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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1904
Page
7
The notice lists boxed and enclosed patterns for dresses and waists in popular fabrics both imported and domestic. Christmas gifts suggested with Black Dress Patterns in plain and fancy weaves priced from 3 to 37.50. Also features Percale, Gingham, and Sateen offerings in various yardages.
A stock of Corsets both foreign and domestic, plus Paris novelties for evening wear, is showcased with prices up to 25 dollars a pair. Sets combining Corset, Hose Supporters, and Silk Laces are sold at moderate prices, with several labeled options and colors. Third floor Eleven street.
Two lots of Silk Petticoats on offer at about one third below usual prices. Lot 1 Black Taffeta Silk Petticoats with accordion-pleat flounce, $3.95. value $5.00. Lot 2 Taffeta Silk Petticoats with deep graduated accordion plaited flounce, two section flare, black and shades, $5.00. value $7.00.
Our millinery department displays a large assortment of hair ornaments for evening wear. Imported and domestic pieces include gilt and silver butterflies with spangles, bow knots, flowers, gold and silver roses, and corsage foliage. Prices range from 75c to 4.00. Made to order hair ornaments and corsage garnitures available. Millinery Salon Second floor Tenth st.
UST unveils a new lot of Squirrel Furs in latest shapes with small forms dominant. Prices range from $6.75 to $15.00 for furs and muffs. children’s fits offered. second item introduces new Lingerie Waists on third floor with mercerized white fabric, German Valenciennes and embroidery, priced at $10.00 and $12.50, for immediate wear.
A department store advertises a holiday slipper assortment with varieties for men women and children. Prices range from 30 cents to 2.50, including Kidskin Romeos and Opera Slippers in tan and black, Turkish Toweling Bath Slips, Felt Slippers, and Women’s Kid Boots. Located on the third floor at Tenth Street.
A second importation of German Lebkuchen shipped by Henrich Haeberlein of Nuremberg arrives for European Christmas demand. Sold in paraphernalia paper packages and decorative boxes, prices range from 5c per package to 3.50 for elaborate boxes. Fifth floor, Ninth Street.
A detailed Christmas gift guide for invalids offered at a department store. It names a bed collection including white enamel beds and box springs, comforters, blankets, steamer rugs, and seating options such as Morris chairs and couches. Also lists men's wear, accessories, games, and small light china and glass items suitable for an invalid’s tray and room display.
On the second floor a linen department presents oblong and round tray cloths hemstitched and scalloped damask Huck towels and scalloped towels in varied styles. Gift worthy towels price seven fifty to ten fifty per dozen Turkish bath mats towels and wash cloths with rub dry towels priced at fifty cents to one dollar each.
The Screen Department on the second floor offers three and four fold screens suited for a sick room. Mission Screens start at $5. Linen Tapestry from $4.50. A range of Japanese screens in various sizes and finishes is advertised, with heavy embossed paper screens over six feet high priced from $13 to $27. A lavender wisteria Japanese screen with black embroidery stands out as a highlight.
A catalog of women's undergarments and housewear products including kimonas and negugeca in Japanese silk gowns, wadded silk shorts, woolen garments, elderdown dressing gowns, Arnold brand bath towels socks and night robes, along with nightgowns petticoats and lingerie pieces in various colors and prices from $0.76 upward.
Ad on floor G street promoting tea gowns with fitted linings and eiderdown robes priced at 3.05, value 6.00. White applique trimmed robes from 8.75. White silk knit and woolen hand knit shawls in white and black offered.
B and B advertises a range of chafing dishes as ideal Xmas gifts. It emphasizes white enamelled food pans for sanitation and lists 2pt, 3pt, and various nickel models with nickel asbestos lamps, hot water pans, stands, and side handles, priced from 2 to 12.50 dollars.
Listings from the Furniture Department on the 6th and 7th floors include Morris chairs bureaus and wash stands in white enamel maple oak and mahogany with matching bedroom tables and small stands tabourettes and small rocking chairs in various woods. Prices start at $3.00 for small writing desks and $3.75 for invalids tables with oak tops.
On the south floor of G street the Lamp Department presents three styles of saucer shaped black iron bedroom candlesticks at 10 cents and burnished copper ones at 1.00. Brass holders for safety matches cost 1.00. Small brass jardinieres and nickel candie lamp with reflector are offered along with three reading lamps kerosene gel drop light and electric lamps. B. Ei. reading lamp 1.26. Electric candlelight iron standard 3.00. Presto pocket lamp electric. Tin gas shields paper shades small glow night lamp and a facsimile candle are also listed.
An old style shopping notice lists children's garments for invalid and convalescent wear. Items include dressing gowns in elder down and teagledown and small bedroom slippers.
The listing details toys for quiet activity including painting books, paint boxes, beads, bubble blowers, magnet toys, paper furniture, Pretty Village cardboard houses, paper dolls, sliced pictures, puzzles, enamel tea set, children's silver items, scrapbooks, dissection maps, knitting spools, building blocks, magnetic jackstraws, slates and pencils, parchment, parchesi, dominoes, perforated cardboard sewing, silver napkin rings.
Leather Goods Department on the Main floor, 11th street offers opera glasses for watching street scenes or birds from the window. Also featured are light fans of paper and wood, chamois pockets, medicine cases, whisky flasks, and wicker covered bottles priced from 25 cents.
