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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1906
Page
29
Woodward and Lothrop promotes spring renovation with tips for removing heavy draperies packing away winter clothing and arranging home for summer. It offers a lineup of labor saving devices kitchen furnishings and laundry requisites to ease housework and reduce costs while workmen are ready to handle repairs and renovations.
Special Sale of Curtains for city or country homes features UFFLED Muslin Ruffled Bobbinette Cross-stripe Madras and Snow-flake fabrics. Prices from $1.00 to $3.50 per pair with full hems and lace trims. Colored cross stripe designs offered in cream blue pink red light green and gold tones suitable for dining rooms libraries and bedrooms.
A catalog of Fifth Floor goods highlights cut glass pressed glass china and porcelain for the table plus kitchen furnishings laundry requisites and housekeeping aids. The store showcases labor saving devices with unique merits and unusually low prices achieved by direct factory purchasing. Moth preventives especially Manahan's Tar ine Moth Bags and Paper are recommended for effective moth control. The stock description notes a complete new items line as quoted.
An advertisement lists ready mixed paints and varnish stains for interior and exterior use, along with enamel products, moth bags, camphor products, camphorated candles, sulfur candles, and related finishing supplies. Multiple brand names such as Sapolin and Japaline wood finishes are shown with various can sizes and prices.
A fragmented catalog item lists Platts Chlorides and various bug remedies. Prices include 10 to 18 cents for disinfectants and insecticides, with products named Dead Stuck Jewel Carpet Renovator and Peterman’s Roach Food and Ant Food.
An advertisement lists various furniture and floor polishes including Boniaids Floor Polish, Pollux Furniture Polish, Now Stain Remover, De Jordana Perfection wax, Johnson's Prepared Wax, Old English Floor Wax, and Butcher's Boston Polish with prices per bottle or can, highlighting choices for furniture, pianos, floors, and interior use.
A catalog page advertises a full line of household brushes for painting dusting cleaning and sweeping with prices ranging from a few cents to about a dollar per item including wall floor and radiator brushes along with mops brooms and scrapers. The ad emphasizes variety and low prices for home maintenance tools.
Garden and Lawn Implements. We are now showing a complete line of Hoes Rakes Trowels Spades for spring gardening. Trowels each Weeders each Rakes each Grass Shears pair Hoes gach Spades each Garden Set a two piece set.
A demonstration of Flora-Vitae presents it as a tonic for house and garden plants, claiming it supplies every element, improves growth in poor soil, and corrects sour soil in rich earth. The demonstrator will explain plant care and offer a small treatise on growing vegetables and a beautiful lawn, on the fifth floor.
Best Quality Seeds and Bulbs advertises top seedmen flowers bulbs and lawn seed. Johnson Stokes seeds include Sweet Peas and vegetable seed packs. Vaughn’s lawn seed Pearl bulbs Gladiola bulbs Caladiums Dahlias listed with prices per item and dozen packs.
A catalog-like notice details various metal polishes and regilding products for gold silver copper and other metals. It lists items such as Golkt Bronze Lacquers Green's Mineral Paste Meyer's Putz Polish Burniehine and Blue Seal Silver Bars along with prices and packaging notes and mentions regilding for gas fixtures and decorative purposes. The fragmentary advertisement emphasizes a wide selection and mixed branding in a period retail context.
A flurry of society weddings lights up St Thomas and St Margaret's with Miss Katherine Bradford and Howard Angell Brockway among the day’s prominent unions. Notables include Miss Maude Ely with Lieut Commander John F. H. Gibbon and Miss Julia Nicholson with Glasgow Washturn, all drawing Washington’s diplomatic and army circles to elaborate ceremonies and receptions.
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