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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1906
Page
7
A listing extols a wide range of domestic items suitable for the bedroom dining room kitchen pantry and laundry. It emphasizes quality utility and substantial savings on many articles often priced higher for inferior substitutes.
Our January sale features best grade household wares including chinaware glassware and furnishings. Special prices on American cut glass items English white and gold bone china sets and imported Austrian china. Lot prices include three for $1.00 six tumblers for $1.00 and 100 piece dinner sets at $1.03.
An advertisement offers a large lot of over two thousand glassware pieces from a leading importer. The selection includes thin blown goblets wine and sherry glasses cordials and more in plain and etched designs. Five assortments are priced 5c 10c 15c 20c and 25c with Jardinieres offered at 50c 65c and 35c each, shown on center tables.
The January sale week showcases lace curtains muslin curtains couch covers portieres table covers and tapestry samples. Notable deals include Nottingham and Cable Net curtains at deep reductions and a jet of rich oriental designs 60 inches wide with marked savings. Short lengths of tapestries brocades and jute tapestry pieces offer budget options for cushions and chair coverings.
The January Special Sale of UK linens offers household households improved value with immediate and future needs in linen presses. Importer samples of Cluny and Renaissance Lace Centerpieces Tea Cloths Doilies and related items are available along with Hemstitched Irish Linen Centerpieces Scarfs Tea Cloths and similar goods. A range of Bed Comfortables covered with silkoline finished with silk border and filled with Australian lambs wool features attractive patterns.
A fourth floor clearance sale offers Smith Axminsters Smyrnas Bigelow Axminsters Imperial Smyrnas Utopias and Beauvais at about one third off. Prices include 12x15 ft Smith Axminsters 35.00, 9x12 Smyrna 25.00, 9x12 Bigelow Axminsters 30.00, 9x12 Smith Axminsters 19.50, Imperial Smyrnas in multiple sizes from 6x6 to 2 1 4x15 ft, Wiltons 5.75, Utopias 3.50, Beauvais 2.50, plus other pieces on sale.
The Braddock Rock site on Water Street between Twenty third and Twenty fourth streets NW faces a six foot deep hole from nearby street work. City and national authorities consider protecting the rock or filling the hole to match surrounding grades, with Navy or War Department involvement. The rock marks Braddock's landing route to Fort du Quesne, a Georgetown landmark preserved by historical societies.
Opie Read, prominent author, delighted a large audience in the Library of Congress reading room yesterday afternoon. He spoke on Sketches of Different Phases of American Life with amusing tales in dialect, including an old Southern negro and a Mississippi River steamboat tale. He also recounted a feud incident between the Bronsons and Omeys of Kentucky. A piano and song recital by Misses Carlisle and Oliver is planned for Thursday afternoon January 18 between 2:30 and 3:30 at the same venue.
Dr John Lindsay of Massachusetts has been named to a medicine faculty chair at George Washington University. A Brown University graduate and Penn medical alumnus, he trained in Berlin and served Germantown Hospital before practicing in Fall River. He is expected to assume duties immediately.
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