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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1906
Page
7
Practical gifts on the second floor feature silk dress and waist patterns from Black and Colored Silks. The shop offers Haskell Silks known for wear quality, with pure dye Black Silks that have earned lasting satisfaction. Various weaves are shown and lengths cut to fit dresses, skirts, or waistlines, boxed for gifting.
Woodward and Lo Throp advertise a range of sewing machines suited as Christmas gifts for beginners and households. They highlight Eldredge and Capital models with prices from 5 to 40 dollars, offer free attachments with each sale, and feature new dress patterns and fabrics on sale on the second floor.
A wide display of cedar and bamboo items with Japanese styling offers Christmas gifts. Prices range from $0.60 for foot stools to $18.50 for matting covered boxes, plus Down Comfortables at $8 and a large selection of Table Linens, Bureau Scarfs, and centerpieces from Madeira and France, with many pieces in lace and hand embroidery.
A detailed listing of leather goods for Christmas gifts including purses, cases, boxes, writing tablets, desk sets, calendars, bags, and traveling accessories. Items boast European selection, various colors, and options like opera glasses, fans, and fittings. Prices range from under a dollar to about $30, highlighting stainless steel studs and gold mounts.
A convenient travel lunch solution titled Fitted Automobile Baskets, Splendid Emas Gifts. Describes compact baskets fitted with requisites for serving a quick meal for one to six persons, priced from $9.00 to $135.00, located on the Main floor Eleventh at.
Illinery Salon on the second floor showcases new trimmed hats in white and lace tones with marine and silver cloths for carriage, reception, and evening wear. Highlights include exclusive hair ornaments from direct importation and a theater headrest using velvet ostrich plumes and aigrettes. Lace House Caps target matronly ladies and a satisfactory children's millinery assortment completes the display on the second floor at Tenth Street.
A catalog style notice extols decorative screens for beauty and utility in homes. It highlights fire screens, g-fold and 4-fold sets in various finishes such as mission, light oak, forest green, silver maple, imitation mahogany, and Japanese teakwood with embroidered silk panels. Prices range from 1.75 to 75.00.
Brass and iron beds are praised for beauty and easy cleaning as ideal Christmas presents. The ad highlights brass beds priced 19.75 to 140.00 and enameled beds from 5.00 to 23.00, plus children's cribs and youths beds from 8.50 to 40.00. Located on the second floor Fat.
A wide UK display features clocks from compact boudoir models to ons and picture-worthy gilt pieces. Prices range from affordable one day wind to four hundred day mechanisms with cathedral gong strikes, leather travel cases, and American and French movements.
Complete assortment of Gas, Electric, and Oil Lamps with Globes, Shades, and accessories. New Japanese Geisha Lamp Shades in assorted colors and sizes with halder. Prices start at 1.00 and up for art glass fringe shades. Fifth floor displays gas, electric, and oil lighting options for Christmas.
The shop presents a broad holiday book selection arranged for easy inspection with ample light. It highlights fiction, history, biographies, travel, poetry, theology, essays, outdoor books, classics and illustrated holiday books. Emphasis on children’s books features lavish illustrations, fine type and bindings as standard gifts.
A catalog listing attractive editions and reprints of Stevenson and Meredith volumes, plus travel and art books. Highlights include Mrs. Stevenson's introductions in a biographical edition of Stevenson's works, pocket Meredith editions, and illustrated travel titles like Versailles and the Trianons, Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, and In Themepland.
A catalog-style promotion listing multiple children's titles and authors with illustrations. Highlights include The Pettison Twins by Merlén Hl, Andy by Lucille Lovell, and Betty Wales novels illustrated by Eva Nagel. Also featured are The Birch-tree Fairy Book, The Oak-tree Fairy Book, Peter Rabbit tales, Marching Against the Iroquois, and other juvenile works with varying bindings and prices. Hefty emphasis on humor, adventure, and moral tales for a broad age range.
A period notice reviews revised editions of culinary classics by Fannie Merritt Farmer and others. It highlights the Boston Cooking School Cook Book and companion titles, noting new recipes, two color printing, and illustrated pages.
A newspaper ad lists various affordable books and editions. Titles include Confessions to a Heathen Idol by Marian Lee and The Wisdom of Oscar Wilde edited by Temple Scott, with prices around $1.00 to $1.50 and notes on bindings and presentation. The catalog highlights moral and philosophical volumes such as The Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin and Fairest Girlhood by Margaret Sangster, continuing a traditional gift-book assortment.
The list catalogs religious works with prices and brief descriptions. Notable titles include The Historical Bases of Religion by Hiram Chellis Brown and Listening to God by Hugh Black. Other items cover church administration, theology, philosophy, and Muslim studies, with authors such as W L Watkinson, Francis Henry Smith, and James L Barton.
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