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Presidents Day, normally observed on the third Monday in February, may have a little extra meaning for Bob Low, particularly by way of his work in the 1980s as a haberdasher — also known as a clothier — in Washington, D.C. The Cedar Creek resident, a native of Westerly, Rhode Island, became acquainted with a World War II veteran from New England who went on to become a Texas-based businessman, diplomat and politician. President George Herbert Walker Bush was a regular customer of Low’s at the Arthur A. Adler shop on Connecticut Avenue, a few blocks from the White House....

FULL TITLE: Millennials blamed for the falling sales of fabric softener... because 'they don't know what it is for' Millennials are being blamed for falling sales of fabric softener because 'they don't know what it is for.' Sales of the product have been falling for past ten years and Procter & Gamble believes the next generation is to blame. The consumer goods giant, which produces Downy and Gain fabric softener, says it saw sales of its own products decrease by 26 per cent. Shailesh Jejurikar, Procter & Gamble's head of global fabric care, told the Washington Post that most millennials...

WASHINGTON — Are y'all set for the sartorial splendor of today's summer seersucker spectacle in the U.S. Senate? "It's a Southern thing," said Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), organizer of the bipartisan show of stripes. "But it has spread far and wide — from sea to shining sea." On the Senate floor, the cool, crisp cotton fabric will be the fashion order of the day. And the seersucker suits will cross gender as well as party lines. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has arranged for women senators to join their male colleagues in this rite of the season. "Things have been pretty...