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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1905
Page
13
Distinctive imports mark the new home furnishings in a mammoth department store. A mahogany parlor suite with silk damask, a wide rug collection from Old World makers, flax velour draperies, and Oriental fabrics are showcased. Embroidered linens, Irish linen dinner cloths, and a large range of china, glassware, and screens including a Japanese travel screen highlight the season.
A list of fabric colors described in sky blue olive myrtle navy dahlia Nile pink castor brown garnet prune reseda silver gobelin is offered at two dollars and fifty cents per yard. The note presents color names and the price without additional context or context.
George Washington University medical freshmen hosted a Saturday smoker at Fritz Reuter's Hotel attended by the medical faculty including Dean Phillips and Dr Shute. The event featured talks on college life, toasts, a buffet luncheon, and the election of class officers plus plans to form a medical freshman football team.
Baron Hengelmuller returns to Lenox for the season while the Austrian mission awaits its New York embassy. Baron Hosen and family stay at the Willard awaiting the Farragut Square embassy. Giskra may not return. Coll. Foster and Mrs Foster back for winter. Mme Mendoza ill in New York. Baron von Sternburg to arrive as baroness recovers from ankle surgery. Ambassadors and secretaries travel between Washington Lenox New York and Florida.
Elizabeth Leroy Emmet, sister of Mrs. Martin Keogh of New Rochelle, becomes engaged to Nicholas Biddle of New York. Biddle, Harvard graduate, formerly lived in Philadelphia and now works in the Astor estate offices. Emmet previously pursued acting, appearing in The Girl with the Green Eyes and briefly in Fritz In Tammany company.
The Washington Post reports a Southern style barn dance hosted by Miss Lucy Cobb at J B Cobb's summer home in Stamford on October 9. Thirty five guests from Manhattan attended a fete featuring haystacks pumpkins and apple cider, with lights failing briefly and pumpkin lanterns used instead. Eugene Geary and Miss Cobb led the cotillion while J B Cobb and Mrs. Dale led the Virginia reel. five Black musicians played banjos and mandolins.
A witty observation links a woman’s character to her pets. The piece notes that the President’s family keeps four large dogs, while British and Russian diplomatic circles boast St Bernards collies and poodles. Mrs Stuyvesant Fish is pictured with a poodle.
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