January Special Sale of French and American Underwear
The January Special Sale offers Nainsook and muslin garments with Valenciennes lace beading embroidery and wide lace details. Includes gowns chemises corset covers and skirts with prices ranging from 25 cents to 45 dollars. Sizes for children up to 14 years and bridal trousseaux in varied decorative styles.
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Guiness Gunn
Trousseaux
Musim
Ah Moustin
Chikinoa
Nansook
Namnsook
Nainsook
Germar
Valenciennes
Cesar Becca Caer
January Special Sale on Lace Curtains and Draperies
A January sale offers extensive lace curtains portieres draperies and upholstery fabrics from discontinued lines. Includes Nottingham and net curtains silk velours tapestries and small sample tapestry pieces with deep price cuts ideal for households hotels and seasonal homes. Prices range from 25c to 6.00 per item with substantial reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irish Point
Brussels
Short Lengths of Silk Velours
Silk velours offered in season colors from 1 2 to 31 2 yards suitable for table covers cushions short curtains and fancy work priced at 2 50 a yard with values 7 50 and 4 dollars per yard
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Washington
Special Values in Couch Covers Lots
A lot of surplus stock in rich Oriental designs measures 60 inches wide. Two qualities are offered at $3.75 each with value $5.50, and $4.50 each with value $7.50.
January Special Sale of Chinaware and Housefurnishings
Our January sale offers Chinaware Glassware and housefurnishings from regular stock at low prices plus new goods bought from manufacturers. Highlights include two Haviland open stock patterns a pink spray deco ration and a white and gold pattern at 57.50 per 100 piece set. White Dinner Sets offered at 4.95 per 100 piece set Decorated Toilet Sets 1.75 per set and English Royal Blue Earthenware plates four for 25c. Fifth floor.
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Washington
Haviland China
Imported Stemware Samples for Sale
Imported glassware collection includes goblets wine and champagne glasses cocktail cordial claret and more. Showcased patterns offer a rare match for existing pieces with a tableful marked at 10c each while regular prices range 25c.
Cut Glass Salad Bowl Special at 2.75
American 8 inch cut glass salad or fruity bowl featured at 2.75 each. Imported brown tumbler special offered at 45 cents per dozen. January jardiniere sale begins today with 50 cent jardiniere displays in the jardiniere room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jardiniere
Jardinieres
1906 Go carts and Baby Carriages Ad Preview
Advance styles of Go carts and Baby Carriages for 1906 showcased on seventh floor G ft. Includes folding carts to English coaches from top manufacturers. Prices range from 2.95 to 33 dollars for go carts and 15 to 60 dollars for baby carriages.
The Humphrey Sectional Bookcase Adopts Office Style
The Humphrey Sectional Bookcase earns favor for solid construction ease of setup and dustproof sections with no metal bands and a fine finish. It features reinforced steel shelves prevents sagging and offers multiple height and finish options including drawers buffets music cabinets corner and leaded glass doors. A special stack model in golden and weathered oak finishes is priced at 13.75 per stack, regularly 16.25.
Silk Lining Special Price on All-Silk Taffeta Linings
A public notice advertising All-silk Taffeta Linings sold at 373 cents per yard. Describes the fabric as good, strong, guaranteed to wear well, with a large variety of shadings and black. Indicates location on the second floor of a store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caruse
Perry Belmont
Office Furniture Ad Highlights Upscale Desks and Chairs
An advertisement extols neat office decor and up to date furniture to boost business. It markets Roll-top and Flat-top desks, typewriter desks, bookcases, filing devices, tables, and chairs. Featured items include a revolving oak chair with cane back and seat, and a carved chair priced at 12.75 each with other options at 17.50. Seventh floor-6 st.
