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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1906
Page
3
Advertisement states men's cambric night robes in collag less style with extra fine quartz trim, 53 inches long, sizes up to 20, priced special. Also promotes men's Quahey French Batarig underwear with matching shirts and drawers, long or short sleeves, drawers featuring a large double bicycle seat and suspender tapes, at 25 cents.
The Vogue of the Lingerie Shirt Waist inspires Swiss Sturtwaist Bindings. An immense assortment of the most beautiful styles is offered, with five lots tomorrow at savings of about a third.
A niche listing notes two dozen spring hooks and exes suitable for ric cards, valued at three cents each.
The fourth floor serves as headquarters for home needs with complete lines of Upholstery Goods Draperies and household supplies. Tomorrow offers bed pillows feathered and odorless priced around 100 each a special lot of heavy White Crochet Spreads for double beds Marseilles patterns regular values of 198 and 0. 119 yard-wide Burlap and light-weight Com forts with white cotton tufted and finished at special prices. Also Genuine Felt Mattresses Swiss Ruffled Curtains New Oriental Stripe Couch Covers and more at marked specials tomorrow.
Readable fragments show a 1842 era sale listing for Mercerized Table Damask at 30 cents per 25 pieces with patterns such as poppy and chrysanthemums, plus heavyweight Huck Towels, Teaty Linen Suiting in white, and checked glass toweling. The note advertises Monday specials and yard quantities with sizes and finishes.
An assortment of children’s Easter apparel in white cottons and lawn. Includes silk and pique dresses with embroidery, deep collars, and full skirts. Petticoats with umbrella ruffles, cambric drawers with lace trim, and corded caps. Sizes range from months to 14 years. Special values highlighted.
Extra heavy copper-bottom wash boilers with riveted handles offered at 1.25 value. American porcelain bowls and pitchers in fancy shapes 98 and 75 cent values. Japanned bread boxes with ventilating sides for 25 cent bread, japanned sugar boxes with yaw hinged cover. Two-burner blue flame wickless Gil cooking stoves with steel frame 298 sale. Two-burner gas stoves with removable burners 98 cent, patent gas tubing lengths per foot 0.3. Patent drop-handle wooden tubs 1.25 value for extra quality cocoa. door mats. Reliance clothes dryers with larger frying space priced at 0.19? value. Patent ironing table with adjustable slide. Challenge clothes wringer with rubber rolls galvanized shafts 0.98. Crystal glass wash boards 0.50. Galvanized wire clothes lines and night-cover items 0.29. Garbage cans 0.39.
Apr sale highlights importations of China and Japanese mattings just landed from the custom-house. Large heavy weight seamless mats available in various colors, reversible and durable. Linen warp Japanese mattings with new carpet patterns, offered at favorable yard prices to housekeepers.
The Ordway basketball team crowned champions of the Washington City Basketball League after nineteen straight wins. Manager W C Robbins and assistant C Amman built a stellar squad noted for clean play and staying atop the league since formation. Key players include captain M Bonavaries and guard Kim H Scroggins with backgrounds in the Sixth Battalion and Washington Athletic Club.
Cambridge edged ahead at the start and extended their lead through Craven Steps to win by three and a half lengths in the 63rd Oxford Cambridge Boat Race. Time 19 24. Oxford fought hard but faded as Cambridge maintained a steady, decisive pace on a perfect racing day.
Track clubs from many colleges in the Middle West competed under Louisville Manual Training High School at the new armory. Notable entrants included N. J. Cartmell of the University of Pennsylvania and J. W. Cates, captain of Fate University. Events featured 16 yards slow, 80-yard dash, 1pound shot put, and running high jump with winners from University of Pennsylvania and First Regiment Chicago among others. The piece also discusses a separate plan for a canoe clubhouse and potential sites around Georgetown, Analostan Island, and the District shore, with a meeting set for April 1 to decide the club’s future headquarters and leadership.
At a Palate alleys meeting the City Bowling Association, Washington withdrew from the American Bowling Congress and joined a new organization uniting clubs in Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore and Jersey City. A Brooklyn meeting on April 19 will adopt a constitution and choose next tournament host. Delegates George T. Cox G Livingston and Dun el O'Donnell were elected with alternates W E B Warren C Rodnek and L C Durand.
St Stephen's Institute reports a district champion baseball squad with returning players and new signings led by manager Hanier. They plan a Fort Myer practice game to assess the rookies while basketball has just won the South professional title. A pro league is eyed for next year with four teams.
A Baltimore Club delegation of thirty nine arrived in Richmond to contest a pool match at the Westmoreland Club. The Marylanders won 588 to 456 after a long contest that extended past midnight, witnessed by many Richmond club members and friends.
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