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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1910
Page
14
Woodward & Lothrop offers linen coat suits at 12.50 as summer fashions arrive. Samples from a top manufacturer showcase semi fitting coats and gores skirts in natural, blue, lavender, mustard, rose and striped whites. Limited time Third floor special picks per dealer.
Special 975 yards of 27 inch all silk shantung pongees offered at about half price. Originally one dollar per yard now 55 cents yard, smooth heavy washable fabric shown in fourteen colors including heliotrope coral apricot nile green mauve new blue and navy. Second floor display and sale location noted.
A colorful advertisement highlights summer lingerie waists from domestic and foreign makers. It lists Dutch-neck batistes, lace trims, hand embroidery, tucks, and long sleeves with cuff details. Prices range from 2.95 to 7.50 dollars, with multiple styles emphasizing beading and intricate front and back fastenings.
Catalog notes numerous travel coats including Pongve tassah rajah and gold cloth styles in imported and domestic fabrics. Describes semi fitting and raghun styles with various trims, prices from 16.50 to 75.00, plus linen long coats with shawl collars, and Gloria Raincoats in black navy gray priced 25.00 and rubberized fabrics from 12.50 to 27.50.
Remaining stock of Little Children's Summer Hats offered at exactly half price. Imports and domestic-made straws, hand embroidered piques, laces, ribbon and floral hats in mostly one-of-a-kind styles. On sale immediately on the third floor Eleventh Street with prices ranging from 25c to 39.50.
Last year’s demand met with the final shipment available this morning, selling in packages of five each containing American Beauty Etoile de Lyon Clothilde Soupert Mrs De Graw and Rhea Reid. Prices 26c per package. Cemetery Lawn Flower Vases in green Japan finish 10c each. Matt Green Pottery 2G each. Graze Clippers 2G up. Sprinkling Pots galvanized and rust free 2Mc up. Colonial Lawn Grass Seed designed for Washington soil 25c per pound. Fifth floor Eleventh street segment.
The town awakens to a luxury wedding in the Townsend house on Lafayette Square. Miss Townsend, described as regal and beloved, will wed Mr Peter Gerry in a grand ceremony with 200 guests including national figures and diplomats. The event features a Verlaine style ballroom, a marble interior, and a royal wedding procession to a future life in the North.
The Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs Huntington Wilson will stay in Washington until July before taking a brief tour of Europe. Frederik Keho is mentioned as part of the accompanying party.
Washington society items recount Miss Boardman returning to Washington from Des Moines with Red Cross work and aiming for the Townsend wedding in June. Numerous social entries follow including Mrs Pinchot and friends in New York, church weddings at 135 V Street NW, and plans for Georgetown Hospital fundraiser with a bridal procession and mission workers in white.
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