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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1909
Page
39
A brief entry noting availability of calendars and diaries for the year 1910. Includes reference to a location on Ready Main Floor, G Street, indicating a catalog or display for purchase or viewing. No further details provided.
A catalog note highlights a broad range of colored dress fabrics and imported novelties. Featured items include 42 inch wide Nemi rough cheviot at 1.00 per yard, navy blue and other shades at 1.25, 54 inch cheviot at 3.50, and half yard lines in Scotch and imported cheviots. Also 54 inch wide weaves, and 54 inch Wideware suitings at 1.75 in raisin blue catawba and green noting superior finish and substantial weight.
A descriptive catalog lists Aliwool and i-silk fabrics in black tones for evening and street wear. Items include Aliwool Chiffon Voiles at 1.00 to 1.50 a yard, i-silk Crepe de Chine 2.00, i-silk Chiffon Cloth up to 2.00, and wool batistes from 0.50 to 1.00 a yard, with various checks and veiling options.
Rough finish Weaves and various cloths offered with per yard prices. Items include Cheviots Venetian Cloths Worsteds Serges Mohair and Henrietta types with prices from 50 cents to 4 dollars per yard. Read's Lansdowne and Spotproof Broadcloth featured among many fabric choices and discounts.
Specimen Books with over 100 Special Greeting Cards show the season’s symbolic stamps of individuality to be imprinted with sender’s name and address. The Stationery Department invites an early visit for inspection as Raphael Tack & Sons introduces the collection.
A catalog style listing of new books with authors A Maurice Low Mary W Acms Thomas Nelson Page Crittenden Merelott and I T Thurston. Describes titles including a national psychology study The Isle of Dead Ships and The Flip Flop Show for children with prices and binding notes.
Washington notes describe Mr and Mrs Dickinson returning to the capital and staying at the Grafton while their house is prepared. The article catalogs embassy arrivals, social hostesses, and visits by dignitaries including the Taft administration entourage, with mentions of the Garner mill sale, and profiles of American and European officials and their families in Washington society.
Social notes describe SOCIETY figures in Paris and New York, detailing a French author using hotels for celebrity profiles, including a Pittsburg divorce case, rival Greek princes, and royal jewels at the Gotham. The piece notes Americans in Paris social circles, chaperoned girls, and elite gatherings at Lenox and New York society.
The listing describes an assortment of china for a wedding including plates tea cups and saucers chocolate cups and saucers tea pots coffee cups and stands bowls and cake dishes water pitchers fruit dishes and cream pitchers Bouillon cups and saucers and other related pieces by Lenex China with wedding use noted.
Dr. T. S. Allen discusses cranberries containing malic citric and benzoic acids. They aid the liver but slow digestion and should not be eaten with rice bread or potatoes. A morning cranberry sauce with grapes or apples is suggested for certain conditions. Benzoic acid cited as a preservative is compared to formaldehyde in milk.
Mrs Emmating Pankhurst addresses a large audience at the Maryland Theater in Baltimore on November 7. Rev H M Wharton presided and Ada Smith Lang introduced the speaker, noting her tied to the Socialist party. Pankhurst outlines the English suffrage campaign and activists' experiences.
Berlin reports Prof. Ludwig Tusti, newly named director of the National Gallery, plans a two week visit to New York to inspect Rembrandt loaned works and seek access to private collections. Venice closes art exhibition with sales of foreign pieces including six etchings America at Work and four New York etchings by Pennell. Coffin painting Naples in Blossom purchased for the International Art Association gallery.
Swift and Company reports beet sales in Washington DC for the week ended with holiday volumes and an average price around 70e per 100 pounds.
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