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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1909
Page
45
A catalog style list presents pie crust and dessert items with price ranges. Glassware includes liqueur and whisky glasses, champagne flutes, water tumblers, finger bowls, saucer champagne glasses, claret and sherry glasses, cocktail and wine glasses with varied prices.
A dated catalog describes a prepared Thanksgiving table with Colonial brand meats nuts flour cider and preserves. It lists Colonial canned goods dried fruits vinegars and beverages along with pies cheeses crackers and condiments. Prices and unit sizes accompany items like Colonial Grape Juice Pineapple Edam Roquefort and Camembert cheeses, reflecting an imported domestic mix for a generous meal.
A local bakery advertises choice candies for Thanksgiving and other occasions, featuring creamy chocolates in varied shapes, after dinner mints, nuts, and several colored varieties. It emphasizes homemade cakes, continuous baking, and ingredients from its own farm, listing regular varieties like Golf Loaf, Sponge, Angel, Layer, Devil, Nut, Fruit, and Pound cakes.
Washington society holds numerous dinners and teas with diplomats and officials from Turkey Italy Switzerland and Austria Hungary among guests. Debutantes and marriages announced include Anne Peyton and Lieut. Marshall Magruder. The season features new apartments openings and a shift of events to November and December at various embassies estates and clubs.
A theater party at the Belasco honored Miss Davide Yulee Noble and Lieut. Sherman Miles on the eve of their wedding with bridesmaids Miss Joanna Schroeder Miss Elizabeth Parker Miss Katherine Britton Miss Mary Scott and others, followed by a supper hosted by Miss Joanna Schroeder. Additional guests included members of the bridal party and New York residents. The Austro-Hungarian ambassador and Baroness Hengelmuller were seen in Connecticut avenue, the baroness in Magonal serge blue and a velvet turban, the baroness and Countess Luise-Alexandra von Bernstorff attending in the embassy crowd.
Reports from New York describe changing social customs as women’s rights advance, including signage in hotels showing women’s names first. Col George R. Colton’s inauguration as Porto Rico’s governor drew crowds in San Juan, while Newport and New York society noted prominent figures and fashion, and Miss Marie Louise Cherbonnier emerged as a rising equestrian talent after a dramatic fall at Bryn Mawr.
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