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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1904
Page
7
A major toy department feature celebrates Children’s Day with a global array of dolls and games. The display showcases dolls from six countries, including outfits, accessories, and a wide price range from one penny to 25 dollars, inviting families to shop today.
A wide display features six styles of German imported Kestner and Trandwerk dolls at $1.00 each with full ball joints and life like faces. Also on hand are toy books, games, mechanical toys, dolls dishes, steel enamel kitchen sets, a three and a half foot piano, engines, locomotives, ships, cars, and an impressive Paris Toy Exposition inspired mechanical exhibition.
The listing highlights boys and young men's garments including Russian and Sailor Blouses, Norfolk jackets, and three piece suits in worsteds, serges, and cassimeres. Featured items include Young Men's Suits 15 to 20 years, two-piece boys suits sizes 6 to 17, Norfolk jacket and double breasted styles with bloomers, and Russian style full length suits priced from 6.75 to 10.00, with values up to 15.00.
A large stock of Tourist overcoats in wool with wide skirts and belted backs, sizes 8 to 17, priced at 7.50 each with value up to 10. A selection of Navy Blue reefers in friezes and cheviots, red flannel linings, brass buttons and embroidered sleeves, suitable for boys or girls, 5.00 each with values 6.00 to 6.50.
Today offers include 20 dozen Boys' Shirts with negligee options and attached cuffs priced at 9 cents each, white cheviot shirts with attached cuffs in 12 to 14 for dress wear, pajama sets for ages 4 to 16 at 5 cents per suit, and 10 dozen all wool sweaters at 1.00 each. third floor Tenth Street.
A sample line of Girls' Coats in heavy winter-weight fabrics offers exclusive wraps at savings of at least a third. Sizes 6 to 14 years. Also a blue and brown cheviot School Coat with broad shoulders and loose back belt, sizes 6 to 14. Also a collection of Girls' Dress Coats in broadcloths kerseys velvets and lace trims in multiple shades.
President Roosevelt hosted British parliamentarian John Morley at dinner with Cabinet members and lawmakers. Miss Roosevelts travels to visit friends in the North. Martinsburg WV wedding of Lucie May Clohan to William Sherman Kline. ceremonies at South Raleigh street home with family and local officials. Several Washingtonians and visitors, including Agness Hilzabeth Clohan, Agnes Hilzabeth Clohan?, and others, are noted at hotels and residences with brief biographical details and travel plans.
A refined dress collection features cheviots with braids velvets and new vest effects. Highlights include $21.00 and $25.00 tailor-made suits and a small lot of long plaited blouses with belts and embroidered emblems. Misses Voile Dresses in navy tan and red finish with tucked yokes and silk cuffs, sizes 14 16 18.
The engagement of Miss Nannie Leiter to Maj. Colin Campbell of the British army was announced by Mrs. Leiter in a Chicago letter. Campbell, former aid to Lord Curzon, is stationed in India. The wedding is planned in Washington with only families present, after which the couple will reside in India. Lady Curzon is recovering after a serious illness.
Sidney Lloyd Wrightson gave his debut song recital in the New Willard ballroom assisted by S M Fabian pianist Herman C Rakemann violinist and Miss Alice Eckhardt harpist all of the College of Music. Five hundred invitations were accepted filling the room. Wrightson a high baritone impressed with intelligent tasteful delivery and clear enunciation though English text sometimes dulled some pieces. Encore followed the group of De Koven songs with Oh Promise Me. The program included works by Ries Cornelius Burleigh Handel Kellie Nevin and Mendelssohn among others.
Miss Jean Wilson, dramatic reader, headlined a charity program at Foundry M E Church last evening to aid the Young Ladies Home and Foreign Missionary Society. The program featured piano, recitations including The Race Between Harvard and Yale, The Fiddle Told, The Senator's Dilerama, and The Political Patch with Dovey Sarah, plus solos by Mrs. David Soloman and Mrs. W F Reed.
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