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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1909
Page
45
A promotional notice describes an extensive fur and coat collection featuring long coats, natural and dyed skunks, martens, lynx, wolves, raccoons, foxes, and sables. Highlights include a pillow muff with tails and a scarf with heads and tails priced at 150 dollars, with a large shipment from a prominent furrier and 46 inch length skins lined in Canary satin.
The ad promotes women's suits at 25.00 with a wide style range from plain to elaborately styled. Fabrics include plain and diagonal broadcloths and homespuns with 40 to 42 inch skirts and attractive linings. Colors listed are black navy gray and green with values of 35.00 to 40.00.
If you have 35.00 to spend, choose from a wealth of season’s models in fine broadcloths, serges, and worsteds. Colors include black, navy, gray, wistaria and other leading shades. Special price 35.00 each, values up to 42.00.
Treasury officials awarded Whittall Rugs the contract to furnish the United States Senate Office Building with Anglo-Persian rugs at £20000. The firm has supplied Treasury carpet work for ten years in two Body Brussels grades and four Royal Walton grades, touted as best quality at the price. The advertisement invites inspection on the fourth floor.
A department announces a grand holiday display of framed pictures and colonial mirrors. The collection features hand colored pictures photogravures pastels water colors etchings and oil paintings in all sizes and prices. Mirrors vary from one piece to three piece sets sometimes with added pictures or mantels. Prices range from fifty cents upward to several dollars.
The article lists holiday arrangements for the Taft family and cabinet, detailing who will attend Thanksgiving at the White House. It notes Helen Taft and Charley Taft arriving from Bryn Mawr and Watertown, Conn, with various relatives and officials spending the day in Washington or at their homes. It mentions Mrs Sherman, Mrs Knox, Mrs MacVeagh, Mrs Dickinson, and other officials and guests, plus social events and dinners surrounding the holiday.
Washington society starts a busy day with the noon wedding at St Johns Church of Miss Davide Yulee Noble and Lieut Sherman Miles. A late afternoon tea at the Edward McCauleys honors Miss Mary McCauley as debutantes and other society families attend, with ambassadors and dignitaries among guests and many related events described.
The article advises using only white bread for toast noting that whole wheat and whole cereal breads contain more albumen which coagulates at 160 degrees making toast less digestible. It recommends slow cooking at low temperatures and suggests feeding only the finest white bread for toast.
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