Woodward & Lothrop sales on garments and fabrics
The store lists remnant day outfits for boys and a wide range of women’s wear. Includes all wool suits for boys in double breasted and Norfolk styles at five dollars, various printed foulards, dress lengths, and 6 to 7 percent yardage discounts. Also features one piece dresses, foulard and zebra patterned pieces, and hats and waists with reduced pricing across floors on G and Tenth streets.
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Tenth St
Messalines
Friday Special in Women's Waists and Coats
In the third floor GST section a Friday special offers Voiles and Ba paistors trimmed with lime laces and hand embroidery, plus King Tailored Waists. Prices 1.50 to 12.50, with many reduced from higher marks. Coats include semifitting black and blue glazex, gray Cravenetted with hood, an evening cape, and a brown steamer coat all discounted. girls’ washable dresses in Sepercale and gingham feature high necks and long sleeves with full plaited skirts.
Sale on Women's Dresses and Blouses at Deep Reductions
Remnants include 17 Girls Lawn Dresses with polka dots and embroidery in sizes 6 to 14 at 1.95 each, 10 White Serge Middy Blouses in sizes 8 10 and 12 at 1.75 each, 23 Misses Lawn Dresses in green blue and lavender stripes with Dutch necks reduced from 6.75 to 5.00, and 12 Misses Linen Dresses blue tan and white sailor styles reduced to 3.95 each. Floor 1 items noted.
Friday Special in Linen Robe Patterns
Elegant linen robe patterns offered in pink, copenhagen blue, and white with elaborate self-color embroidery. Priced at 10.00 each, down from 15.00, with especially delicate French batiste robes reduced to 15.00 and a sheer white pattern marked down from 28.00 to 15.00.
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Copenhagen
Friday Special in Dress Linens
One thousand yards of coarse weave linen in wistaria strawberry and raisin shades. Woven with pure flax and mercerized yarn, full 36 inches wide. Price 19 cents per yard, reduced from one. Located at crowd floor Eleventh street.
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Eleventh St
Valenciennes Lace Special in French and German Edges
Friday sale on Valenciennes laces offering edges and inser tions in dainty designs and effects. High quality with known value. 12 yards sold for 60 cents each. Main floor department.
Friday Special in Batiste Corsets
The advertisement offers lightweight batiste corsets in various models with medium bust and hip, four hose supporters, and special prices. Includes De Revoise Piaisieres trimmed with lace and embroidery, Lily of France coats, and a Royalty B Corset coat in multiple sizes, with notable reductions on many items. Located on the third floor of Eleventh Street.
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Batiste
de Revoise Piaisieres
Ste
Lily of France
Friday Special in Children’s Drawers Sale Items
Readable children’s wear entries show embric garments with embroidery and tucks in sizes 1 to 14 years, offered at 25 cents per pair. Also listed are straw hats trimmed with sashes in brown and navy, discounted from 25 to 12 1/2 dollars each, white satin ribbon trimmed hats, and a mushroom shaped bonnet line with plaited silk features, all noted with reduced prices.
Huckaback Towels Sale at Second Floor Store
Friday special on Huckaback Towels in white 18 by 36 inches. Six towels priced at 1.00, value listed as 1.25. Located on Second Floor Eleventh Street.
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Eleventh St
Friday Special in China Matting Sale
Advertisement notes Friday specials in China matting 120 rolls of heavy even seamless mats in good colors and durable quality priced at 5.00 per roll, marked down from 7.00 and 8.00. Also mentions Axminster rugs fair priced from 5 to 9 on the fourth floor G Street.
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Spitho Axminster Rugs Jre
Skirt Department Offers Large Size Gored Cloth Skirts
The store highlights plain gored cannon cloth skirts in extra large sizes at 2.00 each. Also listed are blue panama and navy blue serge skirts with reduced prices, including size 22 options and panel back design, displayed on the third floor.
