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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1906
Page
8
Various articles of unquestioned merit offered for use everywhere in the home. Included are items for the bedroom dining room kitchen pantry and laundry offered at prices lower than often asked for inferior goods. Deals emphasize value and quality for household needs.
Our January sale features chinaware, glassware and household furnishings at special low prices. Highlights include American Cut tumblers three for $1.00, Austrian china sets at $15 per two piece, English White and Gold Bone China tea sets, and White two piece dinner sets from $1.03 per 100 pieces. Also lamps and accessories offered at reduced rates plus Greek and Star pattern tumblers at 35c per dozen.
A dealer offers over two thousand glassware pieces from a leading importer. The lot includes thin blown goblets wine and sherry glasses cordials cocktail and more in plain and etched designs. Five assortments priced at 5c 10c 15c 20c and 25c per piece with Jardinieres offered in two values on center tables at 50c 65c and 25c for choice.
The third week of the January sale highlights lace and muslin curtains couch covers portieres table covers tapestries and upholstery fabrics. Notable items include ruffled muslin curtains priced at $1.00 per pair and a wide range of Nottingham and Cable Net curtains with deep price reductions. Also offered are reversible tapestries coach covers and various samples with prices from 15 cents to $3.50 per piece.
The January sale offers household linens and bedding at low prices to assist housewives in meeting immediate and future linen needs. Also featured are imported samples of Cluny and Renaissance lace centerpieces, tea cloths, doilies, and hemstitched Irish linen pieces, plus bed comfortables covered with silkoline and Australian lambswool fillings.
The store opens a clearance sale featuring Smith Axminsters Smyrnas Bigelow Axminsters Imperial Smyrnas Utopias and Beauvais among others. Prices are about one third under usual, with examples like 12x15 ft Smith Axminsters $35 Were $50 9x12 Smyrnas $25 Were $35 and 9x12 Bigelow Axminsters $30 Were $40. Fourth floor.
The Braddock Rock site on Water Street between Twenty third and Twenty fourth streets faces official scrutiny again. Engineers recommend coordinating with Navy or War Departments to permanently protect the rock or fill the hole to match surrounding grades. The site marks General Braddock’s landing with his staff and forces, a Georgetown landmark historically preserved by societies against development.
A large audience enjoyed Opie Read the author in the Library of Congress reading room for the blind. He spoke on Sketches of Different Phases of American Life with animated anecdotes about a Southern dialect character, a Michigan backwoodsman, two poker players on a Mississippi steamboat, and a Kentucky feud between the Bronsons and Omeys. A piano and song recital by Misses Carlisle and Oliver is set for Thursday afternoon January 18 between 2:30 and 3:30.
Dr John Lindsay of Fall River Massachusetts has been named to a medical faculty chair at George Washington University. He trained at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania before practicing in Germantown and Fall River. Lindsay is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association and will assume duties immediately.
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