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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1906
Page
33
The advertisement promotes boys spring clothing with a wide range of fabrics and styles for ages up to 20 years. It highlights knicker hooker pants, new Serge suits, Norfolk suits for boys, sailor blouse suits, and new Russian blouse suits. Price points include 3.00 to 12.50 and up to 16.50 for outfits, noting quality serge, worsted, and fancy mixtures.
Daily arrivals enrich the boys department with the brightest and freshest stock. Special attention is drawn to a new line in haberdashery offering satisfactory selections for young buyers.
Vintage notice lists boys garments including K and E blouses with checks and geometic patterns, CF pads, gngham fabrics, and stately white pieces. Also features boys ties, pajamas, night shirts, tam o shanters, caps, golf and e ton styles, patent leather pantins with affordable prices.
An OCR read lists various garments including reefers in light and dark gray novelty cloth with belts, priced at 7.50 and 10.00, red all wool serge coats with full sleeves and sashes priced around 15.00, and long loose covert cloth coats with satin lining available in sizes 10 through 11, reflecting a mid-century store catalog.
A local millinery shop promotes its spring collection for children featuring trimmed hats for first wear and festive Leghorns, Neapolitans, and Tuscans in soft ribbons, quills, and flowers. Lingerie hats with colored ribbons rise in fashion, with Continental mixed straws and white sailors priced from 75 cents to six dollars, all in girlish styles.
Attention is called to a line of Children’s Reefers in colors red tan and blue with 3-4 length, large front scallops and brass buttons. Also featured are double-breasted colored serge reefers, infants’ coats with braid trim, white piqué reefers, and white pique reefers with hand embroidery. Third floor eleventh st.
Misses and children's white canvas oxfords in multiple sizes priced from 1.50 to 4.00 per pair. Complete lines of spring and summer dress shoes with lace and button styles. Easter eggs filled with small toys for boys and girls, plus roosters, chickens, rabbits, and felt rabbits in decorative candy receptacles. Fourth door eleventh street.
An advertisement for men’s spring wear lists neckwear, neglige shirts, pajamas, fancy vests, underwear, socks, and gloves. It highlights new styles and range of prices from 50 cents to 4.50 dollars, noting exclusivity in some patterns and selections for Easter. Main floor showcases include shirts, pajama sets, and gloves from various manufacturers.
Advertises a discriminating man’s hat selection for spring and Easter with new blocks in stiff hats including flat-set brims at $2.00 to $4.00, Stetson Derbys at $3.50 to $5.00, soft hats in French pearl nutria and steel from $2.00 to $4.00, and Neglige or College Crush hats $1.00 to $2.50, all on the main floor.
Silk underdresses remain essential due to the ongoing popularity of sheer fabrics like voiles and cambrics. The ad promotes taffeta silk petticoats in black white and new spring shades with full flare flounces, tucks and hemstatched ruffles, priced at five dollars, on the third floor eleventh street.
A long catalog style listing details high grade toilet articles including Sanitol Paste and Liquid Listerine, Dr Pray’s Rosaline, Patey’s Cold Cream, Frostilla, Daggett & Ramedell, Pears Soap, Culicura, Colgate Water, Pinand and Pinaud Eau de Quinine, Sozodont variants, W & L Chloris Water, Doris Extracts, Wonderful Extract, and more. It also lists Walter Baker’s Chocolate and Cocoa, Norway Mackerel varieties, Pane Basket Bloaters, Wheatlet milled, chicken bones in glass, Pineapple Cheese, Layer Figs, Tallan Macaroni, French Olive Oil, Wattles, McGowan’s products, and New Orleans Molasses. Located on main and tenth floor sections with various prices and packaging notes.
An drew Carnegie visited Atlanta after Tuskegee events, touring the Carnegie Library with Gov. Terrell and library trustees, and joined in laying the cornerstone at the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons. He contributed to the Georgia School of Technology and met Joel Chandler Harris, with a large party. They later left by special train for New York.
The State Department sent five hundred dollars to the Japanese Red Cross in Tokyo for famine relief in northern Japan. The Christian Herald notes this brings the paper’s total contributions to one hundred fifty thousand dollars. The latest twenty five thousand dollar gift was earmarked for food purchases with forty five thousand dollars to be turned over to Sendai’s foreign relief committee.
Baron de Penedo Brazilian Minister to the United States from 1850 to 183 died at his Rio Janeiro home on April 1 at age 91. Ambassador Nabuco has been advised. He once represented Brazil’s Emperor in London and was a close associate of Secretary of State William L Marey. The Anthropological Society meets at Cosmos Club on 1520 H Street NW with Oris T Mason to discuss the district’s anthropology history and Max West on social science classification. Humor notes and a health tonic ad follow.
New York April 6 Albert T Patrick’s bid for a new trial in the Willam Marsh Rice murder case faced another postponement. Patrick’s counsel urged Texas witnesses be called despite costs, while District Attorney Jerome offered to cover reasonable expenses. Four new affidavits were presented as legal maneuvering continued, with judge Olcott noting aims to impeach witnesses and test death’s cause. The hearing adjourned to Monday afternoon.
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