A catalog style listing describes pair silver candlesticks small silver dishes sugar and creamer silver bells from 76e up and a small coffee pot napkin rings silver tea ball a silver pusher for invalids in a reclining position plus silver oranges spoons teaspoons fruit knives and small silver and glass salt cellars.
Jewelry department offerings include silver key ring silver-handed wail brush tooth brush and whisk broom silver hair brush sturdy at about eight inches priced at 2.75 glass powder box with silver tap silver nail polisher and manicure set silver hand glass and silver balve jar silver ribbon holder dental floss in a silver case fancy collar pin sold singly or in sets and fancy side combs silver glass toilet bottles pompadour gilt hand mirror light weight 1.50 silver letter clip heart shaped 5.00
An advertisement showcases Rubber Air Pillows and Cushions, Silk-covered Air Pillow, hot-water bags from 65c, celluloid powder and soap boxes, white pink and blue items, Papier Poudre Books, powder bags and puffs, Cologne Bottles, Violet Water, perfumery bottles, Crown Lavender Salts for the sick room, sponges and sponge bags, Orris Root and Almond Cream bottles, a three piece White Celluloid toilet set, wooden hair brushes, and gilt glass powder boxes, touting novelty and light handling.
The notice promotes a Book Department on the Main floor near 16th Street offering a variety of Bible editions prayer books and religious booklets. It suggests a year's subscription to a magazine and highlights new bright entertaining books including mounted quotations from Tennyson Browning and Van Dyke.
Main floor stationery sale offering leather calendars and note pads. Small leather portfolios priced at 6.00, plus leather desk pads, letter holders, leather desk baskets, Just a Line note books, fancy pencils and fountain pens from 1.00. New leather bridge whist cabinets, stamp boxes, letter scales, solitaire cards, paper knives, desk trays, string boxes, mounted desk sets, cribbage sets and pretty boxes of letter paper.
A list of crafts and handmade items from the Fancy Work Department includes crocheted bedroom slippers in various colors priced at $1.25, handkerchief boxes and baskets in Siliana Cre tonne, dainty satin and velvet pin cushions, work baskets and boxes, crocheted bed socks, knitted shawls, wristlets made to order, and crocheted cretonne and tapestry notes.
Picture Department on the 4th floor at 16th Street offers large sepia photographs, framed religious pictures, and Madonnas. Christy unframed cartoons priced at $1.00, plus Jessie W. Smith colored sketches of children and poets in long frames.
Wicker Japanese prairie grass birch bark and sweet grass scrap baskets stand work baskets small nickel chafing dish 2 25 inwards trays of five kinds nickel trays with wire holder Japanese lacquer trays oblong 8c and up round ones same style aluminium oval trays large and small sizes very light japanned tin tray with handles very pretty trays white enameled wood breakfast size 0c aluminium cavera to keep things hot smell size 8c small tumbler tray small enamel toilet bet in stand white enamel ware bowls and two styles of pitchers alcohol lamps 1.00 very tiny enamelled funnel for filling bottles lemonade or milk shakers white enamel bowls for cracked ice electric heating cup with wire and plug attached 6.00 oil heaters gas grates and gas radiators two styles gas-jet heaters brass and iron andirons iron grates brass fenders and fire screens wood baskets lily and calla bulbs hot-water plates with hot water in lower part.
The store showcases a wide range of durable home furnishings and writing desks suited as lasting gifts. Prices span from low single digits to several tens of dollars, with extensive listings for chairs, desks, cabinets, tables, and accessories. Sixth and Seventh floors feature half and below half price lots of Pictures including colored portraits and engravings.
Brief notes describe hot cake dishes essential for proper breakfast serving and list gift options including German china, Haviland dishes, and Austrian items with prices from $1.00 to $1.50.
AE shows a wide range of Negligee gowns kimonas robes and dressing gowns priced 2.00 to 75.00. Also an elegant assortment of Outing Flannel garments for winter wear with gifts suggested. Items include gowns kimonas and petticoats with lace edging and decorative details priced 0.75 to 1.50.
Nickel plated closet sets offered as holiday gifts for men or boys, plus women's sets. Descriptions include various styles and piece counts such as 9 setwell traveling sets, goodform closet sets 14 to 23 pieces, and betwell sets. Also featured is a 5.00 toilet set with covered slop jar and assorted wallpaper decorative sets priced from 1.95 to 15.00.
Christmas Books for Children presents a broad assortment of young readers titles from Mother Goose to Alice in Wonderland and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It highlights old favorites, new releases, and various bindings, promising entertainment and instruction for children.
A list of juvenile titles and authors offered at 25 cents each. Highlights include The Mysterious Island Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Tour of the World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne and The Rover Boys at School by Arthur M. Winfield alongside works by Overton Robbins Drinkwater Ballentyne and others. The catalog blends adventure fiction biographies and girls stories for young readers.
A catalog of children and young adult books with prices and authors. Titles include Honor Bright, A Young Mutineer, Red Rose and Tiger Lily, Doris and Theodore, Helen Beaton, Joyce's Investments, Two Little Confederates, The Bending of the Willow, Rita, The Roosevelt Book, and more. Main floor Tenth Street.
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