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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1910
Page
3
The Housewares Section offers a wide assortment of brooms gas heaters garbage cans and ash cans coffee percolators and machines with repaired parts for Manning Bowman and Co and other brands. Prices start from modest amounts with several items listed for 25 or more and coffee devices available from 85c to several dollars.
Upholstery UR Upholstery Manufactory and Repair Shops advertise first class reupholstering repairing and refinishing of furniture making draperies cushions and window shades on premises with personal supervision and moderate charges estimates cheerfully furnished.
A special showing features imported and domestic upholstery and drapery fabrics including tapes, brocades, damask, velours, Reps, Armures, and more. Prices range from 20c to 150 per yard with a special 50 inch tapestries option at 2.50 per yard, plus dotted Swiss curtains at 1.00 per pair. Fourth floor showroom highlights a large, attractive fall collection suitable for parlor, library, dining room, and bedroom draperies.
R and Mrs Warner announce the engagement of Mary Warner to Levi Cooke. Numerous social notices describe weddings and travels of families including Mrs Blythe, Mrs Goldsborough, and Miss Marjorie Gibson Smith, with moves between Atlantic City, Ventnor, and Washington.
Washington society pages detail a season of travel and social activity with figures such as Baroness Moncheur and Mrs Ladenburg returning to city life. Socialites Mrs Ladenburg and Mrs Biddle face health and mobility notes amid Newport dances and fashionable color talk by new-thought advocates.
Newport notes Mrs. Julia Ward Howe spoke to the Civic League on increasing chances for women to enter public service. The social column lists numerous Newport residents and guests traveling or departing for Europe and other destinations, with many attending or hosting events through October.
An essay arguing that American women should embrace house service as a healthy and respectable field. It contrasts factory work and shop girl poverty with cooking and chamber duties, endorsing housekeeping schools as a dignified vocation and citing the value of cooks in civilized life.
In Lenox Massachusetts on September 20 notes small social set at Stokes Farm and Maplewood in Pittsfield. Notables include Rev Anson Phelps Stokes secretary at Yale Corporation, Mrs Stokes hosting Miss Elizabeth Phillips, and arrivals such as Miss Clement Studebaker in Aspinwall and Mr and Mrs Daniel Chester French in New York en route to Stockbridge for autumn. The Berkshire Hunt met at Lovelanda Carnera with passion for beagles and a debut saddle appearance by Elisabeth Turnure.
Miss Edith Bird, Charles 8. Bird, Jr., and Miss Charlotte Barnes among attendees as hounds prepare for a meet Saturday in Tyringham Valley. Mr. and Mrs Robb de Peyster Titus to host an early farmer's breakfast for active riders.
Throngs view lavish fall display at Hecht & Co on Seventh Street Northwest as the new season launches. Highlights include an extensive collection of fall millinery from Paris Berlin and London and a comprehensive line of ready for service tailored wear. The opening atmosphere permeates all departments, promising both pleasure and profit for shoppers.
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