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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1907
Page
39
Woodward & Lothrop announces new hours from 8:30 A M to 5:30 P M with the White Sale continuing. The store highlights household needs for housekeeping, offering items for bedroom dining room kitchen pantry laundry and general home use at lower prices than inferior goods. Emphasis on economy, high quality, freshness and up to date merchandise for homemakers.
Lace curtains portieres draperies and upholstery fabrics offered in small lots and discontinued patterns at reduced prices. Real Arabian Irish Point and Renaissance lace curtains in various lengths and designs, plus upholstery fabrics in velour tapestry and cretonnes. Special prices per piece, samples and widths vary.
A historical ad offers low January estimates for furniture work including slip covers to order upholstering repairing refinishing polishing floors and related services. The note encourages keeping workrooms busy with exceptionally low rates on fourth floor service orders.
A special sale offers Oriental Rugs at deep discounts to clear small lots and rare pieces. Featured items include Hammedan Indoors, Shirvan Ghendjes, Daghestan, Moussoul, Mahal, Muskabod, Cashmere, Afghan, Kazak Cabistan, Kelim, and Bokara rugs with substantial price reductions from regular values. Numerous pieces are highlighted with sale prices and prior list prices.
Chinaware Glassware and House furnishings sale promises best grade household wares known to Washington housekeepers. Regular stock items offered at specially low prices plus several lots of new goods bought from manufacturers at reduced rates. This week highlights exceptional values in select lines.
A local ad lists Decorated Japanese china including breed and butter plates tea plates cups and saucers chocolate pots and side dishes with matching ramekins and plates. Also offered are Imported Glass Vases in assorted decorations at 15c each and two lots of quality Imported Decanters with cut or etched patterns priced 73c and 1.50 each.
A newspaper notice advertises kitchen and laundry woodenware plus assorted home goods. Items include tables, laundry benches, ironing boards, pastry boards, cutting spoons, broom, mats, stepladders, brushes, sponges, and cleaning supplies with many at or near giveaway prices. Details list sizes and unit prices, aiming to attract buyers with a broad, affordable selection.
Washington society notes a Friday musicale hosted by Mrs Roosevelt and guests include high officers and diplomats. The piece lists dinners and receptions at Willard, Blair House, and private homes with many senators, representatives, ambassadors, and spouses in attendance or hosting upcoming events through mid January.
An ornate society sketch from American life chronicles the Cantacuzenes three months after arrival, their six week stay, and a Grand Duchess Julie Dent Grant era link. It notes Princess Cantacuzene’s public quips about returning to Russia, the grandchildren’s invitations, and Mrs Potter Palmer. The piece also surveys stylish jewelry inspired timepieces and a fashionable New York opera crowd with box seats, gowns, tiaras, and a Mrs Warry Whitney dance at Fifth Avenue and Fifty seventh Street.
The piece catalogs gowns worn by Mrs Gladys Mill and others at a royal wedding scene while noting Grand Duke Nicholas and Anastasia of Leuchtenberg debate union dynamics. It also reports on a London miniaturist commissioned to paint Prince Olaf, with mothers preferring art photographs for keepsakes due to cost.
Former Stage Singers Winfred Goff and Thomas Evans Greene presented a joint programme at the Raleigh Hotel. Goff delivered a rich versatile voice with strong impersonations from the Savage Opera Company repertoire while Greene traced a musical history from Haydn to Beethoven in a show of music drama. In other news, the Stonewall Jackson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy elected officers for the year at Confederate Veterans Hall.
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