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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1905
Page
23
High grade furniture from leading eastern western manufacturers offered at 33 1 3 to 50 percent off regular prices. Catalog includes mahogany chairs and arm chairs, weathered oak rockers and settees, parlor tables with inlays, oak dining chairs, and mahogany bedroom chairs and rockers. Located on the sixth and seventh floors for easy viewing.
Fall and winter weight Comet Flannel Pajamas with durable cut and refined patterns, all sizes. Natural Gray Underwear for men with self-faced shirts and drawers in sizes for youths and school wear. Heavy Cotton Sox in black and tan with spliced soles heels and toes favored for youths going away to school. prices 75¢ to $1.50.
A vendor on the Fifth floor G Street promotes men's all linen handkerchiefs in assorted widths and hems. Prices range from a quarter per piece, with pint size at 40 cents per dozen and quart size at 45 cents per dozen, boxed for sale.
IRLS and young ladies preparing for college are offered a complete stock of low priced garments. The ad lists maslin and cambric gowns, muslin drawers, cambric corset covers, gingham petticoats, and cotton crepe kimonas, with prices from 10 to 1.50. Location noted on eleventh street.
Traveling Goods for Students promotes trunks and suit cases for students, highlighting strong iron-bound trunks with slats and brass locks. Prices listed: 28-inch $2.25, 26-inch $2.75, 32-inch $3.25, heavy canvas trunks from $2.95, 36-inch $3.50, 32-inch $3.95, plus leatherette suit cases at $2.95. Basement Equitable Building.
Nearly eight hundred attendees helped the German Orphan Asylum in Anacostia mark a record charity day. The Labor Day picnic organized by the Ladies Sewing Society and Ladies Aid Society raised a large sum for the 1879-built institution housing fifty-three orphans, with music, booths, games, and a late evening dance under the trees.
Secretary of State Root and his two sons with Col Sanger of New York arrived in St John New Brunswick from Halifax and after a few hours in the city boarded a train for Boston.
Joseph I. Keefer, of this city and a Sons of the Revolution member, found a pen and ink portrait of King Louis XVI of France in Mrs. R. B. Chew’s house. The two feet square engraving, framed in gilt, bears LL XVI marks and Washington family symbols. It was sent by Louis XVI to George Washington and is cited as the first such foreign gift to a U.S. president.
Richard Lew Dawson, noted Hoosier poet and novelist, settles at 125 B St SE Washington to pursue library research and a new novel. He helped popularize Western dialect verse, organized the Western Association of Writers, and urged Eugene Field to lecture. Dawson plans closer study at Washington libraries after a period of lecturing.
Special to the Washington Post reports Elkton Virginia guests from Roanoke Staunton Harrisonburg Front Royal Culpeper and Washington enjoying September climate at The Elkton hotel. Guests include Frank Waterman James B. Lambie Virginia B. Jones and Maj Charles Waite. Week featured dancing Virginia reel picnics trips to Luray Cavern bowling and euchre prizes for both ladies and gentlemen plus compliments and moonlit upland drives.
Society items from Newport describe Senator and Mrs. Wetmore’s return from New York after his operation, Maud Wetmore’s tennis plans, and Baroness van Tuyll hosting luncheon. Several official and diplomatic families are noted, including Miss Lathrop’s upcoming marriage, Isabel Hagner’s travels, and visits by Lodge, Newberry, Noyes, and Mackenzie, with trips to Newport, New York, Washington, and Europe.
Newport residents plan a return trip with Ble Penton visiting for a week at Asbury Ark. Dr. and Mrs J. J. Richardson return from Europe to their Portland apartment. Dr. and Mrs A Rhett Stuart and Carolyn Rhett Stuart relocate from Oakland and Deer Park Md to their Dupont Circle home after a summer away.
Berkeley Sept 4 Professor William Albert Setchell head of UC Berkeley botany reports a seaweed kelp study showing regeneration control by directing nutrition flow. Buds formed at new sites while existing strongest ends diminished, marking a first in botany and signaling broad scientific impact.
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