Second Annual September Sale of Furniture in G street building
High grade furniture from eastern western makers gathered for a broad collection. Store emphasizes helping patrons choose items that fit needs and provide real home value. Highlights include dressers chifoniers washstands commodes parlor and bedroom tables chairs rockers couches davenports buffets sideboards bookcases and more in oak mahogany and Weathered Oak with savings up to 50 percent.
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G Street
Men s New Fall Furnishings Ad for Pajamas and Undergarments
The ad promotes EN S fall and winter weight Comet Flannel Pajamas with durable, properly proportioned cuts and refined patterns. Full-weight Natural Gray Underwear for men and youths, self-faced shirts and drawers, with larger sizes. Better grades in same weight at 75¢ to $1.50. Heavy cotton socks in black and tan, imported. Socks with spliced soles heels and toes, long favored for youths going away to school.
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Comet
All-Linen Handkerchiefs Offered For Sale In Boxes
Market brief notes twenty five cents a pair for men’s all linen handkerchiefs with stitched hems and smooth texture. Various widths of hem. Pint size boxes contain a dozen items, quart size boxes forty five cents per dozen. Fifth floor G street location.
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Slzéy
Fashion Department
School Underwear for IRLS and Young Ladies
Low priced yet well made garments for college prep undergarments. Maslin gowns, cambric gowns, drawers with lace and embroidery, corset covers, gingham petticoats, cotton crepe kimonas in multiple colors. Located on the eleventh street third floor.
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Beach A To.oe Fa
Nnica Roda Ace
PAC Yet Saneae Caneas
Eleventh Street
Traveling Goods for Students at Equitable Basement
Traveling Goods Department offers trunks and suit cases for students leaving for school. Strong iron bound trunks with slats and sheet-iron bottoms priced from 2.25 to 3.95, leatherette suit cases at 2.95, in the basement of the Equitable Building.
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Equitable Bldg
Charity Dance of Children at Anacostia Grove
Nearly eight hundred attendees at the Labor Day picnic for the German Orphan Asylum in Anacostia helped raise a large sum for the institution. The event featured German foods, booths, recitations, and a late evening dance under the trees, with many orphans serving as waiters and performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Sewing Society
Ladies’ Aid Society
Anacostia
Anacostia Bridge
Jacob Gerstenberg
Gerstenberry
Helvetian Republic
Secretary Root Returns to Boston via St John
Secretary of State Root arrived in St John New Brunswick with his two sons and Col Sanger from New York after a stay in Halifax. They spent a few hours in the city before boarding a train to Boston.
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Root
St John
N. B
Col Sanger
New York
Halifax
Boston
Fine Washington Relic Kefer Finis Portrait of Louis XVI
Joseph I. Keefer of this city, a Sons of the Revolution member, found in Mrs. R. B. Chew’s Charlestown residence a pen and ink portrait of Louis XVI. The two feet square parchment piece, gilt framed, bears LL XVI markers, Washington initials, and national symbols.
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Joseph I. Keefer Finis
Louis XVI
Joseph I. Keefer
Sons of the Revolution
Charlestown
W. Va
R. B. Chew
George Washington
France
Buchanan
Prince of Wales
England
America
Washington 8
Washington
Hoosier Poet Richard Lew Dawson Moves to Washington
Indiana native Richard Lew Dawson, author of A Thanksgiving Dozen and The Old Settlers Meetin, has settled at 125 B Street SE Washington to reside permanently. He aims to study libraries and near LOC for a novel, after a career as a lecturer and Western movement pioneer. He helped bring Eugene Field to prominence and plans further literary research.
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Richard Lew Dawson
Washington
Mr. Dawson
Indiana
Western Association of Writers
Eugene Field
Maurice Thompson
J. W. Riley
Bill Nye
Winona Lake
Ind
Dawnon
Laurel
Indianapolis
Century Magazine
Dawson
United States
Library of Congress
Elkton Mountaineer Life Draws Washington Visitors
Special to the Washington Post from Elkton Virginia notes Washingtonians and others arriving at The Elkton hotel for September and October tourism. Guests include Frank Waterman James Lambie Virginia Jones J W Daniel Jr J Blair Spencer Annie Riibary Katherine Williamson Maj Waite and others. Weeklong entertainments feature a Finding the Whistle prize Virginia reel dancing trips to Luray Cavern, a mountain picnic supper and moonlit return. Bowling euchre prizes go to Miss Beth Waterman Miss Annie Denham James Merriweather J Bullock and others with mixed booby outcomes.
