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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1907
Page
14
A local shop showcases a full stock of brass and iron beds emphasizing sanitation and bright, cheerful bedrooms. Prices range from 19.75 to 80.00 for Brass Beds, with upholstered box springs, couches, youth beds, and metal furnishings. Mattresses, pillows, and feather bolsters are advertised with sanitary emphasis and affordable options.
A small lot of All-brags Bedsteads and White Enameled Beds offered at heavily discounted prices. Numerous sizes and styles listed with posts, supports, and heavy gauge wire springs. Cotton felt mattresses available at bargain prices with value comparisons. Includes multiple price points and former values for immediate sale.
Describes new robe patterns in batiste and linen with deep flounces and scalloped edges, plus embroidered linen robe and waist patterns featuring Cluny lace inserts and floral designs. Hand embroidered waist patterns range from sheer to medium weights with dainty tucks, butterflies, and Mexican drawn work, priced $3.75 to $6.00 each on the main floor.
A local shop unveils new French corsets in dainty satin and silk fabrics. Models include Sapphire Corsets in pink and blue with Cluny lace, Prrame and Lily of France lines, plus Evening Corsets, all priced from about 6.50 to 25.00. Third floor eleventh st.
A retail catalog excerpt advertises a range of children’s outerwear including Serge Reefers in various lengths and colors, double breasted styles with turned collars and trimmed cuffs, and cloth coats in checks plaids and plains. Prices shown include 38.75 and 10.00 15.00 15.00, with third floor at eleventh st location.
Butterick Patterns announces May patterns available at 16c and 15c each. The Delineator magazine, dated 1 May, features fashion articles including The Dress of Paris Fashions in New York Styles of the Month and Being Your Own Gardener among others. Butterick fashion sheets are free on request, main floor Eleventh Street.
Cravenette raincoats offered at savings of a third or more on regular prices. All season’s goods bright and fresh in popular styles. Men’s sack suits in about ten spring and summer styles in fancy mixtures some half lined some fully lined. A few blue serges included. Materials all wool, suits elegantly finished and perfectly fitted. All sizes, $16.50 each. Values $22.50 and $25.00. WV: S Spring and Summer SuitsSpring Topcoats and
Spring and summer demand neglige shirts in soft white and colored styles. Shown at $1.00 with Cheviots, Madras, and Percales in blues and stripes. $1.50 in Madras with designs. $2.00 and $3.00 options. Outing shirts in light-weight flannel with collar and cuffs attached priced $1.75 and $2.25. Main floor- st.
A crowded department article details a special sale on boys Russian wash suits with sizes from 2 to 7 years priced at 2.35 and 3.35, comparing values from 2.95 to 5.50. It advertises samples, early selection, and floor locations including third floor Tentist department and main floor.Glass vases and Daggett & Ramsdell skin care products are briefly promoted in other sections with mentions of price cuts and product purity.
A printer’s ad lists ready mixed paints and varnish stains for home use. It touts exterior ready mixes, enamel finishes for woodwork, bath tubs, iron beds, and floors, with assorted prices and product names like Glidden’s Light Hard Oil Finish and Sapolin enamel for screens and doors.
Colonial Fancy Patent Minnesota Flour markets its high quality flour milled from Minnesota Spring Wheat, shipped direct in carload lots to a refrigerated warehouse. It boasts strict selection, non bleaching lightly priced options, and precise quarter barrel pricing: 1-16 bbl four cents. 1-8 bbl seventy five cents. 1-4 bbl one dollar fifty. 1-2 bbl two dollars eighty. barrel three dollars seventy-five.
Altamont Spring Water is bottled at the spring in bottles sterilized immediately before filling by steam for extraordinary softness and purity. The water is demonstrated for sale at 1305 F Street NW and at Woodward & Lothrop, exclusive agents.
The second annual spring horse show in Asheville drew a large audience as Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt won first prize with her entries and handled the ribbons. Numerous guests from New York and Philadelphia attended dinners and receptions at Biltmore House, while prizes were presented by GW Vanderbilt and other officials.
In Baltimore on April 1 Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte and Mrs Bonaparte hosted a dinner at their city residence for a notable group from official Washington. Attending were Supreme Court Justice White Secretary of the Navy and Mrs Metcalf Dutch minister and Mme van Swinderen Norwegian minister and Mme Hauge Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs Oliver and others who came in a special car.
Howard Gould's steam yacht Niagara arrived at Norfolk WI on April 17. Gould plans to remain in these waters with his party until the Jamestown Exposition opens, after a voyage through the North Carolina sounds aboard his smaller yacht Niagara II.
The article details a White House dinner hosted by the Roosevelts with Mrs Longworth and other prominent guests, noting fashion highlights and attendance. It covers the quiet wedding of Miss Grace Train to Myron Whitney at St John’s Church, lists bridesmaids and guests, and describes the Glennon Crose ceremony at St Thomas Church with elaborate gowns, attendants, and receptions, ending with attendees and future plans for the couples.
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