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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1909
Page
23
Luxurious women's fur stock highlighted by long coats and popular furs such as skunk martens and lynx. A standout pillow muff and scarf combination costs 150 dollars. Black wolf raccoon sable and fox furs shown in Leipzig dyed tones. A special lot of pieced skins, 46 inch length, lined with canary satin, to go on sale this morning.
A sale offers women's suits for 25 dollars with a broad range of fabrics and styles from plain to diagonal broadcloths and homespuns. Skirts feature new plaited models and lengths run 40 to 42 inches with red linings. Colors include black navy gray and green with values listed at 35 and 40 dollars.
If you have 35 dollars to spend you can choose from a wealth of attractive season models. Fabrics include broadcloth, serge, and worsted in colors such as black navy gray wistaria and other leading shades. Special price 35 dollars each, values up to 42 dollars.
Treasury officials awarded Whittall Rugs the contract to furnish the United States Senate Office Building with Anglo-Persian rugs at about £20000. The firm has supplied all Treasury carpet contracts for the past decade in two Body Brussels grades and four Royal Walton grades. The ads claim top quality yarns dyes and designs rivaling finest hand woven Persian rugs. visitors are invited to inspect on the fourth floor.
The department promotes a grandly complete line of framed pictures and colonial mirrors for the holiday trade. It highlights greater variety in subjects mountings and prices with offerings from hand colored pictures to oil paintings and mirrors in one or three pieces and mantels. Prices begin at 50 cents to several dollars per item depending on type and size.
A long list of White House holiday hosting plans details where President Taft and family will spend Thanksgiving in Washington. It notes arrivals of Taft children, relatives visiting from Bryn Mawr and Watertown, Conn, and outlines which cabinet members and spouses will be at the city home, with several guests and social events across congressional and diplomatic circles.
Washington society gears up for a busy day starting with the noon wedding at St Johns Church of Miss Davide Yulee Noble and Lieut Sherman Miles. A tea at the McCauley home will honor Miss Mary McCauley with her sisters assisting, as a multilevel social circuit features ambassadors, diplomats, and notable Washington families in attendance.
A historical note advises using only white bread for toast because whole wheat and whole cereal breads contain higher albumen content that coagulates at 160 degrees, making toast less digestible. It recommends slow cooking at low temperatures and to feed only the finest white bread for toast preparation.
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