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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
7
Promotes Easter cards booklets and novelties on Main Floor G Street. Highlights manufacture under supervision of slip covers window shades screens and furniture refinishing. Offers reupholstery repairs door panels portieres lace curtains drapery grills parquetry flooring carpet cleaning and storage with estimates on request. Orders can be delivered when required.
Catalog notes inexpensive summer curtains and fabrics in Nottingham and cross stripe Madras, ruffled and Tambour Muslin, Scotch nets, and cretonnes. Prices range from 30 to 200 per yard on domestic fabrics and 1 to 7.50 per pair for curtains. Includes art franhrics and ticking along with coronation cloth and striped dimities.
Advertisement notes slip covers made to order for S-piece parlor suites in Belgian Cotton Stripes. Includes 25 yards for making and a special price of 87.59 per suite. Mentions Stig Cervers made to order red cretaries with ards for making at the tal price. S1105 the sutte.
Screen doors and fixtures priced in BE 8xe 8. Two sizes sold at 2a and 3.00 each. Screen doors brought in sales of 3.73 and 4.00 dollars per unit.
Linen couch and table covers advertised in plain centers and blue red or green fringed table covers. Sizes 44 60c 6-4 and 8-4 priced 1.25 2.00. Couch covers plain edge 2.00 each couch covers fringed 2.73 each.
Complete line of Sher wood metal frame window screens adjustable to fit any window. One half inch frame width saves space for better ventilation. Made of black wire cloth in galvanized iron frame with no sag or tearing. Prices range from 30 to 70 cents depending on size.
Busse Patent Chair Seats advertise one adjustable chair seat that meets every requirement. They highlight rich appeal, comfort, and durability at a low cost, upholstered in leatherette with a soft elastic Alber fill, mounted on a veneer ply foundation with four hi iron steel devices fastening the seat to the chair frame, priced to $1.25 each.
Vitrophane is a European made material for decorating plain window glass to improve appearance and hide unattractive views without blocking light. It comes in various patterns and sells by the yard or roll, and its application is simple for anyone to achieve perfect results.
FE promotes a broad matting and matting rug assortment. Chinese Japanese fiber and Napier Coco matting options listed with multiple sizes. Includes China Matting Rugs 4x6 to 9x12 ft Japanese 3x6 to 9x12 ft Wiber Nashmir Prairie Grass rugs and a sale on a batch of stock.
A Washington society page records engagements marriages and attendances at dinner parties. Ida Sullivan Dolan wed Lieutenant Leo B Dandemiller at Dahlgren Chapel Georgetown University with a reception at 1323 Thirtieth Street. Notables include Lord and Lady Grey and diplomats from France and Greece among guests at various dinners.
Miss Elsie Tilford and Edward C. Wilson wed in Brooklyn after an elopement prompted by parental opposition. The couple, longstanding suitors, planned a European honeymoon and faced secrecy from friends. The tale touches on society’s summer plans, Newport visits, and Paris fashion trends shaping a restless upper crust.
The piece surveys Neo Greek dress in fashion, its impact on undergarments and silhouettes, plus a broad set of society notes. Lady Arthur Paget entertains Queen Alexandra. Misses de Forest and Callender in Paris. Mrs Alfred Vanderbilt travels to Newport. Das Rheingold opens at the Metropolitan with a high‑society audience attendance.
Metropolitan Opera Company plans a new larger modern opera house in New York within five years as director Andreas Dippel hints at decisions at an upcoming conference with Gatti-Cazzaro arriving. Mrs Dippel sails to Paris. Astors in auto tour, other passengers include James Forbes and A. S. Crockett.
New York April 14 Miss Julia Marlowe is lying seriously ill at the Plaza Hotel after a nervous breakdown from ten weeks of one night stands Her doctors ordered the Shuberts to cancel all engagements for the next fortnight It is hoped she may resume work at the Lyric Theatre in May Her physician Dr M Allen Starr and attorney Herbert J Saterlee have advised against discussing a Boston divorce suit Public access is restricted and Mr Saterlee defends the actress reputation.
By will of architect William Wheeler Smith a fortune exceeding 3 million dollars is left to St Luke's Hospital in New York. The fund will pass to the hospital on Mrs. Smith's death and must be used for needy convalescent patients needing care not available at home regardless of religious belief or sex. Smith's notable commissions include Collegiate Dutch Church Fifth Avenue 48th Street College of Physicians and Surgeons Sloane Maternity Hospital Syms Clinic and the Manhattan Building.
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