Social and Personal Prominent Guests to Attend
The vice president and Mrs Fairbanks host a dinner and dance. Mrs Dubois will receive this afternoon for the first time this season. The White House reception will honor the Diplomatic Corps with guests including the London ambassador and Mrs Whitelaw Reid and Gen Horace Porter. Several noted Washington hosts and guests attended dinners yesterday with Verbal lists of names and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbanks
lo-Jay
White House
Roosevelt
Diplomatic Corps
London
Whitelaw Reid
Miss Reid
Cowles
Horace Porter
France
Mus. Stoot
Treasury
Une
Seventeenth Street
Alice Roosevelt
Warren Fairbanks
Chicago
Francis Key Wainwright
Philadelphia
Blanch Shoemaker
New York
Longworth
Col
Bramwell
Alex Legare
Samuel Lawson Burton
Kingston
Canada
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Kitty Thompson Berry
A. R. Cook
Sandy Creek
Perry Belmont
Scott Circle
F. Burrall Hoffman
Wickham Hoffman
WN Street
Hoffman
Burrall Hoffmann
Stephen B. Elkins
E. Spencer Blackburn
Wiliam E. Sharpe
Indianapolis
Willard
Sharpe
Atlas Iron Works
William H. Wiley
New Jersey
the Highlands
J. J. Foraker
Family Fountain Syringes and Perfumes Sale Items
An old advertisement lists discounts on beauty products and fragrances. Items include Yale’s Hair Tonic at 60 cents, Ed Pinaud’s Eau de Quinine at 69 cents, Noyonnaise Swiss Gilae perfume at 3 cents per ounce, Piver’s Incarnat perfume at 69 cents per ounce, Neblay’s cystine perfume at 6 cents per ounce, Park & Tilford’s Bay Rum at 5 cents per bottle, Babe Skin Soap at 59 cents per cake, Listerine at 9 or 40 cents per bottle, and Pray’s Rost per jar at 19 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
Ed Pinaud
Piver
Neblay
Quiet wedding at Swide house in Washington DC
The ceremony, led by Rev Dr McKim, was held at Mrs James Tawes’s home on T street with only one attendant, the groom’s brother William Campbell Gilmour. Dr and Mrs Gibson planned a bridal trip to Alabama after the wedding while other social notices follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKenna
MaKenna
Hildegarde McKenna
John Kueggett Puly
New York
Rhode Island Avenue
E. L. Garrett
Reacie Eaywards
Bowling Green
Weston Brimer
Twentieth Street
James Tawes
T Street
McKim
Ian
William Campbell Gilmour
Gallinger
Senator Gallinger
New Hampshire
Normandie
Max Michael
Pittsburg
Joseph King
Q Street
William Madison Mason
Wyoming
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John S. Brown & Sons
Eleventh St. S
New York Mills
Ito
Aiss
Nottingham
Jeneihs
Niewepa
Jardiniere Sale
Humphrey
Col. Ang
Bromwell
Albert Key
HaHam Kero
Cochran
Horace Westcott
Nathaniel Francis
Stanton
Spencer Cosby
Timmons
Montgomery Blair
Harris Binney
Wiliam Eustis
O’doennell
Hugh Legare
Boit
Chandler Hale
Kean
Warder
Nicholas Anderson
McCauley
Richey
Jamin
Blair
Bliss
Chandler Tate
Marian Johnston
Mme. de Quesada
William Thayer
Fahnestock
Butterfield
Miss Cullen
Bessie Cullen
Dubois
Idaho
Manila
Taft
Pensacola
Fla
Sothern
Howland Hanson
Des Moines
Iowa
William Ridenbaugh
Boise City
Hanson
Whaubeth
Miss Roosevelt
National Theater
Nordland
Josephine Boardman
Mr. Longworth
Lieut. Fortescue
William Hitt
George Gibson Calgate
Hoy
Robert Campbell Gilmour
Bessemer
Hinds
Calder
Magia
Eclipse
Charles
Swift
Tetlow
Crace
Boe
Yor Riker
Dresden
Roger & Gallet
St & Pa Ave. S
Kann
Eastman
Verona
Mennen
Yalé
Sheffield
Marguerite
Orarvel
Mtrlings
Prussia
Tse
Roger &Cal
Bay Rum
Park & Tilford
Babe
Ile
Tor Anddeck
Williams
Packer
IOC Snowberry
Swifts
Ammenia
Mary Stone
Gen
Roy Stone
Lady Munson
Ingland
Stone
Washington Short
Edward Burr
Washington Barracks
J. Kakin Gadsby
Army
Charles Henry Butter
Dolliver
Senator Dolliver
E S. Willard
Farmington Society
David Garrick
McMillan
Hale
Arnold Hague
Nat, Simpkins
Burrows
Senator Burrows
E. J. Burkett
Senator Burkett
Nebraska
Nineteenth Street Northwest
Robert Hale
Los Angeles
Cal
Courtland Hoppen
Arturo Tibaldi
Tibaldi
Mrs. Solon C. Kennon
Eckington
Jeanette Mackenzie Ke
Mon
Chester
Graham
George
Cooper
Frank W Hack
Buroret
Heyburn
Senator Heyburn
Stoneleigh Court
Thirty-first , Street
G. Jetu Jones
Richmond
Truett
J and Birs
James A. Quarles
Washington and Lee University
Leila Bennett
E. Raymond Frisby
Philippine Islands
Claude Bennett
Brentano’s
Paris
Vienna
Thirteenth Streets
Marcel
Mme
M. Siccaidi
Galt & Bro
Penna, Ave
Eee
Harris
Shafer Company Diamond and Gem Merchants
jules /urgensen
Nardine
Vacheron
Constantine
Walthan
Pennsylvania Avenue
Aldry
Berry & Whitmore Co
Jewalera
Silversmiths
Tomers
Eleventh St
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