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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1906
Page
2
A reader notice highlights a broad array of household goods including bedroom dining kitchen pantry and laundry items offered at lower prices than comparable lower quality merchandise. The ad emphasizes value across many room needs with competitive pricing.
Our January sale features Chinaware Glassware and house furnishings with special low prices on regular stock and new lots. Highlights include American Cut six tumblers three for $1.00 Austrian China tea sets $15 per two piece set English White and Gold Bone China cups saucers plates $1.00 for many pieces, 100 piece dinner sets $1.03 per set, Greek and Star thin blown tumblers 25s per dozen, Dark Blue English Earthenware plates bowls and saucers, and American Cut Glass salad bowls $2.75 each.
A vendor advertises a large lot of over two thousand glassware pieces from a leading importer. The collection includes goblets wine and sherry glasses cordial and more in plain and etched designs. Prices are 5c 10c 15c 20c and 25c per piece across five assortments. Jardinieres offered at 50c and 65c for Lot 1 and 25c for Lot 2.
January sale week offers lace curtains muslin curtains couch covers portieres table covers tapestry samples short lengths of silk velours flax velours and more. Many items at reduced prices with wide variety of patterns from Nottingham and cable net curtains to reversible tapestries. Prices range from 15 cents to several dollars per piece with values listed and significant discounts offered on multiple fabric types.
The January Special Sale offers household linens at very reasonable prices to housewives for current and future needs. Importer samples include Cluny and Renaissance Lace Centerpieces Tea Cloths Doilies and related Irish linen pieces. Also featured are Bed Comfortables covered in silkoline with silk borders and Australian lamb's wool fills.
Unusual success marks the opening of a Clearance Sale of Rugs featuring top American manufacturers. Deals include Smith Axminsters Smyrnas Bigelow Axminsters Imperial Smyrnas Utopias and Beauvais with prices slashed about one third. Notable offers: 12x15 Smith Axminsters 35, 9x12 Smyrna 25, 9x12 Bigelow 30, 9x12 Smith 19.50, Imperial Smyrna varying sizes from 7.50 to 10.00, Wiltons 5.75, Utopias 3.50, Beauvais 2.50. Fourth floor clearance.
The hole left by street improvements at Braddock Rock on Water Street between Twenty third and Twenty fourth streets must be addressed. City and federal authorities consider whether the Navy or War Department retain control, with a plan to protect or fill the site to match surrounding grades. The rock marks Braddock’s landing and Georgetown history, and historians urge preservation.
Opie Read the famed author drew a large audience at the Library of Congress reading room for the blind yesterday afternoon. He spoke on Sketches of Different Phases of American Life with humorous anecdotes about Southern dialect characters, a Michigan woodsman, two poker players on a Mississippi steamboat, and a feud between the Bronsons and Omeys in Kentucky. A piano and song recital by the Misses Carlisle and Oliver is planned for Thursday afternoon January 18 between 2:30 and 3:30.
Dr John Lindsay a Fall River native born 1870 and Brown University alum 1900 to 1904 studied in Berlin is named to a medicine faculty chair at George Washington University. He belongs to the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Medical Association and will assume duties soon.
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