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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1905
Page
45
Major furniture sale featuring high grade pieces from Eastern, Northern, and Western makers. Includes dressers, chests, tables, chairs, lounges, sideboards, bookcases, and racks in oak, mahogany, weathered oak, and bird's eye maple with discounts from 33 1 3 to 50 percent. Located on G street building floors six and seven with extensive display and counsel.
Fall and winter weight Comet Flannel Pajamas with durable cut and refined patterns in all sizes. Natural Gray Underwear for men and youths with self-faced shirts and drawers, well made and sized. Better grades in same weight priced 75c to 1.50. Heavy Cotton Sox in black and tan, spliced soles heels and toes, popular for youths going to school.
All linen hem stitched handkerchiefs offered in pint and quart sizes. Pint size sold at a quarter dozen, quart size 45 cents per dozen. Different widths of hem and smooth, soft texture. Packaged in boxes. on the fifth floor near G street.
Irks and young ladies preparing for college are urged to shop a complete stock of inexpensive yet well made undergarments. The list highlights gowns, drawers, corset covers, petticoats, and kimonas in maslin, cambric, gingham, and cotton crepe with trims like lace embroidery and ruffles. Located on the eleventh street third floor.
Traveling Goods for Students highlights trunks and suit cases offered by the Traveling Goods Department. It details sizes and prices for strong iron bounded, canvas bound trunks, leatherette suit cases, and basement location in the Equitable Building.
Nearly eight hundred attendees helped the German Orphan Asylum in Anacostia raise a large sum during a Labor Day picnic led by the Ladies Sewing and Aid Societies. The event featured German foods, crafts, games, and a postafternoon dance, with orphan residents serving as helpers and performers.
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 to Boston.
Joseph I. Keefer, of this city and a Sons of the Revolution member, found in Charlestown, W V, a pen portrait of Louis XVI presented by the French king to George Washington. The two foot square parchment piece, framed in gilt, bears LL XVI, Washington initials, and shields with French fleur-de-lis and the American stars and bars.
Indiana born writer Richard Lew Dawson, famed for A Thanksgiving Dozen and The Old Settlers Meetin, settles at 125 B Street SE Washington to pursue a novel and study in libraries near the Library of Congress. He founded the Western Association of Writers in 1886 and plans to focus on research and new literary projects while continuing lectures occasionally.
Special to the Washington Post Elkton Virginia September news from The Elkton hotel outlines arrivals from Washington Roanoke Staunton Harrisonburg Front Royal Culpeper and others. Describes September October appeal bracing air fine water and forthcoming entertainments including a finding the whistle contest Virginia reel dancing trips to Luray Caverns and moonlight rides plus bowling and euchre prizes won by Miss Beth Waterman Miss Annie Denham and others.
Senator and Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore of Rhode Island return to Newport after New York, where the Senator was operated on weeks ago. Miss Maud Wetmore, a tennis expert, plans another women’s tournament in the New York Casino. Baroness van Tuyll hosts luncheon for Misses Delano in Newport, while Miss Sadie Jones visits Mrs. Pembroke Jones. Various social figures and travels between Newport, Washington, and Europe are noted.
Newport trip residents Ble Penton will stay a week at Asbury ark on the return trip. Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Richardson return to the city after two months in Europe and occupy their Portland apartment. Dr. and Mrs A Rhett Stuart and Carolyn Rhett Stuart travel from Oakland and Deer Park Md to their Dupont Circle home for the summer.
Berkeley Sept 4 Professor William Albert Setchell head of the UC Berkeley botany department reports a discovery in plant regeneration. Experiments on kelp show buds can be directed and deprived of growth at the strongest end, offering a new approach to the regenerative process and potential solving of polarization through similar lines of inquiry.
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