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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1916
Page
12
New York Washington Paris sale features durable shirts with fast color fabrics, turn-back cuffs, and lower prices. Also a vast assortment of stylish trimmed hats at 3 to 5 dollars, valued higher, with wide braids shapes and colors. Women urged to seize exceptional values in this sale.
Announcing a delay in the current shipment of Wirthmor waists. The sale is omitted today with plans to include this and next week’s assortments in time for Friday special sales. Wirthmor waists have been very popular, and the interruption is regretted by the manufacturers and the store.
The remaining lot of Vole Robe Patterna will be closed out today at $4.00 each. They are white voile embroidered in colors of ross pith Eidith rose canary Fel tow and green. Very attractive frocks may be made from these patterns. Special price, $4.00 each. Peon floor BF street.
Readable fragment describes women's hose sales on Main floor Gatreet with twenty dozen silk hose 65 cents a pair and thirty dozen lisle hose 25 cents a pair. Also lists discounted books and biographies with prices and locations across floors and departments.
The Chilean chargé d'affaires and Mme Cuevas entertained last night in honor of Secretary Lansing at the Army and Navy Club with guests including Senator and Mrs Pomerens Col and Mrs Duncan Capt and Mrs Volney Chase Capt and Mrs McDougal and Mr and Mrs Archibald Livingston Parsons Miss Van Doren and Capt Plunkett. Montgomery Blair hosted an informal dinner dance for young people at his Silver Spring country home. Gen and Mrs George Barnett and Admiral and Mrs Thomas B Howard hosted at the Army and Navy Club honoring guests Mr and Mrs A J Drexel Biddle of Philadelphia and Mrs W F B Prentiss of San Diego.
Mrs Taggart wife of Senator Taggart of Indiana hosted her first at home in the presidential suite at the Willard estate. The event featured a tea setup with white lilacs pink snapdragon and white peonies as guests from official Washington attended including Mrs Marshall and daughters. Numerous other society figures and guests from New York Indianapolis and Providence were noted along with dinners and garden parties across the city.
Washington society circles feature Theodore Frelinghuysen arriving in the city and staying at the Willard. A Navy Yard tea hosts notable guests with pink centerpieces. Irma Bird Stewart reads from her works at the Congressional Club. Attendees include numerous named ladies, diplomats, and visiting figures from New York, Buffalo, Portland, and beyond. Other arrivals include Mount Vernon regent Miss Mary F Failing and guests at Newport and Shoreham thoroughfare.
A large reception at Colonial School honored Misa Mercedes Godoy, daughter of Mexico's former minister to Cuba, with Misa Charlotte Crittenden Everett hosting. Guests arrived in the entrance hall then moved to the drawing room as dignitaries and socialites greeted the honorees. The ballroom tea featured red and white decor and spring flowers including dogwood branches and snowballs.
Catherine Orspada of BB French Cooking School won the school girls bread making contest at Franklin School. Helen Schats was second, just one point behind. The event was organized by Emma J Jacobs with cooperation from the Housekeepers Alliance and the Board of Education.
Florence Sands Russell, widow of architect William Hamilton Russell, married Alexander Webb at her Lexington Avenue home with 100 relatives present. Webb heads Lincoln Trust Company, son of late Gen. Alexander S Webb. The couple plan a Salip Long Island honeymoon and winter at Webb’s home. Also notes Miss Anna Marcel Haldeman of Chicago engaged to Emanuel Julius, socialist writer, daughter of late bank presidents, with wedding set for early next month.
Members of the Mount Vernon Association gathered for the sixty third annual council at Mount Vernon. The regent Miss Harriet Clayton Comegy presided with a long list of vice regents from states including Virginia Michigan California New York Alabama and more. After approving minutes from May 1915 the group paused for a noon stop to place a wreath on Washington's tomb.
Miss Margaret Wilson addressed Business High School pupils in the auditorium. She urged broader use of school facilities for education and for teaching parents about civic government and community welfare, beyond student instruction.
London May 11 Special to The Washington Post. Winfield R. Sheehan formerly secretary of Police Commissioner Waldo of New York and Miss Rey Laureli of Zeigfeld Follies Company were married yesterday, it was announced today.
The Birth of a Nation continues a full month run at the National theater wrapping its run as it enters week five. The program lists Tyrone Power in John Needham's Double and Tangled Hearts as part of a busy schedule through the upcoming week with Dowd and Moore, Fox features, and The Great Problem among the highlights.
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