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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1904
Page
29
A classified listing offersRESS Patterns and Waist Patterns in boxed lithographed bands. It highlights popular import and domestic fabrics suitable for any dress or waist and promotes them as a sensible Xmas gift. Also lists Black Dress Patterns, various fabrics, and yardage based on sizes and styles.
A carefully selected stock of Corsets both foreign and domestic in varied styles. Paris novelties for evening wear. prices up to 25 dollars a pair. Sets include Corset, Hose Supporters, and Silk Laces at moderate prices. featured items and gift options with elastics and laces. Third floor Eleventh Street.
Two lots of Black and Colored Silk Petticoats offered at about a third below usual prices. Lot 1 Black Taffeta Silk Petticoats with accordion-pleated flounce priced at 3.95, value 5.00. Lot 2 Taffeta Silk Petticoats with deep graduated flounce priced at 5.00, value 7.00.
New display of hair ornaments for evening wear including gilt and silver butterflies spangled bows flowers and roses. Imported and domestic pieces with prices from 75 cents to 4 dollars. Custom orders for hair ornaments and corsage garnitures available at the Millinery Salon on the second floor Tenth street.
UST lists new Squirrel Furs in late shapes with small styles dominating this season. Rich dark Squirrel Ties priced $6.75 to $10.00 and muff shapes at $10.00 to $15.00. Children's fits and a large lingerie waist assortment on the third floor offer luxury pieces in mercerized white with German Valenciennes detailing priced $10.00 and $12.50.
An advertisement lists a wide assortment of slippers and house footwear, noting many colors and styles. It highlights kidskin Romeos and Opera Slippers at $1 to $2, Felt Slippers at $1.50, and women’s kid boots at $2.50, with third-floor listings on Tenth Street and emphasis on reasonable prices.
A second shipment of German Lebkuchen from Henrich Haeberlein of Nuremberg arrives in fancy packaging and low prices. The cakes are well regarded in Europe for Christmas gifts. Prices range from 5 cents per package to 3.50 dollars for premium boxes, with urgent early selection advised. Fifth floor, Tenth St.
A catalog style notice lists practical Christmas gifts for invalids, from comfortable beds and mattresses to blankets, robes, and cards. It notes display rooms on the second floor near Millinery Salon and WW prepared the list with care, detailing price ranges for beds, bedding, and light china and glass items suitable for an invalid’s tray.
On the second floor the linen department lists oblong and round tray cloths, peel covers, hemstitched and scalloped items. Damask and Huck towels come in many varieties, with scalloped towels priced from 7.50 to 10.50 a dozen. Turkish bath mats towels and wash cloths, plus Rub Dry towels at 50 cents and 1 dollar each.
The Screen Department on the 2d floor presents three and four fold screens ideal for a sick room. Mission Screens start at $5.00, Linen Tapestry from $4.50, plus five screens in small and large sizes. Heavy embossed paper screens over six feet high range from $13.00 to $27.00, plus a Lavender Wisteria Japanese screen exquisitely embroidered on black ere gra tabs.
Advertising copy lists Kimonas and Negugeca, Japanese silk gowns, woolen and cotton night robes and gowns, bath towels, bed socks, and various petticoats and skirts. Prices start at 76 cents and rise to several dollars. Goods emphasize washable fabrics and decorative trims. Small, dainty heart shaped garters priced at $1.25.
Teas gowns with fitted linings offered at a special price. Eiderdown robes priced at 3.05 with value 6.00. Eiderdown robes in white applique trimming described as very dainty from 8.75. White silk knit shawls and woolen hand knit shawls in white and black also advertised.
Xmas gift idea from B B GOOD Chafing Dishes offers options from 2 to 5 point nickel models. Each chassis includes nickel hot water pan nickel asbestos lamp black iron stand and white enameled or nickel food pan with finishes praised for sanitation and wear resistance. Fifth floor.
List of Morris chairs bureaus wash stands and tables offered on 6th and 7th floors in white enamel maple oak and mahogany. Prices from 3 to 75 dollars including invalids adjustable tables leather couches and rockers with various fabrics and finishes.
On the south floor of G street the lamp department presents three styles of bedroom candlesticks in black iron priced at 10 cents and burnished copper at 1.00. Brass holders for safety matches 1.00. Small brass jardinieres. Nickel candie lamp with reflector. Three reading lamps kerosene gel drop light and electric. B Eq reading lamp 1.26. Electric candle light on iron standard 3.00. Presto pocket lamp electric. Tin gas shields paper shades small glow night lamp and facsimile candle.
In elder down and teagledown fabrics the item line offers children's dressing gowns and little bedroom slippers. The listing names sizes and fabric types for the apparel, reflecting a period catalog style.
