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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1907
Page
6
These lots of clothing are high-grade goods new this season best styles and effects. They are cut made and shaped properly and will give satisfactory service. Entrance via Main Soor, also from Men's Turnishing Store, Fst.
The warm season buys are listed with refrigerators for homes, go carts and carriages for babies, and veranda and lawn furniture. English Go-carts and Hood Rattan Carriages range from $18.50 to $33.00, while English Perambulators sell from $30.00 to $40.00 each.
Washington social notes describe a dinner and theater party hosted by Senator and Mrs. Elkins in honor of the Duke of the Abruzzi at their K Street home. The Duke will yacht with Larz Anderson today, while Mrs. Swanson visits with Mr. and Mrs. Dunn. Various society figures attend cotillions, teas, and al fresco gatherings at residences along Connecticut Avenue and Chevy Chase.
Massachusetts scholar Dr William Everett, principal of Adams Academy, Quincy, has accepted the Clark Vestureship at Trinity College Cambridge England for the season 1907 1908. He will deliver twelve lectures on English literature. This marks a second invitation after graduating from Trinity College in 1869.
Social notes describe lawn tent life on Long Island and Jersey estates, with front flap tents from Tuxedo to St Bartholomews serving as private watching posts for tennis and croquet. The piece also covers fashion shifts toward extended knuckle sleeves, the rise of ornate pianos as wedding gifts, Newport society as Rockefeller-era, and gossip about Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Duryea’s racing venture and public exposure.
The County hosted a charity fete at Friendship offering prizes in a new box stall game won by Dorothya and Frank Smith, children of Dr. Fremont Smith at 1808 Massachusetts Avenue. Dorothya won a clock and Frank a set of clothes hangers in a green leather case. Dr. Taylor Boyd Dixon won the quoits champion cup and E Schahe rTetz the marksman cup with 226 points over two days.
John Tyssowski, son of T. M. Tys sowski, has been elected to membership in the Great Bear Society at the University of California. Only students attaining the highest rank are eligible for this honor.
The funeral for Capt William W Stuart who died Sunday at George Washington University Hospital will be today at 2 pm at Lees Chapel 332 Pennsylvania Avenue Interment follows at Mount Olivet Cemetery He was born in March 1st and was a longtime fish and oyster dealer and a familiar district figure His efforts helped shape fishing laws and spawning season protections He is survived by his wife and three children George W Stuart W D Stuart and Miss Catherine Stuart
John D Davis a former Navy Yard employee and G A R veteran died last Friday. He was laid to rest in Congressional Cemetery yesterday after a 3 pm funeral at his home 1266 Third Street SE. Rev H T France and George R Cook led services with Farragut Post No 10 chaplain. Pallbearers Converse Parker P C George B F Graham Clark Arnold H L Thompson were Farragut Post members. Post commander H H Bunyen oversaw funeral arrangements. Many elaborate floral pieces were present.
A grieving mother had her daughter Aurora Wuetteberi reinterred from Kansas City to Oak Hill Cemetery in Indiana Harbor, allowing daily visits. The young musician died in the recent Kansas City University building fire while helping to save her pupils. The mother, returning to Indiana Harbor after learning of her daughter's death, arranged the exhumation and burial near home.
Special to The Washington Fest Mount Vernon May 20 Mrs Ruth L Bailey widow of circus king James A Bailey announces a 10000 gift for a memorial hospital at Mount Vernon She also consents to endow the hospital with an amount not yet known to ensure perpetual operation and ongoing charitable work in Mount Vernon
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