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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1906
Page
7
Woodward and Lothrop promotes its spring renovation season with advice for the modern housekeeper. The ad urges removing heavy draperies, packing winter clothes, and readying summer furnishings while highlighting handy labor aids, kitchen and laundry requisites, and expert work for all repairs. It touts time-saving devices to ease housework and reduce cost.
Upholstery Department advertises a special sale on curtains and draperies for city or country homes. Featuring Maslin, ruffled bobbinette, Madras, French and Scotch Madras, Saxony, Nottingham and Irish Point varieties, with price highlights such as 1.00 per pair for white dotted muslin curtains and 1.50 per pair for white muslin curtains with plain centers and bow knot fleur-de-lis designs. Also offered are sheer muslin curtains, laces, fringes, and a range of colored cross stripe curtains, silkolines, art tickings, Belgian linens, and cottons at various yard prices.
Window Screens and Screen Doors offered in stock. Items include Bay Window Screens hardwood with japanned wire, various heights and widths, priced to a few cents. Screens and doors in walnut finish and natural g rowwood with braced corners. Ready-made window shades and spring line of shades in multiple colors and cloths. Custom order work for sun covers awnings upholstering and furniture refinishing offered with low estimates for limited time.
Advertising summary notes a wide range of summer floor coverings including Japanese mattings and Crex grass carpets. It contrasts traditional Chinese patterns with Yankee-influenced Japanese designs emphasizing wear quality, color diversity, and value from full rolls to savings on remnants. Items listed include seamless Japanese matting and Crex rugs with several size and price points.
A wide display features modern kitchen and laundry requisites, earthenware, pressed glassware, lamps, and decorative china sets. German china dinner sets offered in two designs at 15.00 per set, plus discounted moth preventive products from Manahan’s line, including tarine sheets and moth bags in multiple sizes.
Snowing a large line of brilliant Cut Glass for spring wedding gifts. Prices range from $1.00 for small pieces to $50,001 for a large footed punch bowl with ladle. Special assortments offered with various lo t numbers and items such as salad bowls, carafes, vases, sugar and cream sets, water bottles, and fruit bowls.
A local advertisement promotes new lawn mowers in various sizes for large and small yards. The Colonial Lawn Mower is highlighted, priced at two dollars twenty five cents each, with emphasis on quality and latest improvements.
In buying Rubber Garden Hose it pays to buy the better grades as cheaper kinds wear out quickly. We carry products from top factories and guarantee against leakage until next September. If the hose proves faulty, we will replace it. Garden Hose complete with couplings and nozzle ready for use at $1.95.
Our Second Rosebush Sale presents a fresh lot of rose bushes with started leaves from a top grower. The 25 cent special offer includes four bushes per package and features hardy varieties such as Baby Ramblers and Climbing Kasserine among others like White Cochet Helen Gould Marechal Niel and Princess Bonnie. Packages vary with several free bloomers and monthly varieties.
A historical catalog item lists disinfectants and insect extermination products. It mentions Platt's chloride bottles, aetna chloride of lime, carpet and wool treatments, moth extermination products, Peterman's Roach Food and Ant Food, Peterman's Discovery for bugs, Household Ammonia for cleansing, with various prices and bottle references.
Advertises best quality flower seeds and bulbs from Johnson & Stokes and other seedmen. Notes higher cost for first quality items and lists various bulbs and tubers including Sweet Peas Peart Rowe Bulbs and Elephant Ear varieties with prices and quantities.
The listing shows trowels, grass shears, hoes, spades, and garden sets with per item prices. Specific amounts are incomplete but indicate a retail guide for garden and lawn implements.
Demonstration of Flora Vitae offers a tonic for house and garden plants promising healthier growth. The sample shows the product contains elements needed by plants to thrive in poor soil and even corrects sour ground. The demonstrator will explain merits and provide a short guide to successful plant and lawn care.
In Annapolis a wedding ceremony occurs today for Miss Marie McKenna and Mr Davenport Brown amid a week of society events. The president and Mrs Roosevelt with guests attended the Paul Jones memorial. many notable figures hosted dinners for the McKenna and Brown families and other weddings are reported including Miss Annie McCalley and Charles ODonnell Les and Miss Adam Greely’s wedding in Washington and East Hemp ton Massachusetts.
Anne Mayo Dade, a Southern member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a George Washington University alumna, died and was mourned for her literary talents and church work. Her body was sent to Richmond for burial in Hollywood Cemetery, survivors include two sisters Mrs. Fitzhugh of Lexington, Kentucky, and Miss Nannie Mayo Dade of this city.
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