClintock, followed by bridge, with many guests including Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Wickersham, and numerous society figures. Other events include dinners for Miss Helen Taft, travel plans, garden parties, and forthcoming summer relocations across Washington, Philadelphia, and Maine.
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RE Taft
A. Garrison McClintock
Bridge
Engagements and society notes from New York and London
The society page reports Miss Julia A. Hoyt’s engagement to Samuel A. Welldon of Washington with no wedding date set. It also notes ten Americans slated for presentation at London court, including Lady Decies and Mrs. William Phillips, detailing their outfits and status. Beneficiaries under Nils Poulson’s will arise with extensive bequests to family, staff, and associates, while a broader discussion covers servant letters and potential English legal reform. Also mentioned are a Prussian prince’s notes on Rachel’s voice and the Earl of Granard’s role as a likely lord chamberlain successor ahead of King George’s coronation plans.
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York
Wnickerbockers
Boston
Julia A. Hoyt
Gerald Hoyt
Samuel A. Welldon
Washington
Hoyt
New York
Misa Appleton
John Appleton Tucker
London
Lady Decies
William Phillips
Harriet Alexander
Margaret Draper
Decies
Phillips
Caroline Astor Drayton
Nils Poulson
Kings County
Share Road
Brooklyn
Highty Eighth Street
Witham WN. Dykman
Dykman
Poulson
Anna E. Bruch
Nicoline Christensen
William I
Rachel
Racine
Bajazet
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Earl of Granard
Earl Spencer
Lord Granard
Countess of Granard
Beatrice Mills
King George
Queen Mary
Hostess Tea and European Travel Notices
Mrs Sevellon Brown hosted a small tea for her daughter in law. Baron Hengelmuller the Austrian ambassador will return to Washington from Hot Springs with Baroness Hengelmuller. The Netherlands minister and Mme Loudon will spend the summer at Bar Harbor. Various diplomats and Miss Cecilia May sail to Europe on the Amerika amid summer plans with family visits.
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William Gordon Crawford
Henry Pellew
John Joy Edson
John Joy Edson, Jr
Cleveland
Ohio
Edson Io
Edson
Joy Farm
Rockville
Sevellon Brown
Sevellon Brown, Jr
Baron Hengelmuller
Austria-Hungary
Washington
Hot Springs
Baroness Hengelmuller
The
Netherlands
Mme Loudon
Bar Harbor
Baron
Baroness de Struve
Miss Cecilia
New York
Amerika
Europe
Miss May
Baroness Struve
St. Petersburg
Mrs. May
Lady Bagot
England
Julioyvi W. Bowers
Miss Bowers
The Eddy Refrigerator from Dulin & Martin Co
The Eddy Apartment House Refrigerator is designed to occupy minimal floor space while offering large ice capacity and ample provision chambers. It features Dry Air Circulation for efficient ice melting, is easy to clean and sanitary, and is advertised as lower in price than other first class refrigerators with a 60 year reputation for success.
Backing Concert a Success at Columbia Theater
Washington tenor Richard P. Backing delighted an enthusiastic audience at a testimonial concert directed by Sidney Lloyd Wightson. He has been engaged by Henry Savage for Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West and will debut professionally in Hartford. The program featured songs by Wightngale Hat in a Lyre of Gold, Romany tunes, From the Land of the Sky-blue Water, and Wagner excerpts, with duet and quartet selections from Madame Butterfly and Rigoletto with the Mendelssohn Quartet. Julia Huggins accompanied at the piano.
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Washington
Richard P. Backing
Columbia Theater
Sidney Lloyd Wightson
Backing
Henry Savage
Hartford
Conn
Whelpsey
Johnson
Lohr
Ronald
Cadman
Mary Turner Salter
Luise Reichardt
Fabian
Gnomenreign
Liszt
Djinski
Rubinstein
Chopin
Wagner
Miss Reuter
Bella Finglia Dellarmore
Mendelssohn
Julia Huggins
Mrs H W Garrett to wed Lieut Bellairs R N
Special to The Washington Post from New York May reports Mrs Horatio W Garrett formerly Miss Charlotte Pierson will marry Lieut Carlyon Wilfrey Bellairs Royal Navy retired. Bellairs arrives from England and the couple plans immediate nuptials. Garrett became wealthy after her husband’s death from cancer following his honeymoon.
