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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1907
Page
14
Woodward Glothrop Ark Washington advertises spring preparation for home renovation. It touts dust clearing, moth prevention, and semi annual cleaning with a range of helpers and clever kitchen and laundry devices. Workmen ready for repairs, promising reduced labor and costs. WOW is the time to prepare for home renovations and remove heavy draperies.
Summer Upholstery offers slip covers curtains drapery and window screens under supervision. Services include reupholstering repairing refinishing furniture making door panels portieres lace curtains and mattress revamps. Special curtain prices and a range of screen doors and window screens with sizes and prices listed.
Our spring stock of shade cloths is complete and includes King’s Scotch Holland Empire Hand-made Opaques Empire Hand-made Cambrics and O’Hanlon’s Scotch Holland in striped and figured effects. Shades trimmed with fine laces and insertions. Lowest prices for all work. Porch blinds let air pass while keeping out public gaze. Sizes and prices: 4x7.8 feet $2.00, 6x7 feet $2.75, 8x7 feet $3.50, 10x7 feet $5.00.
AR vast and splendidly equipped Housefurnishing Store on the fifth floor offers a full line of chinaware, cut glass, and kitchenware plus ready mixed paints and wood finishes. Highlights include decorated glass, English bone china plates at low prices, Geisha lamp shades, Sapolin paints, and lawn mowers from $2.25 with hose options for lawns and gardens.
Imported rose bushes from Holland include the new Baby Rambler, priced at 10c each, available on the fifth floor. Also offered are a range of furniture polishes for floors, woodwork, pianos, and interiors in various can sizes, with brands and formulations noted.
A local listing highlights light-weight Wool or Matting Rugs and Summer Floor Coverings from rice straw to Japanese matting. Prices range from 20c to 65c per yard, with heavy jointless matting at 20c to 35c, and seamless Japanese matting 20c to 65c.
Cedarine, the heart of southern red cedar, is chemically prepared in chip shaving form and impregnated with pure gum camphor to protect clothing and all woolen goods from moths. Price 25 cents per package.
A list of moth fighting supplies and camphor products offered by Manahan. Includes Manahan's moth bags in small medium and large sizes, distinct Moth Bags variants, Lavender Camphorated Flakes, Oriental Crystallized Camphor, Ta Na Camphor, Cedar of Lebanon Camphor, Crystalline Camphor, and Sulphur Candies and Candles in large size.
The ad invites careful tasters to try Colonial Extra Fancy Butter noted for high quality. It promotes 40c per pound and a 5th Sanitary Package priced at $1.95, highlighting judges who seek superior butter unavailable elsewhere.
An advertisement touts Chandon olive oil as purer and more delicate than Lucca oil, ideal for medicinal or table use. It notes the oil is bottled and sealed in France to avoid contamination. Available in bottles 25c, 45c, 85c. tins 85c, 1.60, and 3.00.
Pure Succa olive oil, government tested, declared high in quality. Priced at 70 cents per quart and $1.25 per half gallon.
A full report on Arthur Nevin’s illustrated lecture and performance of Poia at the White House with Mrs Roosevelt hosting guests including Cabinet members and judges. The article also notes the wedding of Zaidee Gatana Gaff to Cary Langhorne U.S. Navy and other social happenings and attendances.
Social notes recount Ambassador Bryce facing reporters in Ottawa and sharing safe anecdotes while avoiding politics. London’s buses gain musical alarms. Mrs Phil Lydig departs for a rest cure at Katonah and is praised as a noted hostess. Engagements announced for Evelyn Sloane to William Griswold with a Lenox autumn wedding expected. Boitcelli reproductions donated to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston by Mrs Gardner.
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