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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1910
Page
12
Woodward & Lothrop advertises remnants of men s pajamas and night shirts in six lots with special prices from 59c to 95c per item, plus assorted reduced accessories and Friday specials on Girls dresses and fashionable waists and dresses, highlighting limited stock and lower prices to clear room.
A newspaper ad promotes Friday specials on men’s separate trousers and suits. It highlights full weight worsteds and cheviots, gray striped patterns, belt straps, various waist sizes, and sale prices around 3.95 to 8.17 in bold discounts. Also advertised are men’s overcoats, serge trousers, and 2 piece suits with reduced prices and larger sizes.
A newspaper ad lists a limited offer on boys all-wool suits in dark brown, gray, tan, and navy with single and double breasted coats in sizes 6 to 17. Discounts apply to many styles and remnants, with prices ranging from $0.69 to $7.50 per item and reduced coats and blouses noted.
Large assortment of pillow tops and single chair seat coverings in damask brocades and tapestries. Prices range from 25 to 83 shillings with values from 1 to 14 pounds. Readable local sale note mentions Florence street area and weekly specials.
Small lot about 60 pounds of Orange and Lemon Oriental Jelly Paste offered at 15¢ per pound, regularly 25¢. Also Leather Goods Department clearance with several items heavily discounted including English Morocco Handbags and British Morocco pieces, Main floor F st market.
Listing of women shirt waists with various fabrics and trims. Includes sizes 34 to 40 and 4, reduced prices from 12.40 to 10.06, 3.75 to 12, and 33.25 to 29.0. notes includes embroidery, Valenciennes lace, and back fastenings. Ends with Thinl floor-gst.
All wool Canina Sweaters with pockets and pearl buttons size 38 reduced from 250 to 1 95 each. Three white sweaters trimmed with red size 38. Also two navy blue trimmed with red size 34 and two white trimmed with navy blue size 34 reduced from 35 to 1 25 each. Third floor G st.
Gray and cream skirts drop from high prices to bargain rates in the Women’s Skirt Department. Travel Goods offer eleven inch walrus bags and steamer trunks. prices slashed from high figures to lower totals in the basement Equitable Budget area.
The China Department offers porcelain covered dishes and decorative wares at deep discounts. Items include Decorated Haviland and Austrian china soup tureens, sauce tureens, cream pitchers, soup plates, and meat dishes. Reductions range from about one third to half off, with prices listed per item. Fifth floor-Est.
Miss Margaret Clark daughter of Senator and Mrs Clark married Dr Josiah Holland A S A at St Pauls Episcopal Church Evanston The ceremony was military in detail with Fifteenth Infantry officers in full dress uniform Attendants included Mrs Clarence Clark Hamlin matron of honor and Miss Isabel Blyth Miss Valette La Chapelle bridesmaids Elizabeth Hamlin flower girl The couple left for Washington and will return after October 15 in Burlington On.
The marriage of Miss Josephine Johnson daughter of Dr Joseph Taber Johnson and Mr Frederick Walte of New Rochelle will take place at noon October 1 at the Johnson country place Cherrydale Va Rev Dr Samuel M Newman of Maryland will officiate Miss Johnson's sister Miss Margaret Johnson will be maid of honor Mr Franz Vulte will be best man After the wedding trip the couple will reside in New Rochelle Other society notes include visits and travels of Mrs Louis E McComas Mrs T C Wells Mrs Wade Chanca Mrs Yung Kwai Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh and family plans for late autumn Also Olga Converse guest of Mr Augustine Derby Bar Harbor and the Van Reypen family wintering plans at Washington and other local social activities continued through the region
Mrs. W. R. Merriam accompanied by her cousin Miss Cooke travels to Liberty Furnace Virginia after a visit.
Social gossip links Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt to Mrs Smith Hollins McKim as a possible couple while noting Vanderbilt has leased Ernesto Fabbri's New York residence at 11 East Sixty-second Street near Fifth Avenue. The piece also describes McKim's divorce history, Newport ties, horsemanship, and related socialites. It mentions Mrs Christy and her daughter Nathalie amid other society details.
Newport notes describe a 2000-piece stained glass memorial in Trinity Church honoring Jane Whiting died 1909. Sis Sara Rives dedicates the window in 1919, amid local social news including beaches, golf, tennis fashion, and seasonal movements of prominent residents and visitors in Newport.
A reflective essay urging women to act with kindness and purpose. It contrasts thrift and pessimism, warns against degrading ideas about womanhood, and emphasizes small daily deeds that lift others and shape social life. The text weaves moral exhortations with classical allusion and calls for responsible conduct.
Lenox Massachusetts September 22 A benefit concert for Hulcrest Hospital ward by Jeanne Faucre and Eugene Bernstein drew a listed audience of notable residents and visitors including Mrs George Westinghouse Mrs Hamilton Fich Benjamin Mrs Richard Greenleaf Mr and Mrs Richard Dixey Mrs Frederic D Tap pan and others. The social season brings horses rising interest with guests at Maplewood Wheatleigh Hotel Aspinwall and Chesterwood noted along with invitations for a luncheon in honor of Mrs Julian James and villa stays on the lake as spring into autumn.
Melville B. Ingalls and Mrs. Ingalls plan to return Friday after leaving Sunday in their private car. Mrs. Ingalls stays with Fay Ingalls in Oyster Bay and will be back the following Saturday. Miss Mai Watson visits from Bay Shore Friday with Fred Sterry for the Sterry family cottage weekend. Mrs. Sterry hosted a luncheon at Fassifern Farm yesterday.
Brig. Gen. Oliver Ellsworth Wood, hospitalized at Johns Hopkins for an upcoming operation, was reported doing well yesterday as Mrs. Wood and their son Lieut. Norton Ellsworth Wood joined him in Baltimore.
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