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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1919
Page
8
Fragmented OCR text reports several horse or dog racing lines with incomplete names and odd spellings. It mentions times and odds like 11 to 5 and 4 to 2, but most participant names and events are garbled, making precise identification impossible.
Drapery department advertises natural color antique crash table covers 48 inches square with colored borders at 25 cents each. Crash curtains 22 inches wide by 2.5 yards long sell at 2.33 per pair with valance and top casing. Lace curtains offered as odd lots up to 6 per pair, now 1 per pair in white cream and cert.
Bleached pure linen and cotton damask offered in multiple widths and yard prices. 70 inch linen at 3.75 per yard, 72 inch cotton at 3.50, 64 inch cotton at 0.95, and other sizes noted with sale pricing.
A sale advertises hemstitched pure linen Huck towels at 60 cents each and De Luxe cotton sheets in sizes 63 by 99, 72 by 99, 81 by 99, and 99 by 108 inches with Monday only pricing from 2.05 to 2.70. Bleached Turkish bath towels are offered at 59 cents with other hemmed cotton cases in two sizes at Monday only pricing of 4 ¾ and 47 cents.
Bulk lot sale offers 100 dozen hemstitched pure linen handkerchiefs at 38 cents each, down from 50 cents. Also 100 dozen fancy colored print and white handkerchiefs at 25 cents each, and 100 dozen fancy colored corded border handkerchiefs at 15 cents each, with values up to 50c and 30c respectively.
A local ad offers cretonne covered canoe and porch pillows sized about 18 inches square. Pillows are filled with clean sanitary cotton and priced at 75 cents each.
An advertisement offers olive and brown porch curtains in lengths from 4 to 12 feet with patented no whip attachments to prevent flapping. Sizes include B1 feet wide to 12 feet wide, with prices ranging from 4.75 to 85.73 and select widths priced at 5 to 7.50 dollars.
Antique Wilton rugs offered in 9x12 at 55 dollars and 8.3x10.6 at 52 dollars, plus 6x9 at 32.5 dollars. Rich deep pile crafts plain color carpets in about 300 attractive colorings, all priced lower now than later.
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