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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1909
Page
23
A catalog style notice lists various household items and glassware with prices. Pie quality utensils and glassware selection include dozen counts and prices ranging from 2 dollars to over 29 dollars, with a focus on practical kitchen and serving items for holiday use.
A local catalog lists abundant summer and holiday provisions. Colonial Meat and Cider items, Colonial Flour and Grape Juices, assorted nuts, dried fruits, and stuffed dates populate the shelves alongside jams, crackers, and cocoa. Seasonal fruit like oranges, grapes, and cranberries appear with imported cheeses and condiments from Walter Baker, Durkee, and Phoenix brands.
A local bakery advertises choice candies for Thanksgiving and other occasions. Delicious chocolates in various shapes and centers, pansy table candies, after dinner mints, almonds, pecans, English walnut meats, and black walnut meats priced from 2c to 40c per pound. Homemade cakes baked continuously from pure ingredients, milk from their own farm, with options like Golf Loaf, Sponge, Angel, Layer, Devil, Nut, Fruit, and Pound varieties. Orders accepted for custom bakings and ideas.
Washington society hosts a flurry of dinners and teas as diplomats, officials, and debutantes gather at homes on Riggs and Connnecticut avenues. Notables include Mrs. Taft hosting musical circles, Ambassadors and ministerial guests from Britain Switzerland Italy Austria Hungary and Siam, plus the Debutante season with Anne Peyton and Elisabeth Walsh. The White House receives a grand piano, and multiple social figures plan seasonal events and moves to new residences.
Miss Davide Yulee Noble and Lieut. Sherman Miles celebrate with a Belasco theater party and supper hosted by Miss Joanna Schroeder. Bridesmaids include Miss Parker, Miss Read, Miss Draper, Miss Scott, Miss Barbour hosts a luncheon in Rhode Island Avenue with pink and white roses in the centerpiece. Austro-Hungarian ambassador and Baroness Hengelmuller join, baroness in Magonal serge gown, Countess von Bernstorff seen in a dull tailered suit at the embassy limousine.
The piece notes suffrage advocates Mrs. Clarence H. Backey and Mrs. C. H. P. Belmont promoting women’s rights. It describes New York hotel etiquette changing to list women first and the new social emphasis on female individuality. It also reports Col George R. Colton’s inauguration as Porto Rico governor in San Juan with crowds cheering, plus society notes from Newport and a rising Baltimore debutante, Miss Marie Louise Cherbonnier, at the National Horse Show amid praise for her riding prowess.
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