The catalog lists items for children and quiet play: painting books and paint boxes, Beads to string, bubble blower, floating toys with magnet, paper furniture to cut out, Pretty Village cardboard houses at 25¢ and 50¢, paper dolls, sliced pictures puzzles, enamel ware tea set, children's three piece silver set, silver cup, scrap book and sheets of scrap book pictures, dissected maps and pictures, knitting spool and worsted, building blocks, magnetic jackstraws, slates and pencils, transparent slates, Parcheesi, dominoes, perforated cardboard to sew, silver napkin ring.
Leather Goods Dept on Main floor at 11th st features Opera Glasses for watching street scenes and birds, light strong Fans, chamois Jewelry Pockets, Leather Medicine Cases in various sizes, Whisky Flasks, and wicker covered Bottles priced from 25 cents upward.
A catalog of silver items for sale describes pair silver candlesticks small silver dishes and a creamer set. It lists silver bells from 76e up along with a small coffee pot napkin rings a silver tea ball a silver pusher for invalids who must eat reclining and items like silver oranges spoons teaspoons fruit knives and glass salt cellars with small silver pieces.
Silver Key Ring and silver brush set priced at 2.75 include a Wail Brush Tooth Brush and Whisk Broom. Jewelry items feature silver hand glass silver balve jar and a gilt pompadour mirror. other pieces include a glass powder box and a silver case dental floss. Some pieces priced as low as 1.50 and as high as 5.00.
An advertisement highlights toilet goods from Main Hoor Gst including rubber air pillows and cushions, silk covered air pillow in light colors, hot water bags from 65c, celluloid powder and soap boxes, and various powder, perfume, and toiletry items. It features white pink and blue options, plus new gilt and glass powder boxes and wooden hair brushes.
See Book Department on the main floor at 16th St offering a year's subscription to magazines, light Bible selections, prayer books, religious booklets, mounted quotations from Tennyson Browning and Van Dyke, plus new bright entertaining books.
Main floor display offers leather calendars note and address books priced 3 00 and up. Small leather portfolios six dollars. Dominoes in leather box leather desk pads letter holders desk baskets fitted note books fancy pencils fountain pens from one dollar. Bridge whist cabinets stamp boxes letter scales small solitaire cards paper knives leather desk trays string boxes desk sets cribbage sets and pretty boxes of letter paper.
Main floor Fet. presents crocheted bedroom slippers in many colors priced at 125. Also handkerchief boxes in siliana cretonne handkerchief baskets dainty pin cushions in satin and velvet work baskets and boxes crocheted bed socks knitted shawls wristlets to order fancy cretonne and tapestry notes.
Picture Department offers large sepia photographs and framed religious pictures. Christy unframed cartoons priced at one dollar, along with colored sketches by Jessie W. Smith and quaint Dutch pictures in long frames.
A catalog of house furnishing items includes wicker Japanese prairie grass birch bark and sweet grass scrap baskets stand work baskets nickel and aluminium trays in various sizes with lids holders and enamel finishes. Also listed are chafing dishes oil heaters gas radiators and related fireplace accessories including brass iron andirons fenders and screens. Hot water plates and lily and calla bulbs offered as seasonal highlights.
A vintage advertisement outlines a broad holiday furniture display with desks, bookcases, chairs, tables, and cabinets priced from modest to substantial. It notes many items and finishes, plus half price and subhalf price auctions for art pictures on the fourth floor, including colored portraits, engravings, and carbon photographs.
An item notes hot cake dishes essential for proper serving of grid die cakes or waffles for breakfast. It references holiday gifts and various dish brands including Haviland and Austrian DYBNEE with prices around $1.00 to $1.50 and mentions other hot cake dishes.
AE showcases a varied display of Negligee gowns kimonas and robes in silk wool albatross and crystalline cloth priced 2.00 to 75.00. Also featured are Outing Flannel garments for winter wear and Xmas gifts with prices from 0.75 to 1.50 and detailing like lace edging and yokes.
A range of nickel plated closet sets suitable for men women and boys is offered. Sets include Trouser Stretcher, Goodform Closet Sets in 14 16 23 piece variants, and Etwell and Setwell lines, with prices from 1.95 to 15.00 and a 5.00 covered slop jar set noted. Also a daintily decorated toilet set priced attractively for housekeepers.
Christmas Books for Children promotes a broad selection of children's literature with classics like Mother Goose Robinson Crusoe and Alice in Wonderland along with modern favorites such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It highlights a wide range of authors, ages, bindings, and new issues, promising entertaining and instructive reading for young readers.
A list of juvenile titles available at a price of 25 cents each. Includes classics and series like The Mysterious Island Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Tour of the World In Eighty Days The Mary Jane Papers Penn's Venture Katie Robertson Miss Ashton a New Pupil and The River Fugitives among others by Verne Ballentyne Larkin and others.
A catalog style list of girls books priced mostly under a dollar including titles by L T Meade Margaret Vandegift Laura E Richards Thos Nelson Page and Hezekiah Butterworth with prices from 4c to $2.00 and note of location Main floor Tenth street.
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