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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1909
Page
21
A compact 1910 catalog entry notes calendars and diaries prepared for the ready main floor on G Street. It highlights utility items for daily planning and scheduling within a traditional business or household setting.
A selection of colored dress fabrics and imported novelties is offered, highlighting suitings in woolen weights. Includes 42 inch Nemi rough Cheviot at 1.00 per yard, widewale weaves at 1.25, 54 inch cheviot at 3.50, Scotch cheviot copies at 1.50, and 54 inch Wideware suiting at 1.75, in blue, olive, raisin, catawba, and green.
A modern catalog feature presents a wide range of black fabrics from sheer voiles and crepes to heavy worsteds and cheviots. It highlights Aliwool and i-silk varieties with prices from 50 cents to $2 per yard, including plain and patterned voiles, chiffons, crepe de Chine, grenadine, nun's veiling, panamas, and wool batistes.
A rough finished fabric rack lists prices per yard for items including 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 and Imported Spotproof Broadcloth with prices ranging from 50 cents to 4 dollars per yard.
Specimen books show over a hundred Special Greeting Cards valued in English aristocratic and upper circle use. Each card bears individual stamps of identity to be imprinted with sender name and address. Raphael Tack & Sons' Private Christmas cards are introduced for inspection in our Stationery Department.
A college-era catalog of new books from Washington authors and others. Includes A Maurice Low study in national psychology, Italian Vignettes by Mary W. Acms, Thomas Nelson Page works, Crittenden Merelott tale, Thurston The Big Brother of Sabin Street, and Constance White children’s book The Flip Flop Show.
Washington hosts diplomatic corps as Mr and Mrs Dickinson return to the city. Embassies, attachees, and social entertainments fill the season in the capital with figures such as the Baroness and Viscount de la Rocca and the Russian ambassador visiting during the autumn.
Social notes recount a French author using Paris hotels to study American visitors and women. The piece accuses her of intimate surveillance, with hotel owners ejecting her after notes on guests. It links a Pittsburg divorce case to gossip and mentions royal exiles in Paris, including American widows amid luxury gatherings.
The assortment lists plates for various uses tea cups and saucers chocolate cups and saucers after Tanner coffee cups and saucers tea pots sugar bowls cream pitchers bouillon cups and saucers cake dishes water pitchers fruit dishes and more china especially for weddings and anniversaries.
Cranberries contain malic citric and benzoic acids and help liver function while retarding digestion. Best eaten plain or with grapes or apples in the morning. Thick skin slows air exposure and benzoic acid acts as a preservative, akin to added preservatives in canned goods.
Mrs Emmating Pankhurst, famed advocate for women’s vote, addressed a large audience at the Maryland Theater in Baltimore. Rev H M Wharton presided and Ada Smith Lang, Socialist candidate defeated in the state race, introduced the speaker. Pankhurst outlined England’s suffrage campaign and the experiences of its advocates.
Berlin reports Prof. Ludwig Tusti, newly named National Gallery director, will fly to New York for a two week inspection of works including Rembrandt loans. He seeks permission to view private collections. Venice's international art show closes with sales of foreign works. An etching series America at Work and New New York by Pennell and Naples in Blossom by Coffin are noted.
Swift and Company reports Fresh Beet sales in Washington for the week ended holiday November, averaging about 70e per 1D. The brief note cites market activity and price level for beet goods in the district.
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