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Washington Post
New York
Horatio W. Garrett
Charlotte Doremus Pierson
Baltimore
Carlyon Wilfrey Bellairs
R. N
Bellairs
England
Mr. Garrett
London
J. W. Garrett
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Mrs. Garrett
Henry L. Pierson
Lawrence
Long Island
Sir William Bellairs
Lightkeeper Seeks Wife in Elimination Test
Islip Long Island May 9 Hans Andersen first assistant keeper of Fire Island lighthouse narrowed 25 candidates to two by elimination. He placed an advertisement in a German newspaper seeking a middle aged self supporting wife to share a quiet beach life with light duties and few responsibilities.
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Washington Post
Islip
Long Island
Hans Andersen
Fire Island
Tenlent
Heiress Weds Secretly in Mount Vernon Ceremony
Wastell Gray, son of Benjamin F. Gray Jr., and Isabel Scullin, daughter of James Scullin, wed today at Mount Vernon Illinois without parental knowledge. The Scullin family, wealthy in St Louis, expects a second ceremony by the bride’s Catholic parents while the groom’s are Episcopalians.
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Washington Post
St. Louis
Wastell Gray
Benjamin F. Gray
Isabel Scullin
James Scullin
Mount Vernon
Scullin
Nutrients Key to Health and Irish Wit Roots
The article argues that even with sufficient calories from fat starch and sugar a person can be weak or sick without proper minerals. It lists essential blood minerals including potash sodium phosphorus calcium magnesium iron sulfur chlorine and fluorine. Potash especially supports brain and nerve centers and may influence Irish quick wit through diet. It cites beans potatoes peanuts wheat lettuce prunes cucumbers meat and walnuts as top sources of potash.
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Woodward&Lothrop
Paris
St. George
Palm Beach
Specia
Luigdit
Mrs. M’clintock
Mrs. Taft
Secretary of the Navy
Tsidor Rayner
Senator Rayner
Rauscher's
Sherman
George W. Wickershaw
Eugene , Hale
Thomas Sherman
Ios
Fairchild
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Mrs. Morgan
Mrs. Townsend
Shorty
Sharon, Conn
George Eustice
Peking
Bradley A. Fiske
Capt. Fiske
Timothy T. Ansberry
Richard Townsend
Bishop
Maine
Mrs. Foraker
Miss Foraker
Sixteenth Street
Mr. Foraker
James Robert McKee
Arthur Lee
Mrs. Pullman
Capital
John Benedict Cunningham
West Virginia
Boundary Castle
White House
Thomas W. Symons
Buffalo
Henry B. Pellew
Marian Pellew
Aiken
Edith Gracie
District of Columbia
Daughters of the Confederacy
Little Rock
Gracie
Herbert G. Squires, Jr
Concord, N.hs
Walcott
William J. Chandler
William S. Chandler
William W. McMaster
Charles F. Winbigler
A. R. Mutlowny
Hunter H. Laughton
S. A. Snyder
John H. Snyder
Barend
Herbert V. Hunt
Edward Wiseman
BE. L. Giles
Countess de la Rocca
William Phelps Eno
Benoist dAzy
Prince Roudacheff
Mr. Casteur
Frank Mitchell
New Hampshire Avenue
William K. Carr
Charles 11 Davis
Hawley
J. Clarke Davis
Percival Farrar
Sandingham
Richard Harding Davie
Charles Belmont Davis
Nora Davis
Hecla Iron Works
Greenpoint
Albert E. Werth
M A.j
Christensen
Merriengland
Mme. Vassilieff
Perry Belmont
Eddy
Silveremitha
Pennsylvania “Avenue
Young Washington
H. W. Garrett
Baltimore Society
Lieut. Bellairs, R. N
Lightkeeper
Barbara Boyd
Angela Burdett
Coutts
King of Heaven
Burdett-Coutts
Liverpool
Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Guch
East London
Lfe
Fartane
Downes
Delft
Ss. Kann, Sous & Co
Eis
Gil E4ellel
F Steed Nbl
Marinello
Marinelli
Allen Food Specialist
Joseph A. Bowles
Shaffer
Asbury Park
Palais Royal
Aoneden
Whe
Hetr
Union Trust Company
16Th and H Sts. N. W
Edward J. Stellwagen
R.W. & J. B. Henderson Inc
G St
Philipsborn
Boyd’s Hair Shop
Pennsylvania Avenue
Niewepral
Pat Haves
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