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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1909
Page
13
A terse listing notes calendars and diaries for 1910 prepared for display on the Ready Main Floor at G Street. The entry highlights available calendar references and diary formats suitable for personal or office use.
A shop showcases a wide array of colored dress goods and imported novelties with emphasis on wool suiting. Highlights include 42 inch Nemi rough Cheviot at 1.00 per yard, widewale navy blue and other shades at 1.25, 54 inch Cheviots at 3.50, a Scotch heather American copy at 1.50, imported piece at 1.50, and 54 inch Wideware suiting at 1.75 in raisin blue catawba and green.
Store promotes a broad fall and winter fabric collection with Aliwool and l-silk varieties. Aliwool Chiffon Voiles and Aliwool Check Voiles headline a lineup including sheer voiles, crepes, worsteds, and cheviots. Prices span $0.50 to $2.00 per yard, featuring wool batistes and chiffon cloth in multiple widths and finishes.
Rough-finish Weaves and a long list of fabrics with yard prices. Includes Cheviots Storm Cheviots Venetian Cloths Unfinished Worsteds Diagonal Serges Wideware Serges Latin Prunella Tussah Royal Mohair Sicilian Mohair Brilliantine Read s Lansdowne Silk-warp Henriettas Kersey Cloth All-wool Henriettas Imported Spotproof Broadcloth with varied price points per yard.
The Stationery Department displays specimen books with over 100 special greeting cards used by English aristocracy and upper circles, each bearing sender names and addresses. Raphael Tack & Sons' Private Christmas collection is to be introduced.
A catalog listing various books by Washington authors and others, including A Maurice Low’s study in national psychology, Italian Vignettes by Mary W. Acms, John Marvel Assistant by Thomas Nelson Page, The Isle of Dead Ships by Crittenden Merelott, The Big Brother of Sabin Street by Mrs I T Thurston, and The Flip Flop Show by Constance White. It notes cloth bindings, page counts, illustrations, prices, and formats for each title.
Washington society and diplomatic circles open the season with arrivals from Austria Hungary and Russia. The embassy gates glow with baronesses and dukes as attendances mingle at Chevy Chase Club and private houses while Taft’s New Mexico visit inspires letters. Featured are marriages, dances, and social tours across the capital, with mention of Senators Hughes and their Iowa ties, and the Swiss minister’s wife Paul Ritter praising Japanese women’s refined hospitality. The piece blends elite movements, receptions, and high society chatter into a single panoramic social column.
Social notes recount French author Terre de Coulevain's alleged hotel observations on American guests in Paris and a Parisian rivalry among Greek princes and American widows. Jewel intrigue at the Gotham hotel links to Miss Suzanne drenning as marriages loom, while American socialites, including Mrs. Henry Dibbles and daughters, dominate Lenox society scenes this summer.
An assortment features plates for various uses tea cupa and saucers chocolate cupa and saucers after timer coffee cups sid Sancar tee pots chocolate pots creamer pitchers bouillon cups and saucers cake dishes water pitchers fruit dishes and more. Special emphasis on wedding china items suitable for lavish tableware decorations.
Dr. T S Allen notes cranberries contain malic and citric acids and benzoic acid. They aid liver but may slow attention and should not be eaten with rice bread or potatoes. A small cranberry sauce with grapes or apples in the morning may help certain conditions. He warns benzoic acid as a preservative is similar to formaldehyde in milk and not desirable.
Mrs Emmating Pankhurst, noted English advocate of votes for women, addresses a large audience at the Maryland Theater in Baltimore. Rev H M Wharton presides and Ada Smith Lang introduces her as Socialist party candidate defeated in the recent election. Pankhurst outlines the English suffrage campaign and advocates’ experiences.
Prof. Ludwig Tusti, newly named director of Berlin’s National Gallery, will depart for New York to inspect Rembrandt paintings loaned for an exhibition. He plans a two week stay in America and aims to view private collections of Old Masters as well. Venice exhibition closes with foreign works sale including Pennell etchings and Coffin painting Naples in Blossom for the International Art Association gallery.
Swift and Company reported fresh beets sold in Washington DC for the week ended holiday November with average prices around 70e per 10 pounds. The brief item notes sales activity and price level during the period.
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