Final Clearance Sale of Boys Summer Clothing
Final clearance sale offers reduced prices on wool suits and summer furnishings. Includes boys Norfolk jacket suits sizes 7 to 18, Roys blue serge sailor suits, bishop suits for little boys, imported blouses, cotton jersey shirts, neglige shirts, laundered blouses, and washables. Also straw hats and beach wear. wide discounts aimed at quick sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop
Maéras
Jerse
Lenth St
Goys
EOE
Lovashgs
Tehelle
Luis Te de
Curis
Milan
Infants' Clothing Catalog Items for Warm Weather
An items list highlights practical inexpensive infant clothing including Mull caps sunbonnets slips gingham aprons nainsook skirts and robes. It notes styles like turn over collars hot weather details and prices around 80 cents with various trimmed pieces and bedding items.
Correct Corsets and Petticoats in City Shop Ad
A vintage advertisement lists a range of domestic corsets with prices from 1.00 to 3.78, noting straight front, dip hip, elastic attachments and other features. It promotes silk petticoats, black taffeta styles, and heavy cotton socks priced at 2s6d a pair, highlighting schoolbound youths and main floor displays on F street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boon
F St
Hunting Paraphernalia for the Fascinating Sport
An ad notices a new line of hunting gear including guns jackets pants shell vests game bags and gun cases. It lists accessories like recoil pads and protective items while promising items for armed sportsmen.
Furniture Repaired and Reupholstered Notice
The present is an opportune time for repairing and reupholstering furniture for fall and winter. Our shops are not crowded now, allowing more time and careful attention to work. Fourth floor six street.
Saturday Pure Food List Advertises assorted groceries and soaps
A dense ad lists items available in a Pure Food List including Chiquot Club Ginger Ale and Sar saparilla, Vineland Grape Juice, carbonated root beer, pickles, olives, maraschino cherries, vinegar, gelatin brands, desserts jellies, Walter Baker chocolate, canned salmon, various soaps and cleaners. Prices shown per bottle, can, or package. Fifth floor Tenth St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chiquot Club
Vineland
Knox's
Cox's
Chalmer's
Plymouth Rock
Durkee
Walter Baker
Ivery Babbitt’s
Philadelphia
Kirkman
Gibson
Tenth St
Washington girl engagement announced in Bath pastor pair
A social column notes the engagement of Rev. Paul Sperry of Bath Maine to Miss Josephine Shallenberger of the city. Shallenberger is the daughter of Second Assistant Postmaster General W S Shallenberger. Sperry, once a Washington student and now ordained pastor of the New Jerusalem Church in Bath, is a pianist and organist. The column also references diplomatic circles and various society figures traveling or spending the season in New England and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bath
M. de Strale
Norway
Sweden
Paul Sperry
Josephine Shallenberger
Shallenberger
W. 8. Shallenberger
Sperry
New Jerusalem
Andrew J. Sperry
Hannah B. Sperry
George Washington University
Harvard
de Strale
Mme. de Strale
Lenox
Mass
Morton
Navy
Paul Morton
Pauline
Carlsbad
Paris
New York
Miss Morton
Cabinet
Foraker
Ohio
Oceanside
Magnola Beach
Francis King Wainwright
Bryn Mawr
Tennis 8 Hamlin
Church of the Covenant
New England
Ashland House
Bethlehem
Luncheon for Bridesmaids Proposes Fun Traditions
From the Housekeeper a bridesmaids luncheon guide outlines informal seating, flowered decor, heart shaped bonbons, and candy treasures. It suggests tea, fortune telling with tea leaves, candles for each month, and gifts worn at the wedding like pins and bracelets. A Chicago News item adds a comic strip exchange about loafing and wages.