Silk Covered Handkerchief and Ribbon Lace Boxes Sale
Small lot of silk covered handkerchiefs ribboned centerpieces and lace trimmed boxes reduced from high prices to low. Centerpieces with dung lace, embroidered pieces, and comb accessories advertised with marked reductions per item.
Mrs Taft’s Final Garden Party At White House Today
The last of Mr Taft’s four White House garden parties will be held today from 6 to 7 pm with the Vice President and Mrs Sherman among guests. Various officials, diplomats, and social figures across Washington and trial Selections attended or planned summer travel, with many leaving for New York, Atlantic City, or European trips.
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White House
Herbert Scott Smith
Lara Anderson
Annapolis
Capt Perkins
Anderson
Wilby Langfitt Nuptials at Georgetown Estate
The marriage of Miss Dorothy Langfitt and Lieut Francis Bowditch Wilby was solemnized yesterday afternoon on the Langfitt home grounds in Georgetown. The ceremony featured ushers in white uniforms, bridesmaids in white, and a tulle veil for the bride, who wore white lace over satin. The Rev James W Blake officiated, followed by a reception with dignitaries and guests. The couple will reside at the Washington barracks after leaving for their new posting.
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Detroit
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Washington
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Portland
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Fashion and Royal Floral Tributes Move Through Time
Excerpts reflect memorial wreaths at national tombs with Roosevelt and Grant symbolism, and Madrid royalty’s royal births. The piece shifts to the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria’s outbound voyage for the coronation, high society gossip about Miss Elkins, and a haunted Berkeley Square house. It also notes Kansas City pride, top-paid U S women, and memoir plans of Mrs Rose Gouverneur, Monroe descendant.
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Berkeley Square
Daughter of Blaine W. Taylor Dead
Beatrice Taylor, 1é-year-old daughter of Blaine W. Taylor, a prominent local attorney and longtime official with the Post Office Department in Washington, died this morning of diphtheria in Elkins West Virginia. Commemoration bouquets advertised by Shaffer at 14th and Kye with telephone number 2416.
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Blaine W. Taylor
Washington Post
Elkins
W. Va
Beatrice
Post Office Department
Washington
Philosophy of Life and Daily Practice
The piece urges forming a personal philosophy of life and living by true convictions rather than mere conventions. It cites nature, meditation, and purposeful work as sources of joy and strength, urging daily reflection and wholehearted effort to find peace and satisfaction in everyday tasks.
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Miss Pettus Funeral Today at St John’s Church
Funeral services for Miss Charlotte Brooke Pettus, daughter of Dr and Mrs William J Pettus, who died Wednesday, will be held at 4 PM at St John’s Church Lafayette Square Washington. Debutante of last winter, she studied at Miss Spence’s School New York, and after an European sojourn returned home with plans for debut. Her death occurred at her parents suburban Chevy Chase home.
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Stephen B. Elkins
Elkins
Duke d'Abruzzi
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Women discuss suffrage in Colorado at Stanton Club
Mrs J D Withers of Colorado spoke at a Stanton Suffrage Club meeting at Mrs Harvey W Wiley’s Biltmore Street home, recounting Colorado women’s political work in city, county, and state elections. Miss Alice Jenkins described the New York protest parade. other speakers included Miss Belva Lockwood, Miss Emory Gillette, and Hyland C Kirk. Mrs Wiley presided.
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Industrial Crafts Sale At Washington Club Bazaar
The semiannual bazaar of mountain crafts by the Southern Industrial Education Association ran from 3 to 7 pm at the Washington Club. Virginia North Carolina Kentucky and Alabama school products sold well. Mrs Martha S. Gielow and Mrs David White led the event with contributions from Vale Cruis North Carolina Asheville North Carolina Kindman Kentucky Brewton Alabama Beaver Dam Virginia and the Christ Industrial School of Arden North Carolina.
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Virginians Wed in Rockville Ceremony
The Rev. 5. A White officiated at the marriage in Rockville Maryland yesterday afternoon of Miss Jessie May Pringle aged 18 of Richmond Virginia and Thomas William Walton aged 21 of Independent Hill Virginia.
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Washington Post
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