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Washington
Washington Post
Elkton
Frank Waterman
James B. Lambie
Virginia B. Jones
J. W. Daniel, Jr
Roanoke
J. Blair Spencer
Williamsburg
Annie Riibary
Staunton
T. L. Williamson
Katherine TL. Williamson
Harrisonburg
E. M. Buck
Front Royal
J.S. Harrison
William M. Harrison
Westover
Charles Waite
Culpeper
W. A Boyd
Tank
Luray Caverna
James Nalle
Niente
Mises Emily and
Eleanor Carr
Reynolds
Nellie Taylor
Grace Clifton
Mrs. Goodwin
Mesars
J. W. Bullock
W. A. Boyd
Charley Merriweather
Maj. Waite
Beth Waterman
Annie Denham
Merriweather
Bullock
Nalle
George Cissel
Annie ‘Bonham
Pimper
BunNock
Cileael
Veasie
Noelle
Newport Society Notes Ties At Newport Events And Weddings
Senator and Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore return to Newport after surgery in New York. Miss Maud Wetmore plans another women’s tennis tourney in the Casino, New York. Baroness van Tuyll hosts luncheon in Newport. Misses Delano of New York visit Mrs Pembroke Jones and Debutante Miss Sadie Jones. Early October will bring Miss Margaret Lathrop to marry Mr. George Byrd Marshall. Isabel Hagner, Newport social secretary to the President’s wife, visits Msgr Parrett in Newcastle after tours of New Zealand and Portsmouth. Senator and Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge at Yuckenuck Island will spend fall in Nahant, then return to Washington. Mrs. Morton and Miss Pauline Morton sail home from abroad aboard Coecre. Commander L. L. Remey and family arrive in London en route home around September 16. Crosby S. Noyes and Thomas C. Noyes return from Poland Springs to Washington suburbs for Thanksgiving. New Assistant Secretary of the Navy Truman H. Newberry and Mrs. Newberry sail from Watch Hill to Detroit, plan December Washington return after Judge Danning’s retirement. Mrs. Newberry guest of honor at Walsh functions. Mackenzie party leaves for Boston Marblehead trip via New York.
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George Peabody Wetmore
Rhode Island
Newport
New York
Maud Wetmore
Baroness van Tuyil
Netherlands Legaition
Delano
Pembroke Jones
Sadie Jones
Baroness van Tuyll
Washington
Isabel Hagner
Samuel Parrett
Newcastle
N. Hl
Miss Hagner
Zingland Mountain
Portsmouth
N. In
Henry Cabot Lodge
Yuckernuck Island
Nahant
Mass
Morton
Pauline Morton
Paul Morton
America
Coecre
L. L. Remey
Europe
London
Paris
the Navy
Truman H. Newberry
Mrs. Walsh
Notable Newport Travel and returning residents notes
Dr. and Mrs J J Richardson have returned from Europe and occupy their Portland apartment. Dr and Mrs A Rhett Stuart and Carolyn Rhett Stuart travel from Oakland and Deer Park Md to Dupont Circle for residence. Ble Penton to stay a week at Asbury ark on the return trip.
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Newport
J. J. Richardson
Europe
City
Portland
A. Rhett Stuart
Carolyn Rhett Stuart
Dupont Circle
Oakland
Deer Park
Regeneration of Plants by Prof Setchell Discovery
Berkeley reports William Alber Setchell head of California's botany department shows regeneration control in kelp by directing nutrition flow. Buds form where none grew before while strongest ends dwindle, marking a first major investigation with broad scientific implications and potential solutions to polarization questions.
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Prof. Setchell
California
Berkeley
Cal
William Alber Setchell
Botany
University of California
Setchell
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