Altamont Pure Spring Water Ad Promises Typhoid Immunity
An advertisement touts Altamont Pure Spring Water claiming immunity from typhoid when sourced from Altamont Spring in the Alleghany Range. Bottled at the spring, 3,000 feet up, offered in 5-gallon demijohns with corked shipments. Price noted as 5 gallons 560c, location listed as fifth floor Tenth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altamont
Altamont Spring
Great Backbone Mountain
Alleghany Range
Tenth Street
Kite Flying Contest At Asbury Park Carnival
Special to The Washington Fest Asbury Park N J Sept 1 there was a kite flying contest at Deal Lake as part of the carnival Charles N Mann a Philadelphian with a cottage at 24 Seventh Avenue led exhibitions including an eight sly foot rope kite and a 15 foot kite requiring four handlers The height contest narrowed to kites flown by George Bungay and Eugene Miller among others Bungay and Miller won the silver cup for greatest height Joseph Huertner of Paterson flew a five foot eagle kite Twenty five contestants participated Judges included Mann Johnson and Van Winkle who aims to build a man carrying kite next year
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
Deal Lake
Charles N. Mann
Seventh Avenue
Mann
Charles Mann
Wiliam Johnson
Edward van Winkle
van Winkle
Immigrant Totals Rise as Ellis Island Station Stands
Immigrant arrivals reach 1,026,499 in the fiscal year ending June 30 with July alone registering over 76,000 newcomers. Russia remains a notable contributor and officials deny plans to abolish or move Ellis Island, despite interest in Jersey side terminal facilities and potential land values for a bridge or trestle access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Commerce
United States
Russia
Europe
Elli Island
Frank P. Sargent
Jersey Shore
Washington
Jersey
Ellis Island
New Jersey
Great Station
Picnic for Little Ones at Virginia Orphanage
Children from the Warder Home in Arlington joined peers from the Virginia orphanage for a day trip aboard wagons loaded with cake sandwiches pies lemonade and watermelon. A cheerful wagon drawn by Uncle Burk delivered treats as kids planned a future outing if the wagon returns next week. Wilson assumes new duties as Indiana’s Hon Jesse E Wilson starts as Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douns Church
Phanage
Virginia
Warder Home
Arlington
Burk
Belight
Bigamist Witzhoff Linked to Widow Bride and Jewels Scam
Dated reports from New York describe a widow identified as Mrs George Bush who married Witzhoff in late 1904 under the name George Bush. He fled after draining her funds and pawning her jewels, while claiming a government sale of his secret printing process. Brooklyn widow Mrs Marys Parkhill recalls Witzhoff’s courtship and marriage in 1904 leading to an indictment and arrest warrant. The tale includes moves from Brooklyn to New Haven and Washington as his alleged scheme unfolded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bush
Washington Post
New York
Sept. L
Witzhoff
Brooklyn
Wilzhoff
New Haven
Washington
East Forty-ninth Street
Marys Parkhill
St. Mark's Avenue
Bigamist Witzhoff
Westhoff
Sixth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Manhattan
Allen
Alen
St. Paul
Minn
Newark
Man-tailored suits with imported worsteds and velvet details
Describes limited stock of refined, man-tailored suits featuring 48 inch coats, strap ped or stitched welt seams, mannish lapel collars, and velvet accents. Materials are fine imported worsteds in plain gray shades, with minor variations in collar and cuff styling.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Woodward & Lothrop
New Fair Sox
Miss Shallenberger
Rev
Col. Webb F. Hayes
President Hayes
Magnolia Beach
Gen. Garretson
Morrison Carr
Miss Carr
Tokeneke Beach
Conn
Farragut
St. Louis
H. C Wood
Julia Wood
Tokeneke
F. C. Crosby
James A. Sample
United States Treasury Department
Mr ‘Fhamag FF Auer
ASANE
Mise Elizabeth Raleer
Port Jang
Harold Lee Berry
Violetta Lansdale Brown
Baker
Trainor
Department of Justice
Forshee
Leavenworth, Kang
Harry C. Wilkinson
Washington, D. C
Maine
Henry Randall Duryee
Montrose
Ninth Street
Jack Hammer
Lillian Hammer
Atlantic City
The
Chicago News
Diggsby
Q Chives
Ellis Island Station
MR. Tracewell
Treas Department
Robert J. Tracewell
Tredatry
Ellie Stilbhich
Chitton
John’s Orphanage
Heersford
Ray
Uilgoeser
Goodyear Undue Co
Wasres
Dulin & Martin Co
Pa. Ave
Togo
Kolonial Shoes
Patent Colt
Neavy
A. K
AHN
F Street
Tiffany
Solitaire
Lew Haveobiye
L. Kahn
F Street N.V
DO. Rosen
Rex Steve
Gh & Pe
GREAT
Atlantic & Pacific P22
7Th & E Streets
Picmond
Burlington, Vt
Firet
Angelus
Pope
Ing
USA
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