Final Clearance Sale of Boys Summer Clothing
Final clearance sale offers reduced prices on woolen and wash suits and wide summer furnishings. Includes boys all wool Norfolk jackets sizes 7 to 18, Roys blue serge sailor suits, bishop suits for little boys, fine imported blouses, cotton jersey shirts, laundered blouses, four in hand stockings, and straw sailors with varied trims. Many items marked down to quick clearance levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop
Maéras
Jerse
Lenth St
Goys
EOE
Lovashgs
Tehelle
Luis Te de
Curis
Milan
Infants' Clothing and Practical Wardrobe Highlights
Practical, inexpensive infants garments for outer and inner wear are outlined. Items include Mull Caps Sunbootnets Slips Gingham Aprons Nainsook Skirts and related pieces with various trimmings and prices noted, illustrating accessible baby attire options of the era.
Correct Corsets and Silk Petticoats in New Stock
A local ad highlights Domestic Corsets with varied styles from straight front to dip hip and elastic attached, prices range from $1.00 to $3.78. Also promoted is a Silk Petticoat in Black Taffeta with accordion plaited fringe, priced at $3.95. Includes long list of corset styles and a durable line of heavy cotton socks at 25 cents a pair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boon
F St
Hunting Paraphernalia In Our New Line Of Hunting Goods
This item advertises a broad range of hunting equipment including guns jackets pants shell vests game bags shell bags gun cases recoil pads and protectors. It teases a complete supply for the sport with emphasis on essential gear.
Furniture Repaired and Reupholstered
Advertisement notes furniture repair and reupholstery services as ideal for fall and winter. It highlights uncluttered shop time on the fourth floor with attentive workmanship and suggests saving now before the busy season begins.
Saturday's Pure Food List itemized goods and prices
A fragment list items many groceries and brands with prices including Chiquot Club Ginger Ale Sar saparilla Vineland Grape Juice and various olives pickles juices and soaps. It notes product names brands and unit prices in a late 19th or early 20th century catalog style seen on the Fifth floor Tenth street.
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 Social Set Hears Engaged Couple Plans
Engagement of Rev. Paul Sperry of Bath Maine formerly of Washington to Miss Josephine Shallenberger daughter of Second Assistant Postmaster General W S Shallenberger announced Monday He was ordained last Sunday and is noted as a pianist and organist from George Washington University and Harvard The social column also notes diplomats Mrs Morton and Miss Pauline Morton and other Washington society members spending summers at beaches and in European travel with several prominent families attending debutante events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Sperry
Bath
Josephine Shallenberger
Shallenberger
W. 8. Shallenberger
Sperry
New Jerusalem
Andrew J. Sperry
Hannah B. Sperry
George Washington University
Harvard
de Strale
Norway
Sweden
Mme. de Strale
Lenox
Mass
Washington
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 Tips for Bridesmaids From the Housekeeper
Advice on hosting a pre wedding luncheon with informal decor. Roses and maidenhair ferns adorn the table while heart shaped boxes and tiny trunks hold sweets. A dessert cake hides a ring coin and thimble, tea is poured by the bride, and fortune tea leaf meanings are prepared. Candles mark months as bridesmaids jump them for luck, and gifts worn at the wedding are presented.
Altamont Pure Spring Water Ad Claims Typhoid Immunity
An advertisement proclaims Altamont Pure Spring Water from Great Backbone Mountain, Alleghany Range, 3,000 feet up, bottled at the Altamont Spring. It offers 5 gallon demijohns in tilting or stationary frames, corked before shipment, priced at 560c, with delivery to Fifth floor Tenth street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altamont
Altamont Spring
Great Backbone Mountain
Alleghany Range
Tenth Street
Kite Flying Contest at Deal Lake Draws Crowd
Special to The Washington Fest Asbury Park N J Sept 1 Kite flying contest at Deal Lake during the Asbury Park carnival chief exhibitor Charles N Mann a Philadelphian with a cottage at 24 Seventh Avenue raised eight sly footers on a rope as large as a clothesline wound around an old fashioned windlass He exhibited a fifteen foot kite the largest on the grounds Four men aided to control it Height contest narrowed to kites by George Bungay Brooklyn Eugene Miller Jersey City J Gray Marshall Brooklyn and J Delaurant New York Bungay and Miller won the silver cup for greatest height Joseph Huertner Paterson flew a five foot eagle shaped kite There were twenty five contestants Judges included Mann William Johnson and Edward Van Winkle Van Winkle vowed to compete next year with a man carrying kite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
Deal Lake
Charles N. Mann
Seventh Avenue
Mann
Charles Mann
Wiliam Johnson
Edward van Winkle
van Winkle
Immigrant Waves Rise as Ellis Island Stays Open
Government reports show 1,026,499 immigrants arrived in the United States in the year ended June 30, with July alone counting more than 76,000 arrivals. Russia remains a major source, while officials deny plans to abolish or move Ellis Island station. Frank P. Sargent notes no government move to abandon the site despite publication of related rumors.
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Department of Commerce
United States
Russia
Europe
Elli Island
Frank P. Sargent
Jersey Shore
Washington
Jersey
Ellis Island
New Jersey
Great Station
Heat Day for Little Ones at Virginia Orphanage Picnic
A group of children from a church orphans home in Virginia enjoyed a picnic. They traveled by car to a terminus where peers from Warder Home, Arlington, joined them. Uncle Burk drove the large wagon filled with cake, sandwiches, pies, lemonade, and fruit for the youngsters. A resolution urged another outing if the wagon comes again.
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Douns Church
Phanage
Virginia
Warder Home
Arlington
Burk
Belight
Widow reveals bigamist Witzhoff married as George Bush
A Brooklyn widow named Mrs George Bush declares she wed Witzhoff in late 1904 after he promised a government secret sale. He allegedly borrowed her 32,000 and jewels valued at 3,000 before disappearing, leaving her to repay debts and seek home funds. Another Brooklyn widow, Mrs Mary Parkhill, says Witzhoff first married her in 1904 after meeting at a Manhattan dental supply shop.
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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 described with 48 inch coats and velvet accents
The passage notes a small variety of fabrics and styles focused on man tailored suits. Features include 48 inch long coats, strap ped or stitched welt seams, mannish lapel collars, some velvet detailing, and fine imported mannish worsteds in plain gray shades.
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Woodward & Lothrop
New Fair Sox
Miss Shallenberger
Rev
M. de Strale
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
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
A. K
AHN
F Street
Tiffany
Solitaire
Lawelry
L. Kahn
F Street N.V
DO. Rosen
Rex Steve
Gh & Pe
GREAT
Atlantic & Pacific P22
7Th & E Streets
Picmond
Burlington
Gemma
Firet
Thsar
Angelus
Pope
USA
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