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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1908
Page
7
The White Sale continues with upholstery goods Rugs chinaware glassware and house furnishings of daily use. These items are offered at lower prices than often asked for inferior goods. The sale features bright fresh up to date inventory aimed at new households and homemakers.
January sale of lace curtains portieres and lace bed sets targets housekeepers and hotels. Importer offers Irish Point Curtains Swiss Tambour and crinkled silk portieres with fringed edges and rich borders at reduced prices. Bed sets feature imported net with renaissance laces and Marie Antoinette motifs, priced from five to thirty-seven fifty per set.
To order work emphasizing low estimates across all classes. Our aim is to keep work rooms busy. This is a good time to have rattan or reed furniture painted or enameled and new cushions made. Sourth Floor st.
A January sale features Oriental Rugs in small lots and one of a kind pieces with significant reductions. Includes Mahal Kermanshah and Amritzer rugs in various sizes with former prices provided. Metal Rugs sets and assorted small Oriental rugs also heavily discounted.
Our January sale offers best grade chinaware glassware and house furnishings with value for household needs. Assorted decorated Thin Japanese china chocolate cups and saucers priced at 25c per cup and saucer.
Colonial Pattern Table Tumblers offered in a large lot at 60 cents per dozen. Imported daintily decorated ramekins displayed on a plate, highlighted as desirable for baking and serving. Special price 3 for 50 cents.
A local advertisement promotes imported decanters with cut necks and stoppers offered at 50 cents each, regularly priced at one dollar, inviting buyers to take advantage of the bargain.
An advertisement lists metal cuirasses and cuirass linings in various designs and colors. Candle shades offered, 10 cent electric light shades, ice cases in fancy shapes, and fancy candles in assorted dozen quantities. Dainty chocolates and fancy candies priced from 25 to 80 cents per pound, suitable for luncheons and social occasions.
A broad display of wooden kitchen and laundry items offered at moderate prices. Includes kitchen tables with and without drawers, laundry benches, ironing boards and stands, pastry boards, sleeve boards, mixing spoons, butter spades, bamboo brooms, carpet brooms, stepladders, door and rubber mats, feather dusters, assorted brushes, and metal polish. Fifth floor.
A Washington society page itemizes weddings and entertainment. Miss Lucy Randolph Mason marries George Hoxie Moffett at St. Angela Church. guests include prominent diplomats, judges, and senators. Other society events include dinners, luncheons, theater parties, and announcements of engagements and forthcoming nuptials among high society families and diplomats.
Social gossip notes a dinner and cotillion at Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Fifth Avenue home honoring nephews Orme Wilson Jr and Thornton Wilson. Guests from New York’s young set attend in elegance. elaborate decor features pink roses, Japonicas, and a Louis XVI ball room. A later divorce in Trenton unfolds with banker George W Young and Natalie B Young.
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