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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1914
Page
14
This advertisement touts a full range of men’s undergarments including medium and heavy weight Balbriggan, white cotton shirts and drawers, natural gray Merino, and Dermophile pure wool options. Prices span from 50 cents for basic cotton to 3.50 for heavy wool garments, with ample sizes and weights to meet various needs.
Advertises a range of night garments including outing flannel night shirts at 75 cents to 1.00, cotton night shirts 50 cents, ve neck and trim styles, muslin and cambrie options at 1.00, large sizes, and heavy cottons. Pajamas in madras, mercerized cotton, silk madras, and all-silk varieties priced from 1.00 to 7.50 per suit. Madu flanr-F street.
A patent-samp shoe with a neat gun metal top is popular for semidress street use and dancing. Available in lace and button styles, with light sales. Many men wear patent leather for business shoes, offering heavier models and good weight sales. Distinctive lasts in both lace and button. Main flow Tenth street.
Washington society details a reception of cabinet members and spouses at a National Theater recital by John McCormack with Donald McBeath. The event also notes dinners, hosting at Shoreham, aides traveling, and social movements among officials and prominent guests.
Miss Elsie M7entire hosts a debutante gathering as Mrs Williama and Miss Williama head to New York's Ritz-Carlton. Atlanta's Mrs Bransford arrives at Shoreham, with Capt Wright Smith and Mrs Smith at Powhatan. Guests include Miss Gibbs returning to 1645 street, and Miss Marguerite Caperton hosted in Baltimore. International bazaar features Indian pictures at the New Willard.
Notes of the Smart Sets culled from exchanges describe Rockefeller Jr knitting a shawl in Hot Springs Virginia over two nights, a lighthearted note on his relief work linked to the Rockefeller foundation. Also reported is a Ithaca marriage of Ruth Bronson to F J Boyd after license issues, a Windsor Hotel fire survivor Julia Brand’s will filing with large bequests, and various bequests to museums societies and relatives of the deceased.
Elegant pat terns advertised for Electro-plaited Silverware on Nickel Silver. Includes Meat Dishes Tea and Serving Trays Double and Single Vegetable Dishes Gravy Boats Bread Trays Sandwich Dishes Tea and Coffee Sets.
Mrs Archibald Hopkins leads a nationwide appeal to fund a memorial in Washington comprising model tenement dwellings with sanitary facilities to replace alley houses. The Ellen Wilson Memorial Homes would include a municipal washhouse and child care, funded by subscriptions and stock certificates, with proceeds supporting the project and city block purchase.
Boston hearing before the school committee led to withdrawal of a book of forty songs compiled by the musical director. Speakers denounced plantation tunes like My Old Kentucky Home Susannah and Massa in de Cold Cold Ground as insults to the colored race citing terms such as nigger garkin and coon.
Irish tenor John McCormack returns to the New National Theater with Australian violinist Donald McBeath in a program of melodic contrasts. Encores and ballad numbers underscore the performer’s musical sweetness and expressive diction, while a strong supporting team, including Edwin Schneider on piano, adds polish to the charming recital.
A delegation from Richmond Public Schools will visit Washington next week to study local instruction methods. They will review the English course of study being adopted in the capital and inspect graded schools where the new system is taught.
A luncheon for the Day Nursery of the Children’s Dispensary will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday next week at the old Masonic Temple at Ninth and N streets northwest. Mrs. C. H. Taylor of Cleveland Park chairs the committee. Prominent city merchants have donated food items to be served.
The senior class elected officers for the coming year. President Miss Edna James Sheehy, vice president Hugh A Fraher, secretary Miss Tulu Lee Eckman, treasurer Luther Aylmer White, with other posts to follow.
Our line of gifts and Christmas greeting cards is ready for inspection at the National Accease Shop located at 14th Street and Po.
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