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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1905
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop in Washington announces extended evening hours through Christmas on the second floor with a wide range of practical and ornamental merchandise. The store highlights dress goods silks velvets linens blankets quilts down comforts utility boxes decorative screens bamboo furniture flannels and more from leading manufacturers.
ONG tables in the dress goods department feature hundreds of new 1906 designs. Patterns are cut in dress lengths, boxed or folded with holly bands and Christmas greetings, ready as gifts. Also showcased are washed goods and silks with prices per yard and boxed gift options for holiday shoppers.
Our new importations in silk waist patterns are richly embroidered in self and other colors. Black and black embroidered with white are especially elegant. Each waist pattern comes boxed with an illustration, ready for gifts. Charnang plaids and floral figured silks are popular for waists. Silk line includes Messaline, Peau de cygne, Armure, chiffon taffeta, faille francaise, duchesse, chameleon taffetas, traviata, warp-printed taffetas, brocades, and patterns up to any price. Prices $5.00, $5.50, and $6.00.
The ad promotes metal beds in styles from mission to Colonial and French designs plus canopy beds. Baby cribs in brass and white enamel with brass trim highlighted. Prices range from Brass Beds 20 to 75 dollars, White Enamel Beds 3.50 to 20, Brass Cribs 30 to 40, White Enamel Cribs 5.50 to 14, with mattresses 2.50 to 30 and springs 3.50 to 6, box springs 12.50 to 18 dollars.
An old advertisement promotes Woodward & Loth sewing machines as ideal Christmas gifts for beginners, noting faultless quality and full guarantees. Prices listed include W. & L. models at 1800 and 28, Eldredge Automatic at 35 and 40, Eldredge Rotary at 35, Imperial at 20, and hand machines from 5 to 13.50, with other popular machines in stock.
The arrival features bed spreads and wrapper blankets with illustrated motifs for children, including Little Bo Peep and other figures. Items cover crib blankets to down comfortables with prices from 85 cents to 50 dollars per pair or unit, in Marseilles fabric and silk options, many reversible or two sided.
In our linen department a range of Table and Toilet linen gifts and sets is shown. From hand embroidered rare lace damask pieces to more affordable damask and Teneriffe options, with napkins, scarfs, centerpieces, doilies, and embroidered table sets priced from under a dollar to hundreds.
A gallery displays a superb collection of rare oils by Cauchois Delahogue Fontain and others. Prices range from 5 to 500 dollars with half-price lots announced: Lot 1 small oil paintings 7 50, Lot 2 large oil paintings 10, Lot 3 imported water colors 10. These works were selected from Europe by a special representative.
The ad promotes half-price High-grade Pictures with many popular subjects such as Large Aurora and Large Landscape Pastel, framed in gold brown or black. Each piece is unique, offering half the usual price with substantial savings from original costs, including items like Large Aurora 12.50 and Sepia Gainsborough Head 5.00.
The article touts decorative screens as both functional and beautiful home features. It highlights a broad range from small fire screens to large mammoth creations with diverse motifs including landscapes, historical scenes, and humorous studies. Prices span 1.75 to 25.00 for various foldable designs.
The shop offers bonbons chocolates conserved fruits and other fancy candies not found elsewhere. It features rich boxed assortments ribboned baskets in many sizes suitable for holiday remembrances. Purchases for out-of-town points will be boxed and forwarded from our establishment. Early selection is requested.
The city marks 100 years of public education with a district wide exhibit at four schools led by Business High, McKinley Memorial, Armstrong, and M Street. Visitors view art and machinery from pupils, with displays in shorthand, typing, sewing, millinery, lab physics, chemistry, and manual training. Evening cooking demonstrations and nightly workshops in wood turning and metalwork engage many students and guests.
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf of Philadelphia pays tribute to Thomas Jefferson for reviving Rip Van Winkle at Walnut Street Theater. He credits the younger actor with capturing the voice and manner of Joe Jefferson and keeping alive a cherished American theatrical memory for current and future generations.
The Belasco Theater hosts a two part kirmess for the Ladies Aid Association benefiting the National Homeopathic Hospital. Features include a wood scene tribal dance the Dance of the Nations with France Spain Germany Holland and Japan the Rose Garden in Fairyland electric light effects and the American Beauty Rose Dance with twelve young ladies. Matinee opens with low balcony admission to aid schoolchildren. public schools will be closed Friday.
Consul Conant of Windsor reports Ontario officials aim to bar licenses issued at frontier points to non residents, challenging a booming cross border practice. Attorney General ruling supports denial to non residents. provincial secretary will enforce. Also notes travel info for Tinchurnt and a preview of Sunday comics in The Post.
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