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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1908
Page
7
A large sale offers about 300 framed pictures across styles from Colored Artotypes to Hand-colored Photographs and Original Oil Paintings. Items are mainly one-of-a-kind, many in shadow box frames, with prices typically from $1.95 to $7.95, marked down from earlier $3.95 to $20.00 ranges.
Several Colonial mirrors in various sizes available at half price or less. Frames include mahogany, gilt, and gold leaf options with items suitable for drawing rooms, reception rooms, or bedrooms. Prices range from $1.50 to $9.95, discounts compared to previous prices listed.
Special sale offers reduced prices on gilt furniture for wedding gifts or home use. Includes reception chairs, armchairs, Roman seats, stools, settees, and curio cabinets with gold leaf, silk damask, and tapestry upholstery. Prices range from 2.95 to 37.50, with many items marked down from higher figures.
A period advertisement showcases a January sale of muslin and cambric undergarments with extensive options. It lists gowns, corset covers, drawers, petticoats, and children's items in varied trims, from simple to elaborate laces, tucks, and ribbons, with prices ranging from fractions of a dollar to several dollars.
The sale features boys reefers and suits priced at one third to one half off. Lot 1 includes reefers in mixed colors for 2 to 12 years, Lot 2 three quarter length reefers 4 to 17 years at 5.00 each, Lot 3 wool suits with knickerbocker trousers 7 to 12 years, Lot 4 all wool sailor and Russian blouse suits 2½ to 10 years at 3.75, Lot 5 fine worsted cheviot suits 8 to 16 years, plus a small wool sweater lot for 0.69 and knickerbocker trousers 0.95.
The first Monday evening subscription dance drew a fashionable crowd at Rauscher's with Mrs Converse and Mrs Bromwel hosting the reception. Guests included Longworth, Bronnweil, Bourke Cochran, Legare, Harlow, Pastor and Mme Pastor, and many diplomats from the French, Austrian, Italian, German, British, Japanese, and Venezuelan embassies. The event followed by a dinner hosted by Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Mrs Straus, and a later reception by former Ambassador Draper. Also noted: Misses Shonts and Duc de Chaulnes arriving in Washington for a two day stay and a forthcoming wedding of Miss Clare Howard and Lewis Warrington Cottman.
The report details numerous Washington social events including dinners in the red dining room of the New Willard, guests like the Speaker and Miss Cannon from Illinois, Mrs. Russell Harrison, Miss Tiar tison, and the Grafton circle. It notes the double marriage postponement due to church mourning, invitations for charity events at the New Willard, and travels of Capt. E F Dickins to Manila.
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